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Farthings
Farthings Poems - Poems about Farthings
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
...Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer. My pal......
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Peter Dome
Categories:
farthings,
history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Widdershins
...Leftward went his stride, counter to the sun he strode. They said he was magicked hence by the fairies or was a mechanical manikin witched up from a pot of spells. Old widdershins had a stove p......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
farthings,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Devil You Know
...Whatever happened to common sense when did we all become so dense ya can’t fall off an un-sat fence dreaming of why and where and whence trying to figure out farthings and pence trapped in a w......
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John Lawless
Categories:
farthings,
confusion, political, power,
Form:
Monorhyme
Sold
...Distant love, o silent mystic! My petals are just made of rubber and the sky is rusty blue. How arrogant your degree has made you have you lost or never had a sense of youth the nerve to hold im......
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Albino Mattioli
Categories:
farthings,
imagery,
Form:
Free verse
A Ha'Penny
...I wish I had a ha'penny, I'd spend it on a whim. I'd share it with my best friend, Spend half of it on him. I wish I had a ha'penny, two farthings it would be. One for my best friend, the othe......
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Dave Timperley
Categories:
farthings,
best friend, fun, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
The Eye of the Sea - Part 5
...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 4 Becalmed we were for three days more, Then the wind began to rise, At the Captain’s bidding, we set to the rigging, Eyes firmly upon the prize. But, ......
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Simon Cooper
Categories:
farthings,
adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form:
Epic
Four Farthings For Four Chews
...Four Farthing For Four Chews. We only had a penny each but it could buy four chews In the days when it was four farthings to a penny Glass jars lined up like soldiers; it was so hard to choose There ......
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Mandy Tams The Golden Girl
Categories:
farthings,
nostalgia, money,
Form:
Pantoum
The Humble Penny
...I remember the humble penny although not humble when i a child one could divide it by four farthings shared with one’s parents then one for me. Although not humble when i a child one quarter s......
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Harry Horsman
Categories:
farthings,
day, history, old, parents,
Form:
Pantoum
The Superlative Song
...How peerlessly you have loved me unlike any that I have known put not even yourself above me took me in and gave me home You withheld nothing from my asking even offered to me your throne without y......
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Poetryof Providence
Categories:
farthings,
devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Rhyme