James Williams Judge Poems
- 1. Somewhere
Somewhere in a distant star,
Cities of Cocaigne there are,
Paradises of the Bar.
... - 2. Translations - Greek Anthology
X. 48
Woe to the house whose mistress was a slave!
So say old saws, my own in aid I crave;
... - 3. Cases - Pollard V. Photographic Company
(40 Chancery Division, 345)
"Shall I take your photograph, my pretty maid?"
"You may if you like, kind sir," she said.
... - 4. The Minneapolis Case
(Tried in Minnesota in 1892)
Kind reader, tarry here, nor miss
The law of Minneapolis.
... - 5. The Poet And The Advocate
Glory and gain thus mixed distract the thought,
We owe to honour all, to fortune nought;
The poet, like the soldier, scorns for pay
Peruvian gold, but seeks the wreath of bay.
... - 6. The Court Of Reason
A thousand doubts and pleadings in a day
Are filed in Empress Reason's court supreme
By angry Love--his eyes with anger gleam.
"Which of us twain hath been more faithful, say.
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