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The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs Edward Lear	sate by a plate on the table, The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side; And the Nutcrackers said, 'Don't you wish we were able 'Along the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
We were here Dean Tice	We chewed up our tongs, as our cries weren’t allowed We brought out a tear, that we used for our means We traded...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Report From Below! Thomas Hood	He seized the tongs - she did the same, Leaving the ruffian, if he came, The poker and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballad by the Fire Edwin Arlington Robinson	Whose coming tales are all unsaid, Till tongs and shovel, snugly laid Within their shadowed niches,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Blades Padraic Colum	women thought of the herring across tongs to roast where pot-hooks hang, ready and unforward men have no right to any lien the gifts...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dogma's Demise : Beneath the Banners Mawphniang Napoleon	To battle for their faith with wrathful tongs The quest for truth in rancor dissipates And zealous fervor fosters fear and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How Fair Cinderella Disposed Of Her Shoe Guy Wetmore Carryl	Employed the curling tongs, And each with ardor most intense Her buxom figure laced, Until her wilful want of sense...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear	bowers. Naughty fat rabbit! S was the sugar-tongs, Nippity-nee, To take up the sugar To put in our tea....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oranges And Lemons Leonard Leslie Brooke	Pokers and tongs, Say the bells of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Seraphim Mark V. Markov	his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Shovel And Tongs Ella Wheeler Wilcox	But my promise belongs to the faithful Tongs, So I only can be your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Battle Of Limerick William Makepeace Thackeray	sowls, To see the butthered rowls, The sugar-tongs and sangwidges and craim galyore, And the muffins and the crumpets, And the band of hearts and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Black Dudeen Robert William Service	Sure I thought 'twas the dirty spot, Hammer and tongs till the air was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Book of Urizen: Chapter IV William Blake	And turn'd restless the tongs; and the hammer Incessant beat; forging chains new & new Numb'ring with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs Edward Lear	The Broom and the Shovel, the Poker and Tongs, They all took a drive in the Park, and they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Eleusinian Festival Friedrich Schiller	'Tis from him the art man knows Tongs and bellows how to wield; 'Neath his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hoard J. R. R. Tolkien	hammer and tongs and anvil-stone he worked his hands to the hard bone, and coins he made, and strings of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE ICE MAN (Poem #40) Jean Gorney	With big tongs and gloves he would carry a block Of thick-cold ice delivered right in our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Joy Of Being Poor Robert William Service	the forge of art we toiled with hammer and with tongs; You told me all your rippling yarns, I sang to you my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
They Who Prepare My Evening Meal Below Henry David Thoreau	Carelessly hit the kettle as they go With tongs or shovel, And ringing round and round, Out of this hovel It makes an eastern temple by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To be busy Dimitri(Pseudonym)	not like a confused housewife who saves fire-tongs when the fire breaks out? For what do these men manage to salvage from the great fire of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
When Rody Came To Ironbark Alice Guerin Crist	the the curling tongs worked overtime, when Rody came to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Where's the Poker? Christopher Smart	For the next day she lost the tongs; The salt box, colander, and pot Soon shar'd the same untimely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Written in Germany, On One of The Coldest Days Of The Century William Wordsworth	Let me have the song of the kettle; And the tongs and the poker, instead of that horse That gallops away with such fury and force On this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)