The Humourous Poetry of the English Language

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Should kiss little Pompey, excites no surprise;
But the lapdog whom thus she keeps fondling and praising,
Licks her face in return--that I own is amazing!
TO A SLOW WALKER AND QUICK EATER.
So slowly you walk, and so quickly you eat,
You should march with your mouth, and devour with your feet.
ON TWO BEAUTIFUL ONE-EYED SISTERS
Give up one eye, and make your sister's two,
Venus she then would be, and Cupid you.
THE PER-CONTRA, OR MATRIMONIAL BALANCE
How strange, a deaf wife to prefer!
True, but she's also dumb, good sir.
EPIGRAMS S. T. COLERIDGE.
AN EXPECTORATION,
Or Spienetic Extempore, on my joyful departure from the city of
Cologne.
As I am rhymer,
And now, at least, a merry one,
Mr. Mum's Eudesheimer,
And the church of St. Geryon,
Are the two things alone,
That deserve to be known,
In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.
EXPECTORATION THE SECOND.