The Tory: Perspectives And Poems: Dr Pratt Datta

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat BY EDWARD LEAR I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea    In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money,    Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above,    And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,     What a beautiful Pussy you are,          You are,          You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!"   II Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!    How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried:    But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day,    To the land where the Bong-Tree grows And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood    With a ring at the end of his nose,              His nose,              His nose,    With a ring at the end of his nose.   III "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling    Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will." So they took it away, and were married next day    By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince,

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Chapter XXI Part II: The death of Henry V

Henry V (the 5th) and the Battle of Agincourt (Azincourt)

A story of risk and adventure The Jumblies BY EDWARD LEAR I   They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,    In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,    In a Sieve they went to sea! And when the Sieve turned round and round, And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’ They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big, But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!    In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’       Far and few, far and few,          Are the lands where the Jumblies live;       Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,          And they went to sea in a Sieve.     II   They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,    In a Sieve they sailed so fast, With only a beautiful pea-green veil Tied with a riband by way of a sail,    To a small tobacco-pipe mast; And every one said, who saw them go, ‘O won’t they be soon upset, you know! For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long, And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong    In a Sieve to sail so fast!’  

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter XX: Henry IV, his usurping the throne and burning of the heretics

The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning - 1812-1889     I Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. II Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladle's, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. III At last the people in a body To the town hall came flocking: "'Tis clear," cried they, 'our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation--shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because yo

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Chapter XVIIII Part II Henry Bollingbroke and  the demise of Richard the II

In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE   In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in the sky     The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.   We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,     Loved and were loved, and now we lie,         In Flanders fields.   Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw     The torch; be yours to hold it high.     If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow         In Flanders fields.

Richard the 2nd, Part I, Wat Tyler

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 18 Part III: The Black Price and the 1356 Battle of Poitiers!

Edward II the 1346 battle of Crecy and the coming of the Black Prince

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 18 Part 1

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 17 Part II: Edward II's Death

Edward the 2nd, Pierce Gaveston, and the Battle of Bannockburn

Edward the Ist and William Wallace

Edward Longshanks and The Subjugation of Wales

Edward the 1st, Longshanks

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 15 Part 2: The final reign of the miserable Henry III. 

CHAPTER XV—ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE THIRD, CALLED, OF WINCHESTER. Part I

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 14 Part 2: Magna Carta and the Death of King John