WE' got a' Uncle writes poetryrhymes Fer me an' Eddie to @3speak,@1 sometimes, -- 'Cause @3he's@1 a @3poet@1 -- an' he gits @3paid@1 Fer poetry-writin', -- 'cause that's his @3trade.@1 An' Eddie says he's goin' to try To be a poet, too, by an' by When he's a man! -- an' I 'spect he is, 'Cause on his slate wunst he print' this An' call it "THE SQUIRL AND THE FUNY LITEL GIRL" @3"A litel girl Whose name wuz Perl Went to the woods to play. The day wuz brite, An' her hart wuz lite As she galy skiped a way.@1 @3"A queer litel chatter, A soft litel patter, She herd in the top of a tree: The surprized litel Perl Saw a qute litel squirl, As cuning as cuning cud be.@1 @3"She twisted her curl, As she looked at the squirl, An' playfully told it 'good day!' She calld it 'Bunny' -- Wuzent that funy? An' it noded an' bounded a way."@1 Ma read it, an' says "she's @3awful proud,"@1 -- An' Pa says "Splen'id!" an' laugh' out loud; But Uncle says, "You can talk as you please, It's a purty good little poetry-piece!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF THE PILGRIMS by RUPERT BROOKE A NEGRO LOVE SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE LATTER DAY by THOMAS HASTINGS THE TAY BRIDGE DISEASTER by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI WITH A NANTUCKET SHELL by CHARLES HENRY WEBB UPON HIS LEAVING HIS MISTRESS by JOHN WILMOT EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 32. THERE'S NO DEFENCE AGAINST LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |