Lord of
Lord of
ideas dissent shrouds
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
beautiful ideas birth
Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
loneliness solitude should
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
retirement mind world
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
sleep devil employment
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
heart power common-sense
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
feet ballet legs
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
curiosity vices lows
That low vice, curiosity!
heart roving absence
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
shoes charity misery
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
christian religion done
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
one-day
I awoke one day to find myself famous.
pain painful payment
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
pain ideas giving
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.