Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

To pull the primrose gay,

Starts, the new voice of spring to hear,

And imitates thy lay."

"My song, its pinions disarray'd of night,

Droop'd."

"The carvèd angels, ever eager eyed,

Stared."

"Liberty,

From heart to heart, from tower to tower, o'er Spain

Scattering contagious fire into the sky,