The book Later Recitations in Verse Serious And Humorous was written by author Ernest Pertwee Here you can read free online of Later Recitations in Verse Serious And Humorous book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Later Recitations in Verse Serious And Humorous a good or bad book?
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Sing again, slave / Again the verse came, fluent as a rill That wanders, silver-footed, down a hill. The Sultan, listening, nodded as before ; Still gave the gold, and still demanded more. The nimble fancy that had climbed so high, Grew weary with its climbing by and by. Strange discords rose ; the sense went quite amiss ; The singer's rhymes refused to meet and kiss : Invention flagged, the lute had got unstrung. And twice he sang the song already sung. The Sultan, furious, called a mute, and ...said, Mtista, straightway whip me off his head ! Poets ! not in Arabia alone You get beheaded when your skill is gone. \By kind permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin 6- Co. '] THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 107 UNSUNG. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. As sweet as the breath that goes From the lips of the white rose, As weird as the elfin Hghts That ghmmer of frosty nights, As wild as the winds that tear The curled red leaf in the air, Is the song I have never sung. In slumber, a hundred times I have said the mystic rhymes, But ere I open my eyes This ghost of a poem flies ; Of the interfluent strains Not even a note remains : I know by my pulses' beat It was something wild and sweet, And my heart is strangely stirred By an unremembered word !
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