Coffee Limericks
By the First Mate

O coffee's too good to waste,
So rich in its color and taste,
With aroma so mellow
It gives energy to bellow
I must have it at A.M. with haste! 


There once was a lady of Bonaffee
Who dearly loved her black morning coffee
She programmed the Bunn
To be sure it was done
This groggy young lady of Bonafee.


There Isn't Time
By Eleanor Farjeon

There isn't time, there isn't time
To do the things I want to do,
With all the mountain-tops to climb,
And all the woods to wander through,
And all the seas to sail upon,
And everywhere there is to go, 
And all the people, every one
Who lives upon the earth , to know.
To know a few, and do a few,
And then sit down and make a rhyme
About the rest I want to do.


PEOPLE POEMS

Felicia Ropps
By Gelett Burgess

Funny, how Felicia Ropps
Always handles things in shops!
Always pinching, always poking,
Always feeling, always stroking
Things she has no right to touch!
Goops like that annoy me much!

Some People
By Rachel Field

Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!

But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find,
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!


She Called Him Mr.

She frowned and called him Mr.
Because in sport he kr.
And so in spite
That very night
This Mr. kr. sr.


CRITTER POEMS

The Centipede
By Ogden Nash

I objurgate the centipede,
A bug we do not really need.
At sleepy-time he beats a path
Straight to the bedroom or the bath.
You always wallop where he's not, 
Or, if he is, he makes a spot.


Algy Met a Bear

Algy met a bear,
The bear was bulgy,
The bulge was Algy.


Eletelephony
By Laura E. Richards

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)

Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)