A Choice of Comic and Curious VerseJohn Michael Cohen |
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... head Like water through a sieve . He said ' I look for butterflies That sleep among the wheat : I make them into mutton - pies , And sell them in the street . I sell them unto men , ' he said , ' Who sail on stormy seas ; And that's the ...
... head Like water through a sieve . He said ' I look for butterflies That sleep among the wheat : I make them into mutton - pies , And sell them in the street . I sell them unto men , ' he said , ' Who sail on stormy seas ; And that's the ...
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... head , or even made a suggestion ; And the barber kept on shaving . ' Don't you see , Mr Brown , ' Cried the youth , with a frown , ' How wrong the whole thing is , How preposterous each wing is , How flattened the head is , how jammed ...
... head , or even made a suggestion ; And the barber kept on shaving . ' Don't you see , Mr Brown , ' Cried the youth , with a frown , ' How wrong the whole thing is , How preposterous each wing is , How flattened the head is , how jammed ...
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... head . But had it come up here upon its shoulders , There would have been a different tale to tell : The fellow - feeling in the saint's beholders Seems to have acted on them like a spell , And so this very foolish head heaven solders ...
... head . But had it come up here upon its shoulders , There would have been a different tale to tell : The fellow - feeling in the saint's beholders Seems to have acted on them like a spell , And so this very foolish head heaven solders ...
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A. G. PRYS-JONES ain't ANON beer bird bleed'n blow me eyes blue Cam-u-el CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN translated cold cried D. B. WYNDHAM LEWIS dead dear Doctor door drink father feet Finnigin Flannigan galoshes girl gone grave green hair HARRY GRAHAM head hear heard heart HILAIRE BELLOC Horny Hogan J. B. MORTON John Jones JUSTIN RICHARDSON keep King knew Lady laugh legs little vulgar Boy live look Lord Tomnoddy maid married morning MORRIS BISHOP mother never night nose o'er OGDEN NASH once Poems poor pray Punch magazine R. F. C. HULL reprinted by permission Reproduced from Punch rhyme round sing smiled song soul street sweet tell thee There's things THOMAS HOOD thou thought took Twas W. H. AUDEN wife wish Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò young