StoryTitle("caps", "Group of Christina G. Rossetti's Poems") ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage051", "
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", "center", "70", "5", "5", "[Illustration]") ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "The Caterpillar") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(51, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brown and furry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Caterpillar in a hurry;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take your walk", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the shady leaf, or stalk.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May no toad spy you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May the little birds pass by you;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spin and die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To live again a butterfly.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "Mix a Pancake") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(52, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mix a pancake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stir a pancake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pop it in the pan.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fry a pancake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toss a pancake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Catch it if you can.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "If a Pig Wore a Wig") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If a pig wore a wig", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What could we say?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Treat him as a gentleman", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And say, \"Good day.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If his tail chanced to fail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " What could we do?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Send for a tailoress", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To get one new.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage053", "
", "
", "center", "70", "5", "5", "[Illustration]") ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "A Frisky Lamb") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(53, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A frisky lamb ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a frisky child,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Playing their pranks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " In a cowslip meadow:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sky all blue", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the air all mild,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the fields all sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the lanes half shadow.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "What They Do") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(54, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What does the bee do? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bring home honey. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What does Father do? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bring home money. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what does Mother do? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lay out the money. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what does Baby do? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Eat up the honey. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "The Lambkins") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the grassy banks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lambkins at their pranks; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Woolly sisters, woolly brothers ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Jumping off their feet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While their woolly mothers ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Watch by them and bleat. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage055", "
", "
", "center", "70", "5", "5", "[Illustration]") ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "The Broken Doll") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(55, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the bells were ringing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the birds were singing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Molly sat down crying ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For her broken doll. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O you silly Moll! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sobbing and sighing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For a broken doll, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When all the bells are ringing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the birds are singing. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "The Stars") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(55, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What do the stars do ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Up in the sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Higher than the wind can blow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or the clouds can fly? ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "Wrens and Robins") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wrens and robins in the hedge, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wrens and robins here and there; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Building, perching, pecking, fluttering ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Everywhere! ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemTitle("mixed", "Sun-Loving Swallow") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fly away, fly away over the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come again, come again, come back to me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bringing the summer and bringing the sun. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Christina G. Rossetti") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>