Poems

Life First you’re born – and I’ll be bound you Find a dozen strangers round you. “Hallo,” cries the new-born baby, “Where’s my parents? which may […]

Life Is Lovely All the Year When the buds are blossoming, Smiling welcome to the spring, Lovers choose a wedding day – Life is love in […]

Limited Liability Some seven men form an Association (If possible, all Peers and Baronets), They start off with a public declaration To what extent they mean […]

Little Oliver EARL JOYCE he was a kind old party Whom nothing ever could put out, Though eighty-two, he still was hearty, Excepting as regarded gout. […]

Lorenzo De Lardy DALILAH DE DARDY adored The very correctest of cards, LORENZO DE LARDY, a lord – He was one of Her Majesty’s Guards. DALILAH […]

Lost Mr. Blake Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner, Who was quite out of the pale of Christianity, so to speak, He was in […]

Mister William OH, listen to the tale of MISTER WILLIAM, if you please, Whom naughty, naughty judges sent away beyond the seas. He forged a party’s […]

My Dream The other night, from cares exempt, I slept – and what d’you think I dreamt? I dreamt that somehow I had come To dwell […]

My Lady Bedecked in fashion trim, With every curl a-quiver; Or leaping, light of limb, O’er rivulet and river; Or skipping o’er the lea On daffodil […]

Old Paul and Old Tim When rival adorers come courting a maid, There’s something or other may often be said, Why HE should be pitched upon […]