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Topic |
| Ignorance | It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. |
| Imagination | Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water. |
| Jasmines | Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves. |
| Jesting | And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs tell truth, A double tooth Is wisdom's adopted dwelling. |
| June | What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust." |
| Labor | With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. |
| Lilies | The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. |
| Lying | For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. |
| Miscellaneous | But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?. |
| Misfortune | One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! |
| Misfortune | Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair! |
| Night | At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles. |
| Painting | Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What? |
| Philanthropy | Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home had she none. |
| Proverbs | Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!-- She hates the smell of roses! |
| Proverbs | Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! |
| Proverbs | A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. |
| Proverbs | A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried. |
| Proverbs | A greater liar than the Parthians. |
| Proverbs | A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food. |
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