Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: IV. Ingenuities: Oddities | | The Collegian to His Bride | | Anonymous |
| | From Punch
Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form |
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CHARMER, on a given straight line, | |
| And which we will call B C, | |
| Meeting at a common point A, | |
| Draw the lines A C, A B. | |
| But, my sweetest, so arrange it | 5 |
| That they ’re equal, all the three; | |
| Then you ’ll find that, in the sequel, | |
| All their angles, too are equal. | |
| Equal angles, so to term them, | |
| Each one opposite its brother! | 10 |
| Equal joys and equal sorrows, | |
| Equal hopes, ’t were sin to smother, | |
| Equal,—O, divine ecstatics,— | |
| Based on Hutton’s mathematics! | | | |
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