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In soft deluding lies let fools delight.
A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Loss and Possession, Death and Life are one.
There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Torture will give a dozen pence or more
To keep a drab from bawling at his door.
The public taste is quite a different thing—
Torture is positively paid to sing.
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
How slow the Shadow creeps: but when 'tis past,
How fast the Shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
That I grow sour, who only lack delight;
That I descend to sneer, who only grieve:
That from my depth I should contemn your height;
That with my blame my mockery you receive;
Huntress and splendour of the woodland night,
Diana of this world, do not believe.
Sonnets and Verse (1938)