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

A Spaniard stopt at a posada door;

The landlord came to welcome him and chat

Of this and that,

For he had seen the traveller here before."

—Southey, St Romuald.

"And wash'd by my cosmetic brush,

How Beauty's cheeks began to blush

With locks of auburn stain—

Not Goldsmith's Auburn, nut-brown hair

That made her loveliest of the fair,