The Diplomatic Platypus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
If it be true, as some have dreamed,That all have lived and loved before,I cannot wonder it hath seemedThat on ...
(To Oliver Wendell Holmes)Strange spell of youth for age, and age for youth,Affinity between two forms of truth!-As if the ...
I have not seen her face, and yet She is more sweet than any thing Of Earth--than rose or violet That Mayday winds ...
A SYLPH, my dear aunt, is the gift which I send,In the hope it will warm , and comfort my ...
THEE, verdant plant, with joy I greet,And welcome too my roof;Thy fragrant leaves appear more sweet,From being friendship's proof!And as ...
Way down in Greenwich VillageThere's something, 'twould appear,Demoralizing in the atmosphere.Quite ordinary people,Who come to live down here,Get changed to ...
Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotunda, Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the ...
Tell me, Muse, what colour floateth round the River's ancient head: Is it white and black, or white ...
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
In Fanscomb Barn (who knows not Fanscomb Barn?) Seated between the sides of rising Hills, Whose airy Tops o'erlook the ...
My dear ladies - that is to say, those of you who may happen inadvertently to glance through this ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
O ocean liner you sing and sailYour body white and your funnels yellowTired of the anchorages' filthy watersYou who have ...
(John. 20:17. My Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God)My shattered fancy stole away from me(Wits run ...
Thou shalt behold it once, and once believe Thou may'st possess it-Love shall make the dream, Impossible and ...
Thou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours, How often in some distant gallery, Gained by a little painful spiral ...
Oh, no, I can see it now, my eyes welling up, in pure happiness overwhelmed by my feelings overcome by ...
A momentary blip, a bump on the road of life hit us again today, as it has for a few ...
It sometimes happens that the woman you meet and fall in love with is of that strange Transylvanian people with ...
This morning I dreamed I followed Widely spaced bells, ringing in the wind, And climbed through mists to rosy clouds. ...
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