Nursery Rhyme Nonsense (Billy Bennett Poems)
Hang up the baby's stocking,Be sure you don't forget; To-day is pussy's birthday, And we're not downhearted yet.So ring-a-ring a ...
Poems about sixpence (21 Poems)
Conducted Tour (C J Dennis Poems)
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
Market Square (A.A. Milne Poems)
I had a penny,A bright new penny,I took my pennyTo the market square.I wanted a rabbit,A little brown rabbit,And I ...
No Enemies (Benjamin Cutler Clark Poems)
He has no enemies! you say. I pity his condition; His manhood he has thrown away, His candour and position. ...
Sand-Between-The-Toes (A.A. Milne Poems)
I went down to the shouting sea,Taking Christopher down with me,For Nurse had given us sixpence each-And down we went ...
A Visitor In The Camp (Francis W L Adams Poems)
To Mary Robinson"WHAT, are you lost, you pretty little lady?This is no place for such sweet things as you.Our bodies, ...
In The Fashion (A.A. Milne Poems)
A lion has a tail and a very fine tailAnd so has an elephant and so has a whale,And so ...
The Friend (A.A. Milne Poems)
There are lots and lots of people who are always asking things,Like Dates and Pounds-and-ounces and the names of funny ...
To A Parrot (A P Herbert Poems)
A 'vested interest' is—what?Show me an interest that's not.If I save sixpence in a chestThat is a vested interest:You have, ...
Church Going (Philip Larkin Poem)
Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Albert and His Savings (Marriott Edgar Poem)
One day, little Albert Ramsbottom To see 'ow much money 'e'd got Stuck a knife in 'is money-box slot 'ole ...
A transport one cannot contain (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A transport one cannot contain May yet a transport be -- Though God forbid it lift the lid -- Unto ...
245. Versicles on Sign-Posts (Robert Burns Poem)
CURS'D be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal to a tyrant wife! Who has no will ...
Audley Court (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
'The Bull, the Fleece are cramm'd, and not a room For love or money. Let us picnic there At Audley ...
Mrs Frances Haris’s Petition (Jonathan Swift Poems)
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a ...
Allouette (Robert William Service Poems)
Singing larks I saw for sale - (Ah! the pain of it) Plucked and ready to impale On a roasting ...
The Fortune-Teller, a Gypsy Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell, Were Lovers many a day; LUBIN the damsel lov'd so well, That folks pretend ...
The Famous Tay Whale (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'TWAS in the month of December, and in the year l883, That a monster whale came to Dundee, Resolved for ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Market Square (A. A. Milne Poems)
I had a penny, A bright new penny, I took my penny To the market square. I wanted a rabbit, ...