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 has a name which can't be brought Within the sphere of metre;But, as he's Peter by report, I'll trot him out ...
"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop,The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop;The customers, waiting ...
We live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The ...
We live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The ...
IMRS. FISKEStaccato, hurried, nervous, brisk, Cascading, intermittent, choppy,The brittle voice of Mrs. Fiske Shall serve me now as copy.Assist me, ...
If the cricket critics' naggingMerits stern official gagging -- Which I doubt --How would critical ascetics,With their prosy homiletics, Shut ...
'What have I earned for all that work,' I said, 'For all that I have done at my own charge? ...
Here is a silence I had not hoped for This side of paradise, I am an old believer In nature's ...
Would 'any woman' find me difficult to live with? My tastes are simple: space for several thousand books, The smoke ...
We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on ...
Is the spider a monster in miniature? His web is a cruel stair, to be sure, Designed artfully, cunningly placed, ...
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