Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden, first published in its final, familiar form in The Year's Poetry, (London, 1938), but based on an earlier version published in 1936.

"This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular British rhyme and cumulative tale* that does not tell the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked.

"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871 in his book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ‘runcible spoon’ was coined for the poem.