(Mat. Prior)
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YOUTH that trafficked long with… And to second life returns, Squanders little time or breath On his fellow—man’s concerns. Earnèd peace is all he asks
Our sister sayeth such and such, And we must bow to her behests. Our sister toileth overmuch, Our little maid that hath no breas… A field untilled, a web unwove,
UP CAME the young Centaur—colts… Curious awkward, afraid. Burrs on their hocks and their tai… Mobs and run up to the yard to be… Starting and shying at straws, wit…
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief,… His mercy fills the Khyber hills—… He has taken toll of the North an… And they tell the tale of his char… Before the old Peshawur Gate, whe…
They are fools who kiss and tell"… Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he’ll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you se…
“THERE’S no sense in going furt… So they said, and I believed it–… Built my barns and strung my fence… Tucked away below the foothills wh… Till a voice, as bad as Conscienc…
About the time that taverns shut And men can buy no beer, Two lads went up to the keepers’ h… To steal Lord Pelham’s deer. Night and the liquor was in their…
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our… And Rome never heeds when we bawl… Her sentries pass on—that is all,
IMPRIMIS he was “broke.” There… His Regiment and, later, took to… Then, having lost the balance of h… “Went Fantee”—joined the people o… Turned three parts Mussulman and…
ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more—than—oriental splendour. And the ...
0NCE, after long—drawn revel at… He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it wer… Blessed be the vintage!) Saying how, at an alehouse under…
I SEEK not what his soul desires… He dreads not what my spirit fears… Our Heavens have shown us separat… Our dooms have dealt us differing… Our daysprings and our timeless de…
If wars were won by feasting, 0r victory by song, Or safety found in sleeping sound, How England would be strong! But honour and dominion
WHEN the cabin port—holes are da… Because of the seas outside; When the ship goes wop (with a wig… And the steward falls into the sou… And the trunks begin to slide;
Through learned and laborious year… They set themselves to find Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fea… To heap upon mankind. ALl that they drew from Heaven ab…
