On Water-Gruel, (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.Hail! Water-Gruel, ever sacred Name,Once so propitious to my genial Flame;O! be ...
On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.Hail! Water-Gruel, ever sacred Name,Once so propitious to my genial Flame;O! be ...
RecitativeLet clownish Cymon, in fond rustic strains,To lovely Iphigene declare his pains;Let tink'ring Tom for dustcart Sylvia pine,I sing St. ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens,Are you not prepared to admitThat I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,Was ...
Love is a vine that deviously crawlsAbout the heart like ivy on old walls,Prying insidious tendrils as the fabric falls ...
The one thing CleopatraNever could abide was a flatterer.When Anthony compared her to ThaisShe knocked him right of the dais.(Edmund ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Anthony, Oh Anthony Why didn't you pass the test At the wheel Crash, "not exactly" Red stuff on the water ...
"Form follows function follows form . . . , etc." --Dr. J. Anthony Wadlington Here I am writing my first ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
THE LAMP of day, with-ill presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sank beneath the western wave; Th' inconstant blast howl'd thro' the ...
For certain minutes at the least That crafty demon and that loud beast That plague me day and night Ran ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
(To Ellen Terry) As one who poring on a Grecian urn Scans the fair shapes some Attic hand hath made, ...
Arriving for a reading an hour too early: Ruefully, the general manager stopped putting out the chairs. "You don't get ...
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
OUT in the wastes of the West countrie, Out where the white stars shine, Grim and silent as such men ...
When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain, The ripple ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the ...
Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, 'Tis better to ...
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