This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...at "Blank." Jemima, let it go; And I, meanwhile, will idle with "Sir Walter;" Stay, let me keep the first rough copy, though--Twill serve again. There 's but the name to alter, And Love, --that starves, --must knock at every portal, Inform&pOMpirii, We are but mortal l THE MISOGYNIST. "Ilttait tatjeune homme ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...at "Blank." Jemima, let it go; And I, meanwhile, will idle with "Sir Walter;" Stay, let me keep the first rough copy, though--Twill serve again. There 's but the name to alter, And Love, --that starves, --must knock at every portal, Inform&pOMpirii, We are but mortal l THE MISOGYNIST. "Ilttait tatjeune homme dun tien tiaupassl." WHEN first he sought our haunts, he wora His locks in Hamlet-style; His brow with thought was "sicklied o'er,"--We rarely saw him smile; And, e'en when none were looking on, His air was always woe-begone. He kept, I think, his bosom bare To imitate Jean Paul; His solitary topics were Esthetics, Fate, and Soul;--Although at times, but not for long, He bowed his Intellect to song. He served, he said, a Muse of Tears: I know his verses breathed A fine funereal air of biers, And objects cypress-wreathed;--Indeed, his tried acquaintance fled An ode he named "The Sheeted Dead." In these light moods, I call to mind, He darkly would allude To some dread sorrow undefined, - Some passion unsubdued; Then break into a ghastly laugh, And talk of Keats his epitaph. He railed at women's faith as Cant; We thought him grandest when He named them Siren-shapes that " chant On blanching bones of Men;"--Alas, not e'en the great go free From that insidious minstrelsy! His lot, he oft would gravely urge, Lay on a lone Rock where Around Time-beaten bases surge The Billows of Despair. We dreamed it true. We never knew What gentler ears he told it to. We, bound with him in common care, One-minded, celibate, Resolved to Thought and Diet spare Our lives to dedicate;--We, truly, in no common sense Deserved his closest confidence! But soon, and yet, though soon, too late, We, sorrowing, ...
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Add this copy of Old-world idylls and other verses to cart. $24.07, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2017 by Hansebooks.
Add this copy of Old-World Idylls And Other Verses to cart. $24.07, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2017 by Hansebooks.
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