There was an Old Man of Calcutta (Edward Lear Poem)
There was an old man of Calcutta, Who perpetually ate bread & butter; Till a great bit of muffin on ...
There was an old man of Calcutta, Who perpetually ate bread & butter; Till a great bit of muffin on ...
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen ...
Year after year the princess lies asleep Until the hundred years foretold are done, Easily drawing her enchanted breath. Caught ...
Little soul, little perpetually undressed one, Do now as I bid you, climb The shelf-like branches of the spruce tree; ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay drifting toward me on the T stop, the train circling the ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship, although it meant the end of travel. Although it stood stock-still like ...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
Scarcely a street, too few houses To merit the title; just a way between The one tavern and the one ...
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
(for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace) All the lizards are asleep-- perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles, each milky lid ...
So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog ...
Oh, some folk think vice-royalty is festive and hilarious, The duties of an A.D.C. are manifold and various, So listen, ...
Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water Running down a ...
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
Moored to the same ring: The hour, the darkness and I, Our compasses hooded like falcons. Now the memory of ...
This is the last of all, this is the last! I must hold my hands, and turn my face to ...
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