There once was a lady named Clair,
Who posessed a magnificent...There once was a lady named Clair,
Who posessed a magnificent pair.
Or that's what I thought,
Till I saw one get caught,
On a thorn and begin losing air.
They had come in the fugue to the stretto
When a dark, bearded...They had come in the fugue to the stretto
When a dark, bearded man from a ghetto
Slipped forward and grabbed
Her tresses and stabbed
Her to death with a rusty stiletto.
-- Edward Gorey
Chemistry is applied theology.
-- Augustus...Chemistry is applied theology.
-- Augustus Stanley Owsley III
Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps,
Cross-eyed mosquitos...Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps,
Cross-eyed mosquitos and bowlegged ants,
I come before you to stand behind you
To tell you of something I know nothing about.
Next Thursday (which is good Friday),
There will be a convention held in the
Women's...
Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are...Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one...
Lady, lady, better run!
-- Dorothy...
Ladybug, ladybug,
Look to your stern!
Your house is...Ladybug, ladybug,
Look to your stern!
Your house is on fire,
Your children will burn!
So jump ye and sing, for
The very first time
The four lines above
Have been put into rhyme.
-- Walt Kelly
Latin is a language,
As dead as can be.
First it killed...Latin is a language,
As dead as can be.
First it killed the Romans,
And now it's killing me.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments...Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every...
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering...Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to...