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The Home Book of Verse Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Home Book of Verse novel. A total of 413 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Home Book of Verse.
Vol. 1.
by Various.
Editor: Burton Egbert Stevenson.
PART IPOEMS
The Home Book of Verse.
Vol. 1.
by Various.
Editor: Burton Egbert Stevenson.
PART IPOEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE
THE HUMAN SEASONS
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his l.u.s.ty Spring, when fancy clear
- 401 Anne Reeve Aldrich [1866-1892]TOO CANDID BY HALF As Tom and his wife were discoursing one day Of their several faults in a bantering way, Said she, "Though my wit you disparage, I'm sure, my dear husband, our friends will attest This much, at the least,
- 402 John Wilmot [1647-1680]CERTAIN MAXIMS OF HAFIZ I If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai, Does not the Young Man try Its temper and pace ere he buy?If She be pleasant to look on, what does the Young Man say?"Lo! She is pleasant to look
- 403 "I hardly ever ope my lips," one cries; "Simonides, what think you of my rule?" "If youre a fool, I think youre very wise; If you are wise, I think you are a fool." Richard Garnett [1835-1906] Philosopher, whom dost thou most affect, Stoics austere,
- 404 George Macdonald [1824-1905] Who killed Kildare? Who dared Kildare to kill? Death killed Kildare--who dare kill whom he will. Jonathan Swift [1667-1745] With death doomed to grapple, Beneath the cold slab he Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the abbey.By
- 405 ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF HARVARD And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to G.o.d.John Collins Bossidy [1860-1928]ON THE DEMOCRACY OF YALE Here's to the town of New Hav
- 406 When you and I have ceased Champagne to Sup, Be sure there will be More to Keep it Up; And while we pat Old Tabby by the fire, Full many a Girl will lead her Brindled Pup.Josephine Daskam Bacon [1876- "WHEN LOVELY WOMAN"After Goldsmith When love
- 407 I blotted out the score with tears, And paid the money down; And took the maid of thirteen years Back to her mother's town.And though the past with surges wild Fond memories may sever, The vision of that happy child Will leave my spirits never!Rudyar
- 408 Some greatly more accomplished man than I Must tackle them: let's say then Shakespeare said it; And, if he did not, Lewis Morris may (Or even if he did). Some other day, When I have nothing pressing to impart, I should not mind dilating on this matte
- 409 Ask a man what he thinks, and get from a man what he feels; G.o.d, once caught in the fact, shows you a fair pair of heels.Body and spirit are twins: G.o.d only knows which is which; The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch.One an
- 410 The farmer's daughter hath frank blue eyes; (b.u.t.ter and eggs and a pound of cheese) She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and sh.e.l.ls her peas.The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips; (b.u.t.ter and eggs an
- 411 Mortimer Collins [1827-1876]NEPHELIDIA After Swinburne From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noons.h.i.+ne, Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float,
- 412 If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been,"More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be."Bret Harte [1839-1902]THE MODERN HIAWATHA From "The Song of Milkanwatha"He killed the n.o.ble Mudjokivis, Wit
- 413 V.--(Browning) Tut! Bah! We take as another case-- Pa.s.s the pills on the window-sill; notice the capsule (A sick man's fancy, no doubt, but I place Reliance on trade-marks, Sir)--so perhaps you'll Excuse the digression--this cup which I hold L