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 ...
Poeta Skelton Laureatus libellum suum metrice alloquitur.Ad dominum properato meum mea pagina Percy, Qui ...
(The Defence of Perushtitsa)O stirring of glory, O sombre sad stirring,Days of proud struggle, O days of adversity!Epic obscure and ...
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
Once more ...
Once more to the breach for the land of the West!And a leader we give of our bravest and best, Of ...
With sadness I survey our present generation!Their future seems so empty, dark, and cold,Weighed down beneath a load of knowing ...
ONE day a shameless and impudent wightWent into a shop full of steel wares bright,Arranged with art upon ev'ry shelf.He ...
At Tauba's death I sworeI would not cryI swore by Him who turns the spheres.If a man has not lived ...
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
Ever heard th' black watch story?Ask th' boys o' our old crew;There's sea yarns a sight more gory, But there ...
Written for a little girl on her eleventh birthday.Fleeting time is on the wing—Surely Winter, joyous Spring,Glowing Summer, Autumn sere,Mark ...
"In a southern forest gloomy and old, So lately the scene of a terrible fight,A soldier, alone in the dark ...
Now, since man became a martyr To this economic stress,He has sought relief, in barter, From financial wretchedness;So, dispensing with ...
Each evening on my lap there climbsA little boy of three,And with his dimpled, chubby fistsHe pounds me shamefully.He gives ...
ONE day a shameless and impudent wight Went into a shop full of steel wares bright, Arranged with art upon ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd ...
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed ...
Our fathers, brave men were and strong, And whisky was their daily liquor; They used to move the world along ...
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