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«Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.»
Author: Francis Beaumont | Keywords: howl, rhyme
«I wanted a perfect ending. Now I?ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don?t rhyme, and some stories don?t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what?s going to happen next.»
«Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.»
Author: Nicholas Boileau | Keywords: excel, foolishly, rhyme
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
«Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: rhyme, volume
«The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Past | Keywords: repeat, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming
«Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.»
«Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.»
«Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper, Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name»
«The last stroke of midnight dies.All day in the one chairFrom dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have rangedIn rambling talk with an image of air:Vague memories, nothing but memories.»

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