The Jumblies (Edward Lear Poem)
I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of ...
I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of ...
I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and ...
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones, Small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families In mill-towns on dark mornings ...
O woe is me for the merry life I led beyond the Bar, And a treble woe for my winsome ...
1919 As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, Make my proper prostrations to the Gods of ...
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Psalm 121 On a hillside scattered with ...
Robin and his merry men : Lived just like the birds; They had almost as many tracks as thoughts, : ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Freezing dusk is closing Like a slow trap of steel On trees and roads and hills and all That can ...
now pay attention (said the teacher) and look up here the children looked up this is william shakespeare four centuries ...
army hospital rheumatic fever bed-tied many weeks too embarrassed to ask for bedpan the rigmarole of screens and knowing attention ...
Father is quite the greatest poet That ever lived anywhere. You say you're going to write great music- I chose ...
I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs; I make them Look like pigs. I'm sick of ...
Hair just so in her pretty pig tails Don't you know "How do I look, daddy?" Drips from her lips ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock, Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, Whose Middle-part was ...
my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty suitcase because she kept threatening to run ...
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
"To Lionel Engers-Kennedy: to the memory of Hargrave Jennings: and to A. C. W. G. and H. E. H." Beneath ...
"To Lionel Engers-Kennedy: to the memory of Hargrave Jennings: and to A. C. W. G. and H. E. H." Beneath ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. (Ambrose Bierce)
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig, bred when he was brittle, bred when big, how he's sweating to support ...
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great ...
In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist's appointment and sat and waited for her in ...
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