Pennine Ink 38: Poetry and Prose

Remember the poems we used to read at school? 'This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.' 'Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. All in the valley of death rode the six hundred.' There were fun poems like 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and Edward Lear's limericks. There were stories like 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin.' There was stirring stuff: 'Tyger tiger burning bright' and silly stuff like 'Jabberwo...