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The Bad Poet at His Best
No more will I endure love's pleasing pain
Nor round my heart's leg tie his galling chain.
A YOUNG TRADESMAN (quoted by Coleridge:
Biographia Literaria)
Long live our dear and noble Queen
Victoria; who at Aberdeen,
Today, amidst her people's seen
Unveiled to her country's gaze
A lov'd one's statue, ne'er t'erase
'T from memory. With fortitude
The ceremony she withstood.
EDWARD EDWIN FOOT: On the Inauguration
of the memorial statue of His Late Royal
Highness the Prince Consort
How beautiful their feet, who follow in that train.
MARTIN TUPPER: The Train of Religion
Her lips they are redder than coral
That under the ocean grows;
She is sweet, she is fair, she is moral,
My beautiful Georgian rose!
And have we lost another friend?
How sad the news to tell!
Alas! Poor Mr Yarker's gone—
Hark to the tolling bell!
Alas! how many now drop off—
What numbers are unwell;
Another mortal borne away—
Hark to the tolling bell!
ANON
JOHN CLOSE OF KIRKBY STEPHEN (Toet Close'):
In Respectful Memory of Mr Yarker
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