Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Pagett M.P, prelude
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
"Riders on the Storm" from the album L.A. Woman (1971).
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Pagett M.P, prelude
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
τίς ὸμφαλητόμος σε τὸν διοπλῆγα
ἔψησε κἀπέλουσεν ἀσκαρίζοντα
Attributed by Aelius Herodianus (fl. 2nd c. CE), 'On Inflections'; as cited by Douglas Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 367.
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 6, “Lost in the Mushroom Rain” (p. 92)
“The three-toed tree-toad
Sings his sweet ode
To the moon;
The funny bunny
And his honey
Trip in tune.”
Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) United States writer
Nocturne http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3078.html
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), pp. 91-92
“He was indeed an altered Toad!”
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 12