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 bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!’ He took his vorpal sword in hand: […]
Read Moreby Alfred Noyes [First published in the August 1906 issue[1] of Blackwood’s Magazine it was the first serious poem that spoke to me. The imagery in the first stanza just really moved me.] PART ONE The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. The road […]
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by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865] “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head – Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, “I feared […]
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by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872] The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright– And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily, Because […]
Read Moreby Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) [from Cautionary Tales for Children, 1907. This is my all time favorite poem. To be recited with abundant dramatic intonations and great furrowing of brows.] When George’s Grandmamma was told That George had been as good as gold, She promised in the afternoon To buy him an Immense BALLOON. And so […]
Read MoreI love nonsense poems and songs; an appreciation I no doubt acquired from my Dad who introduced me to them early on. He never specifically said he loved them but he sure knew a lot of them and his eyes would light up when he recited them. The first one I remember learning from him was Antagonist by […]
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