How Jack Found That Beans May Go Back On A Chap (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, And with expression cynical For half the day a ...
Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, And with expression cynical For half the day a ...
Though Philip the Second Of France was reckoned No coward, his breath came short When they told him a dragon As big as a ...
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
She has slid down the channels Of history's annals Disguised as the child of a king, But that is a glib And iniquitous fib, For ...
An excellent peasant, Of character pleasant, Once lived in a hut with his wife. He was cheerful and docile, But such an old fossil You ...
Fortunatus, a fisherman Dane, Set out on a sudden for Spain, Because, runs the story, He'd met with a hoary Mysterious sorcerer chap, Who, trouble ...
A metropolitan rat invited His country cousin in town to dine: The country cousin replied, "Delighted." And signed himself, "Sincerely thine." The town rat ...
Albeit wholly penniless,Prince Charming wasn't any lessConceited than a Croesusor a modern millionaire:Though often in necessity,No one would ever guess ...
A man of kind and noble mind Was H. Gustavus Hyde. 'Twould be amiss to add to this At present, for he died, In ...
In days of old the King of Saxe Had singular opinions, For with a weighty battle-axe He brutalized his minions, And, when he'd nothing ...
His name was Aladdin. The clothes he was clad in Proclaimed him an Arab at sight, And he had for a chum An uncommonly ...
A worthy couple, man and wife, Dragged on a discontented life: The reason, I should state, That it was destitute of joys, Was that ...
Once on a time, long years ago(Just when I quite forget),Two maidens lived beside the Po,One blonde and one brunette.The ...
Most worthy of praiseWere the virtuous waysOf Little Red Riding Hood's Ma,And no one was everMore cautious and cleverThan Little ...
MOST worthy of praise were the virtuous waysOf Little Red Riding Hood's ma,And no one was ever more cautious and ...
A Boston man an ulster had, An ulster with a cape that fluttered: It smacked his face, and made him mad, And polyglot ...
A maiden from the Bosphorus,With eyes as bright as phosphorus,Once wed the wealthy bailiffOf the caliphOf Kelat.Though diligent and zealous, ...
A fisherman lived on the shore, (It's a habit that fishers affect,) And his life was a hideous bore: He had nothing to ...
Miss Guinevere PlattWas so beautiful thatShe couldn't remember the dayWhen one of her swainsHadn't taken the painsTo send her a ...
The vainest girls in forty statesWere Gwendolyn and Gladys Gates;They warbled slightly off the air,Romantic German songs,And each of them ...
In Germany there lived an earlWho had a charming niece:And never gave the timid girlA single moment's peace!Whatever low and ...
A farmer built around his crop A wall, and crowned his labors By placing glass upon the top To lacerate his neighbors, Provided they ...
Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin,Her hands were rough, her feet she turned invariably in;Her general form was German,By ...
Once a flock of stately peacocks Promenaded on a green, There were twenty-two or three cocks, Each as proud as seventeen, And a glance, ...
Once a turtle, finding plenty In seclusion to bewitch, Lived a dolce far niente Kind of life within a ditch; Rivers had no charm ...
A bulrush stood on a river's rim, And an oak that grew near by Looked down with cold hauteur on him, And addressed ...
A fisher was casting his flies in a brook, According to laws of such sciences, With a patented reel and a patented ...
To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost ...
A peasant had a docile bear, A bear of manners pleasant, And all the love she had to spare She lavished on the ...
Batholomew Benjamin BuntingHad only three passions in life,And one of the trio was hunting,The others his babe and his wife.And ...
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