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EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women)

...NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, 
"Most Women have no Characters at all." 
Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, 
And best distinguish'd by black, brown, or fair. 

How many pictures of one Nymph we view, 
All how unlike each other, all how true! 
Arcadia's Countess, here, in ermin'd pride, 
Is, there, Pastora by a fountain side. 
Here Fannia, ...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


The Vagabond

...scrubs; 
We froze together in parks at night, 
And laughed together in pubs. 
And I often hear a laugh like his 
From a sense of humour keen, 
And catch a glimpse in a passing phiz 
Of his broad, good-humoured grin. 

And I had a love -- 'twas a love to prize -- 
But I never went back again . . . 
I have seen the light of her kind brown eyes 
In many a face since then. 

. . . . . 

The sailors say 'twill be rough to-night, 
As they fasten the hatches down, 
The south is blac...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

the watchers

...next thursday the pink circle again appeared
to be a blue spot

the watchers congratulated themselves upon the circle's
sense of humour

and on the next thursday the earth came out in a
rash of blue spots

the watchers (finding themselves sitting on one) were
the first to die...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

Waking in the Blue

...grows tense
as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.
(This is the house for the "mentally ill.")

What use is my sense of humour?
I grin at Stanley, now sunk in his sixties,
once a Harvard all-American fullback,
(if such were possible!)
still hoarding the build of a boy in his twenties,
as he soaks, a ramrod
with a muscle of a seal
in his long tub,
vaguely urinous from the Victorian plumbing.
A kingly granite profile in a crimson gold-cap,
worn all day, all night, 
he ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Robert

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