Thank you to Jennifer for this one:
Quote from Jonathan Swift: “‘Twas a bold man that first ate an oyster!”.
I’D LIKE TO BE A TEABAG
l’d like to be a teabag,
And stay at home all day –
And talk to other teabags
In a teabag sort of way . . .
l’d love to be a teabag;
And lie in a little box –
And never have to wash my face
Or change my dirty socks . .
I’d like to be a teabag;
An Earl Grey one perhaps,
And doze all day and lie around
With Earl Grey kind of chaps.
l wouldn’t have to do a thing,
No homework, jobs or chores –
Comfy in my caddy
Of teabags and their snores.
l wouldn’t have to do exams
l needn’t tidy rooms,
Or sweep the floor or feed the cat
Or wash up all the spoons.
l wouldn’t have to do a thing,
A life of bliss – you see . . .
Except that once in all my life
I`d make a cup of tea!
Peter Dixon
Thanks to Ursula for Sonnet 75, William Shakespeare
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season’d showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As ‘twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better’d that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.