Aesthetic Blasphemy

I've pals in heaven and hell

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. ~Mark Twain (Image...

My aim in life

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes...

The right and the wrong

"If he's been trying the same thing for a week, and I'm trying it and can't do it, it ain't the way to do it!" ~...

Ode on solitude

Ode on Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In...

I was afraid to claim

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And...