Hilaire Belloc

Jim is a silly boy - he doesn't listen!click on image
Hilaire Belloc is most famous for his 'Cautionary Verse'. These are comic poems about what happens to naughty children.

Jim * Hilaire Belloc Crossword
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The Elephant
When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such - a LITTLE tail behind,

So LARGE a trunk before.



You can hear a reading of The Elephant here:.

More Hilaire Belloc poems: Jim * Lion * Hilaire Belloc Crossword
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Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,

As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"
Or likewise "Ugly James,"
Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong,"
Or "Bill Bandy-knees":
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The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.

No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
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Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).
You can hear a reading of The Frog here:.

More Hilaire Belloc poems: Jim * Lion * Elephant * Hilaire Belloc Crossword
The Polar Bear
The Polar Bear is unaware



Of cold that cuts me through:
For why? He has a coat of hair.
I wish I had one too!
The Lion
The lion, the lion, he lives in the waste,
He has a big head and a very small waist;
But his shoulders are big, and his jaws they are grim,
And a good little child will not play with him.
Jim
Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion.



There was a Boy whose name was Jim;
Read on here