Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


PETER by MOTHER GOOSE

First Line: PETER, PETER, PUMPKIN EATER
Last Line: AND THEN HE LOVED HER VERY WELL.

PETER, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had another, and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.





Home: PoetryExplorer.net