Lingerings of the Cheshire cat
Turner's pubic studies still troubling Ruskin's heart; That second-best bed of type. Ann Hathaway's Sure Start; Tell them in Lacedaemon we forgot to bring our cameras; Fish preached at by Saint Antony forever after stammerers; A saint's eye and a drunkard's eye rate Yeats another Whig; 'Du bist wie eine Blume' — b.! Beauty is a pig.
Harriet Wilson's cool advice — publish and be dined; Sherman to his Bandmaster. 'It's Georgia on my mind'; Marvell lost to Poetry, fronting Affairs of State; His bladder. not Lord Rochester, stoking the debate; What should they know of Kipling who only England know?
The quothing of Pope's Raven and the boding of Hughes' Crow.
George Eliot to head again the Check List of Chick Lit; Yes, there's honey still for tea and death to go with it; At Rilke's Testimonal all angels on the pitch; 'Elle est sourde, mais elle paie' — Igor Fyodorovitch; A billion years, a billion stars, just one to Bethlehem; They knew not God or whooping-cough, and so we gave them them.
Peter Porter
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