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 ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled):Six months his better half he left with child,A simple, comely, modest, youthful ...
0 SLUGGISH, hard, ingrate, what doest thou?Poor sinner, folded round with heavy sin,Whose life to find out joy alone is ...
Moon that so fairly risest from the crown Of yon high oak, and wast so fondly pray'd To fill thy orb with ...
Dear Sirs:I have been enjoying the law and order of ourcommunity throughout the past three months sincemy wife and I, ...
Awhile she lay all passive to the touchOf those small fingers, and the soft, soft lipsSoliciting the sweet nutrition thence,While ...
IBlack and green minute, in wave, ending inTwo bending hands of cellophane,Like flowers without water.Space of my eyes, you impose ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
HE never yet consulted friendship's laws,Who would not suffer in her glorious cause;Who would not sacrifice the proffer'd gain,But let ...
MY soul with joyful gratitude surveys The cheerful sun each day more splendid rise!The softest breezes fan me as ...
Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend.The conscious moon through every distant ageHas held a lamp to Wisdom, and let fallOn ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
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