LXVIII. The difference between a Philosopher and another Man (Ellis Walker Poems)
When men of shallow heads themselves advanceAbove their usual pitch of ignorance,To talk of maxims and of rules; forbearTo interpose ...
When men of shallow heads themselves advanceAbove their usual pitch of ignorance,To talk of maxims and of rules; forbearTo interpose ...
When you and I are buriedWith grasses over head,The memory of our fights will standAbove this bare and tortured land,We ...
Then Wisdom againHis treasury of words unlocked;Sung various maxims,And thus expressed himself:—"When the sunClearest shinesSerenest in the heaven,Quickly are obscuredOver ...
IF to a girl who loves us truly Her mother gives instruction duly In virtue, duty, and what not,-- And ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
Fair Youth! who wish the Wars may cease, We own you better form'd for Peace. Nor Pallas you, nor Mars ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day ...
The universal law of equity. Matt. 8:12 Blessed Redeemer, how divine, How righteous is this rule of thine! "To do ...
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
Now Kelly was no fighter; He loved his pipe and glass; An easygoing blighter, Who lived in Montparnasse. But 'mid ...
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...
THERE'S Chamfort. He's a sample. Locked himself in his library with a gun, Shot off his nose and shot out ...
DAME DOWSON, was a granny grey, Who, three score years and ten, Had pass'd her busy hours away, In talking ...
'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight; He thought of the Transvaal all the day, ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
I thought, in the days of the droving, Of steps I might hope to retrace, To be done with the ...
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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