Poems, Puzzles, and Stories of Lewis Carroll
“The Walrus and the Carpenter”
by Lewis Carroll
A folk tale poem about the trickery of the Walrus and the Carpenter in their hunt of oysters.
A folk tale poem about the trickery of the Walrus and the Carpenter in their hunt of oysters.
The poet muses upon different sounds and people singing.
She sang, and I listened the whole song thro’.
A child’s poem about subtraction.
A rhyme that serves to tell children to behave through the song of a bird.
"The moon has left the sky, love,"
The author describes coming upon a slave singing in a prison cell, when a tragedy occurred
Come, essay a sprightly measure,
"Ring out, ye bells!, All Nature swells"
A short story about the growth of a tree and its blooms of spring.
This is a poem about life from the focus of a widowed father and a wage earner (smithy) who works hard and steadily, earning from his effort.
They please me not—these solemn songs
A humorous poem about the daily routine of a farmer and his maid.
"I found you and I lost you,"
Over the hills and the valleys of dreaming
The ants have plenty. The grasshopper is starving. He begs for food. The ants point out that he could have stored up food for winter.
The Pequod encounters another whaling ship.
A child behaves all day and has good dreams.
An altered look about the hills;
Nearing the treasure, the pirates hear a high voice singing the Flint’s last words. They believe it’s his ghost but continue forward. They discover the treasure missing.
"Gaily bedight,"
"The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see"
"A blue–bell springs upon the ledge,"