Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as…

- George Arnold

A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies si…

- George Arnold

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do w…

- George Arnold

O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And p…

- George Arnold

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

- George Arnold

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

- George Arnold

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

- George Arnold

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

- George Arnold

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

- George Arnold