C. S. Calverley Quotes (18 Quotes)


    I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours.

    Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and a murderer, Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the noblest of mankind.



    How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards Go mad, and beat their wives Plunge (after shocking lives)Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.


    Cats may have had their goose; Cooked by tobacco-juice; Still why deny its use; Thoughtfully taken.

    Thou who, when fears attack, Bidst them avaunt, and Black; Care, at the horseman's back; Perching, unseatest; Sweet, when the morn is gray; Sweet when they've cleared away; Lunch and at close of day; Possibly sweetest.

    Grinder, who serenely grindest; At my door the Hundredth Psalm.

    Complete with hat and gloves, One on and one a-dangle i' my hand, And ombrifuge (Lord love you), case o' rain. I flopp'd forth, 'sbuddikins on my own ten toes.

    Yet it is better to drop thy friends, O my daughter, than to drop thy 'H's'.

    Get out, you blazing ass; Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me.

    The auld wife sat at her ivied door,(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)A thing she had frequently done before And her spectacles lay on her aproned knees.

    And this song is considered a perfect gem, And as to the meaning, it's what you please.

    Jones - (who, I'm glad to say, Asked leave of Mrs. J. - )Daily absorbs a clay; After his labours.

    The heart which grief hath cankered; Hath one unfailing remedy - the; Tankard.

    Life is with such all beer and skittles They are not difficult to please About their victuals.

    O Beer O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass Names that should be on every infant's tongue.

    You see this pebble-stone It's a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day -I like to dock the smaller parts-o'-speech, As we curtail the already cur-tail'd cur.


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