Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn’t care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was
The bear’s big mouth was cruel and
The bear said, Isabel, glad to me

A girl whose cheeks are covered wi
Has an advantage with me over one

Some singers sing of ladies’ eyes,
And some of ladies lips,
Refined ones praise their ladylike
And course ones hymn their hips.
The Oxford Book of English Verse

There is a knocking in the skull,
An endless silent shout
Of something beating on a wall,
And crying, “Let me out!”
That solitary prisoner

The Lord in His wisdom made the f
And then forgot to tell us why.

Your hopeless patients will live,
Your healthy patients will die.
I have only this word to give:
Wonder, and find out why

I find it very hard to be fair-min
About people who go around being a
I just can’t see any fun
In soaring up up up into the sun
When the chances are still a fresh

The hunter crouches in his blind
‘Neath camouflage of every kind
And conjures up a quacking noise
To lend allure to his decoys
This grown-up man, with pluck and

Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed.
He watched the ads
And not the road.

I find it very difficult to enthus
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least
And that is why I do not like the