An Alice Alphabet (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A is for Alice a-dressing the Queen. B is for Borogoves, mimsy and lean. C is the Cheshire Cat, wearing ...
A is for Alice a-dressing the Queen. B is for Borogoves, mimsy and lean. C is the Cheshire Cat, wearing ...
To sum up all, I'm old — and that's A fact the years decide; It ...
AS from unnumbered worlds awayI found myself My drowsy feetToil up the hill; the summer heatThrobs through the vacant city ...
When something or other has made him feel glad,His rattle he throws on the floor; The times he is good ...
My valiant helper, a small-sized tigerSleeps sweetly on my desk, by the computer,Unaware that you insult his tribe.Cats play with ...
I'll tell you, shall I, something I remember?Something that still means a great deal to me.It was long ago. A ...
TO ROBERT PAYNE and MAJOR J. C. FULTON, Columbus, Ohio. When de sno' it am er fallin', Winds er whizzin' ...
Ah, could I lay me down in this long grassAnd close my eyes, and let the quiet windBlow over me—I ...
He dreaded not dark, nor the lonely road, For the world, as he knew it, was kind.Nor threat of the ...
being the German kid in the 20's in Los Angeleswas difficult.there was much anti-German feeling then,a carry-over from World War ...
Oft do I hear those windows ope And shut with dread surprise, And spirits murmur as they grope, But break ...
Our brother Clarence goes to school. He has ...
The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day,Suddenly we heard ...
The gingham dog and the calico catSide by side on the table sat;'T was half-past twelve, and (what do you ...
I have been looking at a hovelAt the back o' behind;It was like something out of a Welsh novelOf the ...
Eye standing up eye lying down eye sittingWhy wander about between two hedges made of stair-rails while the ladders become ...
We're gittin' so we need againTo see the sproutin' seed again.We've been shut up all winter longWithin our narrow rooms;We're ...
I been ridin' fer cattle the most of my life.I ain't got no family, I ain't got no wife,I ain't ...
Time was I thought of growing up, But that was ere the babies came;I'd dream and plan to be ...
So nice it is of you to call . . . Yes; Monday week we done it;Right 'igh-clarse weddin' ...
Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree?'T is a marvel of great renown!It blooms on the shore of the ...
Is wee Jamie waukin' yet? Lyin' unco lang;Better cuddlin' in his bed When his mammy's thrang.Here he's comin' ow'r the ...
I am a Witch, and a kind old Witch,There's many a one knows that—Alone I live in my little dark ...
YESTERDAY was St. Valentine. Thought you at all, dear dove divine, Upon the beard in sorry trim And rueful countenance ...
The earth rolls on through empty space, its journey's never done;It's entered for a starry race throughout the kingdom come.And, ...
There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching Of moral and maxim in season and outGrows stale; ...
In Animal House (by which title I callA dwelling whose true name is not that at all)There are dogs on ...
Superlatively sonorousLike a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails;Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberantLike the quobbing of a foetus five ...
CANARY-BIRDS feed on sugar and seed,Parrots have crackers to crunch:And, as for the poodles, they tell me the noodlesHave chickens ...
We're all buying SpitfiresAs fast as we can buySpitfires and HurricanesFor battles in the sky . . . The girls ...
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