The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
In those old days which poets say were golden — (Perhaps they laid the gilding on ...
IAct first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Half cell, half salon, opulent yet grave;Rare books, low-shelved, yet far ...
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
(SIERRAS, 1876)DRAMATIS PERSONAEFirst TouristSecond TouristYuba Bill, DriverA StrangerFIRST TOURISTLook how the upland plunges into cover, Green where the pines fade ...
I wish that the May Term were over, That its wearisome pleasures were o'er, And I were reclining in ...
i went to a movie showthe other evening in the cuffof a friends turned up trousersand saw the three little ...
CANARY-BIRDS feed on sugar and seed,Parrots have crackers to crunch:And, as for the poodles, they tell me the noodlesHave chickens ...
am was. are leaves few this. is these a orscratchily over which of earth dragged once-ful leaf. & were who ...
A bit of metaphysics or a psychologic catchWill sit upon my breast all day and scratch and scratch andscratch. Now ...
The digestion of MiltonWas unequal to Stilton.He was only feeling so-soWhen he wrote Il Penseroso(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
(i) how new the world is trying to find nerve in an old rind (ii) the bread is crumbled for ...
sam swill took a pill went blue ate stew had pains no brains sucked a date too late swallowed stone ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
All the air conditioners now slacken their hummed carrier wave. Once again we've served our three months with remissions in ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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