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Lullaby For The Cat

© Elizabeth Bishop

Minnow, go to sleep and dream,
Close your great big eyes;
Round your bed Events prepare
The pleasantest surprise.

Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The

© William Allingham

Little Cowboy, what have you heard,
Up on the lonely rath's green mound?
Only the plaintive yellow bird
Sighing in sultry fields around,

And night sends up her pale cold moon, and spills
White mist around the hollows of the hills,
Phantoms of firth or lake; the peasant sees
His cot and stockyard, with the homestead trees,
Islanded; but no foolish terror thrills
His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease.

Lines Written From Home

© Anne Brontë

And so, though still, where'er I go,
Cold stranger-glances meet my eye;
Though, when my spirit sinks in woe,
Unheeded swells the unbidden sigh;

Lines Written at Thorp Green

© Anne Brontë

And these bright flowers I love so well,
Verbena, rose and sweet bluebell,
Must droop and die away.
Those thick green leaves with all their shade
And rustling music, they must fade
And every one decay.

Lines Inscribed on The Wall of a Dungeon in The Southern P of I

© Anne Brontë

They knew, such tidings to impart
Would pierce my weary spirit through,
And could they better read my heart,
They'd tell me, she was smiling too.

Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

© Anne Brontë

I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing
The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray;
I wish I could see how its proud waves are dashing,
And hear the wild roar of their thunder today!

Last Lines

© Anne Brontë

A dreadful darkness closes in
On my bewildered mind;
O let me suffer and not sin,
Be tortured yet resigned.

Look What You Did, Christopher!

© Ogden Nash

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two,
Someone sailed the ocean blue.
Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain
For a business trip on the bounding main,

Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib

© Ogden Nash

OR
The Child Is Father Of The Man, But Not For Quite A WhileSo Thomas Edison
Never drank his medicine;
So Blackstone and Hoyle

Lines On Facing Forty

© Ogden Nash

I have a bone to pick with Fate.
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotted early?

Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty

© Ogden Nash

One way to be very happy is to be very rich
For then you can buy orchids by the quire and bacon by the flitch.
And yet at the same time People don't mind if you only tip them a dime,
Because it's very funny

Lather As You Go

© Ogden Nash

Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed.
He watched the ads
And not the road.

Lost and Found

© George MacDonald

I missed him when the sun began to bend;

I found him not when I had lost his rim;

Limerick:There was an Old Man of Whitehaven

© Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a raven;
But they said, 'It's absurd
To encourage this bird!'
So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven.

Lucy Gray [or Solitude]

Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray,
And when I cross'd the Wild,
I chanc'd to see at break of day
The solitary Child.

Little Fugue

© Sylvia Plath

The yew's black fingers wag:
Cold clouds go over.
So the deaf and dumb
Signal the blind, and are ignored.

Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony

There was a girl named Abigail

Who was taking a drive

Look Unto Me, And Be Ye Saved

© John Newton

As the serpent raised by Moses

Healed the burning serpent's bite;

Laughter And Tears IX

As the Sun withdrew his rays from the garden, and the moon threw cushioned beams upon the flowers, I sat under the trees pondering upon the phenomena of the atmosphere, looking through the branches at the strewn stars which glittered like chips of silver upon a blue carpet; and I could hear from a distance the agitated murmur of the rivulet singing its way briskly into the valley.

When the birds took shelter among the boughs, and the flowers folded their petals, and tremendous silence descended, I heard a rustle of feet though the grass. I took heed and saw a young couple approaching my arbor. The say under a tree where I could see them without being seen.