Thursday, January 1, 2004

The Witches Song Comments

Rating: 3.0

"Hoity-toity! Hop-o'-my-thumb!
Tweedledee and Tweedledum!
All hobgoblins come to me,
Over the mountains, over the sea:
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Ruth Bedford
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Chinedu Dike 30 July 2022

The rhythmic splendour of the poem is something to admire

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Patricia Upton 22 March 2018

At last I have found it!

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Patricia Upton 22 March 2018

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.

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Francie Lynch 28 May 2014

Yeah, that's okay. Take a look at The Green Brier Fire, please, and let me know how it compares.

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Darlene Walsh 28 May 2014

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.

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Michelle Claus 28 May 2014

Perfectly wicked. Halloween is immensely inspiring, and so is this terrific poem.

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Gajanan Mishra 28 May 2013

mischief to spare for all, good write, thanks.

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Femi Oloidi 04 November 2012

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

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Michelle Tohill 21 October 2012

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!

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Sylva Portoian 30 May 2012

If there was one witch at that era... We have so many witches now...

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Azmat Naushad Asif 28 May 2012

wow....absorbing frm 1st to the last line

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Pranab K Chakraborty 28 May 2012

Nice and spontaneous.

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