Messer Dante A Messer Bruno
Messer Dante A Messer Bruno ESSENDO pazzo, il bue al guado intoppa, E volta e sfugge e d’acqua và digiuno: E tu, pittor, che come lui […]
READ MOREMichael Scott’s Wooing
Michael Scott’s Wooing ROSE-SHEATHED beside the rosebud tongue Lurks the young adder’s tooth; Milk-mild from new-born hemlock-bluth The earliest drops are wrung: And sweet the flower […]
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Mnemosyne THOU fill’st from the winged chalice of the soul Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal.
READ MOREMotto To The Card Dealer
Motto To The Card Dealer AMBITION, Cupidité, Et délicieuse Volupté, Sont les sœurs de la Destinée Après la vingt-première année.
READ MOREMy Sister’s Sleep
My Sister’s Sleep She fell asleep on Christmas Eve: At length the long-ungranted shade Of weary eyelids overweigh’d The pain nought else might yet relieve. Our […]
READ MOREOn A Handful Of French Money
On A Handful Of French Money These coins that jostle on my hand do own No single image: each name here and date Denoting in man’s […]
READ MOREOn Browning’s Sordello
On Browning’s Sordello “SORDELLO’S story,” the Sphinx yawned and said, “Who would has heard.” Is that enough? Who could, ‘Twere not amiss to add, has understood: […]
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On Burns In whomsoe’er, since Poesy began, A Poet most of all men we may scan, Burns of all poets is the most a Man.
READ MOREOn Certain Elizabethan revivals
On Certain Elizabethan revivals O RUFF-EMBASTIONED vast Elizabeth, Bush to these bushel-bellied casks of wine, Home-growth, ’tis true, but rank as turpentine— What would we with […]
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On Christina Rossetti THERE’S a female bard, grim as a fakier, Who daily grows shakier and shakier.
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