John Kendall (dum-dum) Head Poems
- 1. The Last Hockey
After A. T.
So for the last great Hockey of the Hills,
... - 2. Omar Out Of Date
BY A RENEGADE DISCIPLE
Wake! for Reveillë©e scatters into flight
... - 3. The Happy Ending
STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION
I am tired of the day with its profitless labours,
... - 4. Summer Portents
Come, let us quaff the brimming cup
Of sorrow, bitterness, and pain;
For clearly, things are warming up
Again.
... - 5. To His Peculiar Friend Within-doors
After R. H.
A strong discomfort in the dress
... - 6. Adam
After W. W.
An adventure of the Author's, and one designed to show that grievances may be met with in the cottages of the humblest, and may take the most unexpected forms.
... - 7. Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Ever Getting To The Hills
After T. G.
Ye distant Hills, ye smiling glades,
... - 8. A Sombre Retrospect
Long, long ago, in that heroic time
When I, a coy and modest youth, was shot
Out on this dust-heap of careers and crime
To try and learn what's what,
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