On Hounslow Heath - and close beside the road, As western travellers may oft have seen, - A little house some years ago there stood, A minikin abode; And built like Mr. Birkbeck's, all of wood:...
Thou happy, happy elf! (But stop, - first let me kiss away that tear) - Thou tiny image of myself! (My love, he's poking peas into his ear!) Thou merry, laughing sprite! With spirits feather-light,...
'Twas August - Hastings every day was filling - Hastings, that "greenest spot on memory's waste"! With crowds of idlers willing and unwilling To be bedipped - be noticed - or be braced,...
Of all our pains, since man was curst, I mean of body, not the mental, To name the worst, among the worst, The dental sure is transcendental; Some bit of masticating bone,...
Look how the lark soars upward and is gone, Turning a spirit as he nears the sky! His voice is heard, but body there is none To fix the vague excursions of the eye....
It is not with a hope my feeble praise Can add one moment's honor to thy own, That with thy mighty name I grace these lays; I seek to glorify myself alone: For that some precious favor thou hast shown...
I love thee - I love thee! 'Tis all that I can say; - It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day; The very echo of my heart, The blessing when I pray: I love thee - I love thee!...
Well hast thou cried, departed Burke, All chivalrous romantic work Is ended now and past! - That iron age - which some have thought Of metal rather overwrought - Is now all overcast! ...
It's a shame, so it is, - men can't Let alone Jobs as is Woman's right to do - and go about there Own - Theirs Reforms enuff Alreddy without your new schools...
And has the earth lost its so spacious round, The sky its blue circumference above, That in this little chamber there is found Both earth and heaven - my universe of love!...