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This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
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Nor shall my verse that elder bard forget, The gentle Spenser, fancy's pleasing son; Who, like a copious river, poured his song O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground.
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Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse may seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
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Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. POPE: Satire i., Bk. Ii., Line 76. Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings.
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Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. POPE: Satire v., Line 267. Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some f
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Answer That you are here that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
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Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling
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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
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And I'm no expert on the word <br/>I can't qoute you chapter and verse <br/>But I've heard you love the worst ones too <br/>And I'm the proof.
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O innocent victims of Cupid,<br/>Remember this terse little verse: <br/>To let a fool kiss you is stupid,<br/>To let a kiss fool you is worse.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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'Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
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