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Title: A Book of Epigrams

Author: Various

Editor: Ralph A. Lyon

Release Date: July 17, 2010 [EBook #33190]

Language: English

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A BOOK OF
EPIGRAMS

GATHERED BY
Ralph A. Lyon

EVANSTON
William S. Lord
1902

EPIGRAMS

POETRY

She comes like the hushed beauty of the night,
But sees too deep for laughter;
Her touch is a vibration and a light
From worlds before and after.

[Charles E. Markham

POETRY

Poetry? Can I define it, you inquire?
Yes; by your pleasure,
Poetry is Thought, in princeliest attire,
Treading a measure.

[Duffield Osborne

THE YEAR'S MINSTRELSY

Spring, the low prelude of a lordlier song;
Summer, a music without hint of death:
Autumn, a cadence lingeringly long:
Winter, a pause;--the Minstrel-Year takes breath.

[William Watson

THE SUN

All the World's bravery that delights our eyes,
Is but thy several liveries;
Thou the rich dye on them bestow'st,
Thy nimble Pencil paints this landscape as thou go'st.

[Abraham Cowley

FAREWELL

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.