1872 TWO THIEVES Lewis Carroll
1 1872 TWO THIEVES Lewis Carroll Carroll, Lewis (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (18321898) - English novelist, poet, photographer, and mathematician, best known for his fantastical childrens’ classics. He was a mathematical lecturer at Oxford. Two Thieves (1872) - One of Lewis Carroll’s poems. Opening lines: Two thieves went out to steal one day / Thinking that no one knew it:... TWO THIEVES (To the Misses Drury.) TWO thieves went out to steal one day Thinking that no one knew it: Three little maids, I grieve to say, Encouraged them to do it. ‘Tis said that little children should Encourage men in stealing! But these, I’ve always understood, Have got no proper feeling. An aged friend, who chanced to pass Exactly at the minute, Said “Children! Take this Looking-glass, And see your badness in it.” Jan. 11, 1872. THE END 1 1881 TWO POEMS TO RACHEL DANIEL Lewis Carroll 2 Carroll, Lewis (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (18321898) - English novelist, poet, photographer, and mathematician, best known for his fantastical childrens’ classics. He was a mathematical lecturer at Oxford. Two Poems to Rachel Daniel (1880, 1881) - Two of Lewis Carroll’s poems. Opening lines of the first poem: “Oh pudgy podgy pup! / Why did they wake you up?... 3 TWO POEMS TO RACHEL DANIEL I “OH pudgy podgy pup! Why did they wake you up? Those crude nocturnal yells Are not like silver bells: Nor ever would recall Sweet Music’s ‘dying fall’. They rather bring to mind The bitter winter wind Through keyholes shrieking shrilly When nights are dark and chilly: Or like some dire duett, Or quarrelsome quartette, Of cats who chant their joys With execrable noise, And murder Time and Tune To vex the patient Moon!” Nov.
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