Poetry Monday!: “Rules and Regulations” by Lewis Carroll
Here’s “Rules and Regulations” (1845) by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), which the young Charles Lutwidge Dogson wrote at age 13 for his younger brother and sister:
A short direction
To avoid dejection,
By variations
In occupations,
And prolongation
Of relaxation,
And combinations
Of recreations,
And disputation
On the state of the nation
In adaptation
To your station,
By invitations
To friends and relations,
By evitation
Of amputation,
By permutation
In conversation,
And deep reflection
You’ll avoid dejection….
For the rest of my “Sasha Reads” playlist, click here. Past poems are:
- “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “The Pulley” by George Herbert
- “Harmonie du soir” (“Evening Harmony”) by Charles Baudelaire
- “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Clancy of the Overflow” by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
- “Лотова жена” (“Lotova zhena”, “Lot’s wife”) by Anna Akhmatova
- “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear
- “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Les Djinns” (“The Jinns
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