Complete poetical worksGeorge P. Putnam, 1862 |
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Page 160 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Page 231 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 389 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 349 - And plays about the gilded barges' sides; The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious with their lines, and eyes, They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
Page 136 - It is one of my wife's fancies that the less her words resemble her native tongue, the more they must be like German ; so her first attempt was to tell the maid that she wanted a cheeking, or a keeking. The maid opened her eyes and mouth, and shook her head. 'It's to cook,' said her mistress, 'to coke — to put in an iron thing — in a pit— pat — pot.
Page 349 - With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace; And on the world and my creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war or wantonness.
Page 5 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 237 - A SCHOOLMISTRESS ought not to travel — No, sir ! , No, madam — except on the map. There, indeed, she may skip from a blue continent to a green one — cross a pink isthmus — traverse a Red, Black, or Yellow Sea — land in a purple island, or roam in an orange desert, without danger or indecorum. There she may ascend dotted rivers, sojourn at capital cities, scale alps, and wade through bogs, without soiling her shoe, rumpling her satin, or showing her ankle. But as to practical travelling,...
Page 25 - No, no, Frank," replied my Uncle, gravely shaking his head ; " it's beyond a joke. I didn't say so before the Dutchman, because I don't choose to let down my native land : there's plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality ; — but I don't set up for a cosmo-polite, which, to my mind, signifies being polite to every country except your own." " I have never heard the English accused," suggested your humble servant,