Classics (Abridged).

All poems copyright © Keith Sheppard, 1999.


Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night
Who on earth set you alight?

In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn
A stately pleasure dome decree.
Alas, contractors let him down
So it's Disneyland for me.

My love is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June
With livid cheeks and scarlet nose
From the sun this afternoon.

Rose's are red,
Violet's are blue.
Brenda wears green ones,
So how about you?

Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen
We dare not go a-hunting
For fear of the Animal Rights Protection League.

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