106 submissions in this volume.
1 - 106 of 106
The latest news
About the mews!
8 lines, 1 comment
His eyes are dim;
And so for him,
4 lines, 2 comments
If brevity be soul of wit,
The Boston wag discovered it
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If I were dead
And yet had read
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O why should Old Lang Sign
A compliment to me
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The \Critic\ did not like the food,
But found it stale and flabby;
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"Some folk," the Monkey says, "there be
That claim descent from mine and me;
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Of forthcoming weather no prophet have they,
For the ground hog is there to be seen every day.
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Says Bob to the Devil, "I do not believe
In the doctrine of hell--nor in you!"
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Or praise or obloquy is hers,
As history has viewed her
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Bull father frog
Was on the log,
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O briar-bush! how beautiful!
May I a little blossom pull
6 lines
To a Dimple said a Frown,
"I would give you half a crown,
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The knights of old,
As we are told,
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You look, like Grandpa, very old;
And that is why, no doubt,
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The laziest of all things strong,
The Yardstick seems to me,
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Along her slumber-shodden way
The Nightmare goes cavorting;
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A pious prelate used to ride
A donkey which, alas,--
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In a piece of woollen cloth,
Lived a maid and mother moth,
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O water, when I put you here,
You were as smooth as oil;
4 lines
When Time was young, he must have had
A lovely suit of hair,
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Sobbed the Blotter to the Ink,
"Though your every word I drink,
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In Egypt of old
You were sacred, I'm told;
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The apple-tree
Is not to me
11 lines, 1 comment
Said Tom to Pussie, "Out of nine,
Eight lives I'd give to make you mine."
6 lines
The Night is gloomy and forlorn
Until her baby Moon is born,
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To see, when he is dead,
The many books he read;
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The Turtle met the Terrapin,
And, as they were the closest kin,
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Why is the baby crying?
You must have scared or hit him.
4 lines, 1 comment
To his father said a bunny,
"Don't you find it rather funny
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To jewels her taste did incline;
But she had not a trinket to wear
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Your father's deafness--was it cured
When he Saint Anthony implored?
4 lines
How have you the heart, O Bumble Bee,
To sting a little boy like me?
4 lines
Among your many playmates here,
Why is it that you all prefer
6 lines
The Wax waxed hotter and hotter
Till the Seal took his seat on her back,
4 lines
He sat beside the well,
And leaning o'er the brink,
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The Mocking-bird gulps down the worm
And straight begins to sing.
6 lines
How far the lip below the nose,
'Tis very hard to say;
4 lines
Biped, or Quadruped,
Two feet or four:
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He used to sit beneath this tree,
And sometimes on the limb,
4 lines
He wrote that through Finland,
While journeying inland,
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At twilight from his dark abode
Leaps forth the wart-besprinkled Toad:
6 lines
"How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour?" Alas!
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"Come," throbbed the Thumb
To the other four Fingers,
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Can you, sweet roses, ever take
A breath of other roses?
4 lines
All down into their mother's throat
The little sharks from danger float;
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The flea a dog may bite
And not again be bitten:
6 lines
From Bunyan \Pilgrim's Progress\ came
As essence from an onion;
4 lines
Hissed the father, "Let him go!
Though I very well do know
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"Pray tell me how you estimate
The wolf," I asked a lamb.
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You skulked behind me like a hound,
And now you run before.
4 lines, 5 comments
They brought him up before the Judge.
"What is the fellow's crime?"
4 lines
"What are you doing, Butterfly?"
Inquired the Honey Bee.
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When Barrel-organs with us stayed,
The Monkey danced, the Master played;
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Of birds he is the most polite;
For, be it foe or friend,
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Said the Goat to the Ram,
"Ring-leader I am
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"I tell you, if you don't obey,
I'll run right up your snout."
4 lines
So far her head above her feet
That when the lady takes a seat
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"Spare, O spare me!" cried the Snail,
As the Sparrow pounced upon it.
4 lines
"You give me no rest," growled the Patient.
"I cannot," retorted the Pill.
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A squirrel, while he sprang from tree to tree,
Cried to a skunk below, "Pray, look at me:
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Leap across me, little lamb;
But I can't invite your dam,
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"You go to bed at twelve or one,
And thus destroy your health, my son."
4 lines
Said a corpulent Bubble,
"It is my great trouble,
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To throats so long in misery
Of thirst and parching pain,
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Unc' si, de Holy Bible say
In speakin' of de jus',
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"Men speak," said the Wasp, "of the provident Ant,
Because of her miserly taste;
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At night, I'd like to be a bird,
In every sort of weather
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Upon the nest she was a hen,
But higher aims induced her
4 lines, 2 comments
"It is one of Nature's wrongs,"
Sneered the Shovel to the Tongs,
8 lines
Sneezed the Pepper, "Sister Salt
Bids me say 'tis not her fault
9 lines, 1 comment
O share with us, bird in the tree,
The fruit you are taking alone!
5 lines
I am so sick I'd like to be
A clock, to have them open me
6 lines
Sighed Dumpling, "Do not put me, please,
With Cabbage in the pot.
6 lines
"What ails you?" tenderly I spoke
To a dejected calf.
6 lines
"Why is it, little chick," I said
"That you so ragged go?"
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Do little he did, and so true to the call
Was his life, that at last he did nothing at all.
2 lines
"Turn round," puffed the Wind to the Mill.
"I won't!" she replied; and stood still.
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"Where are you going, Sleep?" I said.
"To put a little boy to bed.
4 lines, 1 comment
"I can't, for my life,"
Quacked the Drake to his wife,
6 lines, 1 comment
The Limbs beneath a cruel strain
Were sobbing, "Heaven defend us!"
4 lines, 1 comment
His eyes were dim; so here he lies,
Whose death came after his dim-ise.
2 lines, 2 comments
With all the battles that he won
That brought him world-renown,
4 lines, 1 comment
An interview would be to me
A sort of an emetic,
8 lines, 1 comment
Of reprobates the beaver seems
The saddest in creation,
4 lines, 1 comment
"I cannot kiss you, Ike," she said.
"Why not?" he asked. Then hesitating,
4 lines, 1 comment
Each day at a dinner of State,
His neighbors observed what he ate
5 lines, 1 comment
Toothpicks!--were ever sticks
Less "stuck up" in their way!
4 lines, 1 comment
The dog that caught the mink
Was strolling down the street,
10 lines, 1 comment
Why are you weeping, little lad?
"Because (Boo-hoo!), it makes me sad
5 lines, 1 comment
He floundered from the breakers cool
Into a boiling pot,
6 lines, 1 comment
Of great-great-grandpapa, I know,
My parents speak with pride;
6 lines, 1 comment
The Keyhole quarrelled with the Key
Because he said agape was she
6 lines, 1 comment
Where are you going, little Rill?
"Alas, I cannot say!
6 lines, 1 comment
The giant and the baby
Present a striking pair;
6 lines, 1 comment
The miser met the Bumble Bee
And asked a drop of honey.
4 lines, 1 comment
I wish the weather-cock would crow
To let his fellow chickens know
4 lines, 2 comments
'Tis hard for some skaters to stand; but for all,
Though it's easy to slip, it is harder to fall.
2 lines, 1 comment
As you're a yellow little fellow,
I hope you do not mean
4 lines, 1 comment
She says of life's remaining joy,
To her I am the anchor:
4 lines, 2 comments
"No; Wide-a-Wake," persisted Sleep,
"I'll not come near you till you keep
6 lines, 1 comment
His padding was of sawdust,
The little Soldier-man
12 lines, 1 comment
The Finger complained of the Toe,
And said it was idle and slow;
5 lines, 2 comments
Upon my soul,
O wicked mole,
6 lines, 2 comments
We are ground, but no more grounded
In our family affairs:
8 lines, 1 comment
"'Tis well," the Goat, flea-bitten said,
"You hide where Nature put you:
4 lines, 1 comment
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