Nature and Elements

The nightingales are singing near

At whatever time the deed took place— MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!

He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,

Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind!

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the

A cold coming we had of it,

Tenants of the house,

Here I am, an old man in a dry month

So, while the light fails

So, while the light fails

Ash on an old man’s sleeve

I think that the river

I think that the river

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree

And it’s a hard rain’s a gonna fall.

I know why the caged bird sings!

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there.

‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’

‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’

The giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.

On a huge hill,