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Picture-Books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer fading, winter comes--
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
A..
Pirate Story by Robert Louis Stevenson
Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,
Three of us abroad in the basket on the lea.
Wind..
Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson
I ASK good things that I detest,
With speeches fair;
Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,
But..
Prelude by Robert Louis Stevenson
BY sunny market-place and street
Wherever I go my drum I beat,
And wherever I go in my coat of red..
Pagett, M.P. by Rudyard Kipling
The toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where eath tooth-point goes.
The butterfly upon the road..
Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling
"Brother Square-Toes"--Rewards and Fairies.
If you’re off to Philadelphia in the morning,
You must..
Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling
Your jar of Virginny
Will cost you a guinea,
Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten;
..
Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling
Ay, lay him ’neath the Simla pine --
A fortnight fully to be missed,
Behold, we lose our fourth at..
Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
In deaths ye died I have watch..
Prophets at Home by Rudyard Kipling
Prophets have honour all over the Earth,
Except in the village where they were born,
Where such as..
Public Waste by Rudyard Kipling
By the Laws of the Family Circle ’tis written in letters of brass
That only a Colonel from Chatham..
Puck's Song by Rudyard Kipling
See you the ferny ride that steals
Into the oak-woods far?
O that was whence they hewed the keels
..
Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
As a child, they could not keep me from wells
And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.
I loved t..
Postscript by Seamus Heaney
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In Septem..
Primitive by Sharon Olds
I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But you..
Picture-Show by Siegfried Sassoon
And still they come and go: and this is all I know—
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture..
Parted by Siegfried Sassoon
Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone
And drifting roar of the town’s undertone;
Till throug..
Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece by Siegfried Sassoon
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers;
Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns;
A..
Porridge by Spike Milligan
Why is there no monument
To Porridge in our land?
It it’s good enough to eat,
It’s good enough to..
Philip Le Barr by Spike Milligan
Philip Le Barr,
Was knock down by a car,
On the road to Mandalay.
He was knocked down again
By..
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