Hodge waded through the weekly new… ‘The Income Tax, he said, ’That’s nowt to me, I shallunt lo… ‘Twill hit the boss instead. Lloyd George he be the man for I,

It hangs on the wall, a trifle bat… The wire is warped and the lining… And the leather inside shows speak… It’s been wet with the sweat of a… Month after month, through that fi…

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

Last week we started out in glee, The boys and Bertha, Aunt and me, Across the village green to see The comet; Some people really must be blind,

It was clear that poor Richard wa… His mortification he could not dis… She flirted with Edward, the comp… Soul leaping to soul through their… Devotion of years had he lavished…

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,

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,

Young Thompson was a bit too shor… But hard as nails and level-headed… And in his soul the proper sort Of dogged pluck was deeply bedded… To join the ranks he almost ran,

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 –

RIPE for any adventure, sturdy,… Quick to the call of the Mother,… Eager to show their mettle, ready… They bowed their neck to the colla… Shipped, in the fulness of time, a…

When Sibyl sits upon the beach With Kate and Madeline, Dick, Tom and Jack, the swain of… Loll gloomily between, With savage glances at the throng

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

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…

‘TO-DAY, since Zeppelins are in… And folks glance skywards as they… Let us hark back a bit to an affai… That happened in Queen Bess’s stu… When the Armada, backed by Spanis…

I. THE COMMAND To his crack army corps, ’twas the… By Bavarians bold must the Britis… ’Tis the hope of my heart they may… To let the world see how Meinheer…