When We Play The Fool (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Last night I stood in a tawdry placeAnd watched the ways of the human race.I looked at a party of ...
Last night I stood in a tawdry placeAnd watched the ways of the human race.I looked at a party of ...
If you want a thing bad enoughTo go out and fight for it,Work day and night for it,Give up your ...
DEPENDENCE! heavy, heavy are thy chains,And happier they who from the dangerous sea,Or the dark mine, procure with ceaseless painsA ...
Life is a challenge to the bold,It flings its gauntlet downAnd bids us, if we seek for goldAnd glory and ...
Wordsworth wrote some tawdry stuff; Much of Moore I have forgotten;Parts of Tennyson are guff; Bits of Byron, too, are ...
610You'll find-it when you try to die-The Easier to let go-For recollecting such as went-You could not spare-you know.And though ...
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
You'll find -- it when you try to die -- The Easier to let go -- For recollecting such as ...
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear ...
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
I'm one of these haphazard chaps Who sit in cafes drinking; A most improper taste, perhaps, Yet pleasant, to my ...
When I'm among a blaze of lights, With tawdry music and cigars And women dawdling through delights, And officers in ...
This is the story of G.R.D., Who went on a mission across the sea To borrow some money for you ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ...
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, ...
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