: (Charles Causley (1917 - 2003)) I had a silver penny And an apricot tree And I said to the sailor On the white quay 'Sailor O sailor Will you bring
: (Jack Prelutsky (1940 - )) I am Ebenezer Bleezer, I run BLEEZER'S ICE-CREAM STORE, There are flavors in my freezer You have never seen before, Twenty
: (Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)) There's nothing makes a Greenland whale Feel half so high and mighty As sitting on a mantelpiece In Aunty Mabel's nighty
: See, they are clearing the sawdust course For the girl in pink on the milk-white horse. Her spangles twinkle; his pale flanks shine, Every hair of
: The Man in the wilderness He asked of me How many strawberries grow in the salt sea? And I answered him, as I thought good As many a ship sails in
: (Laurence Alma-Tadema (1865 - 1940)) If no one ever marries me,- And I don't see why they should, For nurse says I'm not pretty, And I'm seldom very
: Maggie and Milly and Molly and May Went down to the beach (to play one day) And Maggie discovered a shell that sang So sweetly she couldn't remember
: My age is three hundred and seventy-two, And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom
: The Peppery Man was cross and thin; He scolded out and scolded in; He shook his fist, his hair he tore; He stamped his feet and slammed the door.
: (Charles E. Carryl) A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Window Blind. No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's
: (Albert Bigelow Paine (1861 - 1937)) Oh, it's fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee, The dancing bear ran away with me; For the organ-grinder he came to
: (Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)) Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear's big mouth
: Griselda is greedy, I'm sorry to say. She isn't contented with four meals a day, Like breakfast and dinner and supper and tea (I've had to put tea
: (Nathalia Crane (1913 - 1998)) Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our
: (Christina Georgina Rossetti) Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder.. I must tramp on through the
: The king of China's daughter So beautiful to see With her face like yellow water, Left her nutmeg tree. Her little rope for skipping She kissed and
: (Robert Graves) Lady, lovely lady, Careless and gay! Once when a beggar called She gave her child away. The beggar took the baby, Wrapped it in a
: [Mother's Song (My Heart)] My heart is like a fountain true That flows and flows with love to you. As chirps the lark unto the tree So chirps my pretty
