cricket

THERE'S A BREATHLESS HUSH IN THE CLOSE TONIGHT from kendrive ^Pro 497 days old

[ ... ] stoicism in cricket matches in the famous Close at Clifton College, Bristol: VITAI LAMPADA ("They Pass On The Torch of Life") There's a ...

LEARNING LIFE from kendrive ^Pro 1130 days old

FAST SPIN When we were boys and striding to the wicket, Learning life while we were playing cricket, “The bowling good?”we’d ask as we went in; Departing ...

PAVILION IN WINTER from kendrive ^Pro 1133 days old

While soccer has its day and cricket sleeps The old pavilion its vigil keeps; Made fast from wind and rain it is at its best A place for dogs to sniff ...

OLD GOLFERS NEVER DIE - THEY ONLY LOSE . . . . from kendrive ^Pro 1135 days old

It is proving difficult to find really good poems about Sports. There is plenty of verse out there on the subject, but most of it is humorous schoolboy ...

PLAY UP! AND PLAY THE GAME! from kendrive ^Pro 1141 days old

I have been looking for poems with a sporting theme and one of the first I have come across is this, written in 1897 by Sir Henry Newbolt about a schoolboy ...