A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
People don't do me much good.
I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
as the spirit wanes the form appears
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)