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

On the shifting

Currents of the restless heart—

Till at length in books recorded,

They like hoarded

Household words no more depart."

—Longfellow, Seaweed.

"Before me rose an avenue

Of tall and sombrous pines;

Abroad their fanlike branches grew,

And where the sunshine darted through,