Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop
'Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!The great big greedy nincompoop!How long could we allow this beastTo gorge and guzzle, feed and feastOn everything he..
© Roald Dahl
I'Ve Got A Golden Ticket
I never thought my life could beAnything but catastropheBut suddenly I begin to seeA bit of good luck for me'Cause I've got a golden ticketI've got a..
© Roald Dahl
My Teacher Wasn'T Half As Nice As Yours Seems To Be
'My teacher wasn't half as nice as yours seems to be.His name was Mister Unsworth and he taught us history.And when you didn't know a date he'd get..
© Roald Dahl
The Three Little Pigs
The animal I really dig,Above all others is the pig.Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,Pigs are courteous. However,Now and then, to break this rule,One..
© Roald Dahl
Pure Imagination
Come with me and you'll beIn a world of pure imaginationTake a look and you'll seeInto your imaginationWe'll begin with a spinTrav'ling in the world..
© Roald Dahl
Attention Please! Attention Please!
'Attention please! Attention please!Don't dare to talk! Don't dare to sneeze!Don't doze or daydream! Stay awake!Your health, your very life's at..
© Roald Dahl
Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf
As soon as Wolf began to feelThat he would like a decent meal,He went and knocked on Grandma's door.When Grandma opened it, she sawThe sharp white..
© Roald Dahl
St Ives
As I was going to St IvesI met a man with seven wivesSaid he, 'I think it's much more funThan getting stuck with only one.'
© Roald Dahl
Cinderella
I guess you think you know this story.You don't. The real one's much more gory.The phoney one, the one you know,Was cooked up years and years ago,And..
© Roald Dahl
"Mike Teavee..."
The most important thing we've learned,So far as children are concerned,Is never, NEVER, NEVER letThem near your television set --Or better still..
© Roald Dahl
Hot And Cold
A woman who my mother knowsCame in and took off all her clothes.Said I, not being very old,'By golly gosh, you must be cold! ''No, no! ' she cried...
© Roald Dahl
The Pig
In England once there lived a bigAnd wonderfully clever pig.To everybody it was plainThat Piggy had a massive brain.He worked out sums inside his..
© Roald Dahl
Television
The most important thing we've learned,So far as children are concerned,Is never, NEVER, NEVER letThem near your television set -Or better still..
© Roald Dahl
Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer
THIS 1 wot ye all whom it concerns,I, Rhymer Robin, alias Burns,October twenty-third,A ne'er-to-be-forgotten day,Sae far I sprackl'd up the brae,I..
© Robert Burns
Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody!The meikle devil wi' a woodieHaurl thee hame to his black smiddie,O'er hurcheon hides,And like stock-fish come..
© Robert Burns
Verses On Castle Gordon
STREAMS that glide in orient plains,Never bound by Winter's chains;Glowing here on golden sands,There immix'd with foulest stainsFrom Tyranny's..
© Robert Burns
Song—fragment—damon And Sylvia
YON wandering rill that marks the hill,And glances o'er the brae, Sir,Slides by a bower, where mony a flowerSheds fragrance on the day, Sir;There..
© Robert Burns
Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
O GOWDIE, terror o' the whigs,Dread o' blackcoats and rev'rend wigs!Sour Bigotry, on her last legs,Girns an' looks back,Wishing the ten Egyptian..
© Robert Burns
Song—a Health To Ane I Loe Dear
Chorus—Here's a health to ane I loe dear,Here's a health to ane I loe dear;Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet,And soft as their..
© Robert Burns
Epigram On A Swearing Coxcomb
HERE cursing, swearing Burton lies,A buck, a beau, or "Dem my eyes!"Who in his life did little good,And his last words were "Dem my blood!"
© Robert Burns
Song—montgomerie's Peggy
ALTHO' my bed were in yon muir,Amang the heather, in my plaidie;Yet happy, happy would I be,Had I my dear Montgomerie's Peggy.When o'er the hill beat..
© Robert Burns
Song—clarina, Mistress Of My Soul
CLARINDA, mistres of my soul,The measur'd time is run!The wretch beneath the dreary poleSo marks his latest sun.To what dark cave of frozen..
© Robert Burns
Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment
BY all I lov'd, neglected and forgot,No friendly face e'er lights my squalid cot;Shunn'd, hated, wrong'd, unpitied, unredrest,The mock'd quotation of..
© Robert Burns
Scots Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on,How this new play an' that new sang is comin?Why is outlandish stuff sae meikle courted?Does nonsense..
© Robert Burns
The First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified
O THOU, the first, the greatest friendOf all the human race!Whose strong right hand has ever beenTheir stay and dwelling place!Before the mountains..
© Robert Burns