I ate my fill of a whale that die… And stranded after a month at sea.… There is a pain in my inside. Why have the Gods afflicted me? Ow! I am purged till I am a wra…

We knit a riven land to strength b… We drove the road for all men’s fe… We cleared the waste of force and… And whereso’er that will was good,… The Wisdom of the West is theirs—…

Wot makes the soldier’s ‘eart to p… It isn’t standin’ up to charge nor… But it’s everlastin’ waitin’ on a… For the commissariat camel an’ 'is… O the oont*, O the oont, O the co…

IT IS always a temptation to an… To call upon a neighbour and to sa… “We invaded you last night– we are… Unless you pay us cash to go away.… And that is called asking for Dan…

Who hath desired the Sea?—the sig… The heave and the halt and the hur… The sleek-barrelled swell before s… Stark calm on the lap of the Line… His Sea in no showing the same h…

Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and k… Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see

WHEN Samson set my brush afire To spoil the Timnite’s barley, I made my point for Leicestershir… And left Philistia early. Through Gath and Rankesborough G…

No hope, no change! The clouds ha… And through the cloud the sullen… Full on the bosom of the tortured… Till Night falls heavy as remembe… That will not suffer sleep or thou…

This is the ballad of Ahmed Shah Dealer in tats in the Sudder Baza… By the gate that leads to the Gol… How he was done by a youth from M… Ahmed Shah was a man of peace—

I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, say… ‘Let us melt into the landscape—ju… People have come—in a carriage—cal… Yes, I can go if you take me—Nurs… Let’s go up to the pig—sties and s…

ALL day long to the judgment—seat The crazed Provincials drew — All day long at their ruler’s feet Howled for the blood of the Jew. Insurrection with one accord

WHEEL me gently to the garage, s… No more for me the record and the… That cursèd left—hand cylinder the… Is pinking past redemption—I am d… They’ll never strike a mixture tha…

Once a pair of savages found a str… (One-piecee stick –pidgin —two pie… Straddle-um-paddle-um-push –um off… That way Foleign Debbil-boat bega… But before, and before, and ever s…

Love’s fiery chariot, Delia, take Which Vulcan wrought for Venus’ s… Wings shall not waft thee, but a f… Hot as my heart—as nobly tame: Lit by a spark, less bright, more…