Vulgar words in The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 - Poetical Quotations (Page 1)
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_The Bastard_.
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He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it, And, at the best, shows but a bastard valor.
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A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon.
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_The Honest Whore, Pt.
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In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
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Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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He That kills himself t' avoid misery, fears it, And at the best shows but a bastard valor: This life's a fort committed to my trust, Which I must not yield up, till it be forced; Nor will I: he's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears calamity.
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Replied our wight, with an unruly Burst of laughter and delight, So much his triumph seemed to please him: "Why, blockhead!