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

Why wast not thou born in my father's dwelling?

So might we talk of the old familiar faces."

—Lamb.

5. "See how he scorns all human arguments

So that no oar he wants, nor other sail

Than his own wings between so distant shores."[^[14]]

—Longfellow, Translation of Dante.

6. "Yet dost thou recall

Days departed, half-forgotten,

When in dreamy youth I wander'd