Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
This comes to let you knowI'm well, thank God, and hope you're so:In Truth, I'm very much perplext,For something fine ...
I.There was a naughty boy, A naughty boy was he,He would not stop at home, He could not quiet be- He took In his ...
A pox of this fooling, and plotting of late, What a pother, and stir has it kept in the state? Let the ...
This is now--this was erst,Proposition the first--and Problem the first.I.On a given finite LineWhich must no way incline;To describe an ...
Spoken in the character of Steady.Written by Constantia, in 1790.Ladies, and gentlemen, a moment stay,And give good nature its accustom'd ...
There ance was a may, and she lo'ed na men;She biggit her bonnie bow'r doun in yon glen;But now she ...
BLESS us, and save us! What's here?Pop!At a bound,A tiny brown creature, grotesque in his grace,Is sitting before us, and ...
IN a Devonshire lane, as I trotted along,T'other day, much in want of a subject for song,Thinks I to myself, ...
LONG-EXPECTED one and twentyLing'ring year at last has flown,Pomp and pleasure, pride and plentyGreat Sir John, are all your own.Loosen'd ...
BY Cupid and Bacchus I'm sadly perplex'd,Both parties to hear I incline:The urchin for ever comments on this text,Beware of ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotunda, Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the ...
The pris'ner was at large indicted, For that by thirst of gain excited, One day in July last, ...
A beggar sat by the King's highway, O, but the road was long! His hair was black and his beard ...
The careless lad went through the wood, Leaped the retarding gate, And whistled thrice unto his dog, Who strayed behind ...
Speak, satire; for there's none can tell like thee Whether 'tis folly, pride, or knavery That makes this discontented ...
LONG-EXPECTED one and twenty Ling'ring year at last has flown, Pomp and pleasure, pride and plenty Great Sir John, are ...
A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
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