Competition
No. 1381: Strong medicine Set by Jaspistos: Two poetasters, named Wilhelmina Stitch and Patience Strong, used to (and for all I know still do) write a daily newspaper column of......
Postscript
Unpompous circumstance P. J. Kavanagh E dward Fitzgerald described marriage as 'standing at your work-table with a clear mind, and a big bonnet knocking at the door and asking......
Home Life
Baby talk Alice Thomas Ellis I was sitting quietly in the drawing-room yesterday evening when I heard somebody calling my name in the garden, so I stepped on to the balcony and......
No. 1378: The Winners
Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for a poem beginning 'Jenny kiss'd me when we met' but, unlike Leigh Hunt's, expressing displeasure on the occasion. Jenny came in all......
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