Critics Nightwatch (Gwen Harwood Poems)
Once more he tried, before he slept,to rule his ranks of words. They brokefrom his planned choir, lolled, slouched and ...
Once more he tried, before he slept,to rule his ranks of words. They brokefrom his planned choir, lolled, slouched and ...
Prithee, dear Nick, thy wicked Life amend,And take the Counsel of thy nearest Friend:No more, presumptuous Boy, with impious airs,Prefer ...
We are resolved into the supreme air,We are made one with what we touch and see,With our heart's blood each ...
I.Here all the summer could I stay, For there's Bishop's teign And King's teignAnd Coomb at the clear Teign head-- Where close by ...
Art is going to sleep for a new world to be born'ART'-parrot word-replaced by DADA,PLESIOSAURUS, or handkerchiefThe talent THAT CAN ...
If they hint, O Musician, the piece that you playedIs nought but a copy of Chopin or Spohr;That the ballad ...
DEAR friends, left darkling in the long eclipseThat veils the noonday,--you whose finger-tipsA meaning in these ridgy leaves can findWhere ...
Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side remain,Till snatcht from thence by friends, less ...
Come here, brother Carters, adhere to my plan,Sling your whips on your shoulders, and sing my Joan;She's handsome and witty, ...
Sister of Nature, lovely Criticism, Whose friendly, exquisite, judicious touch Softens the blaze of genius, and the work Of every muse improves; ingenious ...
NO bay for me that critics may denyIn distant ages ; no position highTo win the others' envy, but a ...
Sighed the Book, "I am bound to be read,But tho' on the shelf others put meTill they know what the ...
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
I.-TRIOLET. Warm from the wall she chose a peach, ...
YOU say you envy in your calm retreatOur social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.In these our parties you are pleased ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
O, ye Athenians, drunken with self-praise, What dreams I had of you, beside the sea, In far ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble doteEz to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note,Our old ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv,And there befell the episode I now perpose to ...
On one fine but fatal morning in the early Eocene, Lo, a brawny Bloke set out to dig a hole:First ...
Have you heard the inscrutable mutable Alf,The mannerly man with the silvery tongue? Ever ...
Old Pete Parraday, he isn't very wise --Or so the local gossips say -- They love to criticise His crazy ...
I hate men.I can't abide 'em even now and then.Than ever marry one of them, I'd rest a virgin rather,For ...
Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare, For, read it backward like a witch's prayer, 'Twill do as ...
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