ON the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On...
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What is it men in women do require
The lineaments of Gratified Desire
What is it women do in men require
The lineaments of Gratified Desire[3]
Quite empty, quite at rest,
The Robin locks her Nest, and tries her Wings.
She does not know a Route
But puts her Craft about
For rumored Springs —
She does not ask for Noon —
She does not ask for Boon,
Crumbless and homeless, of but one request —
The Birds she lost —
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Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise
His Executive Power must I despise
Rubens Low Vulgar Stupid Ignorant
His power of Execution I must grant
5 Learn the Laborious stumble of a Fool
And from...
Rather arid delight
If Contentment accrue
Make an abstemious Ecstasy
Not so good as joy —
But Rapture's Expense
Must not be incurred
With a tomorrow knocking
And the Rent unpaid —
Read — Sweet — how others — strove —
Till we — are stouter —
What they — renounced —
Till we — are less afraid —
How many times they — bore the faithful witness —
Till we — are helped —
As if a Kingdom — cared!
Read then — of faith —
That shone above the fagot —
...
I like a look of agony
Because I know it 's true ;
Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor simulate a throe.
The eyes gaze once, and that is death.
Impossible to feign
The beads upon the forehead
By homely anguish...
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness —
Blush, my unacknowledged clay —
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood every may!
Love that never...