Read full poem →When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
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A man who is wise.
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Poetry examples for “wise man”
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Read full poem →When I was one-and-twenty
] heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
Read full poem →'Say, why are beauties praised and honour'd most,
The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast?
Why deck'd with all that land and sea afford?
Read full poem →} And each is twice as old as I; and one
Is Merlin, the wise man that ever served
) King Uther thro’ his magic art; and one
Read full poem →Heartily loved; then why not thrice,
Or ten times? But a wise man shuns
To cry 'All's over,' more than once.
Read full poem →WHEN he should laugh the wise man knows full well:
For he knows what is truly laughable.
Read full poem →Who thought it learning how to buy and sell,
And him a wise man who could manage well.
No, not with such old-fashioned, idle views
Read full poem →In whining poetry;
But where's that wise man, that would not be I,
If she would not deny?
Read full poem →To spy what danger on his pathway creeps;
Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;
Read full poem →And though the better Fortune came at last
To seal the Work, yet every Wise Man knows
Such Consummation never can be here!