Poems

One Against the World It’s my opinion – though I own In thinking so I’m quite alone – In some respects I’m but a fright. YOU […]

Only a Dancing Girl Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, With borrowed colour and curl, With fixed mechanical smile, With many a hackneyed wile, […]

Only Roses To a garden full of posies Cometh one to gather flowers; And he wanders through its bowers Toying with the wanton roses, Who, uprising […]

Out of Sorts When you find you’re a broken-down critter, Who is all of a trimmle and twitter, With your palate unpleasantly bitter, As if you’d […]

Pasha Bailey Ben A proud Pasha was BAILEY BEN, His wives were three, his tails were ten; His form was dignified, but stout, Men called him […]

Peter the Wag POLICEMAN PETER FORTH I drag From his obscure retreat: He was a merry genial wag, Who loved a mad conceit. If he were […]

Phrenology “COME, collar this bad man – Around the throat he knotted me Till I to choke began – In point of fact, garotted me!” So […]

Poetry Everywhere What time the poet hath hymned The writhing maid, lithe-limbed, Quivering on amaranthine asphodel, How can he paint her woes, Knowing, as well he […]

Proper Bride The Sun, whose rays Are all ablaze With ever-living glory, Will not deny His majesty – He scorns to tell a story: He won’t […]

Put a Penny in the Slot If my action’s stiff and crude, Do not laugh, because it’s rude. If my gestures promise larks, Do not make […]