Scuttle, Scuttle, Little Roach (Christopher Morley Poems)
SCUTTLE, scuttle, little roach-How you run when I approach:Up above the pantry shelf,Hastening to secrete yourself.Most adventurous of vermin,How I ...
SCUTTLE, scuttle, little roach-How you run when I approach:Up above the pantry shelf,Hastening to secrete yourself.Most adventurous of vermin,How I ...
Before dawn,While the sea is still snow-white, you will set sail;The grip of the oars in your palms,And in your ...
WHENEVER the days are cool and clear, The sand-hill crane goes walkingAcross the field by the flashing weir, Slowly, solemnly stalking.The little ...
Most near, most dear, most loved, and most far,Under the huge window where I often found herSitting as huge as ...
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
Two years have gone, and again I stand On the bow of a mighty ship That pushes ...
There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy,And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite ...
Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps ...
How calm, how beauteous and how cool— How like a sister to the skies,Appears the broad, transparent pool That in ...
Most near, most dear, most loved, and most far,Under the huge window where I often found herSitting as huge as ...
Chloe, you shun me like a hind That, seeking vainly for her mother,Hears danger in each breath of wind, And ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
How calm, how beauteous and how cool-- How like a sister to the skies, Appears the broad, transparent pool That ...
I bet with every Wind that blew Till Nature in chagrin Employed a Fact to visit me And scuttle my ...
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small ...
Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps ...
There was such speed in her little body, And such lightness in her footfall, It is no wonder her brown ...
The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window The tassel of the blind swings ...
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