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Happy, who like Ulysses or that l… Who raped the fleece, returning fu… With usage and the world’s wide re… With his own kin can wait the end… When shall I see, when shall I se…
When fishes flew and forests walke… And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was bloo… Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening…
“Ill fares the land, to hastening… Where Wealth accumulates and Men… So rang of old the noble voice in… O’er the Last Peasants wandering… Doom has reversed the riddle and t…
The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith in our life is required even to improve it; second, that some dissatisfaction with things as they are is necessary eve...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a tree: You saw a moon from Sussex Downs,
Sunder me from my bones, O sword… Till they stand stark and strange… That I whose heart goes up with t… May marvel as much at these. Sunder me from my blood that in th…
ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his trib… By cautious birth-control and die… Mellow with learning lightly took… That marked him not with them that… And told the angel of the book and…
He was, through boyhood’s storm an… my best, my nearest friend we wore one hat, smoked one cigar, one standing at each end. We were two hearts with single hop…
Heaven shall forgive you Bridge a… The clothes you wear—or do not wea… And Ladies’ Leap-frog on the lawn And dyes and drugs, and petits ver… Your vicious things shall melt in…
The Roman threw us a road, a road… And sighed and strolled away: The Saxon gave us a raid, a raid, A raid that came to stay; The Dane went west, but the Dane…
Before the Roman came to Rye or o… The rolling English drunkard made… A reeling road, a rolling road, th… And after him the parson ran, the… A merry road, a mazy road, and suc…
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeles… All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand,
Lord Lilac thought it rather rott… That Shakespeare should be quite And therefore got on a Committee With several chaps out of the city… And Shorter and Sir Herbert Tree…
The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. Phrases like “put out” or “off colour” might ha...
So you have gained the golden crow… The laurels and the jewels, the pe… But I will beat the bounding drum… For all the glory I have lost, th… I saw the light of morning pale on…