Hudibras – The Lady’s Answer to The Knight (Samuel Butler Poems)
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
I who was once as great as Caesar,Am now reduc'd to Nebuchadnezzar;And from as fam'd a conquerorAs ever took degree ...
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
In the forenoon's restful quiet, When the boys are off at school, When the window lights are shaded And the chimney-corner cool, Then the ...
Do you call me poor, you slugger,Won't posterity let me hug her,And won't she hug me back again?Isn't my penThe ...
Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen,Occasioned by a mistress and a queen.Queen Eleanor the proud was French, they say;But ...
Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail,Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in a ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
I sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage, Of stratagems wrought in the former age, Contagious vice, and in conclusion, ...
'Oo is that girl, sez Digger Smith,That never seems to bother with No blokes: the bint with curly 'air? I've ...
I would have been as great as George EliotBut for an untoward fate.For look at the photograph of me made ...
To wed, or not to wed; that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The bills ...
Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail, Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
There were long hyphens in our day- When no one spoke; no one exhaled As we contemplated the broken puzzles- ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
OPen the temple gates vnto my loue, Open them wide that she may enter in, And all the postes adorne ...
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; Contrariwise, my blood runs cold When little boys ...
I would have been as great as George Eliot But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of ...
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