Love Poems – Page 2854
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A Life’s Love
I Loved him in my dawning years— / Far years, divinely dim; / My blithest smiles, my saddest tears, … -
Darwin
There was an ape in the days that were earlier; / Centuries passed, and his hair grew curlier; / Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist, … -
Ode for a Social Meeting
With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller / COME! fill a fresh bumper,—for why should we go / While the [nectar vs. logwood] still reddens our cups as they flow? … -
Hollow Hospitality
From “Satires,” Book III. Sat. 3. / THE COURTEOUS citizen bade me to his feast / With hollow words, and overly 1 request: … -
A Recipe
From Punch’s Poetical Cookery Book / Roasted Sucking-Pig / AIR.—“Scots wha hae.” … -
A Recipe for Salad
To make this condiment your poet begs / The pounded yellow of two hard boiled eggs; / Two boiled potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve, … -
Ode to Tobacco
Thou who, when fears attack, / Bid’st them avaunt, and Black / Care, at the horseman’s back … -
A Farewell to Tobacco
MAY the Babylonish curse / Straight confound my stammering verse, / If I can a passage see … -
Too Great a Sacrifice
The Maid, as by the papers doth appear, / Whom fifty thousand dollars made so dear, / To test Lothario’s passion, simply said: … -
From “Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum”
Prologue / WOULDN’T it jar you, wouldn’t it make you sore / To see the poet, when the goods play out, …
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