When I asked my dear Edwin to sha… I’d never a thought of denial; He’d been such an absolute slave, I put his devotion on trial. But his eye threw a sinister dart,

GOLIATH was a giant, the bully… His coat of mail was brazen, his f… fierce with pride; And when a shepherd stripling to c… fain,

He used to get, when in civilian s… His tea and shaving water, sharp,… Then ten delicious minutes would b… In one last snooze of exquisite co… That cosy nest, luxuriously sprung…

Darkness expectant, discreet Only a lamp here and there, Gloom in the clattering street, Stygian black in the square; Dazzling fascias and fronts,

Swing along together, lads ; we’ll… Kits won’t be so heavy and the way… We’re goin’ to cook ‘ the Sossige… While we go marching to Germany. Chorus

A Skipper of mark was Von Muller… The humorous naval leg-puller. With ubiquitous ease He raided the seas And his bag became fuller and full…

Leonidas of Sparta, years gone by… With but a bare three hundred of h… In the ravine of famed Thermopyla… Held up the Persian army’s endles… Smiling, among the forest of his s…

Dear lady, are you open to a hint As down our sober pavement you dis… A costume reminiscent of a print Of Valenciennes and shepherdesses… When Watteau, master of Rococo ar…

Estelle, when you and I were risi… Perhaps you’d rather I suppressed… I spent a shilling on a valentine And left it for you at the garden… Therein my heart was imaged in a b…

Re: HEAT WAVE Dear Sir, we’ve had enough. Do you forget, I think you do, pe… Our temperate position on the maps… Daily we mourn the collar’s swift…

Here’s a prominent person I must write a verse on His ways are so strictly impartial… His power is great, His word carries weight

In the nonage of the year, When anemones appear, And the buffets of the breeze are… When each sparrow spars and heckle… I begin to think of freckles,

When Gladys comes a whisper wakes… A sudden thrill prevails, She holds the eyes of men, and tak… The wind out of our sails. In spite of every art we use,

SOLDIER lad, on the sodden grou… Sailor lad on the seas, Can’t you hear a little clicketty… Stealing across on the breeze? It’s the knitting-needles singing…

Shining pins that dart and click In the fireside's sheltered peace Check the thoughts that cluster th… 20 plain and then decrease. He was brave – well, so was I –