Sea-green vengeance of a kiss,

Teach despairing crags to number

Blue infinities of bliss.

Francis G. Stokes.

This parody originally appeared in The Shotover Papers, Oxford, May 1874.


“Frangipanni.”

By O’Sh******sy.

Untwine those ringlets! Ev’ry dainty clasp

That shines like twisted sunlight in my eye