Noonday Grace (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
MY good old father tucked his head, (His face the color of gingerbread) Over the table my mother had spread, And folded his ...
MY good old father tucked his head, (His face the color of gingerbread) Over the table my mother had spread, And folded his ...
CHILD AND BOATMAN.“Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs.”“You do, sir?” “Yes, I wonder how they come.”“Well, boy, I wonder ...
Oh! the horns are all a-tootin' as we rattle through the town,And we fellers are a-hootin' and a-jumpin' up and ...
Our Aunt 'Mandy thinks that boysNever ought ter make a noise,Or go swimming or play ball,Or have any fun at ...
When Little Claude was naughty wunst At dinner-time, an' saidHe won't say "_Thank you_" to his Ma, She maked him go to ...
Ah, very, very poor was she-- Old Dame Pig, with her children three! Robust, beautiful little ones ...
But a scant 2000 folk, no more, Sitting solemn-faced within the pews,While the parsons preach and outward pour, In divers ...
I'm going to gran'ma's for a bitMy mother's got the copper lit;An' piles of clothes are on the floor,An' steam ...
A merry little doffer ladCoom down to Shapper's mill,To see if he could get a shop;He said his name wur ...
Dinner-time? said Gilbert White,"Yes, yes mdash; certainly mdash; all right.Just let me finish this noteAbout the Lesser White-bellied Stoat."(Edmund Clerihew ...
The lawyer, are you? Well! I ain't got nothin' to say. Nothin'! I told the perlice I hadn't nothin'. They ...
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
This fell when dinner-time was done -- 'Twixt the first an' the second rub -- That oor mon Jock cam' ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
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