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Hilaire Belloc
(1870 - 1953 / La Celle-Saint-Cloud / France)
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81 poems of Hilaire Belloc
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''Do you remember an Inn, Miranda,
Do you remember an Inn?
And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers
Who hadn't got a penny,''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Tarantella (l. 10-13). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats...
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''"How goes it?" Heart replied,
"Right as a Ribstone Pippin!"''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. The False Heart (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Mich...
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''I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "The False Heart," Verses (1910).
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''No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. The Frog (l. 9-13). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds....
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''Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As 'Slimy skin', or 'Polly-wog',''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. The Frog (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. ...
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''I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. The Hippopotamus (l. 1-2). . .
Faber Book of Nonsense Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, ed. (197...
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''I am living in the Midlands
That are sodden and unkind.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "The South Country," Verses (1910).
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''As a friend to the children commend me the Yak.
You will find it exactly the thing:
It will carry and fetch, you can ride on its back,
Or lead it about with a string.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. The Yak (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (...
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