The Akond of Swat (Edward Lear Poem)
Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of SWAT? Is he tall or short, or dark or ...
Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of SWAT? Is he tall or short, or dark or ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb, Seeing visions "over yonder" of the ...
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might ...
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool, I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my ...
You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery; ...
The telephone company calls and asks what the fuss is. Betty from the telephone company, who's not concerned with the ...
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
we say blame the teachers don't we send our young to school to be taught the simple rules for decent ...
My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us children every day Just what should ...
Housefly housefly little mouse of a house fly sitting on the Queen's Anne's Lace looking no more out of place ...
It's when the birds go piping and the daylight slowly breaks, That, clamoring for his dinner, our precious baby wakes; ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago, And he ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
But outer Space, At least this far, For all the fuss Of the populace Stays more popular Than populous (Robert ...
There was once a man who disguised himself as a housefly and went about the neighborhood depositing flyspecks. Well, he ...
When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To ...
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
REVERED defender of beauteous Stuart, Of Stuart, a name once respected; A name, which to love was the mark of ...
WHILE Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; While quacks of ...
I MURDER hate by flood or field, Tho' glory's name may screen us; In wars at home I'll spend my ...
In Hayfield I imagine not just the nuts and bolts of split cockpits but a Spitfire's sunk fuselage has smoked ...
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