Poems

Said I to Myself, Said I When I went to the Bar as a very young man (Said I to myself – said I), I’ll work […]

Sans Souci I cannot tell what this love may be That cometh to all but not to me. It cannot be kind as they’d imply, Or […]

Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo This is SIR BARNABY BAMPTON BOO, Last of a noble race, BARNABY BAMPTON, coming to woo, All at a deuce of a […]

Sir Guy the Crusader Sir GUY was a doughty crusader, A muscular knight, Ever ready to fight, A very determined invader, And DICKEY DE LION’S delight. […]

Sir Macklin Of all the youths I ever saw None were so wicked, vain, or silly, So lost to shame and Sabbath law, As worldly TOM, […]

Sleep On! Fear no unlicensed entry, Heed no bombastic talk, While guards the British Sentry Pall Mall and Birdcage Walk. Let European thunders Occasion no alarms, […]

Solatium Comes the broken flower – Comes the cheated maid – Though the tempest lower, Rain and cloud will fade! Take, O maid, these posies: Though […]

Sorry Her Lot Sorry her lot who loves too well, Heavy the heart that hopes but vainly, Sad are the sighs that own the spell Uttered […]

Speculation Comes a train of little ladies From scholastic trammels free, Each a little bit afraid is, Wondering what the world can be! Is it but […]

Tempora Mutantur Letters, letters, letters, letters! Some that please and some that bore, Some that threaten prison fetters (Metaphorically, fetters Such as bind insolvent debtors) – […]