Poems That Every Child Should Know
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217742344
Paperback|9780217742344
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven? All's right with the world Robert Browning. The Days of the Month. The Days of the Month is a useful bit of doggerel that we need all through life. It is anonymous. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February has twenty-eight alone. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting leap-year?that's the time When February's days are twenty-nine. Old Song. True Royalty. True Royalty and Playing Robinson Crusoe are pleasing stanzas from The Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1865-). There was never a Queen like Balkis, From here to the wide world's end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend. There was never a King like Solomon, Not since the world began; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man. She was Queen of Sabaea? And he was Asia's Lord? But they both of 'em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad. Rudyard Kipling. (In The Just So Stories.) Playing Robinson Crusoe. Pussy can sit by the fire and sing, Pussy can climb a tree, Or play with a silly old cork and string To 'muse herself, not me. But I like Binkie, my dog, because He knows how to behave; So, Binkie's the same as the First Friend was. And I am the Man in the Cave. Pussy will play Man-Friday till It's time to wet her paw And make her walk on the window-sill (For the footprint Crusoe saw); Then she fluffles her tail and mews, And scratches and won't attend. But Binkie will play whatever I choose, And he is my true First Friend. Pussy will rub my knees with her head, Pretending she loves me hard; But the very minute I go to my bed Pussy runs out in the yard, And there she...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217742344 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217742343 |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 340 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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