Mercury And Cupid (Matthew Prior Poems)
In sullen Humour one Day JoveSent Hermes down to Ida's Grove,Commanding Cupid to deliverHis Store of Darts, his total Quiver;That ...
In sullen Humour one Day JoveSent Hermes down to Ida's Grove,Commanding Cupid to deliverHis Store of Darts, his total Quiver;That ...
Why should a tear be in an old man's eye?Wordsworth.I passPleasantly on: the road leads to the skies,And mine's a ...
THERE is no truth in faces, save in children:They laugh and frown and weep from nature's keys;But we who meet ...
Before the fire, that winter's night None seemed so sweet as she,With winning smile, and dark eyes bright, And playful repartee.The dancing ...
The Press is too much with us, small and great:We are undone of chatter and on dit,Report, retort, rejoinder, repartee,Mole-hill ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
ON Dinan's walls the morning sunlight plays, Gilds the stern fortress with a crown of rays, Shines on the children's ...
Before the war, she sighs. "Before the war." Then blinks 'er eyes, an' tries to work a smile."Ole scenes," she ...
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
Close Echo hears the woodman's axe,To double on it, as in glee,With clap of hands, and little lacksOf meaning in ...
I'm writing comedy again,The daintiest pleasure known to men;Unless a daintier might beTo watch your acted comedy:The airy ladies gaily ...
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
The words of scripture not for a repartee not a battle of wills; but a balm for his soul Holding ...
No longer the same little girl or is she, the same, really? An impish grin, cunning, negotiating a better deal ...
a cup of dark thick amber slides down my throat rich walnut brandy home made cure sure to give a ...
They meet after months and yet The time melts away And they are back in the swing Ready to banter ...
Called The Hon 'Lizard Gizzard' with aptness bearing fruit from his septic yellow face to his pinstripe business suit, famous ...
Twain? Oh, yes, I've heard Mark Twain Heard him down to Pleasant Plain; Funny? Yes, I guess so. Folks Seemed ...
BEAUTY, the attribute of Heaven! In various forms to mortals given, With magic skill enslaves mankind, As sportive fancy sways ...
It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up ...
It was a man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up ...
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