You May Turn Over and Begin : Simone Armitage : : School Poems : :

You May Turn Over and Begin : Simone Armitage : : “Which of these films was Dirk Bogardenot in? One hundredweight of bauxite 2 makes how much aluminium?how many tales in ‘The Decameron’?” 4 General Studies, the upper sixth, a doddle, a cinchfor anyone with an ounce of common sense 6 or a calculatorwith aContinue reading “You May Turn Over and Begin : Simone Armitage : : School Poems : :”

Brother And Sister : Lewis Caroll : : Sister Poems : :

SISTER, sister, go to bed!Go and rest your weary head.”Thus the prudent brother said. “Do you want a battered hide,Or scratches to your face applied?”Thus his sister calm replied. “Sister, do not raise my wrath.I’d make you into mutton brothAs easily as kill a moth” The sister raised her beaming eyeAnd looked on him indignantlyAndContinue reading “Brother And Sister : Lewis Caroll : : Sister Poems : :”

Anecdote For Fathers : William Wordsworth : : Fathers Poems : :

have a boy of five years old,His face is fair and fresh to see;His limbs are cast in beauty’s mould,And dearly he loves me. One morn we stroll’d on our dry walk,Our quiet house all full in view,And held such intermitted talkAs we are wont to do. My thoughts on former pleasures ran;I thought ofContinue reading “Anecdote For Fathers : William Wordsworth : : Fathers Poems : :”

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