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… the book. Then there is a poem called “ Prince Charming,” incredibly sickly and sentimental; but, worse than all, the poem called “ Two Loves,” beginning with the celebrated quotation from Shakespeare—‘ My better angel is a man right fair, my worse a woman tempting me to ill.” In a vision the “poet” sees two people; the first is joyous, and sings; the second walks aside :— “He is full sad and sweet, and his large eyes Were strange with wondrous brightness, and staring wide With gazing ; and he sighed with many sighs That moved me, and his chee…
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THE WRITING ON THE GROUND. Surely anything short of Honesty in Love and Friendship is intolerable—and unthinkable—un- forgivable. Dishonesty in business and politics we are, alas, used to by daily association, but the meanest money- grabber has some respect for Friendship. Yet we have all recently been shocked by a striking and terrible example of the lowest depths ever reached by any human being in meanness and disloyalty to afriend; that friend unable to defend himself, gone beyond these petty strifes and falsehoods. We are left to resent it …
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…on himself and his friend. So Francisco proposes to drink the health of Death as a kind of joke, saying= Giovanni; ‘'1 will drink to’our love and Death and thee.’ Francisco: ‘Nay, nay, I favour not that toast, javier What have we two to do with Death?” Francisco : ‘' Sweet feather ! How soon hast thou forgot thy troth of faith ! Consider, chuck, the toast has but this weight, That thou and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the time of our ripe harvest comes."’ We have surely said enough to esta…
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…lets there are few Who make a first-rate show of two, While those who perfectly play three We knew not, until you were he. For what were lovelier on the lawn Than you, pearl-naked to the dawn, Wrapped in a scarlet dressing-gown Not thirty miles from London town, The " observed of all observers ""—save That Scotland Yard, serene and suav When trouble came, went tramping by ; Closed one, and winked the other eye. How pleasantly you must have smiled: ““T left them, and I left them wild Though certainly they had abhorred| The task of locking up a l…
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…Their (men’s) eyes for beauty are but sightless holes, Spurned in the dust, Uranian passion lies. Dull fools decree the sweet unfruitful love, In Hellas counted more than half divine, Less than half human now.’” And again :— “0, food to my starved eyes, (That gaze unmoved on wanton charms of girls) Fair as the lad on Latmian hills asleep.’ 5