Juliet complains that the man she loves has the wrong name, and the man she loves hears her doing it.

A destitute and friendless farmer, turned from the tradesman’s entrance, tries his luck at the front door.

John Gay reflects that in matters of friendship, quality is preferable to quantity.

William Wordsworth comes back from France and realises with a shock what his own country has become.

A much-loved children’s poem, even if most of us struggle to remember more than a few lines.

A charming children’s rhyme that is also a test of the clearest speaker’s diction.