Freelancing followed, verse, short stories and sketches, written while travelling in Australia searching for payable mining fields.

Only some verses to write and discuss.

I went back to San Francisco and went surfing which is what the last verse is about and wrote the song.

Williams was a technically bad poet, but wrote some interesting verse.

Mr. Pierpont has a good deal of talent, and writes very spirited verses, full of point.

The verse written on the pasted-in initial to Psalm 105 (p. 285)

Such verses as these people write when they are in love!

A. E. Housman wrote of the area this verse, which mentions the bridges of the town:

Occasionally writes comic or satirical verse.

MacColl thought the song was too short, and so Bragg wrote a further two verses for her, which she consolidated into one.