Jan Struther

She noted with delight that he really did say "Ha!" This made a valuable addition to her collection. She had lately acquired a "Humph!" and two "Whews!" but she was still waiting in vain for a "Pshaw!"

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal:

Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again! I have been long a slave, and now am free;

Come, let us wage a holy war!

Then say–how come the years to seem so swift, The days, the days so slow?

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill: But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

O love's a simple word to say With nature aiding and abetting;