Poetry, Jingles, Doggerel and Song Lyrics

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I'm spasmodically re-reading his works, and hope to post a few real gems during the coming months.
Can't wait. :|
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:wink: There's no guarantee that beer will also feature in future posts, Nigel.

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Moonraker wrote:
I'm spasmodically re-reading his works, and hope to post a few real gems during the coming months.
Can't wait. :|
Me neither!

You must have a different version of The Aged Aged Man to mine, Aurélien. I'm afraid mine doesn't mention Beer (sorry, Nigel), the last three lines are:

"By which I get my wealth -
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour's noble health."

I think I prefer your version, Aurélien. I agree that LC was a true genius. I also love some of his (or rather Humpty Dumpty's) explanations of some of the words in Jabberwocky in Through The Looking Glass:

" 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."

According to Humpty Dumpty, "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable"; "mome raths" -" well, a "rath" is a sort of green pig; but "mome" I'm not certain about. I think it's short for "from home" - meaning that they'd lost their way, you know". And "outgrabe" - "Well, outgrabing is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle...."
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Love 'Jabberwocky', 'The Hunting of the Snark', etc, etc.

At present I'm dipping into (ie mining for nuggets) my battered Hamlyn/Spring Books copy of 'The Works of Lewis Carroll', which includes a number of alternative pieces - poetry and prose - many of them items that were superseded by what are now the standard texts.

Some of it is shuddersomely awful, but yet containeth ye occasional gems.

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With a new school year about to start down under in Kiwiland (Yes, folks, Christmas doesn't come in the middle of our antipodean school year) I thought that selected stanzas from this 1828 poem might provoke a few rude remarks...
  • SCHOOL
    by Henry Sharpe Horsley
  • Children are sent to school to learn,
    And diligent should be;
    Then their improvement will shine forth,
    And all will plainly see...
  • Abundant cause for gratitude
    Have children, who are taught
    At School to read, to spell, and write,
    And are from ign'rance brought.
  • What is a child, unlearnt, untaught,
    His mind is wild and vague;
    A book is seal'd - his vacant time
    Is irksome and a plague.
  • Contrast a child that's good, with one
    Who hates his book and school;
    What picture does the blockhead give,
    But that he is a fool?
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Timmylover wrote:
Moonraker wrote:
I'm spasmodically re-reading his works, and hope to post a few real gems during the coming months.
Can't wait. :|
Me neither!
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HERES ONE OF MY FAVOURITE:
:D :D :D
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens;
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens;
Brown paper packages tied up with strings;
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels;
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles;
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings;
These are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes;
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes;
Silver-white winters that melt into springs;
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.
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ANOTHER PARA OF FATHER WILLIAM!

"YOU ARE OLD,said the youth,AS I MENTIONED BEFORE,
AND HAVE GROWN MOST UNCOMMONLY FAT,
AND YET YOU TURNED A BACK SOMERSAULT IN AT THE DOOR,
PREY WHAT IS THE REASON OF THAT?

WELL..I DON'T REMEMBER THE ANSWER BUT ITS ALL THAT FUNNY! :lol: :lol: :lol:

BY ANANYA.
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I love the one you first posted, Ananya. I first heard the song in The Sound of Music - I'm not sure if it existed before or was written for the movie, though.
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I believe it was written for the stage show Ming.

Ananya - if you Google 'You are old Father William' you will find the whole poem.
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Daisy wrote:I believe it was written for the stage show Ming.
Yes, the songs were written for the stage show in the 1950s before being used for the film version in the 1960s. I can't remember where I heard this, but apparently some people don't realise that Edelweiss was written specially for the show - they believe it to be a traditional Austrian folk song or even the Austrian National Anthem. Because of that, Edelweiss has been played in various countries to welcome visiting Austrian dignitaries!

Welcome to the forums by the way, Ananya. :D Raindrops on Roses has always been one of my daughter's favourite songs too.
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Love this thread!! :D

I only 'discovered' Robert Service's poems for myself a couple of months ago by stumbling across The Cremation of Sam McGee in a story. When I saw this poem, I thought I would share:

'Grin' by Robert Service

If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about -- Grin.
If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're licked beyond a doubt -- Grin.
Don't let him see you're funking, let him know with every clout,
Though your face is battered to a pulp, your blooming heart is stout;

Just stand upon your pins until the beggar knocks you out -- And grin.
This life's a bally battle, and the same advice holds true of grin.
If you're up against it badly, then it's only one on you, So grin.

If the future's black as thunder, don't let people see you're blue;
Just cultivate a cast-iron smile of joy the whole day through;
If they call you "Little Sunshine", wish that they'd no troubles, too --
You may -- grin.

Rise up in the morning with the will that, smooth or rough, You'll grin.
Sink to sleep at midnight, and although you're feeling tough, Yet grin.
There's nothing gained by whining, and you're not that kind of stuff;
You're a fighter from away back, and you won't take a rebuff;

Your trouble is that you don't know when you have had enough --
Don't give in. If Fate should down you, just get up and take another cuff;
You may bank on it that there is no philosophy like bluff, And grin.
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Very practical philosophy, Spitfire. Sometimes :wink: one can run a successful bluff that way, especially on school bullies, eh, 'cos they're not usually the brainiest kids around.

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Aurélien wrote:Very practical philosophy, Spitfire. Sometimes :wink: one can run a successful bluff that way, especially on school bullies, eh, 'cos they're not usually the brainiest kids around.

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Having just posted this short poem on another thread, I thought that it also belonged here:
  • If only, when one heard
    That Old Age was coming
    One could bolt the door,
    Answer “Not at home”
    And refuse to meet him!

Written c. 905 C. E. by the Medieval Japanese poet, Kokinshu

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