George Arnold

Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and read more

Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!'

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or read more

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

The living need charity more than the dead.

The living need charity more than the dead.

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, read more

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.