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Nonsense

GOOD reader, if you e’er have seen,
When Phœbus hastens to his pillow,
The mermaids with their tresses green …

Thomas Moore
The Purple Cow

I Never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow, …

Gelett Burgess
Psycholophon

[Supposed to be translated from the Old Parsee]
TWINE then the rays
Round her soft Theban tissues! …

Gelett Burgess
The Baker’s Tale

From “The Hunting of the Snark”
THEY roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—
They roused him with mustard and cress— …

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Jabberwocky

’t Was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves, …

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
For a Novel of Hall Caine’s

After Kipling
HE sits in a sea-green grotto with a bucket of lurid paint,
And draws the Thing as it isn’t for the God of things as they ain’t.

Robert Bridges
The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood …

Robert Frost
Ample make this Bed —

Ample make this Bed —
Make this Bed with Awe —
In it wait till Judgment break …

Emily Dickinson
An altered look about the hills —

An altered look about the hills —
A Tyrian light the village fills —
A wider sunrise in the morn — …

Emily Dickinson
An antiquated Grace

An antiquated Grace
Becomes that cherished Face
As well as prime …
An Antiquated Tree

An Antiquated Tree
Is cherished of the Crow
Because that Junior Foliage is disrespectful now …
An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote

Did not my muse (what can she less?)
Perceive her own unworthiness,
Could she by some well chosen theme, …

William Cowper
An Attempt at the Manner of Waller

Did not thy reason and thy sense,
With most persuasive eloquence,
Convince me that obedience due …

William Cowper
An awful Tempest mashed the air —

An awful Tempest mashed the air —
The clouds were gaunt, and few —
A Black — as of a Spectre's Cloak …

Emily Dickinson
An honest Tear

An honest Tear
Is durabler than Bronze —
This Cenotaph …
An ignorance a Sunset

An ignorance a Sunset
Confer upon the Eye —
Of Territory — Color — …
An Old Man's Reverie

'Tis sixty years since first beneath this tree
I stood a boy of ten,
And here what time has left, or made of me, …

Frances O'Brien
And his legs carried it like a long fork

* * *
And his legs carried it like a long fork
Reachd all the way from Chichester to York …

William Blake
And this of all my Hopes

And this of all my Hopes
This, is the silent end
Bountiful colored, my Morning rose …

Emily Dickinson
Andre's Request to Washington

It is not the fear of death
That damps my brow;
It is not for another breath …

Nathaniel Parker Willis