Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins

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R. Bentley & Son, 1886 - 216 páginas
 

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Página 88 - There was an ape in the days that were earlier; Centuries passed, and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist— Then he was Man, and a Positivist.
Página 21 - If by an arrangement dual I were Adams mixed with Whewell, Then some day I, as wooer, perhaps might come To so sweet an Artium Magistra.
Página 23 - If with giddier girls I play Croquet through the summer day On the turf, Then at night ('tis no great boon) Let me study how the moon Sways the surf.
Página 126 - Water in vast marble basin; Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous; One friend, who is fond of a distich, And doesn't get too syllogistic; A valet, who knows the complete art Of service — a maiden, his sweetheart : Give me these, in some rural pavilion, And I'll envy no Rothschild his million.
Página 16 - Or down from green Helvellyn The roar of streams I hear, And the lazy sail is swelling To the winds of Windermere : That girl with the rustic bodice 'Mid the ferry's laughing freight Is as fair as any goddess Who sweeps through the Ivory Gate.
Página 87 - THE POSITIVISTS LIFE and the Universe show spontaneity: Down with ridiculous notions of Deity ! Churches and creeds are all lost in the mists; Truth must be sought with the Positivists. • Wise are their teachers beyond all comparison, Comte, Huxley, Tyndall, Mill, Morley, and Harrison; Who will adventure to enter the lists With such a squadron of Positivists?
Página 48 - Politics nobody cares about. Spurn a Topic whereby all our happiness suffers. Dolts in the back streets of Brighton -return a Couple of duffers. Fawcett and White in the Westminster Hades Strive the reporters
Página 33 - NO ; I shall pass into the Morning Land As now from sleep into the life of morn ; Live the new life of the new world, unshorn Of the swift brain, the executing hand ; See the dense darkness suddenly withdrawn, As when Orion's sightless eyes discerned the dawn. I shall behold it ; I shall see the utter Glory of sunrise heretofore unseen, Freshening the woodland ways with brighter green, And calling into life all wings that flutter, All throats of music and all eyes of light, And driving o'er the verge...
Página 47 - twill be horrid. But there are zephyrs more mild by the ocean, Every keen touch of the snowdrifts to lighten : If to be cosy and snug you've a notion — Winter in Brighton!
Página 87 - Positivists ? Social arrangements are awful miscarriages ; Cause of all crime is our system of marriages. Poets with sonnets and lovers with trysts Kindle the ire of the Positivists. Husbands and wives should be all one community, Exquisite freedom with absolute unity. Wedding-rings worse are than manacled wrists ; Such is the creed of the Positivists. There was an ape in the days that were earlier ; Centuries...

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