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LIGHT VERSE 1.WASTE Harry Graham I had written to Aunt Maud, Who was on a trip abroad, When I heard she’d died of cramp Just too late to save the stamp. 2.THE PERFECT RREACTIONARY Hughes Mearns As I was sitting in my chair I knew the bottom wasn’t there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that. 3.THE HAPPY BOUNDING FLEA Roland Young And here’s the happy bounding flea--- You cannot tell the he from she. The sexes look alike, you see, But she can tell, and so can he! 4.MY FACE Anthony Euwer As a beauty I’m a great star, There are others more handsome, by far, But my face---I don’t mind it For I am behind it, It’s the people in front get the jar! 5.ROOD Anonymous There was a young lady named Rood, Who was such an absolute prude That she pulled down the blind When changing her mind, Lest curious eyes should intrude. 6.POWER TO THE PEOPLE Howard Nemerov Why are the stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads. 7.FATIGUE Hilaire Belloc I’m tired of LOVE: I’m still more tired of RHYME. But MONEY gives me pleasure all the time. 8.LETTERS Anonymous Lives of great men all remind us As their pages o’er we turn, That we’re apt to leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn. 9.I SAW A MAN PURSING Stephen Crane I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, “You can never---“ “You lie,” he cried, And ran on. 10.IANTHE W. S. Lander From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass Like little ripples down a sunny river; Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass, Cut down, and up again as blithe as ever. 11.THE SPUR W. B. Yeats You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song? 12.OLD MAN FROM PERU Anonymous There was an old man from Peru Who dreamed he was eating his shoe. He woke in a fright In the middle of the night And found it was perfectly true. 13.THE OPTIMIST D. H. Lawrence The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell And paints the inside walls sky-blue And blocks up the door And says he’s in heaven. 14.A CHRISTIAN Thomas Russell Ybarra Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday. 15.AN EPICURE Anonymous An epicure, dining at Crewe, Found quite a large mouse in his stew. Said the waiter, “Don’t shout, And wave it about, Or the rest will be wanting one, too!” 16.THE SWAN-SONG S.T. Coleridge Swans sing before they die---‘twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. 17.PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST F. Langbridge Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. 18.CATCH Langston Hughes Big boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the merdaid Had her tail Curled Beneath his arm. Being a fisher boy, He’d found a fish To caryy--- Half fish, Half girl To marry. 19.WISHES Anonymous If wishes were horses, Beggars would ride; If turnips were watches, I would wear one by my side. 20.HAIR Samuel Hoffenstein Babies haven’t any hair; Old men’s heads are just as bare;--- Between the cradle and the grave Lies a haircut and a shave. 21.NEEDLES AND PINS Anonymous Needles and pins, needles and pins, When you get married your trouble begins. 22.I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST Marianne Moore If you will tell me why the fen Appears impassable, I then Will tell you why I think that I Can get across it if I try. 23.MY SOUL Anonymous Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. 24.MISCONCEPTIONS Robert Browning This is a spray the Bird clung to, Making it blossom with pleasure, Ere the high tree-top she sprung to, Fit for her nest and her treasure. Oh, what a hope beyond measure Was the poor spray’s, which the flying feet hung to, --- So to be singled out, built in, and sung to! 25.AGAIN! AGAIN! Stanley Kunitz Love knocked again at my door: I tossed her a bucket of bones. From each bone springs a soldier Who shoots me as stranger. 26.A FLASH Anonymous Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening, He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But a flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble. 27.TARTS D. H. Lawrence I suppose tarts are called tarts because they ‘re tart, Meaning sour, make you pull a long face after. And I suppose most girls are a bit tarty to-day, So that’s why so many young men have long faces. 28. A QUESTION MY ASKED ME Nancy Willard Who tied my navel? Did Goad tie it? God made the thread: O man, live forever! Man made the knot: enough is enough. 29.DEVOTION Robert Frost The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean--- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. 30.FAULTS Sara Teasdale They came to tell your faults to me, They named them one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before;--- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more. 31.AN EPITAPH Walter de la Mare Here lies a most beautiful lady; Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country. But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare---rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West country. 32.ON GUT Ben Jonson Gut eats all day and leaders all the night, So all his meat he tasteth over twice; And, striving so to double his delight, He makes himself a thoroughfare of vice. Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in. 33.NOT JUST FOR THE RIDE Anonymous Who smiled as she rode on a tiger: They came back from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger. 34.BE OFF Stevie Smith I’m sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. “Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I’ll stay with the girls who are happy and fat.” 35.THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF KENT Anonymous There was a young lady of Kent, Who said that she knew what it meant When men asked her to dine, And served cocktails and wine; She knew, oh she knew!---but she went! 36.ON AN INFANT EIGHT MONTHS OLD Anonymous Since I have been so quickly done for, I wonder what I was begun for. 37.THE FLY Ogden Nash The Lord in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. 38.A PROMISE MADE Anonymous A promise made Is a debt unpaid. 39.FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN Countee Cullen God and the devil still are wrangling Which should have her, which repel, God wants no discord in his heaven; Satan has enough in hell. 40.AN ANSWER TO THE PARSON William Blake “Why of the sheep do you not learn peace?” “Because I don’t want you to shear my fleece.” 41.A BEAUTY Anonymous There once was a maid with such graces, That her curves cried aloud for embraces. “You look,” said McGee, “Like a million to me--- Invested in all the right places!” 42.EPIGRAM Matthew Prior Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. 43.A TUTOR AND TWO TOOTERS Anonymous A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to tutor two tooter to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot or To tutor two tooters to toot?” 44.A MAN SAW A BALL OF GOLD Stephen Crane A man saw a ball of gold in the sky; He climbed for it, And eventually he achieved it--- It was clay. Now this is the strange part: When the man went to the earth And looked again, Lo, there was the ball of gold. 45.THE WISE OLD OWL Edward H. Richards A wise old owl sat on an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird? 46.THE OLD MAN WITH A BEARD Edward Lear There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, “It is just as I feared!--- Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!” 47.MOTHER, MAY I GO AND SWIM? Anonymous Mother, may I go and swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on yonder limb, But don’t go near the water. 48.MOTHER GOOSE’S GARLAND Archibald MacLeish Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes around the earth. We do not doe of death: We die of vertigo. 49.NEWS ITEM Dorothy Parker Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. 50.AN EPITAPH Benjamin Franklin Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. 51.HEAD AND HEART C.D. B. Ellis I put my hand upon my hear And swore that we should never part--- I wonder what I should have said If I had put it on my head. 52.THE DUCHESS Anonymous I sat next the Duchess at a tea, It was just as I feared it would be; Her rumblings abdominal Were simple abominable, And everyone thought it was me. 53.UNFORGIVABLE AND UNFORGIVEN C.D.B. Ellis With Peter I refuse to dine: His jokes are older than his wine. With Paul I have not lately dined: My jokes were broader than his mind. 54.THE WAYFARER Stephen Crane The wayfarer Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. “Ha, “ he said, “I see that none has passed here In a long time.” Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. “Well,” he mumbled at last, “Doubtless there are other roads.” 55.REAL ESTATE Anonymous There was a young lady of Wantage, Of whom the Town Clark took advantage. “said the Country Surveyor, Of course you must take her; You’ve altered the line of her frontage.” 56.JORDAN WYATT Anonymous Here lies poor stingy Jordan Wyatt Who died at noon and saved a dinner by it. 相关链接：教学论文
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