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Walter Crane: Porcupine, Snake, & Company Going shares with the Snakes, Porcupine Said--"the best of the bargain is mine:" Nor would he back down, When the snake would disown The agreement his quills made them sign. Hasty Partnerships May Be Repented Of Dec. 19, 2023, Striking

Walter Crane: Neither Beast Nor Bird A Beast he would be, or a bird, As might suit, thought the Bat: but he erred. When the battle was done, He found that no one Would take him for friend at his word. Between Two Stools You May Come To The Ground Dec. 19, 2023, Photo

Walter Crane: My Lady's Garden How does my lady's garden grow? How does my lady's garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row! Dec. 19, 2023, Artistic Portrait

Walter Crane: Mice in Council Against Cat sat a Council of Mice. Every Mouse came out prompt with advice; And a bell on Cat's throat Would have met a round vote, Had the bell-hanger not been so nice. The Best Policy Often Turns On An If Dec. 19, 2023, Detailed Gouache

Walter Crane: Lucy Locket Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; But ne'er a penny was there in't, Except the binding round it. Dec. 19, 2023, Modern Comic

Walter Crane: King Log and King Stork The Frogs prayed to Jove for a king: "Not a log, but a livelier thing." Jove sent them a Stork, Who did royal work, For he gobbled them up, did their king. Don't Have Kings Dec. 19, 2023, Sinister

Walter Crane: Jack and Jill Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Dec. 19, 2023, Synthwave

Walter Crane: I Had a Little Nut-Tree I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear; The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me, And all for the sake of my little nut-tree. Dec. 19, 2023, Anime

Walter Crane: Hush-a-By Baby Hush-a-by baby on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall-- Down comes baby, cradle and all! Dec. 19, 2023, Steampunk

Walter Crane: Hot and Cold When to warm his cold fingers man blew, And again, but to cool the hot stew; Simple Satyr, unused To man's ways, felt confused, When the same mouth blew hot & cold too! Aesop Aimed At Double Dealing Dec. 19, 2023, Charcoal

Walter Crane: Hey Diddle Diddle Hey diddle diddle! the cat and the fiddle, The cow skipt over the moon; The little dog laughed to see the fine sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. Dec. 19, 2023, Pop Art

Walter Crane: Hercules and the Waggoner When the God saw the Waggoner kneel, Crying, "Hercules! Lift me my wheel From the mud, where 'tis stuck!" He laughed--"No such luck; Set your shoulder yourself to the wheel." The Gods Help Those Who Help Themselves Dec. 19, 2023, Horror

Walter Crane: Dr. Faustus Doctor Faustus was a good man, He whipt his scholars now and then; When he whipt he made them dance Out of England into France; Out of France into Spain, And then he whipt them back again. Dec. 19, 2023, Sinister

Walter Crane: Dickory Dock Hickory, dickory dock! The mouse ran up the clock; The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory dock! Dec. 19, 2023, Mecha

Walter Crane: Dance a Baby Dance a baby diddy! What can mammy do wid'e? Sit in her lap, Give it some pap, And dance a baby diddy! Dec. 19, 2023, Anime V2

Nizar Qabbani: Oh, My Love Oh, my love If you were at the level of my madness, You would cast away your jewelry, Sell all your bracelets, And sleep in my eyes.   Dec. 19, 2023, Color Portrait

Nizar Qabbani: My Lover Asks Me My lover asks me: "What is the difference between me and the sky?" The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky.    Dec. 19, 2023, NightCafe

Nizar Qabbani: Love Compared I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady should another give you a cloud I give you rain Should he give you a lantern, I will give you the moon Should he give you a branch I will give you the trees And if another gives you a ship I shall give you the journey.   Dec. 19, 2023, Matte

Nizar Qabbani: Light Is More Important than the Lantern Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook, And the kiss more important than the lips. My letters to you Are greater and more important than both of us. They are the only documents Where people will discover Your beauty And my madness.   Dec. 19, 2023, 3D Game V2

Nizar Qabbani: Language When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.    Dec. 19, 2023, Hyperreal

Nizar Qabbani: In the Summer In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.    Dec. 19, 2023, Dark Fantasy

Nizar Qabbani: Every Time I Kiss You Every time I kiss you After a long separation I feel I am putting a hurried love letter In a red mailbox.    Dec. 19, 2023, Epic Origami

Nizar Qabbani: Dialogue Do not say my love was A ring or a bracelet. My love is a siege, Is the daring and headstrong. Who, searching sail out to their death. Do not say my love was A moon. My love is a burst of sparks.   Dec. 19, 2023, Epic

Yehuda Amichai: My Father The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body, and the rivers of his hands overflowed with good deeds.   Dec. 19, 2023, Oil Painting

Yehuda Amichai: Great Serenity: Questions and Answers People in a hall that's lit so brightly It hurts Spoke of religion In the lives of contemporary people And on the place of God People spoke in excited voices Like in an airport I left them I opened an iron door that had written on it Emergency and I entered within. Great serenity: Questions and answers Dec. 19, 2023, Heavenly

Yehuda Amichai: Forgetting Someone Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light in the backyard so it stays lit all the next day But then it is the light that makes you remember.   Dec. 19, 2023, Striking

Yehuda Amichai: I Know a Man I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there.   Dec. 19, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Auckland (The Song of the Cities) Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart, On us, on us the unswerving season smiles, Who wonder 'mid our fern why men depart To seek the Happy Isles!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Hobart (The Song of the Cities) Man's love first found me; man's hate made me Hell; For my babes' sake I cleansed those infamies. Earnest for leave to live and labour well, God flung me peace and ease.   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Brisbane (The Song of the Cities) The northern stirp beneath the southern skies, I build a Nation for an Empire's need, Suffer a little, and my land shall rise, Queen over lands indeed!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Sydney (The Song of the Cities) Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good; Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness: The first flush of the tropics in my blood, And at my feet Success!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Melbourne (The Song of the Cities) Greeting! Nor fear nor favour won us place, Got between greed of gold and dread of drouth, Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race That whips our harbour-mouth!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Cape Town (The Song of the Cities) Hail! Snatched and bartered oft from hand to hand, I dream my dream, by rock and heath and pine, Of Empire to the northward. Ay, one land From Lion's Head to Line!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Victoria (The Song of the Cities) From East to West the circling word has passed, Till West is East beside our land-locked blue; From East to West the tested chain holds fast, The well-forged link rings true!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Quebec and Montreal (The Song of the Cities) Peace is our portion. Yet a whisper rose, Foolish and causeless, half in jest, half hate. Now wake we and remember mighty blows, And, fearing no man, wait!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Halifax (The Song of the Cities) Into the mist my guardian prows put forth, Behind the mist my virgin ramparts lie, The Warden of the Honour of the North, Sleepless and veiled am I!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Hong-Kong (The Song of the Cities) Hail, Mother! Hold me fast; my Praya sleeps Under innumerable keels to-day. Yet guard (and landward), or to-morrow sweeps Thy war-ships down the bay!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Singapore (The Song of the Cities) Hail, Mother! East and West must seek my aid Ere the spent gear may dare the ports afar. The second doorway of the wide world's trade Is mine to loose or bar.   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Rangoon (The Song of the Cities) Hail, Mother! Do they call me rich in trade? Little care I, but hear the shorn priest drone, And watch my silk-clad lovers, man by maid, Laugh 'neath my Shwe Dagon.   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Madras (The Song of the Cities) Clive kissed me on the mouth and eyes and brow, Wonderful kisses, so that I became Crowned above Queens, a withered beldame now, Brooding on ancient fame.   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Calcutta (The Song of the Cities) Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built, Wealth sought and Kings adventured life to hold. Hail, England! I am Asia, Power on silt, Death in my hands, but Gold!   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Rudyard Kipling: Bombay (The Song of the Cities) Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands, A thousand mills roar through me where I glean All races from all lands.   Dec. 13, 2023, Photo

Mother Goose: Christmas Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer. Aug. 21, 2023, Fantasy

Rudyard Kipling: Tod's Amendment The World hath set its heavy yoke Upon the old white-bearded folk Who strive to please the King. God's mercy is upon the young, God's wisdom in the baby tongue That fears not anything.   Dec. 13, 2023, NightCafe

Rudyard Kipling: Tin Fish The ships destroy us above And ensnare us beneath. We arise, we lie down, and we In the belly of Death. The ships have a thousand eyes To mark where we come... But the mirth of a seaport dies When our blow gets home.   Dec. 13, 2023, Synthwave

Rudyard Kipling: The Watcher Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone, 'Twixt hostile earth and sky; The mottled lizard 'neath the stone Is wiser here than I. What stir across the haze of heat? What omen down the wind? The buck that break before my feet, They know, but I am blind!   Dec. 13, 2023, Matte

Rudyard Kipling: The Rout of the White Hussars It was not in the open fight We threw away the sword, But in the lonely watching In the darkness by the ford. The waters lapped, the night-wind blew, Full-armed the Fear was born and grew, And we were flying ere we knew From panic in the night.   Dec. 13, 2023, 3D Game

Rudyard Kipling: The Prayer My brother kneels, so saith Kabir, To stone and brass in heathen wise, But in my brother's voice I hear My own unanswered agonies. His God is as his fates assign, His prayer is all the world's, and mine.   Dec. 13, 2023, Epic

Rudyard Kipling: The Other Man When the earth was sick and the skies were grey, And the woods were rotted with rain, The Dead Man rode through the autumn day To visit his love again. His love she neither saw nor heard, So heavy was her shame; And tho' the babe within her stirred She knew not that he came.   Dec. 13, 2023, Sinister

Rudyard Kipling: The Undertakers When ye say to Tabaqui, "My Brother!" when ye call the Hyena to meat, Ye may cry the Full Truce with Jacala-the Belly that runs on four feet.   Dec. 13, 2023, Horror