7. Doors

by Carl Sandburg

An open door says, "Come in."

A shut door says, "Who are you?"

Shadows and ghosts go through shut doors.

If a door is shut and you want it shut,

why open it?

If a door is open and you want it open,

why shut it?

Doors forget but only doors know what it is

doors forget.

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8. By Rudyard Kipling

The Camel's hump is an ugly lump

Which well you may see at the Zoo;

But uglier yet is the hump we get

From having too little to do.

Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,

If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,

We get the hump —

Cameelious hump —

The hump that is black and bluel

I get it as well as you-oo-oo-

If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!

We all get hump — Cameelious hump —

Kiddies and grown-ups tool.

9. Quibble

by Eve Merriam

U can be seen without a Q.

But Q must always go with U.

So here is a Q all on its own.

Come on, Q. Stand up alone.

U keep out.

Alas poor Q feels qivery, qavery

Qietly sick...

Hurry back, U,

To the rescue — quick!

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10. The Early Bird

The early bird, so I have heard,

Catches the worm, and 'pon my word,

I know two chaps and yet a third

Could learn a lesson from that bird.

11. Hurdy-Gurdy

by Ogden Nash

Hurdy-gurdy organ-grinder

Lost his wife and couldn't find her.

He sought her late, he sought her early

With hurdy-gurdy hurly-burly,

Found her in a gingerbread house,

Waltzing with a waltzing mouse.

He locked them in his hurdy-gurdy,

Which suggested the plot of Aide to Verdi.

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12. Queen Mab's Chariot by Michael Drayton

Fib, and Tib, and Pink, and Pin,

Pick, and Quick, and Jill, and Jin,

Tit, and Nit, and Wap, and Wim —

The train that wait upon her.

13. April

by Ted Robinson

So here we are in April, in snowy, blowy AprL,

In frowsy, blowsy April, the rowdy, dowdy time,

In soppy, sloppy April, in wheezy, breezy April,

In ringing, stinging April, with a singing swinging rhyme!

The smiling sun of April on the violets is focal,

The sudden showers of April seek the dandelions out,

The tender airs of April make the local yokel vocal,

And he raises rustic ditties with a most melodious shout.

So here we are in April, in tipsy gipsy April,

In showery, flowery April, the twinkly, sprinkly days,

In tingly, jingly April, in highly wily April,

In mightly flightly April with its highty-tighty waysl

The duck is fond of April, and the clucking chickabiddy.

And other barnyard creatures have a try at carolling.

There's something in the air to turn a stiddy kiddy giddy,

And even I am forced to raise my croaking voice and sing.

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14. Grizzly Bear

by Mary Austin

If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear,

You must never, never, never ask him where

He is going,

Or what he is doing,

For if you ever, ever dare

To stop a grizzly bear,

You will never meet another grizzly bear.

15. Golden Bells

by Edgar A. Poe

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden Bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

Oh, from out the sounding cells,

What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!

How it swells!

How it dwells

On the future! How it tells

Of the rapture that impels

To the swinging and the ringing

Of the bells, bells, bells,

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells —

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!