Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars. - Louis Untermeyer
Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars.
- Louis Untermeyer
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love in. - Louis Untermeyer
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love in.
And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own. - Louis Untermeyer
And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.
It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a g… - Louis Untermeyer
It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a g…
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! - Louis Untermeyer
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. - Louis Untermeyer
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars! - Louis Untermeyer
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. - Louis Untermeyer
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which… - Louis Untermeyer
Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which…
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