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Melville's BRIDEGROOM DICK.(Herman Melville)(homosexuality in literature)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19940622
Author:YODER, JONATHAN
The troublous colic o' intestine war
It sets the bowels o' affection ajar.
But, lord, old dame, so spins the whizzing world,
A humming-top, ay, for the little boy-gods
Flogging it well with their smart little rods,
Tittering at time and the coil uncurled.
Now, now, sweetheart, you sidle away,
No, never you liked that kind o' gay;
But sour if I get, giving truth her due,
Honey-sweet forever, wife, will Dick be to you! [1]
The first reference cited in the Oxford English Dictionary in which the word gay includes connotations of homosexuality ...
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