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

"Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles

Miles on miles."

—Browning, Love among the Ruins.

"Morning, evening, noon, and night,

'Praise God,' sang Theocrite."

—Browning, The Boy and the Angel.

"Take the cloak from his face and at first

Let the corpse do its worst."

—Browning, After.

"Or for a time we'll lie