oooo where are we going, that calls for a yay!



She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress (Thomas Hardy)

But her hair was such a terrible mess...

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part... (Michael Drayton'Sonnets to Idea' circa 1599)

We'll meet no more not ever..but at least I won't hear you f....

Past three o'clock on a cold a frosty morning..

Ive run out of cash and will have to start pawning...

Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair (Sonnets to Delia, Samuel Daniel)

She's left me for another with hardly any hair...

Oh for a thooouuuusand tongues to sing...

Oh for a jazz band which knows how to swing...


Sorry, that wasn't very entertaining (I've just had a Latin exam, it's been rather draining )
I haven't been on this forum for days - the chastising worked
so I have one exam left tomorrow and I'm freee as a bird...

Anyway.


The morning mist is changing blue (Clare)

Ah, now I can see, oh gosh it's you!



O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done (Walt Whitman)

We're back from the exam room and honours we have won.

I wandered lonely as a cloud...

When your name's Billy No-Mates it's hard to feel proud.



Sometimes it's hard to be a woman

Men leering all day, but its the nature of the human,

I love the sea, I love the navy, I love my biscuits soaked in gravy.... (Black Eyed Susie)

But we've got hidden strengths that we can summon






A song of Enchantment I sang me there (Walter de la Mare)

(Skylark,what happened there ? I posted at 8.40 and you replied to the same line at 8.44?)


I repeat...

I love the sea, I love the navy, I love my biscuits soaked in gravy....

You must have posted while I was looking up a poem and I didn't see yours with mine having started the new page - there's no need to be about it!

Ignore my post everybody and answer F# Minor's!

I did mean with tongue in cheek ! You know Im not like that !

OK lets get on with it, whose going to follow 'Black eyed Susie?'

But oh how sick they make me feel, I wish the sea weren't quite so wavy




So now I'll do mine and then everybody's happy again


A song of Enchantment I sang me there (Walter de la Mare)

Whilst lying in the bath, sud-ridden and bare...

How changed is here each spot man makes or fills.... (Matthew Arnold 'Thyrsis')

One day I'll get the hang of those wretched piano trills...

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger..

But not baby Jesus, lying in a manger.....

Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee.... (Robert Bridges)

Oh dear, it's perfectly obvious that you're not describing me...

The land of my fathers , the land of my choice! (Welsh National Anthem)

They think they can sing , but theyve all lost their voice.....

I love the language, the soft b*stard latin, which melts like kisses from a females mouth... (Byron from 'Italy versus England')

Innit a shame she had come from the sahf!

As from the house your mother sees (R L Stevenson)

Your father giving the lollipop lady a bit of a squeeze







A pirate's life is a happy life, drink up me hearties, yo ho!

With a barrel of rum, and a beer drinkers tum, and a fi and a fi and a fo ....

Tom tom tomato, like a red ball.....

and a fi and a fi and a fo???!!!!

Splattered like a bomb when thrown against the wall

I found a little treasure chest it wasn't vey much...

But it didnt have a key so inside I couldn't touch.........

I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear....

I think it's in denial, 'cos it says it doesn't care

At first I was afraid, I was petrified

But when I looked again, I saw the spider had died.

Incy wincy spider climbed up the waterspout...

...he got up to the gutter, slid on some butter and slid all the way back out.

Once Mr Daddy long-legs, dressed in brown and gray...

Went a-wooing Mummy Longlegs in the merry month of May..

Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine...

Personally I prefer satsumas, they're much more in my line



I heard a thousand blended notes (Wordsworth)

Being sung by a choir of billy goats.......


There was a crooked man , and he walked a crooked mile....

We've had this one before (with a rather unpleasant response )

He should've bought some running shoes and done the mile in style



Alas my love you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously

(Gee that's a difficult one!)

But I must rush out, I really really need to be so free....


Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed........ (Thomas Gray 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College')

But they split the church when they try to get wed.


How many miles to Babylon?
Three score and ten

How do I get to Babylon?
Straight on past Big Ben




Drink to me only with thine eyes

But drink too much and they will grow in size...


Where shall we find her, how shall we sing to her .... (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

Why - do you fancy her, I await your answer



I leant upon a coppice gate (Thomas Hardy)

(yes its a poem called The Darkling Thrush)

Watching the rabbits run around and mate...

All are at one now, roses and lovers....... (Swinburne again)

Except for me..Fred fancies two uvvers..

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files (Mrs Robinson, Simon and Garfunkle)

Do you always fancy younger men and woo them all the whiles ?....


Was a lady such a lady, cheeks so round and lips so red... (Browning)

Sounds a bit of a tart if the truth is said...

Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye.

Carryon bullyin me, your gonna die!

i have a little dreidal

So we'll squirt it with some Weedol..

Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy...

This is even better love that I get from my mummy...


The girls at puberty may find, the first Adam in their thought... (WBYeats)

Turned out to be the one that much unhappiness brought..

Under the spreading chestnut tree...

I was desperate to have a ***

I heard the skylark (!) warbling in the sky.... (Wordsworth)

Oops, pity she hadn't learnt how to fly!



There is something about a Martini (Ogden Nash)

That goes well with a girl in bikini.

Oh the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree...

Were the only witnesses for what happened 'tween him 'n me


What is this life, if full of care...

We stay at home to wash our hair.

The minstrel boy to the war is gone; in the ranks of death you'll find him