My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am rough ...and lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Said an ape as he swung by his tail To his offspring both female and male,... "From your children, my dears, In a couple of years May evolve a professor at Yale."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight... Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And no matter how all this disappeared, Or got where it was going, it is no longer... Material for a poem. Its subject Matters too much, and not enough, standing there helplessly While the poem streaked by, its tail afire, a bad Comet screaming hate and disaster....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mis...takes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hence from scenic bacchanal, Preshrunk and droll prodigal!... Smallness that you had to spend, Spent. Wench, whiskey and tail-end Of your overseas disease Rot and rout you by degrees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »