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Moral Emblems By: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
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NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS I. Some like drink
II. Here, perfect to a wish
III. As seamen on the seas
IV. The pamphlet here presented MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES I. See how the children in the print
II. Reader, your soul upraise to see
III. A PEAK IN DARIEN Broad gazing on untrodden lands
IV. See in the print how, moved by whim
V. Mark, printed on the opposing page MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES I. With storms a weather, rocks a lee
II. The careful angler chose his nook
III. The Abbot for a walk went out
IV. The frozen peaks he once explored
V. Industrious pirate! see him sweep A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS For certain soldiers lately dead THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE
VERSES I. PROEM Unlike the common run of men
II. THE PRECARIOUS MILL Alone above the stream it stands
III. THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES The first pine to the second said
IV. THE TRAMPS Now long enough had day endured
V. THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER The howling desert miles around
VI. THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN The echoing bridge you here may see MORAL TALES I. ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY Come, lend
me an attentive ear
II. THE BUILDER'S DOOM In eighteen twenty Deacon Thin NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS
Poem: NOT I Some like drink
In a pint pot,
Some like to think;
Some not. Strong Dutch cheese,
Old Kentucky rye,
Some like these;
Not I. Some like Poe,
And others like Scott,
Some like Mrs. Stowe;
Some not. Some like to laugh,
Some like to cry,
Some like chaff;
Not I. Poem: II Here, perfect to a wish,
We offer, not a dish,
But just the platter:
A book that's not a book,
A pamphlet in the look
But not the matter. I own in disarray:
As to the flowers of May
The frosts of Winter;
To my poetic rage,
The smallness of the page
And of the printer. Poem: III As seamen on the seas
With song and dance descry
Adown the morning breeze
An islet in the sky:
In Araby the dry,
As o'er the sandy plain
The panting camels cry
To smell the coming rain: So all things over earth
A common law obey,
And rarity and worth
Pass, arm in arm, away;
And even so, to day,
The printer and the bard,
In pressless Davos, pray
Their sixpenny reward. Poem: IV The pamphlet here presented
Was planned and printed by
A printer unindented,
A bard whom all decry. The author and the printer,
With various kinds of skill,
Concocted it in Winter
At Davos on the Hill. They burned the nightly taper;
But now the work is ripe
Observe the costly paper,
Remark the perfect type!
MORAL EMBLEMS I
Poem: I See how the children in the print
Bound on the book to see what's in 't!
O, like these pretty babes, may you
Seize and APPLY this volume too!
And while your eye upon the cuts
With harmless ardour opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind
To their sage lessons not be blind. Poem: II
Reader, your soul upraise to see,
In yon fair cut designed by me,
The pauper by the highwayside
Vainly soliciting from pride.
Mark how the Beau with easy air
Contemns the anxious rustic's prayer,
And, casting a disdainful eye,
Goes gaily gallivanting by.
He from the poor averts his head . . .
He will regret it when he's dead. Poem: III A PEAK IN DARIEN Broad gazing on untrodden lands,
See where adventurous Cortez stands;
While in the heavens above his head
The Eagle seeks its daily bread.
How aptly fact to fact replies:
Heroes and eagles, hills and skies.
Ye who contemn the fatted slave
Look on this emblem, and be brave. Poem: IV See in the print how, moved by whim,
Trumpeting Jumbo, great and grim,
Adjusts his trunk, like a cravat,
To noose that individual's hat.
The sacred Ibis in the distance
Joys to observe his bold resistance. Poem: V
Mark, printed on the opposing page,
The unfortunate effects of rage.
A man (who might be you or me)
Hurls another into the sea.
Poor soul, his unreflecting act
His future joys will much contract,
And he will spoil his evening toddy
By dwelling on that mangled body... Continue reading book >>
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