Epitaph
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveler--
A Riddle, On The Letter E
The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space,
The beginning of every end, and the end of every place.
Epigram
In digging up your bones, Tom Paine,
Will. Cobbett has done well:
You visit him on earth again,
He'll visit you in hell.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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Epigram: The World Is A Bundle Of Hay
The world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses who pull;
Each tugs it a different way,
And the greatest of all is John Bull.
Epigram On My Wedding- Day To Penelope
This day, of all our days, has done
The worst for me and you :-
'Tis just six years since we were one,
And five since we were two.
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast, and the heart must pause for breath, and love itself have rest.
Endorsement To The Deed Of Separation In The April Of 1816
A year ago, you swore, fond she!
'To love, to honour,' and so forth:
Such was the vow you pledged to me,
And here's exactly what 'tis worth.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
