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, ...
Poems about hippopotamus (15 Poems)
At The “Atlantic” Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DECEMBER 15, 1874I SUPPOSE it's myself that you're making allusion toAnd bringing the sense of dismay and confusion to.Of course ...
I had a hippopotamus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a hippopotamus; I kept him in a shedAnd fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread.I made him my ...
The Hippopotamus (Oliver Herford Poems)
"Oh, say, what is this fearful, wild,Incorrigible cuss?""This *creature* (don't say 'cuss,' my child;'Tis slang)—this creature fierce is styledThe Hippopotamus.His ...
The Hippopotamus (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
I shoot the HippopotamusWith bullets made of platinum,Because if I use leaden onesHis hide is sure to flatten 'em. (Hilaire ...
Habits of the Hippopotamus (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The hippopotamus is strongAnd huge of head and broad of bustle;The limbs on which he rolls alongAre big with hippopotomuscle.He ...
The Phlebotomous Flea (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
A Flea who felt phlebotomousAssailed a Hippopotamus;The Hippo, heSat on the Flea,And, goodness gracious! what a muss!(Arthur Guiterman)
Observation Car (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
The Hippopotamus (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut ...
The Mad Gardener’s Song (Lewis Carroll Poems)
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
A Strange Wild Song (Lewis Carroll Poem)
He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
The Hippopotamus (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to ...
The Hippopotamus (Ogden Nash Poems)
Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...