Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice
The dappled
Cheek and wimpled lip,
The gold-wisp, the
Eye, all in fellowship—This, all this beauty blooming,
The dappled
Cheek and wimpled lip,
The gold-wisp, the
Eye, all in fellowship—This, all this beauty blooming,
LE many a fond and blooming maid Attempts thy heart to gain;
And, by thy fatal smile betrayed, Thinks not she strives in vain:
While in those eyes of tender blue They answering passion see,
And in thy sweet expression view The charm...
Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother,
Night and day, on all things that draw breath,
Reign, while time keeps friends with one another Birth and death
Each brow-bound with flowers diverse of wreath,
Now twenty-four or maybe
Was the woman's age, and her white brow was sleek;
Lips parted in surprise, the flawless cheek;
The long brown hair coiled sullenly alive;
Dingley and Brent, Wherever they went,
Ne'er minded a word that was spoken; Whatever was said, They ne'er troubled their head,
But laugh'd at their own silly joking
Should Solomon wise In majesty rise,
Strings in the earth and air Make music sweet;
Strings by the river where The willows meet
There's music along the river For Love wanders there,
Pale flowers on his mantle,
April had covered the hills With flickering yellows and reds,
The sparkle and coolness of snow Was blown from the mountain beds
Across a deep-sunken stream The pink of blossoming trees,
And from windless appleblooms The humming of m...
Jonquil was a shepherd lad,
White he was as the curded cream,
Hair like the buttercups he had,
And wet green eyes like a full chalk
The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter "Little Prig
" Bun replied, "You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year An...
I took my lyre and said:
Come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument
ON loathing their lascivious Life,
Abhorred all Womankind, but most a Wife:
So single chose to live, and shunned to wed,
Well pleased to want a Consort of his Bed
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children
She didn't know what to do
But try as she would she could never detect which was the cause and which the effect