GUINEY-PIGS is awful cute, With their little trimbly snoot Sniffin' at the pussly that We bring 'em to nibble at. Looks like they're so clean an' white, An' so dainty an' polite, They could eat like you an' me When they's company! Tiltin' down the clover-tops Till they spill, an' overdrops The sweet morning dew -- Don't you Think they might have napkins, too? Ef a guiney-pig was big As a @3shore-an'-certain@1 pig, Nen he wouldn't ac' so fine When he come to dine. Nen he'd chomp his jaws an' eat Things out in the dirty street, Dirt an' all! An' nen lay down In mud-holes an' waller roun'! So the @3guiney-pigs@1 is best, 'Cause they're nice an' tidiest; They eat 'most like you an' me When they's company! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 82. HOARDED JOY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA by PHILLIS WHEATLEY THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT by JOHN ARMSTRONG THE REQUEST. TO LOVE by PHILIP AYRES SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 37. NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |