I’ve often thought that headstrong… Of decent education, Determine all-important truths, With strange precipitation. The ever-ready victims they,

Whene’er I poke Sarcastic joke Replete with malice spiteful, The people vile Politely smile

A British tar is a soaring soul, As free as a mountain bird, His energetic fist should be ready… A dictatorial word. His nose should pant and his lip s…

A hive of bees, as I’ve heard say… Said to their Queen one sultry da… “Please your Majesty’s high posit… The hive is full and the weather i… We rather think, with a due submis…

My wedded life Must every pleasure bring On scale extensive! If I’m your wife I must have everything

A MAGNET hung in a hardware sho… And all around was a loving crop Of scissors and needles, nails and… Offering love for all their lives; But for iron the Magnet felt no w…

I’m old, my dears, and shrivelled… My eyes are gone, and my teeth hav… For terrible sights I’ve seen, an… I’m nearly seventy now, and my wor… Ah! I’ve been young in my time,…

There lived a King, as I’ve been… In the wonder-working days of old, When hearts were twice as good as… And twenty times as mellow. Good temper triumphed in his face,

Now, Marco, dear, My wishes hear: While you’re away It’s understood You will be good,

Sir GUY was a doughty crusader, A muscular knight, Ever ready to fight, A very determined invader, And DICKEY DE LION’S deligh…

When I first put this uniform on, I said, as I looked in the glass, “It’s one to a million That any civilian My figure and form will surpass.

I once did know a Turkish man Whom I upon a two-pair-back met, His name it was EFFENDI KHAN BACKSHEESH PASHA BEN… A DOCTOR BROWN I also knew -

JOHN courted lovely MARY ANN, So likewise did his brother, FR… FRED was a very soft young man, While JOHN, though quick, was mo… FRED was a graceful kind of yout…

O’er unreclaimed suburban clays Some years ago were hobblin’ An elderly ghost of easy ways, And an influential goblin. The ghost was a sombre spectral sh…

When rival adorers come courting a… There’s something or other may oft… Why HE should be pitched upon rat… This wasn’t the case with Old P… No soul could discover a reason at…