Lands Where the Jumblies Live
by Edward Lear
with illustrations by Nancy Allyn Jarzombek
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea;
And every one said, who saw them go,
'O won't they be soon upset, you know!
And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
They sailed to the western sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound or Rice and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery bees.
And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more
New England
with poems by Robert Frost
and illustrations by Nancy Allyn Jarzombek
TWO ROADS diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
SHEPHERD'S SONG
This fully illustrated book depicts the message of Psalm 23 in an afternoon encounter between two little boys and their mom.
