Merry Maid (John Clare Poems)
Bonny and stout and brown, without a hat,She frowns offended when they call her fat--Yet fat she is, the merriest ...
Bonny and stout and brown, without a hat,She frowns offended when they call her fat--Yet fat she is, the merriest ...
The hen, so soon as she an egg doth lay,(Spreads the fame of her doing what she may.)About the yard ...
Continually they cackle thus,Those venerable birds,Crying, "Those whom the Gods loveDie young"Or something of that sort. (Osbert Sitwell)
God-like Tsarevna Of the Kirgiz-Kaisatskii horde! Whose wisdom matchless Opened the true path To young Prince Khlor To go up ...
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle. When the sweets of office dangle At a most inviting angle ...
A sparrow, when sparrows like parrots could speak, Addressed an old hen who could talk like a jay:Said he, "It's ...
Ho, Giant! This is I!I have built me a bean-stalk into your sky!La,—but it's lovely, up so high!This ...
A new day is dawning;The star of dawn burns bright in the morning.Loud sings the cock - a ...
It's dogged as does it. They've made it a saying, A motto to hold in that tight little isle --To ...
DO you know why men dig ditches And why others till the soil? Do you know why men seek riches, ...
A word out of season Of vapid unreasonMay seem mere political twaddle at best; But this thing needs abatement ...
The ducks are clacking by the brook;The sun is hot, but cool their feathers look.Ducks do not plan ambitious schemes:Their ...
THE FAMINECackle and lay, cackle and lay!How many eggs did you get to-day?None in the manger, and none in the ...
I can't ridge it back again from char. Not one board left. Only ash a cat explores and shattered glass ...
i met a frog in my garden today lurking under a stone - it said there used to be a ...
The pool filling a bit too slowly "Let's play tag, you're it first!" so was the solution, for the littlest ...
She had sugar, little bits, unauthorized pieces, shards, of the gingerbread house. Our centerpiece no more. We were outside in ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop. "Cuckold!" he cried, until I sighed: "You ...
The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill ...
Ho, Giant! This is I! I have built me a bean-stalk into your sky! La,-but it's lovely, up so high! ...
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