WHEN youve managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sort
And you find the coat or trousers are an inch or so too short,
Do not fret and swear and worry, make the tailor see you through
I have been through many new suits, Im an older man than you.

Inasmuch As Ye Did It Not . . .

© Edith Nesbit

If Jesus came to London,

Came to London to-day,

Fie On Love

© Francis Beaumont

Now fie on foolish love, it not befits

Or man or woman know it.

The Call Of The Far -- English Translation

© Rabindranath Tagore

Ever I am restless

I am athirst for the far.

Childhood

© Jens Baggesen

There was a time when I was very small,
When my whole frame was but an ell in height;
Sweetly, as I recall it, tears do fall,
And therefore I recall it with delight.

On Early Trains

© Boris Pasternak

This winter I was outside Moscow,
But when the time for work came round,
Through the blizzard, biting frost and snow,
I made the journey into town.

Eclogue X

© Virgil

GALLUS

This now, the very latest of my toils,

Tasso Dying

© Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov

But it's too late! I stand before the fatal borne.
To wild applause I won't step on Capitoline,
And glory's laurels on my feeble head
Won't sweeten the bard's frightful lot.

Tale XX

flown:
All swept away, to be perceived no more,
Like idle structures on the sandy shore,
The chance amusement of the playful boy,
That the rude billows in their rage destroy.
Poor George confess'd, though loth the truth to