Honours — Part II. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Because a chasm doth yawn across his wayToo wide for leaping, and ...
As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Because a chasm doth yawn across his wayToo wide for leaping, and ...
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
The milky sky, the hazy, slender trees, Seem smiling on the light costumes we wear,— Our gauzy floating veils that have an ...
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
RESENTMENT.Females there are of unsuspicious mind,Easy and soft and credulous and kind;Who, when offended for the twentieth time,Will hear the ...
I don't mind kings and dukes and things; I don't mind wigs or maces;I don't mind crowns or robes or ...
Many are the deceivers: The suburban matron, proper in the supermarket, list in hand so she won't suddenly fly, buying ...
Yet do not thou forsake me now, Poesy, with Peace-together!Ere this last disastrous blowDid lay my struggling fortunes low,In ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
When young I was an Atheist, Yea, pompous as a pigeon No opportunity I missed To satirize religion. I sneered ...
She I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed. I've never seen him - that's the funny part. I ...
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To ...
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