Lewis Carroll

""My First,    but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle, Is,    if your Victim be in bed, Don't touch the curtains at his head, But"

""Sister, sister, go to bed! Go and rest your weary head." Thus the prudent brother said. "Do you want a battered hide, Or scratches to your face"

""it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing     `Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!     How I wonder what you're at!'Yo"

"And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line"

"All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain"

"Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't seem to miss him if he stayed away. And cannot pleas"

"I painted her a gushing thing, With years about a score; I little thought to find they were A least a dozen more; My fancy gave her eyes of blue,"

"Inscribed to a Dear Child: In Memory of Golden Summer Hours And Whispers of a Summer Sea Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task, Eager she wield"

"With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such cheerful words to borrow. Dearest, a s"

"One winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, And supper, with cigars and wine, Was w"

"He thought he saw an Elephant, That practiced on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said,"

"THE FIRST VOICE He trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze from off the sea: It passed athwart the"

"There was a young lady of station I love man was her sole exclamation But when men cried, You flatter She replied, Oh! no matter Isle of Man"

"A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July, Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased"

"As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow every moment less sublime, And votes the thing"

"Beautiful soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of t"

"I have a fairy by my side Which says I must not sleep, When once in pain I loudly cried It said "You must not weep" If, full of mirth, I smile and"

"From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In its case it lay compactl"