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Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing, Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea. Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring, And waves are on the meadow like the waves there … [Read more...] about “Pirate Story” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly, "'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I've a many curious things … [Read more...] about “The Spider and the Fly” by Mary Howitt

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in … [Read more...] about “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth

The day was hot and the day was dumb, Save for cricket's chirr or the bee's low hum, Not a bird was seen or a butterfly, And ever till noon was over, the sun Glared down with a yellow and terrible … [Read more...] about “A Thunder Storm” by Susan Coolidge

THE Sky-lark, when the dews of morn Hang tremulous on flower and thorn, And violets round his nest exhale Their fragrance on the early gale, To the first sunbeam spreads his wings, Buoyant with … [Read more...] about “The Sky-lark” by Felicia Hemans

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard." A Book of Nonsense (1846) | Edward … [Read more...] about A Limerick by Edward Lear

I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the … [Read more...] about “The Railway Train” by Emily Dickinson