Sir Hornbook (Thomas Love Peacock Poems)
I.O'er bush and briar Childe Launcelot sprungWith ardent hopes elate,And loudly blew the horn that hungBefore Sir Hornbook's gate.The inner ...
I.O'er bush and briar Childe Launcelot sprungWith ardent hopes elate,And loudly blew the horn that hungBefore Sir Hornbook's gate.The inner ...
From the first it had been like aBallad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood.A wildness cut up, ...
Fortunatus, a fisherman Dane, Set out on a sudden for Spain, Because, runs the story, He'd met with a hoary Mysterious sorcerer chap, Who, trouble ...
This song of mine Is a Song of the Vine,To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the rain beginsTo ...
Alone, at last! Not a sound to be heard but the rumbling of some belated and decrepit cabs. For a ...
Sir John he got him an ambling nag,To Scotland for to ride-a,With a hundred horse more, all his own he ...
Noiselessly the planets will blow by,Like smoke, like breath, like driven snow; Frost-bitten suns on on, on on will blow; ...
Everybody knows me, Dr. Goosegrease, M.D. All the best paying patients, I've got 'em. Harley Street's my abode, No. 6 ...
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
Little All-Aloney's feetPitter-patter in the hall,And his mother runs to meetAnd to kiss her toddling sweet,Ere perchance he fall.He is, ...
So he died for his faith. That is fine-- More than most of us do. ...
So he died for his faith. That is fine.More than most of us do.But stay; can you add to that ...
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore, rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head propped on The Meaning of Meaning. ...
A pent-up question, crushed his swagger, confidence, bravado, the friendly banter, in the cool of reflection, for a moment, a ...
You're there with that hair framing your smile Social saccharin Pixie sticks, or pez All about the affectation The pose, ...
Little All-Aloney's feet Pitter-patter in the hall, And his mother runs to meet And to kiss her toddling sweet, Ere ...
Far back when I went zig-zagging through tamarack pastures you were my genius, you my cast-iron Viking, my helmed lion-heart ...
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
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