XVI. Patience (Ellis Walker Poems)
You would be wise, I'll teach you if you please,Withdraw you mind from such wild thoughts as theseIf I my ...
You would be wise, I'll teach you if you please,Withdraw you mind from such wild thoughts as theseIf I my ...
Wisdom, you say, is what you must desire,The only charming blessing you admire,Therefore be bold and fit yourself to bearMany ...
Such, and so differing is the characterOf the plebeian and philosopher.Now the proficient, he that labours onTowards perfection, by these ...
Be not transported with too great a senseOf any outward object's excellence;For should the pamper'd courser which you feed,Of swiftest ...
When men of shallow heads themselves advanceAbove their usual pitch of ignorance,To talk of maxims and of rules; forbearTo interpose ...
The same Reflections we make upon the Accidents that befall our Neighbours, to be applied to our selves in the ...
When women once their dear Fourteen attain,They first our love and admiration gain;They mistresses are call'd, and now they find,That ...
If with civility you can, declineAll public feasts, and learn at home to dineWith sober food, at your own charge ...
'Tis but a sorry sort of praise to beA droll, the jester of each company,A raiser of loud laughter, a ...
If you have learn'd to live on homely food,To feed on roots, and lupines, be not proud,Since ev'ry beggar may ...
She does not mind a good cigar (The kind, that is, I smoke);She thinks all men quite stupid are, (But ...
If then thou shouldst suppose those thing are free,Whose nature is condemn'd to slavery;Shouldst thou suppose, what is not thine, ...
If then thou dost desire such things as these,If thou wouldst tread these flow'ry ways of peace,Remember that with fervency ...
In outward actions to spend to much time,Is of stupidity too sure a sign;As long to exercise, and long to ...
If I should boast I wealthier am than you,It follows not that I am better too;If I should say, I'm ...
When you're inform'd that any one thro' spightOr an ill-natur'd, scurrilous delightOf railing, slanders you, or doth accuseOf doing something ...
The deer's a mighty useful beastFrom Petersburg to TennysonFor while he lives he lopes aroundAnd when he's dead he's venison.Ellis ...
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day -- Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- Ten years ago, from ...
I am the love killer, I am murdering the music we thought so special, that blazed between us, over and ...
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying to ...
A man roams the streets with a basket of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches, peaches, yellow freestone peaches for sale." My ...
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