The Cellar Door (John Clare Poems)
By the old tavern door on the causey there layA hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray,And there stood ...
By the old tavern door on the causey there layA hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray,And there stood ...
_Part I_I'm out to find the new, the modern school,Where Science trains the fledgling bard to fly,Where critics teach the ...
BOB POLTER was a navvy, andHis hands were coarse, and dirty too,His homely face was rough and tanned,His time of ...
Old King Solomon once said, before all thegreat people, that there was a time for everyactivity in the world. Some ...
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
The world is a snob, and the man who wins Is the chap for its money's worth: And the lust for success ...
Scholars call the masculine swan a cob;I call him a narcissistic snob.He looks in the mirror over and over,And claims ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor, An' struck a light that set the world aflame;Becos ...
Over the rim of the glass Containing a good martini with a twist I eye her bosom and consider a ...
See, I'm writin' to Mick as a bloke to a bloke - To a cobber o' mine at the front ...
All alone in the field Stands John S. Crow; And a curious sight is he, With his ...
The unsoiled hand, the sleek, black coat, The senile, ledger-haunted hours,The knowledge that my freeman's vote Is humbly cast to ...
Come, all ye lads an' list to me,That's left your homes an' crossed the sea,To try your fortune, bound or ...
Mr Bodge, the banker, was a power in the land;His city bank had granted him an autocratic hand; For our ...
Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain The ruthless summer suns burned down,And dust-storms, heralding the rain,Swept thro' the street and ...
the German hotel was very strange and expensive and haddouble doors to the rooms, very thick doors, and it over-looked ...
Messieurs, le Dieu des peintres: We felt odd:'Twas Rubens, sculptured. A mean florid churchWas the next thing we saw,-from vane ...
Some carol of the banjo, to its measure keeping time; Of viol or of lute some make a song. My ...
Familiarity some claim Can breed contempt, So from it let it be your aim To be exempt. Let no one ...
There here are words of radical advice for a young man looking for a job; Young man, be a snob. ...
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