Nursery Rhymes
Related Genres
Popular
-
Each Peach Pear Plum
Janet Ahlberg
-
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again
Dan Santat
-
The Real Mother Goose
Blanche Fisher Wright
Most read this week
-
Twinkle, Twinkle, Winter Night: A Winter and Holiday Book
Megan Litwin
-
On the Day the Horse Got Out
Audrey Helen Weber
-
What Are Little Girls Made Of?: Nursery Rhymes for Feminist Times
Jeanne Willis
Quotes
“Spring-Heeled Jack Is In The Lane by Stewart Stafford
Go indoors, children, before dark falls,
A fiend comes hideous and inhumane,
Tell your mother not to answer the door,
For Spring-Heeled Jack is in the lane.
Is it spectre, beast or demon?
A trick of light to fool the brain?
Blue flames spew from hellish maw,
Spring-Heeled Jack growls in the lane.
No one can unsee its monstrous face,
Nor its claws of steel that bloodstain,
Its haunting cackle freezes victims,
Spring-Heeled Jack leaps from the lane.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
–
Stewart Stafford
