by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Everybody but just me
Language: English
Everybody but just me Despises burdocks. Mother, she Despises 'em the most because They stick so to my socks and drawers. But father, when he sits on some, Can't speak a decent word for 'em.
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Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 3, first published 1929 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Bernard Wagenaar (1894 - 1971), "From a very little sphinx", published 1926. [soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano].
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 35