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The Great Water Giant
The Great Water Giant
Has finished his bath.
He pulls the huge plug
Out of the clouds.
He roars his thunderous laugh
And a wet slippery waterfallSpills out of a squelchy sky.
Look out below he seems to shout
as the water
Splooshes, splashes, plishes,
ploshes, gushes,siushes,
And soaks deep into the thirsty earth.
by Ian Souter
Jack Frost
Look out! Look out!
Jack Frost is about!|
Hes after our fingers and toes;
And all through the night,
The gay little sprite
Is working where nobody knows.
Hell climb each tree,
So nimble is he,
His silvery powder hell shake.
To windows hell creep
And while were asleep
Such wonderful pictures hell make.
Across the grassHell merrily pass,
And change all its greenness to white.
Then home he will go
And laugh ho, ho ho!
What fun I have had in the night.
by C.E. Pike
Daffodowndilly
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlightAnd shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead."
by A.A. Milne
Tractor
The tractor rests
In the shed
Dead or asleep,
But with high
Hind wheels
Held so still
We know
It is only waiting,Ready to leap
Like a heavy
Brown
Grasshopper.
by Valerie Worth
Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunchesand then moves on.
by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
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The Windmill
Behold! a giant am I!
Aloft here in my tower,
With my granite jaws I devour
The maize, and the wheat, and the rye,
And grind them into flour.
I look down over the farms;
In the fields of grain I see
The harvest that is to be,
And I fling to the air my arms,
For I know it is all for me.
I hear the sound of flails
Far off, from the threshing-floors
In barns, with their open doors,
And the wind, the wind in my sails,
Louder and louder roars.
I stand here in my place,
With my foot on the rock below,
And whichever way it may blow
I meet it face to face,
As a brave man meets his foe.
And while we wrestle and strive,
My master, the miller, stands
And feeds me with his hands;
For he knows who makes him thrive,
Who makes him lord of lands.
On Sundays I take my rest;
Church-going bells begin
Their low, melodious din;I cross my arms on my breast,
And all is peace within.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Snow And Snow
Snow is sometimes a she, a soft one.
Her kiss on your cheek, her finger on your sleeve
In early December, on a warm evening,
And you turn to meet her, saying "Its snowing!"
But it is not. And nobodys there.
Empty and calm is the air.
Sometimes the snow is a he, a sly one.
Weakly he signs the dry stone with a damp spot.
Waifish he floats and touches the pond and is
not.
Treacherous-beggarly he falters, and taps at the
window.
A little longer he clings to the grass-blade tip
Getting his grip.
Then how she leans, how furry foxwrap she
nestles
The sky with her warm, and the earth with her
softness.
How her lit crowding fairylands sink through
thespace-silence
To build her palace, till it twinkles in starlight
Too frail for a foot
Or a crumb of soot.
Then how his muffled armies move in all night
And we wake and every road is blockaded
Every hill taken and every farm occupied
And the white glare of his tents is on the ceiling.
And all that dull blue day and on into the
gloaming
We have to watch more coming.
Then everything in the rubbish-heaped world
Is a bridesmaid at her miracle.Dunghills and crumbly dark old
barns are bowed
in the chapel of her sparkle.
The gruesome boggy cellars of the wood
Are a wedding of lace
Now taking place.
by Ted Hughes
