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"'Tis not that thy mien is stately,
'Tis not that thy tones are soft;"
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 93-94). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press. |
"Grinder, who serenely grindest
At my door the Hundredth Psalm,"
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press. |
"Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest
Always, always out of tune."
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 19-20). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press. |
"But I've heard mankind abuse thee;
And perhaps it's rather strange,
But I thought that I would choose thee
For encomium, as a change."
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 97-100). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press. |
"Go mad, and beat their wives;
Plunge (after shocking lives)
Razors and carving knives
Into their gizzards."
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. "Ode to Tobacco."
This is possibly a reference to a letter in the medical journal Lancet, Feb. 14, 1857: "[Dr. Webster] distinctly enumerates tobacco as one of the causes of insanity.... Two brothers in one family had become deranged from smoking tobacco, and in that state had committed suicide." |
"Her sheep follow'd her, as their tails did them.
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And this song is consider'd a perfect gem,
And as to the meaning, it's what you please."
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. The auld wife sat at her ivied door (l. 37-40). . .
Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair;
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And I met with a ballad, I can't say where,
Which wholly consisted of lines like these."
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. The auld wife sat at her ivied door (l. 21-24).
ElL. Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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