Old-world Idylls: And Other Verses |
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Alley BABETTE BARON BEAU beauty Belle Marquise better bird blue bright brings Caliph clear comes dance dead dear Death DENISE door doubt dream eyes face fair feel feet flowers FRANK garden Give gone grace green grew grow hair Half hand head hear heard heart hope John kiss knew laughing LAWRENCE leaves less light lips living look Maid mean morning Muse never night NINETTE NINON o'er once pain pale passed pipe play Poets poor PRINCESS rest Rose round seek seemed Sing smile song Spring stand stay stirred strange surely sweet tears tell There's thing thou thought to-day trees turned Twas voice wait watched weary young
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205 psl. - All passes. ART alone Enduring stays to us ; The Bust out-lasts the throne, The Coin, Tiberius ; Even the gods must go ; Only the lofty Rhyme Not countless years o'erthrow, Not long array of time.
237 psl. - There is place and enough for the pains of prose ; But whenever a scent from the whitethorn blows, And the jasmine-stars...
212 psl. - Love comes back to his vacant dwelling The old, old Love that we knew of yore ! We see him stand by the open door, With his great eyes sad, and his bosom swelling. " He makes as though in our arms repelling He fain would lie, as he lay before ; Love comes back to his vacant dwelling...
204 psl. - When the hard means rebel, Fairer the work out-grows, More potent far the spell. O POET, then, forbear The loosely-sandalled verse, Choose rather thou to wear The buskin strait and terse; Leave to the tyro's hand The limp and shapeless style; See that thy form demand The labor of the file.
99 psl. - If I were you ! FRANK. If I were you, who vow you cannot suffer Whiff of the best, the mildest ' honey-dew,' I would not dance with smoke-consuming Puffer, If I were you ! NELLIE. If I were you, I would not, sir, be bitter, Even to write the ' Cynical Review ; ' FRANK. No, I should doubtless find flirtation fitter, If I were you ! NELLIE.
17 psl. - WHITEFIELD preached to the colliers grim, Bishops in lawn sleeves preached at him ; WALPOLE talked of " a man and his price " ; Nobody's virtue was over-nice : Those, in fine, were the brave days when Coaches were stopped by . . Highwaymen ! And of all the knights of the gentle trade Nobody bolder than
225 psl. - SINGER of the field and fold, THEOCRITUS ! Pan's pipe was thine, Thine was the happier Age of Gold. For thee the scent of new-turned mould, The bee-hives, and the murmuring pine, O Singer of the field and fold,! Thou sang'st the simple feasts of old, The beechen bowl made glad with wine . . Thine was the happier Age of Gold.
8 psl. - ... wears a brown old Brunswick coat, With silver buttons, round his throat, A soft cravat ; in all you note An elder fashion, A strangeness, which, to us who shine In shapely hats, whose coats combine All harmonies of hue and line, Inspires compassion. He lived so long ago, you see ! Men were untravelled then, but we, Like Ariel, post o'er land and sea With careless parting ; He found it quite enough for him To smoke his pipe in "garden trim," And watch, about the fish tank's brim,...
175 psl. - How sweet with you on some green sod To wreathe the rustic garden-god ; How sweet beneath the chestnut's shade With you to weave a basket-braid ; To watch across the stricken chords Your rosy-twinkling fingers flee ; To woo you in soft woodland words, With woodland pipe, Autonoe...
6 psl. - Tis a long Lane that has no turning,' John ! " Only till Sunday next, and then you'll wait Behind the White-Thorn, by the broken Stile . We can go round and catch them at the Gate, All to Ourselves, for nearly one long Mile ; Dear Prue won't look, and Father...