Charles Stuart Calverley
Charles Stuart Calverley
Charles Stuart Calverleywas an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 December 1831
life nor wrote
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.
cannot deem
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.