Hudibras – The Lady’s Answer to The Knight (Samuel Butler Poems)
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
Surely, to labour for what is not bread,—To earn for an egg a stone instead,— Cheap work, with victuals so dear;Tho' ...
The world's gone forward to its latest fairAnd dropt an old man done with by the way,To sit alone among ...
Not baser than his own homekeeping kindWhose journeyman he is —Blind sons and breastless daughters of the blindWhose darkness pardons ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Bring me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call ...
I care not what the sailors say: All those dreadful thunder-stones, All that storm that blots the day Can but ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice-churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker-parents and offspring-merchant, clerk, porter ...
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