To Put One Brick Upon Another (Philip Larkin Poem)
To put one brick upon another, Add a third and then a forth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What ...
To put one brick upon another, Add a third and then a forth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What ...
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads; And ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
Lento You'll bare your bones you'll grow you'll pray you'll only know When the light appears, boy, when the light ...
One night when I went down Thames' side, in London Town, A heap of rags saw I, And sat me ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
THE GOSSOON It's bleedin'! It's bleedin'! THE OULD WOMAN An' shure, me lad, 't is bleedin'; But come, ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a ...
Familiarity some claim Can breed contempt, So from it let it be your aim To be exempt. Let no one ...
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time, the flood that does not flow. Between the ...
Welcome! thrice welcome! to the year 1893, For it is the year I intend to leave Dundee, Owing to the ...
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a ...
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall With seven-and-twenty hands in all. Twenty to hand and reef and haul, A ...
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