The Little Turtle
The Little Turtle
Original Text
Vachel Lindsay, The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language (New York: Macmillan, 1920): 104. PS 3523 I58G5 1920 Robarts Library. Collected Poems (New York: Macmillan, 1923): 67.
1There was a little turtle.
2He lived in a box.
3He swam in a puddle.
4He climbed on the rocks.
5He snapped at a mosquito.
6He snapped at a flea.
7He snapped at a minnow.
8And he snapped at me.
9He caught the mosquito.
10He caught the flea.
11He caught the minnow.
12But he didn't catch me.
Publication Start Year
1923
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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