The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth PraedHoughton Mifflin Company, 1909 - 242 pages |
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... Fame rides a most prodigious pace ; Oblivion follows on the pillion ; And all who in these sultry rooms To - day have stared , and pushed , and fainted , Will soon forget your pearls and plumes , As if they never had been painted . You ...
... Fame rides a most prodigious pace ; Oblivion follows on the pillion ; And all who in these sultry rooms To - day have stared , and pushed , and fainted , Will soon forget your pearls and plumes , As if they never had been painted . You ...
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... your beauty . From you I seek nor gold nor fame ; From you I fear no cruel strictures ; I wish some girls that I could name Were half as silent as their pictures ! THE COUNTY BALL Busy people , great and small , 32 EVERY - DAY CHARACTERS.
... your beauty . From you I seek nor gold nor fame ; From you I fear no cruel strictures ; I wish some girls that I could name Were half as silent as their pictures ! THE COUNTY BALL Busy people , great and small , 32 EVERY - DAY CHARACTERS.
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... fame ; - But , be it known to great and small , — I can't write sermons at a ball . " T is Alfred fills the public prints With all the sly ingenious hints That fly about , begirt with cares , And terrify the Bulls and Bears . Unrivalled ...
... fame ; - But , be it known to great and small , — I can't write sermons at a ball . " T is Alfred fills the public prints With all the sly ingenious hints That fly about , begirt with cares , And terrify the Bulls and Bears . Unrivalled ...
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... Fame ? Unchecked , unstayed , he hurries on With wondrous stories of the Ton ; Describes how London ladies lose Their heads in helmets - like the Blues , And how the highest circles meet To dance with pattens on their feet ! And all the ...
... Fame ? Unchecked , unstayed , he hurries on With wondrous stories of the Ton ; Describes how London ladies lose Their heads in helmets - like the Blues , And how the highest circles meet To dance with pattens on their feet ! And all the ...
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... fame . Look ! in the van stern Euclid shows The Asses ' - Bridge upon his nose ; Bacon comes forward , sage austere , And Locke and Paley both are there ; And Newton , with a spiteful hiss , Points to his " De Principiis . ” Yet often ...
... fame . Look ! in the van stern Euclid shows The Asses ' - Bridge upon his nose ; Bacon comes forward , sage austere , And Locke and Paley both are there ; And Newton , with a spiteful hiss , Points to his " De Principiis . ” Yet often ...
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Abbot Araminta beaming Beauty Beauty's beneath bliss blush Boodle's BRAZEN HEAD breath bright brow charming cheek Childhood creaking of locks dance dark dear Dido doth dream Eton eyes fair fame fancy fashion fear fiddle filly Fisherman flatter flowers folly fond frown Fustian Hall gaze glance glory gout grace grew hath head heard heart Helen hour knew Lady laugh light lips look Lord lover lute Marriage mirth Miss morning Muse ne'er never night o'er passion Petrarch poems poet Praed Praed's praise pretty quadrille reign o'er rhymes romance ROMEO AND JULIET roses round Season!-the Seville sigh Sir Paul smile soft song sorrow sweet talented talk TEIGNMOUTH tell thee thine thou thought throng to-day to-night Tom Moore tone turning of keys vers de société verse Weep whate'er Whigs whispered whist Windsor Express WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED youth
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Page 20 - Our love was like most other loves — A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And " Fly Not Yet " upon the river ; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows ; and then we parted.
Page 7 - And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage: At his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.
Page 17 - Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them to the Sunday Journal.
Page 6 - And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking ; And when religious...
Page 4 - Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown, Uprose the Doctor's winsome marrow ; The lady laid her knitting down, Her husband clasped his ponderous Barrow ; Whate'er the stranger's caste or creed, Pundit or Papist, saint or sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself, and dinner. If, when he...
Page 154 - Walk — To shiver in the lobby ; I wish that I could run away From house, and court, and levee, Where bearded men appear to-day, Just Eton boys, grown heavy...
Page 230 - The trees and the herbs that round it grew Were venomous and foul, And the birds that through the bushes flew Were the vulture and the owl; The water was as dark and rank As ever a company pumped, And the perch, that was netted and laid on the bank, Grew rotten while it jumped; And bold was he who thither came At midnight, man or boy, For the place was cursed with an evil name, And that name was The Devil's Decoy!
Page 120 - No!' If he speaks of a tax or a duty, If he does not look grand on his knees, If he's blind to a landscape of beauty, Hills, valleys, rocks, waters, and trees, If he dotes not on desolate towers, If he likes not to hear the blast blow, If he knows not the language of flowers, My own Araminta, say 'No...
Page 29 - You'll be forgotten — as old de"bts By persons who are used to borrow ; Forgotten — as the sun that sets, When shines a new one on the morrow ; Forgotten — like the luscious peach, That blessed the school-boy last September ; Forgotten — like a maiden speech, Which all men praise, but none remember.
Page 117 - Taught us both how to sing and to speak, And we loved one another with passion, Before we had been there a week : You gave me a ring for a token ; I wear it wherever I go ; I gave you a chain,— is it broken ? My own Araminta, say "No!