Gelett Burgess Hair Poems
- 1. An Alphabet Of Famous Goops
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS.
Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops.
Futile Acumen!
For you Yourselves are Doubtless Dupes
... - 2. On Digital Extremities
I'd Rather have Fingers than Toes;
I'd Rather have Ears than a Nose;
And As for my Hair,
I'm Glad it's All There;
... - 3. I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes
I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes,
For that's where my intellect shows.
And as for my hair,
Do you think I should care
... - 4. Nonsense Verses
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THE Window has Four little Panes:
But One have I;
... - 5. Psycholophon
Twine then the rays
Round her soft Theban tissues.
All will be as She says,
When the dead Past reissues.
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