Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book II. (John Gay Poems)
Of Walking the Streets by Day.Thus far the Muse has trac'd in useful laysThe proper implements for wintry ways;Has taught ...
Of Walking the Streets by Day.Thus far the Muse has trac'd in useful laysThe proper implements for wintry ways;Has taught ...
Call the strange spirit that abides unseenIn wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,And bid his dim hand lead thee through ...
Range from Tower--hill all London to the Fleet,Thence round the Temple, t'utmost Grosvenor--street:Take in your route both Gray's and Lincoln's ...
Kind to my frailties still, Eumenes, hear;Once more I try the patience of your ear.Not oft I sing: the happier ...
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath ...
The courtly hall is gleaming brightWith fashion's graceful throng--All hearts are chained in still delight,For like the heaven-borne voice of ...
Yes, I know I am a stranger,But when you came in that door,I just felt that I could trust you,Though ...
Of all the Belles that tread the Stage,There's none like pretty Polly,And all the Musick of the Age,Except her Voice, ...
Of all the Belles that tread the Stage,There's none like pretty Polly,And all the Musick of the Age,Except her Voice, ...
On the coast of Coromandel,Dance they to the tune of Handel;Chorally, that coral coastCorrelates the bone to ghost,Till word and ...
Des wuchernden Tumultes satt,Freund, fliehst du aus der vollen Stadt?Flieh nur allein; ich bleib zuruecke,Die Messe wag ich noch mein ...
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Hello everybody, hell-frightfully-ho, Just tune your radios all in; I am the gent with the Oxford accentBBC Home Service calling.I'm ...
For one short week I leave, with anxious heart,Source of my filial cares, the Full of Days,Lur'd by the promise ...
To love these Books, and harmless Tea,Has always been my foible,Yet will I ne'er forgetful beTo read my Psalms and ...
It is curious that HandelShould always have used a candle.Men of his stampGenerally use a lamp.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
I On the Coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-B?. ...
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
CAME the great Popinjay Smelling his nosegay: In cages like grots The birds sang gavottes. 'Herodiade's flea Was named sweet ...
Bix to Buxtehude to Boulez, The little white dog on the Victor label Listens long and hard as he is ...
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