My stomach being empty as your hat.

R. Browning (Fra Lippo Lippi).

The “cheekiest” line I know.


TO THE MOON

The wind is shrill on the hills, and the plover

Wheels up and down with a windy scream;

The birch has loosen’d her bright locks over

The nut-brown pools of the mountain stream:

Yet here I linger in London City,