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Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

d. 1884 England

Charles Stuart Calverley (December 22, 1831 – February 17, 1884) was an English poet. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".

England
Poets

Also known as: Calverley, Charles Stuart

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I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

The heart which grief hath cankered
Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

I can not sing the old songs now!
It is not that I deem them low;
’T is that I can’t remember how
They go.

Forever; ’t is a single word!
Our rude forefathers deemed it two:
Can you imagine so absurd
A view?

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.

The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where,
That wholly consisted of lines like these.

’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour!
My fondest hopes would not decay:
I never loved a tree or flower
Which was the first to fade away.

O my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed!
To be young once more and bite my thumb
At the world and all its cares with you, I’d
Give no inconsiderable sum.

Life is with such all beer and skittles.
They are not difficult to please
About their victuals.

Now the "rosy morn appearing"
Floods with light the dazzled heaven;
And the schoolboy groans on hearing
That eternal clock strike seven:-
Now the waggoner is driving
Towards the fields his clattering wain;
Now the bluebottle, reviving,
Buzzes down his native pane.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Stuart Calverley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.