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The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton’s Musings Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Chapter 4CHAPTER IV.
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they...2022-02-1719 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaLewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Chapter 1Milton's Musings Presents Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Chapter 1
CHAPTER I.
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid...2022-01-2215 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton’s Musings Old Possom’s Book of Practical cats by Eliot The Addressing of CatsHE AD-DRESSING OF CATS
You've read of several kinds of Cat,
And my opinion now is that
You should need no interpreter
To understand their character.
You now have learned enough to see
That Cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse—
But all may be described in verse.
You've seen them both at...2022-01-0203 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton’s Musings Old Possom’s Book of Practical cats by Eliot SkimbleshanksSKIMBLESHANKS: THE RAILWAY CAT
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
We must find him or the train can't start.'
All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
They are searching high and low,
Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
Then the Night Mail just can't go.'
At 11.42 then the signal's nearly due
And the passengers are frantic to a man—
Th...2021-12-2604 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton‘s Musings Old Possom‘s Book of Practical cats by Eliot Bustopher JonesBUSTOPHER JONES: THE CAT ABOUT TOWN
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones—
In fact, he's remarkably fat.
He doesn't haunt pubs—he has eight or nine clubs,
For he's the St. James's Street Cat!
He's the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street
In his coat of fastidious black:
No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers
Or such an impeccable back.
In the whole of St. James's the smartest of names is
The name of this Brummell of Cats;
And we're all of us proud to be...2021-12-2002 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton‘s Musings Old Possom‘s Book of Practical Cats by Eliot Gus The Theatre CatGUS: THE THEATRE CAT
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss
To pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.
His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake,
And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake.
Yet he was, in his youth, quite the smartest of Cats—
But no longer a terror to mice and to rats.
For he isn't the Cat that he was in his prime;
Though hi...2021-12-1203 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton‘s Musings Presents Macavity The Mystery Cat by EliotMACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw—
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity's not there!
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime—Macavity's not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may lo...2021-12-0703 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton‘s Musings presents TS Eliot‘s Mr. MistoffeleesMR. MISTOFFELEES
You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees!
The Original Conjuring Cat—
(There can be no doubt about that).
Please listen to me and don't scoff. All his
Inventions are off his own bat.
There's no such Cat in the metropolis;
He holds all the patent monopolies
For performing surprising illusions
And creating eccentric confusions.
At prestidigitation
And at legerdemain
He'll defy examination
And deceive you again.
The greatest magicians have something to learn
From Mr. Mistoffelees' Conjuring Turn.
Presto!
Away we go!
And we all say: OH...2021-11-2802 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton‘s Musing Old Possum‘s Book of Practical Cats by Eliot Mungojerrie and RumpelteazerMUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPELTEAZER
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious
couple of cats.
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tight-rope
walkers and acrobats
They had an extensive reputation. They made their home in
Victoria Grove—
That was merely their centre of operation, for they were
incurably given to rove.
They were very well known in Cornwall Gardens, in Launceston
Place and in Kensington Square—
They had really a little more reputation than a couple of cats
can very well bear.
If the area window was found ajar
And the basement looked like a field of war,
If a tile or tw...2021-11-0703 min
Milton's MusingsMilton's Musings Presents Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - The Old Gumbie Cat by TS EliotTHE OLD GUMBIE CAT
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots.
All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat:
She sits and sits and sits and sits—and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
&nb...2021-10-0403 minThe Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt DattaMilton‘s Musings Presents Old Possum‘s Book of Practical Cats - The Old Gumbie Cat by TS EliotTHE OLD GUMBIE CAT
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots.
All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat:
She sits and sits and sits and sits—and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
And when all the family's in bed and asleep,
She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep.
...2021-10-0403 minMilton's MusingsMilton's Musings Presents Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - The Naming of Cats by TS EliotTHE NAMING OF CATS
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey—
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fa...2021-09-2804 minMilton's MusingsAlphabet Poem by Edward LearAlphabet Poem by Edward Lear
A tumbled down, and hurt his Arm, against a bit of wood.
B said, "My Boy, O! do not cry' it cannot do you good!"
C said, "A Cup of Coffee hot can't do you any harm."
D said, "A Doctor should be fetched, and he would cure the arm."
E said, "An Egg beat up in milk would quickly make him well."
2021-09-1903 minMilton's MusingsThe Courtship of Yonghy-Bonghy-Bohttps://poets.org/poem/courtship-yonghy-bonghy-bo 2021-09-1205 minMilton's MusingsThe Pronunciation Poem by Trenite I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through. And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps, Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead– For goodness sakes don’t call it deed. Watch out for meat and great and threat, They rhyme with suite...2021-09-1201 minMilton's MusingsA Wise Old Owl Nursery RhymeA Wise Old Owl" is an English nursery rhyme2021-09-0501 minMilton's MusingsThe Owl and the Pussycat by Edward LearTHE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT.
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!Oh! let...2021-09-0502 minMilton's MusingsThe Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert BrowningThe Pied Piper of Hamelin is a dark children's poem with the moral that
One should not break a promise, especially after receiving a favour! 2021-09-0521 minMilton's MusingsThe Jumblies by Edward LearTHE JUMBLIES.
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...2021-09-0506 minMilton's MusingsThe Daddy Long Legs and the Fly by Edward LearTHE DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY.
I.
Once Mr. Daddy Long-legs,
Dressed in brown and gray,Walked about upon the sands
Upon a summer's day:And there among the pebbles,
When the wind was rather cold,He met with Mr. Floppy Fly,
All dressed in blue and gold;And, as it was too soon to dine,
They drank some periwinkle-wine,
And played an hour or two, or more,
At battlecock and shuttledore.
II.
Said Mr. Daddy Long-legs
To Mr. Floppy Fly,"Why do...2021-09-0504 min
Milton's MusingsThe Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear read by Pratt DattaMiltons Musings presents: The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear read by Pratt Datta2021-08-2903 min