Poems

Little Ditties I Winifred Waters sat and sighed Under a weeping willow; When she went to bed she cried, Wetting all the pillow; Kept on crying […]

Polly Brown eyes, Straight nose; Dirt pies, Rumpled clothes; Torn books, Spoilt toys; Arch looks, Unlike a boy’s; Little rages, Obvious arts; (Three her age is,) […]

The Cat of Cats I am the cat of cats. I am The everlasting cat! Cunning, and old, and sleek as jam, The everlasting cat! I […]

The Dream of a Boy Who Lived at Nine-Elms Nine grenadiers, with bayonets in their guns; Nine bakers’ baskets, with hot cross buns; Nine brown elephants […]

The Dream of a Girl Who Lived at Seven-Oaks Seven sweet singing birds up in a tree; Seven swift sailing ships white upon the sea; Seven […]

The First Tooth There once was a wood, and a very thick wood, So thick that to walk was as much as you could; But a […]

The Flowers When Love arose in heart and deed To wake the world to greater joy, ‘What can she give me now?’ said Greed, Who thought […]

The Thought Into the skies, one summer’s day, I sent a little Thought away; Up to where, in the blue round, The sun sat shining without […]

Topsy-Turvy World IF the butterfly courted the bee, And the owl the porcupine; If churches were built in the sea, And three times one was nine; […]

A Bronze Head HERE at right of the entrance this bronze head, Human, superhuman, a bird’s round eye, Everything else withered and mummy-dead. What great tomb-haunter […]