Pentecostal Illustrations

One Word More: To E.B.B.

There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together; Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

A Tale (Epilogue to "The Two Poets of Croisic.")

What a pretty tale you told me Once upon a time --Said you found it somewhere (scold me!) Was it prose or was it rhyme, Greek or Latin? Greek, you said, While your shoulder propped my head.

Satire II. to Mr Bethel.

SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.

The Cellar Door

By the old tavern door on the causey there lay A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray, And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop; And there stood...

Epistle to Miss Blount, With the Works of Voiture.

In these gay thoughts the Loves and Graces shine, And all the writer lives in every line; His easy art may happy nature seem, Trifles themselves are elegant in him.

Troilus and Criseyde: Book II

Out of these blake wawes for to sayle, O wind, O wind, the weder ginneth clere; For in this see the boot hath swich travayle, Of my conning, that unnethe I it stere: This see clepe I the tempestous matere...

The Prophecy of Dante

"'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." Campbell, . DEDICATION.

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Fable

The Wolf and the Crane

Gratitude and greed go not together

Universalgratitudegreed

Aesop

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Fable

The Wolf and the Lamb

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

Universalinjusticepower

Aesop

Short11 words

310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale

WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin to tak the gate, While we sit bousing at the nappy, An’ getting fou and unco happy, We think na...

Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination

High in the midst, surrounded by his peers, Magnus his ample front sublime uprears: Plac'd on his chair of state, he seems a God, While Sophs and Freshmen tremble at his nod; As all around sit wrapt in speechless gloom,...

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Introduction To The Song Of Hiawatha

Should you ask me, whence these stories?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Spring.

THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON. TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL.

Alexander Pope

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Fable

The Man and His Two Wives

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield

Universalcompromiseidentity

Aesop

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The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts)

'tis the twanging horn!

William Cowper

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Fable

The Man and the Satyr

No one should blow hot and cold with the same breath

Universalconsistencytrust

Aesop

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To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics

Rail on, Rail on, ye heartless crew! My strains were never meant for you; Remorseless Rancour still reveal, And damn the verse you cannot feel.

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Waring

What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest or staff and scrip, Rather than pace up and down Any longer London town?

The Adieu. Written Under the Impression That the Author Would Soon Die

Adieu, thou Hill! where early joy Spread roses o'er my brow; Where Science seeks each loitering boy With knowledge to endow.

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The Witch of Atlas

TO MARY (ON HER OBJECTING TO THE FOLLOWING POEM, UPON THE SCORE OF ITS CONTAINING NO HUMAN INTEREST). How, my dear Mary,--are you critic-bitten (For vipers kill, though dead) by some review, That you condemn these verses I have written,...

A Sketch

"Honest--honest Iago! If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee." Shakespeare.

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Satire II.

'Quid vetat et nosmet Lucilî scripta legentes Quaerere, num illius, num rerum dura negârit Versiculos natura magis factos, et euntes Mollius?' HOR. THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED. SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. Yes; thank my stars!