Artiste consommé, ton crayon immortel
À Rogers, le classique, improvise un autel,
Qu’il reste ton chef d’œuvre ! – Il m’en souvient encore
Dans ces temps déjà loin où pointait mon aurore
Que de fois n’ai-je pas, admirateur naïf,
Dévoré du regard, ton faire intellectif ?
Le précieux Grandison, et la triste...
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I Have had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
Closed are her... -
The Frugal snail, with forecast of repose,
Carries his house with him where’er he goes;
Peeps out,—and if there comes a shower of rain,
Retreats to his small domicile again.
Touch but a tip of him, a horn,—’t is well,—
He curls up in his sanctuary shell.
He ’s his own landlord, his own tenant; stay
Long as he will, he dreads no Quarter... -
MAY the Babylonish curse
Straight confound my stammering verse,
If I can a passage see
In this word-perplexity,
Or a fit expression find,
Or a language to my mind
(Still the phrase is wide or scant),
To take leave of thee, GREAT PLANT!
Or in any terms relate
Half my love, or half my hate;
For I hate, yet love,...