A POEM OF POEMS

Mrs H A Deming of San Francisco is

said to have occupied a year in hunting up

and fitting together the following 38 lines

from 38 English poets The names of the

authors are given below

1 Why all this toil for triumphs of an

bour —Young

2 Life’s a short summer man a flower —

Dr Johnson

3 By turns we catch the vital breath and

die —Pope

4 The cradle and the tomb alas so nigh

—Prior

5 To be is better far than not to be —Sew-

ell

6 Though all man’s life may seem a trag-

edy —Spenser

6 But light cares speak when mighty

cares are dumb —Daniel

8 The bottom is but shallow whence they

come —Sir Walter Raleigh

9 Your fate is but the common fate of all

—Longfellow

10 Unmingled joys here to no man befall

—Southwell

11 Nature to each allots his proper sphere

—Congreve

12 Fortune makes folly her peculiar care —

Churchill

13 Custom does often reason overrule —

Rochester

14 And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool —

Armstrong

15 Live well how long or short permit to

heaven —Milton

16 They who forgive most shall be most

forgiven —Bailey

17 Sin may be clasped so close we may not

see its face —Trench

18 Vile intercourse where virtue hath not

place —Somerville

19 Then keep each passion down however

dear —Thomson

20 Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and

tear —Byron

21 Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure

lay —Smollett

22 With craft and skill to ruin and betray

—Crabbe

23 Soar not too high to fall but stoop to

rise —Massinger

24 We masters grow of all that we despise

—Crowley

25 O then renounce that impious self

esteem —Beattie

26 Riches have wings and grandeur is a

dream —Cooper

27 Think not ambition wise because ’tis

brave —Sir Walter Davenant

28 The path of glory leads but to the

grace —Gray

29 What is ambition Tis a glorious cheat

Willis

30 Only destructive to the brave and great

—Addison

31 What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown

Dryden

32 The way to bliss lies not on beds of

down —Francis Quarles

33 How long we live not years but actions

tell —Watkins

34 That man lives twice who lives the first

life well —Herrick

35 Make then while yet we may your

God your friend —William Mason

36 Whom Christians worship yet not com-

prehend —Hill

37 The trust that’s given guard and to

yourself be just —Dana

38 For livehow we can yet die we

mite S kespewre