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Walt Whitman: O Magnet-South
O Magnet-SouthO magnet-south! O glistening perfumed South! my South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me! O dear to me my birth-things—all moving…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Prologue
by Robert Burns Verses Intended To Be Written ...The Bonie Moor-HenPrologue Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787. When, by a generous Public's…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Rights Of Woman
by Robert Burns Auld Rob MorrisEpigram On Seeing Miss Fontene...The Rights Of Woman An Occasional Address. Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night, November 26, 1792…Coleridge: Youth and Age
Dejection: an OdeWork without HopeYouth and Age Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee— Both were mine! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope…Walt Whitman: Song of the Answerer, Part 2
Part 2The indications and tally of time, Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs, Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts, What always indicates the poet is the crowd…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Merlin I
Merlin IThy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, peremptory, clear. No jingling serenader's art, Nor tinkle of piano…Brewer's: Hottentot
Rude, uncultured, a boor. As “You are a perfect Hottentot.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HougoumontHotspur A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Mauvaise Plaisanterie
(A). A rude or ill-mannered jest; a jest in bad taste. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MavourninMauvaise Honto A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…William Shakespeare: Henry IV (Pt 1), Act III, Scene II
Scene IILondon. The palaceEnter King Henry IV, Prince Henry, and othersKing Henry IVLords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I Must have some private conference; but be near at hand, For…Walt Whitman: A Woman Waits for Me
A Woman Waits for MeA woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.Sex contains all…