Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...
I.A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
Woe, woe is me! for whither can I fly? Where hide me from Mathesis' fearful eye? Where'er I turn the ...
I've really done enough of sums, I've done so very many, That now instead of doing sum ...
When I have struggled through three hundred years of Roman history, and hastened o'erSome French play-(though I have my private ...
600It troubled me as once I was-For I was once a Child-Concluding how an Atom-fell-And yet the Heavens-held-The Heavens weighed ...
269Bound - a trouble -And lives can bear it!Limit - how deep a bleeding go!So - many - drops - ...
Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind; They have taught you to see Only a mean arithmetic ...
Having picked the final datum From the universe And fixed it in its column, Named the causes of infinity, Performed ...
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
It troubled me as once I was -- For I was once a Child -- Concluding how an Atom -- ...
Bound -- a trouble -- And lives can bear it! Limit -- how deep a bleeding go! So -- many ...
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
Moist, moist, the heat leaking through the hinges, sun baking the roof like a pie and I and thou and ...
At school I never gained a prize, Proving myself the model ass; Yet how I watched the wistful eyes, And ...
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
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