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Wasps Honey; Or, Poetic Gold and Gems of Poetic Thought
Wasps Honey Or Poetic Gold and Gems of Poetic Thought Author:Richard Howitt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: J.M. Darton and Co. Subjects: English poetry Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white ... more »OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ON THE DEATH OF AN ANCIENT VIL- LAGE LADY. Heb prized, smooth, ivory-headed cane, May in its corner now remain : Her chair be vacant, and the floor Respond unto her foot no more. How neatly mown her garden plot; Her flowers how fair now she is not: The atonecrop on her porch how bright, Now she no more enjoys the sight. The priest will turn, and pause, and sigh, As to the church he wanders by: Will mark her grave beyond the yew: And see with pain her vacant pew. Her faults were by her neighbours shown; Her virtues only seemed unknown: The first were buzzed amongst the crowd: But now the last are all allowed. We darkly move: we come and go: Nor know ourselves, nor others know: nd what we are, and are to be, one God'a eye of love can see ! THE OLD SUEPLICE. " It hath been always true to the wear, We've had it four and forty year." -- Old Bali. u. It seems, when in my boyish days, The surplice on the priest I saw, There mingled with that boyish gaze, A childish and mysterious awe. It might have been by angels wrought, A holy garment from the sky: But soon rush'd in the vulgar thought, 'Twas made on earth for pomp to buy. Thus dewdrops which like diamonds shine, Shook, fall to earth as dullest rain: And fairy-frost-work, wondrous fine, Leaves on the glass a watery stain. Flock after flock the dead are gone, ...« less