I HAVE jest about decided It'd keep a @3town-boy@1 hoppin' Fer to work all winter, choppin' Fer a' old fireplace, like @3I@1 did! Lawz! them old times wuz contrairy! -- Blame' backbone o' winter, 'peared-like, @3Wouldn't@1 break! -- and I wuz skeerd-like Clean on into @3Feb'uary!@1 Nothin' ever made me madder Than fer Pap to stomp in, layin' On a' extry forestick, sayin', "Groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 4 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI MNEMOSYNE by TRUMBULL STICKNEY THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD by FRANCOIS VILLON LOFT AT NIGHT by VIRGINIA ABEL LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS |