Rhymelets (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Rhymelets

First fruits of russet locks are thine, Decay The first dry wrinkle 'neath a love-sick eye, The first sharp pain, the first hair turning grey.

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Excerpt from Rhymelets

To My Wife

While the Harrow padagogue
Tried my soaring brain to clog
In the commentators' fog

I was often far away
Where the Muses held their sway,
Penning many an idle lay.

In the Oxford lecture-room,
Theory, critic, axiom,
Seemed like phantasms to loom,

While my fancy loved to be,
In a sea-shell by the sea,
Venus there to comfort me.

Education, then complete
(Love's and Muses' alphabet),
Found me kneeling at your feet;

In memory of happy times,
Listen, to my youthful chimes,
Take this bunch of early rhymes.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.