«From my bed / The blanket fled. / And the sheet refused to stay, And the pillow, / Like a billow, / Gathered up and flew away. I got up to reach the light, / But it also took to flight. / I decided I would look / At my coloured picture-book — / In a twinkling it had fled, / Hid...»
«The quilt / Ran away! / Away flew the sheet! And the pillow, / Like a frog, / Leaped down the street! I reached for the light – / The light, too, / Took flight! And my book / ‘Bout Dick Ned / Shuddered, / And sped / Way under my bed! I went to pour some tea – / But th...»
«Part One Bears went to the hike / A-riding on a bike. Then came Tom-the-Cat, / Back-to-front he sat. Spry mosquitoes drifted by / In a big balloon on high. Lobsters looked like shrimps / On a dog that limps. Wolves were mounted on a horse. / Lions drove in cars, of course. Hares in p...»
«You are but millions. Our unnumbered nations / Are as the sands upon the sounding shore. / We are the Scythians! We are the slit-eyed Asians! / Try to wage war with us — you'll try no more! You've had whole centuries. We — a single hour. / Like serfs obedient to their feudal lord, / W...»