Definitions
Definitions We have heard it. Oft we heard it long before we came of age. In whatever fields we practise, art whatever arts engage: Ever praise […]
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Digger Smith ‘E calls me Digger; that’s ‘ow ‘e begins. ‘E sez ‘e’s only ‘arf a man; an’ grins. Judged be ‘is nerve, I’d say ‘e […]
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Doreen “I wish’t yeh menat it, Bill.” Oh, ‘ow me ‘eart Went out to ‘er that evnin’ on the beach. I knew she weren’t no ordinary […]
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Duck an’ Fowl Now, when a bloke ‘e cracks a bloke fer insults to a skirt, An’ wrecks a joint to square a lady’s name, They […]
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Dusk Now is the healing, quiet hour that fills This gay, green world with peace and grateful rest. Where lately over opalescent hills The blood of […]
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Flames It’s human nature for a bashful bloke To bottle up, an’ hesitate, an’ doubt Till grinnin’ Fate plays him some low-down joke; Then, in excitement, […]
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Frankenstein We roam about the countryside And view the farmlands rolling wide – A picture surely this of peace, of plenty. We mark within these sylvan […]
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Galloping Horses Oh, this is the week when no rhymster may rhyme On the joy of the bush or the ills of the time, Nor pour […]
READ MOREGingers Cobber
Gingers Cobber “‘E wears perjarmer soots an’ cleans ‘is teeth,” That’s wot I reads. It fairly knocked me flat, “Me soljer cobber, be the name o’ […]
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Going to School Did you see them pass to-day, Billy, Kate and Robin, All astride upon the back of old grey Dobbin? Jigging, jogging off to […]
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