A Study Of Reading Habits (Philip Larkin Poem)
When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To ...
When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To ...
Gone now the baby's nurse, a lioness who ruled the roost and made the Mother cry. She used to tie ...
As if he had been poured in tar, he lies on a pillow of turf and seems to weep the ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
He healed the sick, ministered to them all the son a servant to their needs even when he grieved the ...
A blessing cured him his estrangement wiped clean He was Abraham's son his breached sealed in his service, his humility ...
Hushed service sanctuary in prayer people sharing, concerns raised speaking mike passed Ann holds her hand up to share a ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
(Phillipians, iv.11) Fierce passions discompose the mind, As tempests vex the sea, But calm, content and peace we find, When, ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear's big ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Out of the lights and roar of cities, Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River, Burnt out with the ...
I was the laughing-stock of the village, Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves -- Also ...
You never understood, O unknown one, Why it was I repaid Your devoted friendship and delicate ministrations First with diminished ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Elephants are contagious! Be careful how you tread. An Elephant that's been trodden on Should be confined to bed! Leopards ...
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