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
cat boots milk
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
knives mad wife
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.
grief heart alcohol
The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.
beer years names
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?
blessed beer bells
Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...
coffee berries born
But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?
eggs doors wife
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees...
daughter hair lines
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.
song remember lows
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
dream
I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.
life beer skittles
Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.
home soul facts
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...
matter
Meaning, however, is no great matter.