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Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
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The ladies of St. James's!
They're painted to the eyes;
Their white it stays forever,
Their red it never dies:
But Phyllida, my Phyllida!
Her color comes and goes;
It trembles to a lily—
It wavers to a rose.
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All passes. Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust outlasts the throne,—
The Coin, Tiberius.
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Fame is a food that dead men eat,—
I have no stomach for such meat.
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Before me careless lying,
Young Love his ware comes crying;
Full soon the elf untreasures
His pack of pains and pleasures,
With roguish eye
He bids me buy
From out his pack of treasures.
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Across the grass I see her pass;
She comes with tripping pace,—
A maid I know,—and March winds blow
Her hair across her face;—
With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!
Dolly shall be mine,
Before the spray is white with May,
Or blooms the eglantine.
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"Love mocks us all"—as Horace said of old:
From sheer perversity, that arch-offender
Still yokes unequally the hot and cold,
The short and tall, the hardened and the tender;
He bids a Socrates espouse a scold,
And makes a Hercules forget his gender:—
Sic visum Veneri! Lest samples fail,
I add a fresh one from the page of BAYLE.
Henry Austin Dobson
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Nicholas Breton
Henry Austin Dobson
Born:
January 18, 1840
Died:
September 2, 1921
(aged 81)
Bio:
Henry Austin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist.
Known for:
Eighteenth century vignettes (1892)
At the sign of the lyre (1884)
Proverbs in porcelain (1877)
Eighteenth century essays (1882)
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