#Americans #XXCentury
The ostrich roams the great Sahar… Its mouth is wide, its neck is nar… It has such long and lofty legs, I’m glad it sits to lay its eggs.
So Thomas Edison Never drank his medicine; So Blackstone and Hoyle Refused cod-liver oil; So Sir Thomas Malory
Sure, deck your limbs in pants; Yours are the limbs, my sweeting. You look divine as you advance— Have you seen yourself retreating?
I find it very difficult to enthus… Over the current news. Just when you think that at least… And that is why I do not like the…
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
A girl whose cheeks are covered wi… Has an advantage with me over one…
May I join you in the doghouse, R… I wish to retire till the party’s… Since three o’clock I’ve done my… To entertain each tiny guest. My… And if they want me, let them find…
The camel has a single hump; The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around. I’m never sure. Are you?
They tell me that euphoria is the… Today I have the agility of a Gre… Yes, today I may even go forth wi… Today I am a swashbuckler, would… This is my euphorian day,
Some singers sing of ladies’ eyes, And some of ladies lips, Refined ones praise their ladylike… And course ones hymn their hips. The Oxford Book of English Verse
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge. It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue, And it is...
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads And not the road.
Enter, breath; Breath, slip out; Blood, be channeled, And wind about. O, blessed breath and blood which…
Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives… Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else’s marriage.
