Is our το τι ηυ ειναι a failure, or is Robert Browning played out?

Which expressions like these

May be fairly applied

By a party who sees

A Society skied

Upon tea that the Warden of Keble had biled with legitimate pride.

’Twas November the third,

And I says to Bill Nye,

“Which it’s true what I’ve heard:

If you’re, so to speak, fly,