The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

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by Kingsley Amis

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An entertaining anthology of more than two hundred fifty verses by some eighty authors ranges from satire to nonsense and from Shakespeare to Philip Larkin Tom Wedgewood Tells by Brian W. Aldiss Aberdarcy: The Chaucer Road by Kingsley Amis Aberdarcy: The Main Square by Kingsley Amis After Goliath by Kingsley Amis Aldport (mystery Tour) [or, Terrible Beauty] by Kingsley Amis Brynbwrla by Kingsley Amis Fforestfawr by Kingsley Amis Langwell by Kingsley Amis Pendydd by Kingsley Amis Doggerel By A Senior Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden I Like Your Muse Because She's Gay And Witty by Wystan Hugh Auden On The Circuit by Wystan Hugh Auden Ottava Rima Would, I Know, Be Proper by Wystan Hugh Auden The Thought Of Writing Came To Me Today by Wystan Hugh Auden Uncle Henry by Wystan Hugh Auden Under Which Lyra; A Revolutionary Tract For The Times by Wystan Hugh Auden The Unknown Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden Balliol Rhyme (1) by Henry Charles Beeching A Luncheon (thomas Hardy Entertains The Prince Of Wales) by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm Police Station Ditties by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm The Dreadful Dinotherium He by Hilaire Belloc Fatigue; Epigram by Hilaire Belloc Lord Finchley by Hilaire Belloc Moral by Hilaire Belloc On A Great Election; Epigram by Hilaire Belloc Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably by Hilaire Belloc The Yak by Hilaire Belloc Place Names Of China by Alan Bennett Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley George Iii by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Lord Clive by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Executive by John Betjeman How To Get On In Society by John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman Invasion Exercise On The Poultry Farm by John Betjeman Longfellow's Visit To Venice by John Betjeman Pot-pourri From A Surrey Garden by John Betjeman A Subaltern's Love-song by John Betjeman Ode To A Human Heart by Samuel Laman Blanchard Abroad Thoughts by Edward Blishen Breakfast With Gerard Manley Hopkins by Anthony Brode Sonnet Reversesd by Rupert Brooke Wagner by Rupert Brooke For A' That And A' That by Charles William Shirley Brooks To Disraeli by Charles William Shirley Brooks Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning Limerick by Arthur Buller For A' That And A' That; Song by Robert Burns In Mathematics He Was Greater by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler The Question Then, To State It First by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler Quoth He, To Bid Me Not To Love by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler Rules Of Life by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler Sages by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler This Place (quote She) They Say's Enchanted by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler 1. by John Byrom 2. by John Byrom 3. by John Byrom 4. by John Byrom Epigram On The Feuds Between Handel And Bononcini by John Byrom Extempore Intended To Allay The Violence Of Party Spirit by John Byrom Martin Folkes by John Byrom A Deal Of Fun by George Gordon Byron Fragment, On The Back Of The Poet's Ms. Of Canto I by George Gordon Byron Great Bacon by George Gordon Byron Milton's The Pince Of Poets - So We Say by George Gordon Byron Over The Stones Still Rattling, Up Pall Mall by George Gordon Byron Sagest Of Women, Even Of Widows, She by George Gordon Byron A Young Unmarried Man, With A Good Name by George Gordon Byron Rural Simplicity by Henry James Byron Companions; A Tale Of A Grandfather by Charles Stuart Calverley Farewell, Farewell! Before Our Prow by Charles Stuart Calverley Forever by Charles Stuart Calverley In The Gloaming by Charles Stuart Calverley Lines On Hearing The Organ by Charles Stuart Calverley The Schoolmaster Abroad With His Son by Charles Stuart Calverley On Some South African Novelists by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell Betjeman, 1984 by Charles Causley After Lord Tennyson by Gilbert Keith Chesterton After Robert Browning by Gilbert Keith Chesterton After Swinburne by Gilbert Keith Chesterton After W.b. Yeats by Gilbert Keith Chesterton After Walt Whitman by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Antichrist, Or The Reunion Of Christendom; An Ode by Gilbert Keith Chesterton A Ballad Of Abbreviations by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Rolling English Road by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Wordsworth Unvisited by David Hartley Coleridge Mad Dogs And Englishmen by Noel Coward There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner by Noel Coward Satie, At The End Of The Term by Simon Curtis The Bards by Walter John De La Mare Iron by Walter John De La Mare Bacchanal by Peter De Vries Christmas Family Reunion by Peter De Vries The Cult Of The Celtic by Anthony C. Deane An Ode by Anthony C. Deane A House Of Prayer by Daniel Defoe Labouring Poor by Danie

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