Who never drinks and never bets,

But loves his wife and pays his debts

And feels content with what he gets?

Tom Collins.


Who has the utmost confidence

That all the banks now in suspense

Will meet...

Poet:

You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace --

Not one in fifty has the nerve to ride a steeplechase.

It's right enough, while horses pull and take their faces strong,

To rush a flier to the front and bring the field along;...

Poet:

Too cold is this

To warm with Sun —

Too stiff to bended be,

To joint this Agate were a work —

Outstaring Masonry —


How went the Agile Kernel out

Contusion of the Husk

Nor Rip, nor wrinkle...

Poet:

Too few the mornings be,

Too scant the nights.

No lodging can be had

For the delights

That come to earth to stay,

But no apartment find

And ride away.

Poet:

Too happy Time dissolves itself

And leaves no remnant by -

'Tis Anguish not a Feather hath

Or too much weight to fly -

Poet:

Oh, if there may departing be

Any forgot by victory

  In her imperial round,

Show them this meek apparelled thing,

That could not stop to be a king,

  Doubtful if it be crowned !

Poet:

Too little way the House must lie

From every Human Heart

That holds in undisputed Lease

A white inhabitant —


Too narrow is the Right between —

Too imminent the chance —

Each Consciousness must...

Poet:

Too scanty 'twas to die for you,

The merest Greek could that.

The living, Sweet, is costlier —

I offer even that —


The Dying, is a trifle, past,

But living, this include

The dying multifold — without...

Poet:

Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar

Unless thou know'st the Tune

Or every Bird will point at thee

Because a Bard too soon —

Poet:
Poet: