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1. Here is the first verse of a funny poem by Ogden Nash. See if you can guess what goes in the blank.
"Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet ___"
2. "I know a funny little man, as quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done in everybody's house!"
Who's this miscreant (look it up, kids!) of verse?
3. What word do you think goes in the blank?
"I have a little ____ that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed."
Funny thing about this guy, he's never around in the dark...
4. And now for some sailors:
"____, ____, and ____ one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew."
Who were those guys?
5. This is the start of a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who also wrote "Hiawatha". Can you guess its title?
"Between the dark and the daylight
When night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations
That is known as ____ ____ ____."
6. Here's a weird one for you! Any idea who wrote this poem? Here's how it starts:
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
7. This poem is usually called " 'Twas The Night Before Christmas" and many people know it. It begins:
" 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."
Can you guess its other name, along with the name of the author?
8. A famous American poet wrote this tiny poem, called "Fog". Who was it?
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on."
9. This is a sad and beautiful poem by a guy who knew how to write a scary story when he wanted to! -- but not this time. Here's how it starts:
"It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived, whom you may know
By the name of ____ ____;"
What do you think goes in the blank?
10. Here is a poem by James Whitcomb Riley. It's about someone who has been in comics and on Broadway.
"Little ____ ____'s come to our house to stay,
An' wash the cups and saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,
An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;
An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
A-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at ___ tells about,
An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!"
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