Tag Archive for: Melancholy
The Common Failing
Memories and NostalgiaThe Common Failing
83-1
How mad begins we get when one
begins
To pame our faults and jeer
them
We love to overlook our sins
But hate to overhear them
Song Of The Grasshopper
Memories and NostalgiaSong of the Grasshopper
2026
I saw a brown old grasshopper,
And he sat upon a stone,
While ever and anon he chirped
In a sad and mournful tone:
And many an anxious, troubled look
He cast around the naked plain
Where now was but a stubbls…