"Hoity-toity! Hop-o'-my-thumb!
Tweedledee and Tweedledum!
All hobgoblins come to me,
Over the mountains, over the sea:
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I have been looking for this poem for a long time as it was a favourite in my grade 5 reader but it was only today when I found it's correct title whitch has led to my finding it.
Yeah, that's okay. Take a look at The Green Brier Fire, please, and let me know how it compares.
lol very funny and very entertaining. I wish more of Ruth Bedford's poems were posted here, this was so good this can't be her only one.
Perfectly wicked. Halloween is immensely inspiring, and so is this terrific poem.
Woah! This just swicthed my brain off, into a blank space of numerous thoughts. This is so 'bewitching richly legendary', I must say! lol. Ruth you are a Queen of poetry. I know u know.*smiles* Kingfemi
As small children many years ago, my cousins and I used to create short skits from books of poetry. This is one of the poems we performed and I had no idea who the author was, the book having been long lost. Great to find it!
If there was one witch at that era... We have so many witches now...
The rhythmic splendour of the poem is something to admire