Farewell to London (Alexander Pope Poems)
Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell!Thy fools no more I'll tease:This year in peace, ye critics, dwell,Ye harlots, sleep at ease!Soft ...
Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell!Thy fools no more I'll tease:This year in peace, ye critics, dwell,Ye harlots, sleep at ease!Soft ...
this man used to be aninteresting writer,he was able to say brisk andrefreshing things.at the timeI suggested to the editors ...
They tell me new methods now govern the Muses,The modes of expression have changed with the times;That low is the ...
Tho' Homor sings of Grecian IslesIn strains that every heart beguiles,How warriors fought and heroes fellFor Helen, false and fickle ...
I hope that where you are (I think so, too) People, including literary people, Will see you more as you ...
Dear Boy --As it appears to us old fogeys -- If you'll excuse the term that we adopt --You and ...
Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,It is not art, but heart, which wins ...
OH ! where amid this dreary scene Of enmity and strife,Unvex'd with many a thorn between, Can spring ...
On either side the woods, in the middle the roadGleamingly goes winding as nature beats the tune.In the night-light, every ...
I read a book about John Dos Passos and according tothe book once radical-communistJohn ended up in the Hollywood Hills ...
At Box Hill, SurreyA modern hour from London (as we spin Into a silver thread the miles of space Between ...
Grotesque! we said, the moment we espied him,For there he stood, supreme in his conceit,With short ears close together and ...
Between the visits to the shock ward The doctors used to let you play On the old upright Baldwin Donated ...
The poet fears failure & so she says "Hold on pen-- what if the critics hate me?" & with that ...
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
The crux of the story, of God, of his relationship with man The one word, Love, eternal, a watchword for ...
Wanting Seeing the beauty The precision Magic in prose Cut and paste Letting go of the old Pulling edits in ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun Seductive in the Air -- That Tun is hollow -- but the ...
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
Whenas-(I love that "whenas" word- It shows I am a poet, too,) Q. Horace Flaccus gaily stirred The welkin with ...
Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by ...
I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books ...
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer. some damned ...
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