Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Love In A Mist
Beneath an Ilfracombe machine,While thunderstorms were raging,Strephon and Chloe found the sceneExceedingly engaging;Though Mother Earth reproached..
© Jessie Pope
The Lads Of The Maple Leaf
RIPE for any adventure, sturdy, loyal and game,Quick to the call of the Mother, the young Canadians came.Eager to show their mettle, ready to shed..
© Jessie Pope
The Zeppelin Armada
'TO-DAY, since Zeppelins are in the air,And folks glance skywards as they go their ways,Let us hark back a bit to an affairThat happened in Queen..
© Jessie Pope
The Comet
Last week we started out in glee,The boys and Bertha, Aunt and me,Across the village green to seeThe comet;Some people really must be blind,Or only..
© Jessie Pope
A Valentine [from An Old Lover]
Estelle, when you and I were rising ninePerhaps you'd rather I suppressed the dateI spent a shilling on a valentineAnd left it for you at the garden..
© Jessie Pope
Snowflakes
A little curly-headed godThrough asphodel came creeping,Found Mother Juno on the nod,And safely slipped her keeping.Away he frolicked, full of..
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Love's Sacrifice
When I asked my dear Edwin to shaveI'd never a thought of denial;He'd been such an absolute slave,I put his devotion on trial.But his eye threw a..
© Jessie Pope
A Sore Point
It was clear that poor Richard was out of the running,His mortification he could not disguise.She flirted with Edward, the company shunning,Soul..
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The Niggers
When Sibyl sits upon the beachWith Kate and Madeline,Dick, Tom and Jack, the swain of each,Loll gloomily between,With savage glances at the throngOf..
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War Girls
'There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train,And the girl who speeds the lift from floor to floor,There's the girl who does a milk-round in..
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Captive Conquerors
OH! Stuttgart Frauleins, and capacious Fraus,What shocking news is this that filters through?Have you been fostering domestic rowsBy casting..
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The War Budget
Hodge waded through the weekly news,'The Income Tax, he said,'That's nowt to me, I shallunt lose,'Twill hit the boss instead.Lloyd George he be the..
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Motor Martyrdom
I never have clung to a motor car,Or crouched on a motor bike.Worry and scurry, clank and jarI cordially dislike.I do not care for grimy hair,For..
© Jessie Pope
Loot!
When Blucher helped us make an endOf Bonaparte, the common foe,He came to England as a friend,About a hundred years ago.The sight of London fired his..
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A Royal Cracksman
When the housebreaking business is slackAnd cracksmen are finding it slowFor all the sea-siders are backAnd a great many more didn't goHere's..
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April Antidotes
In the nonage of the year,When anemones appear,And the buffets of the breeze are soft as silk,When each sparrow spars and heckles,I begin to think of..
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An Overlord
Here's a prominent personI must write a verse onHis ways are so strictly impartial,His power is great,His word carries weightIn matters domestic and..
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The K A Boys
Dr-rud dr-rud dr-rud dr-rudKitchener's Army on the marchThrough Marylebone and Marble Arch,Men in motley, so to speak,Been in training about a..
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De Wet
Foe and friend and foe again,Turning coat and turning yet,That's a feat you don't disdain,De Wet.England's easy, England's kind,Quick to pardon and..
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An Anzac Poem
Why do we cheer those brown-faced boys with pride,Why do dense crowds press round on every side,Why do we throw them flowers, our hearts..
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Silent Camp
In heaven, a pale uncertain star,Through sullen vapour peeps,On earth, extended wide and far,In all the symmetry of war,A weary army sleeps.The..
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Another Pair Of Sleeves
Time was, not very long ago,When Mabel's walking skirtTrailed half a yard behind to showHow well she swept the dirt.But 'short and sweet' are in..
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Captain Von Muller
A Skipper of mark was Von Muller,The humorous naval leg-puller.With ubiquitous easeHe raided the seasAnd his bag became fuller and fuller.Though now..
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Little And Good
Young Thompson was a bit too short,But hard as nails and level-headed,And in his soul the proper sortOf dogged pluck was deeply bedded ;To join the..
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Comrades In Arms-Lets
Not theirs the popular uniformThat takes the feminine heart by storm,And wins soft glances, shy or warm,The perquisites of pluck.But theirs the..
© Jessie Pope