Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest
Always, always out of tune.

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 19-20). . . New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)

Tis not that thy mien is stately,
'Tis not that thy tones are soft;

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 93-94). . . New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)

Grinder, who serenely grindest
At my door the Hundredth Psalm,

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 1-2). . . New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair;
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And I met with a ballad, I can't say where,
Which wholly consisted of lines like these.

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. The auld wife sat at her ivied door (l. 21-24). ElL. Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)

Her sheep follow'd her, as their tails did them.
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And this song is consider'd a perfect gem,
And as to the meaning, it's what you please.

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. The auld wife sat at her ivied door (l. 37-40). . . Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)

Go mad, and beat their wives;
Plunge (after shocking lives)
Razors and carving knives
Into their gizzards.

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. "Ode to Tobacco." This is possibly a reference to a letter in the medical journal Lancet, Feb. 14, 1857: "[Dr. Webster] distinctly enumerates tobacco as one of the causes of insanity.... Two brothers in one family had become deranged from smoking tobacco, and in that state had committed suicide.")

But I've heard mankind abuse thee;
And perhaps it's rather strange,
But I thought that I would choose thee
For encomium, as a change.

(Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet. Lines on Hearing the Organ (l. 97-100). . . New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)