Fit the First: ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating ...
Across the wet November night The church is bright with candlelight And waiting Evensong. A single bell with plaintive strokes ...
Isn't she lovely, "the Mistress"? With her wide-apart grey-green eyes, The droop of her lips and, when she smiles, Her ...
Brightly the sun of summer shone, Green fields and waving woods upon, And soft winds wandered by; Above, a sky ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
The blue bell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air; Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe ...
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last-year's ...
Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights. Ah, the delirious weeks ...
Coolness-- the sound of the bell as it leaves the bell. (Yosa Buson)
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell ...
THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout Fishing ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection Embitters the present, compar'd with the past; Where science first dawn'd on ...
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda in a land no crueller, and over the walls to domes & ...
When worst got things, how was you? Steady on? Wheedling, or shockt her & you have been bad to your ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
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