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The Girl of All Periods

“and even our women,” lastly grumbles Ben,
“Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!”
A damsel, as our train stops at Five Ashes,
Down to the station in a dog-cart dashes.
A footman buys her thicket, “Third class, parly;”
And, in the huge-buttoned...

Poet: Coventry Patmore
Sly Thoughts

“i Saw him kiss your cheek!”—“’T is true.”
  “O Modesty!”—“’T was strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least, I knew
  He thought I thought he thought I slept.”
Poet: Coventry Patmore
Sweet Meeting of Desires

From “The Angel in the House”
I GREW assured, before I asked,
  That she ’d be mine without reserve,
And in her unclaimed graces basked
  At leisure, till the time should serve,—
With just enough of dread to thrill
  The hope, and make it trebly...

Poet: Coventry Patmore
Parting

If thou dost bid thy friend farewell,
But for one night though that farewell may be,
Press thou his hand in thine.
How canst thou tell how far from thee
Fate or caprice may lead his steps ere that to-morrow comes?
Men have been known to lightly turn the...

Poet: Coventry Patmore