Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by R.W. Maslen

A Note on the Text

References and Further Reading

COMPLETE NONSENSE I Saw a Puffin

The Song of Lien Tsung

Railway Ditties

Waddon

Thornton Heath

Norbury

Streatham and Balham

Green Park

You Can Never Be Sure of Your Birron

Beard of My Chin

You Before Me

Although I Love Him

Practically Poetry

Ode to a Bowler

Raft Song of the Conger Eel

The Dwarf of Battersea

Thank God for a Tadpole

About My Ebb and Flow-ziness

A Fair Amount of Doziness

Ancient Root O Ancient Root

The Frivolous Cake

Simple, Seldom and Sad

Linger Now with Me, Thou Beauty

I Married Her in Green

Swelter’s Song

I Cannot Simply Stand and Watch

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