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Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe,
Returning home on summer-nights, have met
Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe,
Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet,
As the punt's rope chops round.
Matthew Arnold
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Kitty:
Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur.
Lady Bab:
Then you have an immense pleasure to come.
James Townley
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Lady Bab. Yes, my dear, a poem upon sol ammoniac - in which, under the name of the Loves of Ammonia, I have personified this interesting alkali, and described very tenderly all the various experiments that have been tried on her. Miss S. This is what has been called 'enlisting Poetry under the banners of Science,'
Thomas Moore
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Báb
Born:
October 20, 1819
Died:
July 9, 1850
(aged 30)
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