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ANGORA CAT Bard bells beneath blessed bliss blooming Boodle's boys BRAMBLE-RISE breeze CASTLE Charming Neighbour cheerful child darling dead dear Domesday Book dreams EDWARD MOXON Enchants erst eyes fade fancy fond friends gay bride gaze Geraldine grace grave green greet hair HATFIELD BROADOAK heart here's your letter hither HUMAN SKULL Janet JESTER'S MORAL kissed lady laugh Life's lips little crutch LITTLE PITCHER maid maiden meet merry merry king mirth mournful Muff NEIGHBOUR ROSE never night o'er OLD LETTERS once pair Pall Mall pass perchance Piccadilly pilgrim PITCHER pleasant poet poor pretty prize REPLY rhyme Ring Rome shed sing smile soon sorrow spell stone pines sweet tear tempora mutantur tender thee there's thou thought Tiber tree Twas Uncle Vanity Fair VICTORIA CROSS vowed weep Widow's wish wonder words extinguish wore yore young youth
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Page 34 - Your pieta of Marc Antoine, Fair Virtue doth fair play enjoin, Fair Virtuoso ! At times an Ariel, cruel-kind, Will kiss my lips, and stir your blind, And whisper low, " She hides behind ; Thou art not lonely.
Page 8 - Romney's touch be true, What a lucky dog were you, Grandpapa ! Her lips are sweet as love ; They are parting ! Do they move ? Are they dumb? Her eyes are blue, and beam Beseechingly, and seem To say, " Come ! " What funny fancy slips From atween these cherry lips?
Page 168 - De ces ravages du temps. Vous en avez qu'on adore, Mais ceux que vous méprisez Pourraient bien durer encore Quand ceux-là seront usés. Ils pourront sauver la gloire Des yeux qui me semblent doux, Et dans mille ans faire croire Ce qu'il me plaira de vous. Chez cette race nouvelle Où j'aurai quelque crédit, Vous ne passerez pour belle Qu'autant que je l'aurai dit. Pensez-y, belle Marquise: Quoiqu'un grison fasse effroi, II vaut bien qu'on le courtise, Quand il est fait comme moi.
Page 88 - I've blush'd for words untimely spoken ; I still am rather shy, and now . . . And now the ice is fairly broken. We all have secrets : you have one Which mayn't be quite your charming spouse's ; We all lock up a skeleton In some grim chamber of our houses ; Familiars who exhaust their days And nights in probing where our smart is — And who, excepting spiteful ways, Are "silent, unassuming parties.
Page 37 - PICCADILLY ! Shops, palaces, bustle, and breeze; The whirring of wheels, and the murmur of trees ; By night or by day, whether noisy or stilly, Whatever my mood is, I love Piccadilly. Wet nights, when the gas on the pavement is streaming, And young Love is watching, and old Love is dreaming, And Beauty is whirling to conquest, where shrilly Cremona makes nimble thy toes, Piccadilly! Bright days, when...
Page 149 - Hopgarten protests they've no feeling, and so It was only their muscular movement, you know ! " Thinks I (when I've said au revoir, and depart — A Comb in my pocket, a Weight— at my heart), And when wretched mendicants writhe, there's a notion That begging is only their "muscular THE JESTER'S MORAL.
Page 22 - Ay, come, and see the statues, pictures, churches, Although the last are commonplace, or florid. — Who say 'tis here that superstition perches ? Myself, I'm glad the marbles have been quarried. The sombre streets are worthy your researches : The ways are foul, the lava pavement's horrid, But pleasant sights that squeamishness disparages, Are miss'd by all who roll about in carriages. I dare not speak of Michael Angelo, Such theme were all too splendid for my pen : And if I breathe the name of...
Page 8 - That fowl's avenging sprite Set his cruel foot for spite Near her eye. Her rounded form was lean, And her silk was bombazine; Well I wot With her needles would she sit, And for hours would she knit, — Would she not?
Page 95 - Fair finds in the sea, — A youth sings a pretty Song, tempered with glee, — The mirth and the ditty Are mournful to me. Ah, sea boy, how strange is The carol you sing! Let Psyche, who ranges The gardens of Spring, Remember the changes December will bring.