 | 1885 - 180 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered. You heard...tumbling. • Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny '.U Brown rats, black rats, gray rata, tawny 'at? Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers,... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the house the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 626 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave olu plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails ;md pricking whiskers,... | |
 | 1887 - 172 pages
...being accepted — "Into the street the Piper slept, * « * * And ere three shrill notes the piper uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawney rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, * * » * From street to street he piped... | |
 | Frank Stuart Parker - 1887 - 154 pages
...Alpine river, flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the wind. 24. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young f riskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Pointing tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1888 - 326 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
 | 1917 - 590 pages
...lesson to be •Aught by the story much more firmly fixed in the And at the scarf's end hung a pipeAnd ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard...tumbling Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, Followed the piper for their lives From street to street he piped... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...clatt'ring car Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war. GREAT rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rate, Grave old plodders, gay young f rlskcrs, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Pointing tails and... | |
 | 1889 - 236 pages
...fun for me. If I asked Aristarchus what he would like for dinner, he would most likely answer : " ' Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers.' " "0 Aristarchus!" I would say, "do be serious." And he would answer : " Certainly, my love ! " ' Give... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking... | |
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And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young... 
