Brown’s Tram (C J Dennis Poems)
A city clerk was Henry Brown,Whose suburb knew nor tram nor train;And ev'ry morn he walked to town. From nine ...
A city clerk was Henry Brown,Whose suburb knew nor tram nor train;And ev'ry morn he walked to town. From nine ...
I walked out with an alderman, all on a bright spring day.He was an august alderman, and much had he ...
Now a sad farewell to the cable-tram, Staunch friend of the quieter days,That glided down thro' a leisured town Ere ...
Down thro' the ages these same sticksHave played on man their knavish tricks. Down thro' the ages these false lips ...
There ain't enough of strikes an' things, There ain't enough of strife,There ain't enough dislikes an' things In this 'ere ...
A morn, a sallow lamp-lit morn,A dawn that never breaks to day!Old, old the faces, and forlorn;The hearts look out, ...
Playing on Sixth AvenueHere's to you, brave Hurdy-gurdy,Grinding out your happy tuneWhile the traffic round you rumbles,In the city's Summer ...
The hippopotamus is strongAnd huge of head and broad of bustle;The limbs on which he rolls alongAre big with hippopotomuscle.He ...
Women wear trousersTo trail round the shops;Women in trousersWield brushes and mops.Women wear trousersFor sleeping and sittingAnd pouring out tea ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
SIR, as your mandate did request, I send you here a faithfu' list, O' gudes an' gear, an' a' my ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
Like a reminder of this life of trams, sun, sparrows, and the flighty uncontrolledness of streams leaping like thermometers, and ...
Eggshell and Wedgwood Blue were just two Of the range on the colour cards Dulux Tailored to our taste in ...
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
Unlovely city, to which few tourists come With squinting cameras and alien hats; Left under a cloud by those who ...
WHAT domination of what darkness dies this hour, And through what new, rejoicing, winged, ethereal power O'erthrown, the cells opened, ...
So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went, And you're cursing all the business in a ...
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