#AmericanWriters
Toward a better world I contribut… I eat the squab, lest it become a…
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead… So many I love were not yet born.
So Thomas Edison Never drank his medicine; So Blackstone and Hoyle Refused cod-liver oil; So Sir Thomas Malory
I would live all my life in noncha… Were it not for making a living, w…
I sit in the dusk. I am all alone… Enter a child and an ice-cream con… A parent is easily beguiled By sight of this coniferous child. The friendly embers warmer gleam,
In January everything freezes. We have two children. Both are sh… This is our January rule: One girl in bed, and one in school… In February the blizzard whirls.
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond
Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my black hen doth la… If perchance she lays too many,
The people upstairs all practise b… Their living room is a bowling all… Their bedroom is full of conducted… Their radio is louder than yours, They celebrate week-ends all the w…
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
A bit of talcum Is always walcum.
The wasp and all his numerous fami… I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodi… But I distrust his waspitality.
Bound to your bookseller, leap to… Deluge your dealer with bakshish a… Lean on the counter and never say… Wodehouse and Wooster are with us… Flourish the fish-slice, your butt…
Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives… Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else’s marriage.
Whales have calves, Cats have kittens, Bears have cubs, Bats have bittens, Swans have cygnets,