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“Max and Maurice”: Trick First

Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks

TO most people who have leisure
Raising poultry gives great pleasure;
First, because the eggs they lay us
For the care we take repay us;
Secondly, that now and then
We can dine on roasted hen;
Thirdly,...

Poet: Wilhelm Busch
Sonnets from the PortugueseXXXVIII. First time he kissed me, he but only kissed

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And, ever since, it grew more clean and white,
Slow to world-greetings, quick with its “O list!”
When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst
I could not wear here,...

Poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The First Blue-Bird

Jest rain and snow! and rain again!
  And dribble! drip! and blow!
Then snow! and thaw! and slush! and then—
  Some more rain and snow!

This morning I was ’most afeard
  To wake up—when, I jing!
I seen the sun shine out and heerd
  The...

Poet: James Whitcomb Riley
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;...

Poet: John Keats