WHAT'S MY THOUGHT LIKE? Quest.-WHY is a Pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Thomas Moore. OF ALL THE MEN Of all the men one meets about, There's none like Jack-he's everywhere: Meets you, like Eurus, in the East- A friend of his one evening said, As home he took his pensive way, "Upon my soul, I fear Jack's dead- Thomas Moore. ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT WHILE Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, See him, when starved to death and turn'd to dust, The poet's fate is here in emblem shown- Rev. Samuel Wesley. Epigrams A CONJUGAL CONUNDRUM WHICH is of greater value, prythee, say, 371 The Bride or Bridegroom?-must the truth be told? Alas, it must! The Bride is given away The Bridegroom's often regularly sold. Unknown. VII BURLESQUE LOVERS AND A REFLECTION IN moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter (And heaven it knoweth what that may mean; Meaning, however, is no great matter) Where woods are a-tremble with words a-tween; Thro' God's own heather we wonned together, I need hardly remark it was glorious weather, Boats were curtseying, rising, bowing, Thro' the rare red heather we danced together By rises that flushed with their purple favors, We journeyed in parallels, I and Willie, Lovers and a Reflection Song-birds darted about, some inky As coal, some snowy (I ween) as curds; Or rosy as pinks, or as roses pinky They reck of no eerie To-come, those birds! But they skim over bents which the mill-stream washes, And good Mrs. Trimmer she feedeth them. Then we thrid God's cowslips (as erst his heather), And Willie 'gan sing―(Oh, his notes were fluty; 373 Wafts fluttered them out to the white-winged sea)— Something made up of rhymes that have done much duty, Rhymes (better to put it) of "ancientry": Bowers of flowers encountered showers In William's carol-(O love my Willie!) A nest in a hollow, "with buds to follow," I think occurred next in his nimble strain; Mists, bones, the singer himself, love-stories, O if billows and pillows and hours and flowers, And carted or carried on wafts away, Nor ever again trotted out-ah me! How much fewer volumes of verse there'd be. Charles Stuart Calverley. OUR HYMN AT morning's call The small-voiced pug dog welcomes in the sun, When evening dim Draws rounds us, then the lovely caterwaul, Oliver Wendell Holmes. “SOLDIER, REST!" A RUSSIAN sailed over the blue Black Sea Schipkadirova- Sanilik Danilik- A Turk was standing upon the shore Getzinpravadi Kilgekosladji Grivido Blivido Jenikodosk!" |