Cricket Poems In English. The rules of cricket written in a humorous verse. Americana digitizing sponsor msn contributor university of california libraries language english.
This a4 laminated poster comes with a hook for hanging or it can easily be removed to be framed. On the grasshopper and cricket. The greatest sport poems selected by dr oliver tearle.
Cricket features albeit briefly in late victorian poet a.
That is the grasshopper s he takes the lead in summer luxury he has never done with his delights. It didn t take long for cricket to become a gentle emblem of the english rural scene. It is cricket s greatest poem but one. For cricket s hardly a game at all overs of boredom with bat missing ball.
