Showing posts with label fowls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fowls. Show all posts

Friday, November 25, 2022

Thanksgiving by Anonymous

Thanksgiving

Praise God for wheat, so white and sweet,
Of which to make our bread!
Praise God for yellow corn, with which
His waiting world is fed!
Praise God for fish and flesh and fowl
He gave to men for food!
Praise God for every creature which
He made, and called it good!

Praise God for winter's store of ice!
Praise God for summer's heat!
Praise God for fruit trees, bearing seed;
"To you it is for meat!"
Praise God for all the bouncy
By which the world is fed!
Praise God ye children, all to whom
He gives your daily bread!

Thursday, July 2, 2020

The Fowls

THE FOWLS 
by M. Nightingale

Black hens, white hens, speckled hens and
brown.
Clucking in the sunshine, strutting up and
down;
Very vain and happy they for were the truth but
known
Each thinks the loudest cackle in the farm-yard is her
own,
And each declares the egg she's left behind her in the nest
Is bigger and much better than the eggs of all the rest.
"Cackle-cackle! Cluck-a-club!
Cock-a-doodle-do!
The cock is king of Farm-yard Land,
But I am queen there, too."

White hens, brown hens, speckled hens and black,
With lots of little yellow chicks a-toddling at their
Back;
Father cock must come and look, his red comb on his head;
"Cheep at him, my pretties! Sir, be careful how
you tread!
Now are they not a lovely brood? Just see them peck
and run;
And see how my two soft warm wings will cover
every one.
Cackle-cackle! Cheepie-cheep!
Ah, Cock-a-doodle-do,
Although you're king of Farm-yard Land
I'm prouder far than you!"

Monday, December 16, 2019

Poems About Birds...

Time To Rise
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window-sill;
Cocked his shining eye, and said,
"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?"


Seven Little Chicks
by Wilhelmina Seegmuller
Seven little chicks go,
"Peep, peep, peep,"
Hunting where the grasses grow
Deep, deep, deep.

Then the mother hen calls,
"Cluck, cluck, cluck,"
Wishing every little chick
Luck, luck, luck.


Once I Saw a Little Bird
Once I saw a little bird
Come hop, hop, hop.
So I cried, "Little bird,
Will you stop, stop, stop?"

I was going to the window
To say, "How do you do?"
But he shook his little tail,
And far away he flew.


Little Cock-Sparrow
Mother Goose Rhyme
A little cock-sparrow sat on a green tree,
And he chirruped, he chirruped, so merry was he;
A little cock-sparrow sat on a green tree,
And he chirruped, he chirruped, so merry was he.

A naughty boy came with his wee bow and arrow,
Determined to shoot this little cock-sparrow.
A naughty boy came with his wee bow and arrow,
Determined to shoot this little cock-sparrow.
"This little cock-sparrow shall make me a stew,
And his giblets shall make me a little pie, too." 
"Oh, no!" said the sparrow, "I wont make a stew.
So he flapped his wings, and away he flew. 


There Was A Little Robin
by Wilhelmina Seegmuller
There was a little robin
Sat singing in a tree;
From early morn till dark he sang -
"The world was made for me."