BOSH POEMS

Lines In Reply To The Beautiful Poet Who Welcomed News Of Mcgonagall's Departure From Dundee

Dear Johnny, I return my thanks to you;
But more than thanks is your due
For publishing the scurrilous poetry about me
Leaving the Ancient City of Dundee.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

Report On Tait's Lecture On Force

Ye British Asses, who expect to hear
Ever some new thing,
Iâ??ve nothing new to tell, but what, I fear,
May be a true thing.
.....

James Clerk Maxwell

The Logic Of Anti-sosh

Mister Chairman; - er - ah - when
We right-thinking business men
Are treated with much scant - um - er - civility,
I say the time has come
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Little Mack

This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh,
We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O gosh!
He lives here in Mizzoora where the people are so set
In ante-bellum notions that they vote for Jackson yet;
.....

Eugene Field

The Swanks Of Gosh

Come mourn with me for the land of Gosh,
Oh, weep with me for the luckless Glugs
Of the land of Gosh, where the sad seas wash
The patient shores, and the great King Splosh
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Hippodromania; Or, Whiffs From The Pipe (in Five Parts): Part Iii: Credat Judaeus Apella

Dear Bell,-I enclose what you ask in a letter,
A short rhyme at random, no more and no less,
And you may insert it, for want of a better,
Or leave it, it doesn't much matter, I guess;
.....

Adam Lindsay Gordon

The Last Irish Grievance

As I think of the insult that's done to this nation,
Red tears of rivinge from me fatures I wash,
And uphold in this pome, to the world's daytistation,
The sleeves that appointed PROFESSOR M'COSH.
.....

William Makepeace Thackeray

A Day's Ride

Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses ride
And bold the mounted troopers who patrol the Sydney side;
But few of them, though flash they be, can ride, and few can fight
As Walker did, for life and death, with Ward the other night.
.....

Anonymous Oceania

A Few Remarks On Goats, Asses And The Dead Hand

I don't mind kings and dukes and things;
I don't mind wigs or maces;
I don't mind crowns or robes or gowns
Or ruffles, swords or laces
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Griefs Of Ancient Gosh

I happened in Gosh on an ancient day,
In the land of Glugs far, far away
Where the skies are green and the grass is pink
And the citizens rarely troubl'd to think.
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Mystic

An 'Ode to the Moon' did he indite
With his two-and-half soul-power.
('Twas the child of a starlit summer night,
Begot by a gloomy hour.)
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

A 'born Leader Of Men'

Tuckerton Tamerlane Morey Mahosh
Is a statesman of world-wide fame,
With a notable knack at rhetorical bosh
To glorify somebody's name
.....

Ambrose Bierce

Sir Macklin

Of all the youths I ever saw
None were so wicked, vain, or silly,
So lost to shame and Sabbath law,
As worldly TOM, and BOB, and BILLY.
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

The Mackaiad

Mackay's hot wrath to Bonynge, direful spring
Of blows unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing
That wrath which hurled to Hellman's office floor
Two heroes, mutually smeared with gore,
.....

Ambrose Bierce

Haunted

Haunted? Ay, in a social way
By a body of ghosts in dread array;
But no conventional spectres they -
Appalling, grim, and tricky:
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

A Ballad Of Freedom

Now Mr. Jeremiah Bane
He owned a warehouse in The Lane,
An edifice of goodly size,
Where, with keen private enterprise,
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Stones Of Gosh

Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh,
In the end of the year umteen;
Of the Glugs of Gosh and their great King Splosh,
And Tush, his virtuous Queen.
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Growth Of Sym

Now Sym was a Glug; and 'tis mentioned so
That the tale reads perfectly plain as we go.
In his veins ran blood of that stupid race
Of docile folk, who inhabit the place
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Credat Judaeus Apella

Dear Bell, I enclose what you ask in a letter,
A short rhyme at random, no more and no less,
And you may insert it, for want of a better,
Or leave it, it doesn't much matter, I guess;
.....

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Mother's Birthday Review

BROTHER BILL.


To have a good birthday for a grown-up person is very difficult indeed;
.....

Juliana Horatia Ewing

No Stranger

You found a way to take down my walls
The walls that had been built by one of your kind
Every other day, they got stronger
Because everyone but you
.....

Laurie Lae