Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sat gossiping with Robert
(She was really a raving beauty in her day
With Mary Pickford curls in clouds and whirls
) She was trying to think of something nice to say, So she pointed to a page by her fellow...
Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago
He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so
His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and circumference,
Diameter and such
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[Supposed to be chanted to some rude instrument at a modern fireplace]Chant we the story now Tho' in a house we sleep;
Tho' by a hearth of coals Vigil to-night we keep
Chant we the story now,
Of the vague love we knew When I from ou...
Factory windows are always broken
Somebody's always throwing bricks,
Somebody's always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks
Sometimes we remember kisses,
Remember the dear heart-leap when they came:
Not always, but sometimes we
The kindness, the dumbness, the good
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An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California
There were few theatres, but the hotels were provided with crude assembly rooms for strolling players
[Written to the Most Beautiful Woman in the World]M< Sweetheart is the
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Too soon you wearied of our tears
And then you danced with spangled feet,
Leading Belshazzar's chattering courtA-tinkling through the shadowy street
With mead they came, with chants of shame
A curse upon each king who leads his state,
No matter what his plea, to this foul game,
And may it end his wicked dynasty,
And may he die in exile and black shame
Would that by Hindu magic we became Dark monks of jeweled India long ago,
Sitting at Prince Siddartha's feet to know The foolishness of gold and love and station,
The gospel of the Great Renunciation,
The ragged cloak, the staff, th...
What the Carpenter
The moon's a cottage with a door
Some folks can see it plain
Look, you may catch a glint of light,