 For a man should live in a garret aloof, And have few friends, and go poorly clad, "With an old hat stopping the chink in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad.  A Parish of Two - Page 297by Henry Goelet McVickar, Price Collier - 1903 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1867 - 1052 pages
...sunset's fires, And lure the Goddess, by vigil and pain, Up with the sparrows among the spires ! For a man should live in a garret aloof, And have few friends, and be poorly clad, With an old hat stopping the chink in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1888 - 990 pages
...stop, Give the floor to him an' — Helen. John Vanct Cheney. The Goddess. (DEDICATED TO TB ALDKICH.) " A MAN should live in a garret aloof, And have few...friends and go poorly clad, With an old hat stopping a chink in the roof To keep the Goddess constant and glad." So thought the poet and so thought I. A... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1876 - 168 pages
...sunset's fires, And lure the Goddess, by vigil and pain, Up with the sparrows among the spires. For a man should live in a garret aloof, And have few...in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad. ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINEEVA. BENEATH the warrior's helm, behold The flowing tresses of the woman... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1876 - 114 pages
...And totters, and tumbles, And Silence sits in the banquet hall. ' I xxxiv. THE FLIGHT OF THE GODDESS. A man should live in a garret aloof, And have few...in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad. Of old, when I walked on a rugged way, And gave much work for but little bread, The Goddess dwelt with... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1876 - 164 pages
...hypocrisy ! V, THE FLIGHT OF THE GODDESS, ETC. THE FLIGHT OF THE GODDESS, ETC. THE FLIGHT OF THE GODDESS. \ MAN should live in a garret aloof, And have few friends,...in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad. Of old, when I walked on a rugged way, And gave much work for but little bread, The Goddess dwelt with... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1882 - 274 pages
...sunset's fires, And lure the Goddess, by vigil and pain, Up with the sparrows among the spires. For a man should live in a garret aloof, And have few...in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad. ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA. BENEATH the warrior's helm, behold The flowing tresses of the woman... | |
 | 1880 - 596 pages
...George sighed. "If I had anything to give you in exchange for Mr. Berwick's diamonds ; but you could not 'live in a garret aloof, And have few friends, and...the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad.' Well, never mind," he added gently, "it isn't your fault that I love you, is it? Why, Sylvia, do you... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1921 - 1076 pages
...For these two reasons we may imagine we have found the explanation, and can join Aldrich in singing: "A man should live in a garret aloof, And have few...the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad." But the goddess of popular favor in our democracy is not to be courted in this way. Men who are rich... | |
 | 1895 - 64 pages
...filled his lonely room and made his heart glad, and the tender recollections of them made him say " A man should live in a garret aloof And have few friends...in the roof To keep the Goddess constant and glad." He has not strictly followed his own advice, for the garret has long been a thing of the past and now... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 438 pages
...blossom. These Bohemian years were his poetic springtide, sweet with a delicate and tender music. " A man should live in a garret aloof, And have few...in the roof, To keep the Goddess constant and glad. Wretched enough was I sometimes, Pinched, and harassed with vain desires; But thicker than clover sprung... | |
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