More from John Betjeman

  1. Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.
  2. I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.
  3. It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.
  4. In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming round our feet; Red hair she had…
  5. And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest y…
  6. No hope. And the X-ray photographs under his arm Confirm the message. His wife stands timidly by. The opposite brick-built house looks loft…
  7. Stony seaboard, far and foreign, Stony hills poured over space, Stony outcrop of the Burren, Stones in every fertile place
  8. We sat in the car park till twenty to one And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.

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