August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
IAs I lay sleeping yesternight,The fairies came to me ;The moon, full-orb'd, gave ample light,Enabling me to seeThe little, green-clad, ...
They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—They roused him with mustard and cress—They roused him with jam and ...
Of life's elixir I had writ, when sleep(Pray Heaven it spared him who the writing read!)Settled upon my senses with ...
The cemetery is nearwhere you and I are sleeping,between blue prickly-pears,blue agaves and children,who scream excitedlyif the dead darken the ...
A was an apt Alligator, Who wanted to be a head-waiter; He said, "I opine In that field ...
'Twas the night before the Fourth of July, the people slept serene; The fireworks were stored in the old town ...
listen to me i havebeen mobbed almosttheres an old simp cockroachhere who thinks he hasbeen to hell and allthe young ...
I WAS somewhere off in Europe spending money like a king, Owned a yacht like J. P. Morgan's, when the ...
A mysterious naked man has been reportedon Cranston Avenue. The police are performingthe usual ceremonies with coloured lights and sirens.Almost ...
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
A web of sewer, pipe, and wire connects each house to the others. In 206 a dog sleeps by the ...
The murderer's little daughter who is barely ten years old jerks her shoulders right and left so as to catch ...
A mysterious naked man has been reported on Cranston Avenue. The police are performing the usual ceremonies with coloured lights ...
I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities ...
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