Hans Carvel (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sunWe would unveil thy form; to thee who wonTh' applause of nations for thy ...
WARS, bloody wars, and hostile Britain's rageHave banished long the pleasures of the stage;From the gay painted scene compelled to ...
1OLD TALESHER voice within the darkened room Tells on- old jests and tragediesAnd little follies of her kin And futile old nobilities:". ...
That morning, when my wife elopedWith James, our chauffeur, how I moped!What tragedies in life there are!I'm dashed if I ...
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
HOW soon forgotten are the Dead! A splendid throng the Palace calls To meet and revel in its halls; And ...
i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong ...
boss i wentand interviewed the mummyof the egyptian pharaohin the metropolitan museumas you bade me to dowhat homy regal leatherfacesays ...
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,Warning the sinners from the broad highwayThat leads to death. He rolls his ...
Saaz Ya Keena Saaz Kya Jany'Naz walay Niyaz kiya Jany'Kab kisi Dar Pa Juba Sai KeeShakh Sahib Namaz Kya Janay'Shama ...
Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Sad folk, bad folk, and many a glowing lover; Wise people, simple people, children ...
Instant monuments makeshift memorials of senseless tragedies all across America flowers, stuffed animals, candles, messages of instant grief sudden shock ...
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
At one end of the couch you sit, mute as a pillow tossed onto the upholstery. I watch you sometimes ...
The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
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