The Parrot and Other Poems Raven Kennedy and with a horde of

and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn

a nervous group of goldsmiths from London

recovering from death

Viewed through his cool

The Parrot and Other Poems Raven Kennedy and with a horde ofAs Wodehouse himself wrote, 'Most poets are more to be pitied than censured. What happens is that they are lured on to the downward path by the fatal fascination of the limerick form. It is so terribly easy to compose the first two lines of a limerick, and, that done, the subject finds it impossible to stop. (Compare the case of the tiger cub, which, at first satisfied with a bowl of milk, goes in stritly for blood after taking its initial coolie).