The Rivals…A Tale of the Smart Set (P G Wodehouse Poems)
At the epoch which I write of quite the smartest men in townWere Marmaduke de Coucy and Adolphus Brummel-Brown;They led ...
P G Wodehouse Poems (23 Poems)
Printer’s Error (P G Wodehouse Poems)
As o'er my latest book I pored,Enjoying it immensely,I suddenly exclaimed 'Good Lord!'And gripped the volume tensely.'Golly!' I cried. I ...
Damon And Pythias: A Romance (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Since Earth was first created, Since Time began to fly,No friends were e'er so mated, So firm as JONES and I.Since primal ...
For One Night Only (A Tragedy) (P G Wodehouse Poems)
I met him in a crowd;As if with care 'twas weighted,His shapely back was bowed,His brow was corrugated.I asked him, ...
Missed (P G Wodehouse Poems)
The sun in the heavens was beaming, The breeze bore an odour of hay,My flannels were spotless and gleaming, My heart was ...
A War Office Enquiry (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Sir, Mr Punch, the following is true.Peruse my story written in blank verse,For such a tragic metre seems to mePeculiarly ...
The Haunted Tram (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Ghosts of The Towers, The Grange, The Court, Ghosts of the Castle Keep.Ghosts of the finicking, "high-life" sort Are growing a trifle ...
Avenged! (P G Wodehouse Poems)
After a pause ALICE began, "Well,they were both very unpleasant characters -""De mortuis -" said TWEEDLEDEE reprovingly."I don't know what ...
Good Gnu (A Vignette in Verse) (P G Wodehouse Poems)
When cares attack and life seems black,How sweet it is to pot a yak, Or puncture hares and grizzly bears, And others ...
The Gourmet’s Love Song (P G Wodehouse Poems)
How strange is Love: I am not oneWho Cupid's power belittles,For Cupid 'tis who makes me shunMy customary victuals.Of, Effie, ...
The Pessimist (P G Wodehouse Poems)
They tell me that the weather's fair, The day serene and balmy;No more for rain need I prepare -- No chilly blast ...
Mixed Hockey (P G Wodehouse Poems)
You came down the field like a shaft from a bow;The vision remains with me yet.I hastened to check you: ...
Fashion’s Phases (P G Wodehouse Poems)
When first I whispered words of love,When first you turned aside to hear,The winged griffin flew above,The mammoth gaily gamboll'd ...
A Solitary Triumph (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Oh, the progress of Woman has really been vastSince Civilization began.She's usurped all the qualities which in the past Were reckoned ...
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Whene'er I take my PHYLLIS outFor moonlight walks, I like to - stroll;It gives me - I am rather stout ...
I’m So Busy (P G Wodehouse Poems)
I always saidThat the man I would wedMust be one who would work all the time.One with ambition,Who'd make it ...
An Old-Fashioned Wife (P G Wodehouse Poems)
1. The modern wife leads a dreadful life,That seems the modern fashion.For wicked ways and cabarets,She seems to have a ...
A Shattered Illusion (P G Wodehouse Poems)
On everything poeticYour moderns look askance:And daily Prose deals frequent blowsDestructive to Romance.But though Romance is dying,Like everything that's nice,Since ...
Taking Issue with Miss U. S. Swisher (P G Wodehouse Poems)
The day, I recall, was a Spring one,Not hot and oppressive, though warm,The sort of a day apt to bring ...
Greenwich Village (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Way down in Greenwich VillageThere's something, 'twould appear,Demoralizing in the atmosphere.Quite ordinary people,Who come to live down here,Get changed to ...
Napoleon (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Napoleon was a little guy:They used to call him Shorty.He only stood about so high.His chest was under fortyBut when ...
Caliban at Sunset (P G Wodehouse Poems)
I stood with a manWatching the sun go down.The air was full of murmurous summer scentsAnd a brave breeze sang ...
Morning Carol (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Oh! The present is gay,And the future is bright.As I lie on my bedWith a heart that is light.For I ...