Peculiar word, the wanted most,
Was irrecoverably lost!
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COME, Sleep! but mind ye! if you come without
By Jove! I would not give you half-a-crownFor all your poppy-heads and all your down.
THERE is a mountain and a wood between us,
Morning and noon and eventide repass.Between us now the mountain and the woodSeem standing darker than last year they stood,And say we must not cross–alas! alas!
BLYTHE bell, that calls to bridal halls,
The very shower that feeds the flowerWeeps also its decay.
Laertes: Gods help thee! and restore to thee thy sight!
Yet have outlived by many years my sonOdysseus and the chaste Penelope.Homer: Hither I come to visit thee and singHis wanderings and his wisdom, tho my voiceBe not the voice it was.Laertes: First let us tasteMy old sound wine, and break my bread less old,But old enough for teeth like thine and mine.Homer: So be…
To Her Father, on Her Statue Being Called Like Her
Is not, I fancy, so like me;You never hold her on your knee.When she came home, the other day,You kiss’d her; but I cannot sayShe kiss’d you first and ran away.
YES; I write verses now and then,
No longer talk’d of by young menAs rather clever;In the last quarter are my eyes,You see it by their form and size;Is it not time then to be wise?Or now or never.Fairest that ever sprang from Eve!While Time allows the short reprieve,Just look at me! would you believe’T was once a lover?I cannot clear the…