The Golden Journey: Poems for Young PeopleLouise Bogan, William Jay Smith Reilly & Lee, 1965 - 275 pages "Fresh, delightful, and perennially new" poems written in English but in many distant lands and selected for the enjoyment of discriminating readers by two outstanding poets. Selections range from Rabindranath Tagore to Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins to Elinor Wylie. |
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... live again as butterfly . CHRISTINA ROSSETTI THE THRUSH'S NEST Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush , That overhung a molehill large and round , I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise , and I drank the ...
... live again as butterfly . CHRISTINA ROSSETTI THE THRUSH'S NEST Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush , That overhung a molehill large and round , I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise , and I drank the ...
Page 145
... In a Sieve we'll go to sea ! " Far and few , far and few , Are the lands where the Jumblies live ; Their heads are green , and their hands are blue , And they went to sea in a Sieve . II They sailed away in a Sieve , they did 145.
... In a Sieve we'll go to sea ! " Far and few , far and few , Are the lands where the Jumblies live ; Their heads are green , and their hands are blue , And they went to sea in a Sieve . II They sailed away in a Sieve , they did 145.
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... live ; Their heads are green , and their hands are blue , And they went to sea in a Sieve . III The water it soon came in , it did , The water it soon came in ; So to keep them dry , they wrapped their feet In a pinky paper all folded ...
... live ; Their heads are green , and their hands are blue , And they went to sea in a Sieve . III The water it soon came in , it did , The water it soon came in ; So to keep them dry , they wrapped their feet In a pinky paper all folded ...
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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