Short Poems

While ladling butter from alternate tubs,
Stubbs butters Freeman, Freeman butters Stubbs.

What dim Arcadian pastures
Have I known
That suddenly, out of nothing,
A wind is blown,
Lifting a veil and a darkness,
Showing a purple sea—
And under your hair the faun's eyes
Look out on me?

You shall want nothing fit for mortal man
To eat or drink; 'tis all that I do can.
And all that's expedient,
From your most obedient.

I have rolled near some other spirits path
And with a pleased anxiety have felt
Its purer influence on my opaque mass
But always was I doomed to learn, alas!
I had scarce changed its sidireal time.

Unshaken world! Another day of light
After the human chaos of the night;
Although a heart in mendless horror grieves,
What calmly yellow, gently falling leaves!

Until at length the north winds blow,
And beating high mid ice and snow,
The sturdy goose brings up the rear,
Leaving behind the cold cold year.

Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee
Resolved to have a battle,
For Tweedle-dum said Tweedle-dee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew by a monstrous crow,
As big as a tar-barrel,
Which frightened both the heroes so
They quite forgot their quarrel.

A TUTOR who tooted a flute
Tried to teach two young tutors to toot.
—Said the two to the tutor,
—“Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tutors to toot?”

If these can't keep your ladies quiet,
Pull down their courage with low diet.
Perhaps, dear Sir, you'll think it cruel
To feed 'em on plain water-gruel;
But take my word, the best of breeding,
As it is plain, requires plain feeding.

'T IS highly rational, we can't dispute,
The Love, being naked, should promote a suit:
But doth not oddity to him attach
Whose fire's so oft extinguished by a match?