Famous Porringer Poems by Famous Poets

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A Difficult Rhyme

...What is the rhyme for porringer?The king he had a daughter fair,And gave the Prince of Orange her....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother


Echoes

...e Vere
Was eight years old, she said:
Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread. 

She took her little porringer:
Of me she shall not win renown:
For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her 
down. 

"Sisters and brothers, little Maid?
There stands the Inspector at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four." 

"Kind words are more than coronets,"
She said, and wondering looked at me:
"It is the dead unhappy ni...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

Female Fashions for 1799

...es the eyes to cover ;
A necklace that might be display'd
By OTAHEITEAN lover !

A bowl of straw to deck the head,
Like porringer unmeaning ;
A bunch of POPPIES flaming red,
With motly ribands streaming.

Bare ears on either side the head,
Like wood-wild savage SATYR ;
Tinted with deep vermilion red,
To shame the blush of nature.

Red elbows, gauzy gloves, that add
An icy cov'ring merely ;
A wadded coat, the shape to pad,
Like Dutch-women -- or nearly.

Such is CAPRICE ! but,...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

The Idiot Boy

...sp; And Betty's still at Susan's side:  By this time she's not quite so flurried;  Demure with porringer and plate  She sits, as if in Susan's fate  Her life and soul were buried.   But Betty, poor good woman! she,  You plainly in her face may read it,  Could lend out of that moment's store  Five years of happiness or more,  To any that might need it.   But y...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

This firmament is a porringer overturned upon our

...This firmament is a porringer overturned upon our
heads. Wise men, thereat, humble and unpresumptuous
are. But see the friendship which obtains between the
cup and the flask. Lip against lip are they, and twixt
them ever flows the blood....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar


We Are Seven

...em."   "And often after sunset, Sir,  When it is light and fair,  I take my little porringer,  And eat my supper there."   "The first that died was little Jane;  In bed she moaning lay,  Till God released her of her pain,  And then she went away."   "So in the church-yard she was laid,  And all the summer dry,  Together round her grave we played,&...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

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