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St Ives by Roald Dahl
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Said he, ’I think it’s much more fun
Than..
Spring Comes To Murray Hill by Ogden Nash
I sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue
And say to myself You have a responsible job havenue?
Why..
Song To Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children by Ogden Nash
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
Contrariwise, my blood runs cold
When littl..
Song of the Open Road by Ogden Nash
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I’..
Soliloquy in Circles by Ogden Nash
Being a father
Is quite a bother.
You are as free as air
With time to spare,
You’re a fiscal..
So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much by Ogden Nash
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be p..
Samson Agonistes by Ogden Nash
I test my bath before I sit,
And I’m always moved to wonderment
That what chills the finger not..
sten... by Ogden Nash
There is a knocking in the skull,
An endless silent shout
Of something beating on a wall,
And cry..
Stanley Kunitz by Mary Oliver
I used to imagine him
coming from his house, like Merlin
strolling with important gestures
throug..
Skunk Cabbage by Mary Oliver
And now as the iron rinds over
the ponds start dissolving,
you come, dreaming of ferns and flower..
Song of the Builders by Mary Oliver
On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God -
a worthy pastime.
Near me, I..
Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver
Chunky and noisy,
but with stars in their black feathers,
they spring from the telephone wire
a..
Such Singing in the Wild Branches by Mary Oliver
It was spring
and finally I heard him
among the first leaves -
then I saw him clutching the limb..
Snowy Night by Mary Oliver
Last night, an owl
in the blue dark
tossed
an indeterminate number
of carefully shaped sounds in..
Snow Geese by Mary Oliver
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
What a task
to ask
of anything, or anyone,
yet..
Sunrise by Mary Oliver
You can
die for it-
an idea,
or the world. People
have done so,
brilliantly,
letting
thei..
Sand Dabs, Five by Mary Oliver
What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.
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Does the grain of sand know it..
Some Things The World Gave by Mary Oliver
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Times in the morning early
when it rained and the long gray
buildings came forward from darknes..
Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her po..
Super Samson Simpson by Jack Prelutsky
I am Super Samson Simpson,
I’m superlatively strong,
I like to carry elephants,
I do it all day l..
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