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Your whim is for frolic and fashion , Your taste is for letters and art ; This rhyme is
the commonplace passion That glows in a fond woman ' s heart : Lay it by in
some sacred deposit For relics — we all have a few ! Love , some day they ' ll
print it ...
Your whim is for frolic and fashion , Your taste is for letters and art ; This rhyme is
the commonplace passion That glows in a fond woman ' s heart : Lay it by in
some sacred deposit For relics — we all have a few ! Love , some day they ' ll
print it ...
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... which comes to me Linked with her name of Dorothy . What was she like ? I
picture her Unmeet for uncouth worshipper ; Soft , - pensive , - far too subtly
graced To suit the blunt bucolic taste , Whose crude perception could but see “
Ma ' am ...
... which comes to me Linked with her name of Dorothy . What was she like ? I
picture her Unmeet for uncouth worshipper ; Soft , - pensive , - far too subtly
graced To suit the blunt bucolic taste , Whose crude perception could but see “
Ma ' am ...
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Our tastes agree . I dote upon Frail jars , turquoise , and celadon , The Wedding
March of Mendelssohn , And Penseroso . When sorely tempted to purloin Your
Pietà of Marc Antoine , Fair virtue doth fair play enjoin , Fair Virtuoso ! Who sent ...
Our tastes agree . I dote upon Frail jars , turquoise , and celadon , The Wedding
March of Mendelssohn , And Penseroso . When sorely tempted to purloin Your
Pietà of Marc Antoine , Fair virtue doth fair play enjoin , Fair Virtuoso ! Who sent ...
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SOME years ago , ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy - turvy , When
Darnel Park was Darnel Waste , And roads as little known as scurvy , The man
who lost his way , between St . Mary ' s Hill and Sandy Thicket , Was always
shown ...
SOME years ago , ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy - turvy , When
Darnel Park was Darnel Waste , And roads as little known as scurvy , The man
who lost his way , between St . Mary ' s Hill and Sandy Thicket , Was always
shown ...
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... taste for smoking ; And when religious sects ran mad , He held , in spite of all
his learning , That if a man ' s belief is bad , It will not be improved by burning . “
LIKE A STREAM WHICH RUNS WITH RAPID CHANGE FROM Alack the change
!
... taste for smoking ; And when religious sects ran mad , He held , in spite of all
his learning , That if a man ' s belief is bad , It will not be improved by burning . “
LIKE A STREAM WHICH RUNS WITH RAPID CHANGE FROM Alack the change
!
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems |
| Authors | Austin Dobson, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Winthrop Mackworth Praed |
| Illustrated by | Maud Humphrey |
| Publisher | Frederick A. Stokes, 1892 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 71 pages |
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