Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: V. Nonsense | | Psycholophon | | Gelett Burgess (1866–1951) |
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TWINE then the rays | |
| Round her soft Theban tissues! | |
| All will be as She says, | |
| When that dead past reissues. | |
| Matters not what nor where, | 5 |
| Hark, to the moon’s dim cluster! | |
| How was her heavy hair | |
| Lithe as a feather duster! | |
| Matters not when nor whence; | |
| Flittertigibbet! | 10 |
| Sound makes the song, not sense, | |
| Thus I inhibit! | | | |
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