War Girls (Jessie Pope Poems)
'There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train,And the girl who speeds the lift from floor to floor,There's ...
Jessie Pope Poems (52 Poems)
Motor Martyrdom (Jessie Pope Poems)
I never have clung to a motor car,Or crouched on a motor bike.Worry and scurry, clank and jarI cordially dislike.I ...
Snowflakes (Jessie Pope Poems)
A little curly-headed godThrough asphodel came creeping,Found Mother Juno on the nod,And safely slipped her keeping.Away he frolicked, full of ...
To the Clerk of the Weather (Jessie Pope Poems)
Re: HEAT WAVE Dear Sir, we've had enough.Do you forget, I think you do, perhaps,Our temperate position on the maps?Daily ...
Lights Out (Jessie Pope Poems)
Darkness expectant, discreetOnly a lamp here and there,Gloom in the clattering street,Stygian black in the square;Dazzling fascias and fronts,Scintillant sky-scrapers ...
The Nut’s Birthday (Jessie Pope Poems)
When Gilbert's birthday came last spring,Oh! How our brains were rackedTo try to find a single thingOur languid dear one ...
The Blackest Lie (Jessie Pope Poems)
(The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Belgium intrigued with England and France to drag Germany into war.)BIG bully Belgium,Breathing blood and ...
The War Budget (Jessie Pope Poems)
HODGE waded through the weekly news,"The Income Tax, he said,"That's nowt to me, I shallunt lose,'Twill hit the boss instead.Lloyd ...
Crumbs of Comfort (Jessie Pope Poems)
When Gladys comes a whisper wakes,A sudden thrill prevails,She holds the eyes of men, and takesThe wind out of our ...
The K A Boys (Jessie Pope Poems)
Dr-rud dr-rud dr-rud dr-rudKitchener's Army on the marchThrough Marylebone and Marble Arch,Men in motley, so to speak,Been in training about ...
An Overlord (Jessie Pope Poems)
HERE'S a prominent personI must write a verse onHis ways are so strictly impartial,His power is great,His word carries weightIn ...
Socks (Jessie Pope Poems)
Shining pins that dart and clickIn the fireside's sheltered peaceCheck the thoughts the cluster thick - 20 plain and then decrease.He ...
The Call (Jessie Pope Poems)
Who's for the trench—Are you, my laddie?Who'll follow French—Will you, my laddie?Who's fretting to begin,Who's going out to win?And who ...
A Cossack Charge (Jessie Pope Poems)
Cossacks they're coming!The eager hoofs are drumming,On glinting steel the autumn sunlight glances.The distant mass draws nearer,The surging line shows ...
Silent Camp (Jessie Pope Poems)
In heaven, a pale uncertain star,Through sullen vapour peeps,On earth, extended wide and far,In all the symmetry of war,A weary ...
Who’s for the Game? (Jessie Pope Poems)
Who's for the game, the biggest that's played,The red crashing game of a fight?Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid?And ...
The Outpost (Jessie Pope Poems)
The dying sunset's slanting raysIncarnadine the soldier's deed,His sturdy countenance betraysThe bull-dog breed.Not his to shun the stubborn fight,The struggle ...
To A Taube (Jessie Pope Poems)
ABOVE the valley, rich and fair,On flashing pinions, glittering, gay,You hover in the upper air,A bird of prey.Snarling across the ...
De Wet (Jessie Pope Poems)
Foe and friend and foe again,Turning coat and turning yet,That's a feat you don't disdain,De Wet.England's easy, England's kind,Quick to ...
“Bobs” (Jessie Pope Poems)
The call came in the stormy night,Beneath a stranger's sky.The soldier of a life-long fight,Still fighting, went to die.His country's ...
Another Pair of Sleeves (Jessie Pope Poems)
TIME was, not very long ago,When Mabel's walking skirtTrailed half a yard behind to showHow well she swept the dirt.But ...
Captain Von Muller (Jessie Pope Poems)
A Skipper of mark was Von Muller,The humorous naval leg-puller.With ubiquitous easeHe raided the seasAnd his bag became fuller and ...