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A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS by Robert Herrick
Is this a life, to break thy sleep,
To rise as soon as day doth peep?
To tire thy patient ox or as..
A PASTORAL SUNG TO THE KING by Robert Herrick
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS
MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we...
ANACREONTIC by Robert Herrick
Born I was to be old,
And for to die here;
After that, in the mould
Long for to lie here.
But be..
A Good Boy by Robert Louis Stevenson
I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day,
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuc..
A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of soft..
A Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace..
A Valentine's Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
MOTLEY I count the only wear
That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,
Who boldly smile upo..
About The Sheltered Garden Ground by Robert Louis Stevenson
ABOUT the sheltered garden ground
The trees stand strangely still.
The vale ne’er seemed so deep b..
Ad Magistrum Ludi by Robert Louis Stevenson
NOW in the sky
And on the hearth of
Now in a drawer the direful cane,
That sceptre of the . . . r..
Ad Martialem by Robert Louis Stevenson
GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be
To enjoy our days set wholly free;
To the true life to..
Ad Nepotem by Robert Louis Stevenson
O NEPOS, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home
We’re door by door, by Flora’s temple dome;
And in th..
Ad Olum by Robert Louis Stevenson
CALL me not rebel, though { here at every word
{in what I sing
If I no longer hail thee { King and..
Ad Piscatorem by Robert Louis Stevenson
FOR these are sacred fishes all
Who know that lord that is the lord of all;
Come to the brim and n..
Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson
O CHIEF director of the growing race,
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,
Me, O Quintilian, m..
Ad Se Ipsum by Robert Louis Stevenson
DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,
When you first girded for this arduous track,
And under va..
After Reading "Antony And Cleopatra" by Robert Louis Stevenson
AS when the hunt by holt and field
Drives on with horn and strife,
Hunger of hopeless things pursu..
Air Of Diabelli's by Robert Louis Stevenson
CALL it to mind, O my love.
Dear were your eyes as the day,
Bright as the day and the sky;
Like t..
An English Breeze by Robert Louis Stevenson
UP with the sun, the breeze arose,
Across the talking corn she goes,
And smooth she rustles far an..
Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later by Robert Louis Stevenson
IF you see this song, my dear,
And last year’s toast,
I’m confoundedly in fear
You’ll be serious..
Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
The lamps now glitter down the street;
Faintly sound the falling feet;
And the blue even slowly..
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