Poems

The Heavy Dragoon If you want a receipt for that popular mystery, Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon, Take all the remarkable people in […]

The Highly Respectable Gondolier I stole the Prince, and I brought him here, And left him, gaily prattling With a highly respectable Gondolier, Who promised the […]

The House of Peers When Britain really ruled the waves – (In good Queen Bess’s time) The House of Peers made no pretence To intellectual eminence, […]

The Humane Mikado A more humane Mikado never Did in Japan exist; To nobody second, I’m certainly reckoned A true philanthropist. It is my very humane […]

The Independent Bee A hive of bees, as I’ve heard say, Said to their Queen one sultry day, “Please your Majesty’s high position, The hive is […]

The Judge’s Song When I, good friends, was called to the Bar, I’d an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barristers are, […]

The King of Canoodle-Dum The story of FREDERICK GOWLER, A mariner of the sea, Who quitted his ship, the HOWLER, A-sailing in Caribbee. For many a […]

The Love-Sick Boy When first my old, old love I knew, My bosom welled with joy; My riches at her feet I threw; I was a […]

The Magnet and the Churn A MAGNET hung in a hardware shop, And all around was a loving crop Of scissors and needles, nails and knives, […]

The Martinet Some time ago, in simple verse I sang the story true Of CAPTAIN REECE, the MANTELPIECE, And all her happy crew. I showed how […]