On a Quiet Night
by Li Po
I saw the moonlight before my couch,
And wondered if it were not frost on the ground.
I raised my head and looked out on the bright moon;
I bowed my head and thought of my far-off home.
First winter rain–
even the monkey
seems to want a raincoat.
–Basho
| Jabberwocky | ||
| by Lewis Carroll | ||
| ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.”Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, One, two! One, two! And through and through “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves |
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