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

—By the Fireside.

"Stand still, true poet that you are!

I know you; let me try and draw you.

Some night you'll fail us; when afar

You rise, remember one man saw you—

Knew you—and named a star,"

—Popularity.

"Not a twinkle from the fly,

Not a glimmer from the worm.

When the crickets stopp'd their cry,