by David McCord This is my rock And here I run To steal the secret of the sun; This is my rock And here come I Before the night has swept the sky; This is my rock, This is the place I meet the...
Haiku
Haiku is a Japanese verse form consisting of seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables each. However, this syllable scheme often varies in translation. ...
Fog
by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Elizabeth Coatsworth Swift things are beautiful: Swallows and...
Wild Geese
by Elinor Chipp I heard the wild geese flying In the dead of the night, With beat of wings and crying I heard the wild geese flying, And dreams in my heart sighing Followed their northward flight....
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that...
Do You Fear the Wind?
by Hamlin Garland Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of...
The Hummingbird
by Jack Prelutsky The ruby-throated hummingbird is hardly bigger than this WORD. author unknown What a wonderful bird the frog are--- When he stand he sit almost; When he hop, he fly almost. ...
The Codfish
author unknown > The codfish lays ten thousand eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize,...
What Is It?
author unknown The beginning of eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, The end of every place. author unknown The ptarmigan is strange, As strange as he can be; Never...
The New Kid
by Mike Makley A few of the kids and their parents say they don't believe that the new kid should play But she's good as me, Dutch, PeeWee, or Earl, so we don't care that the new kid's a girl. by...
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