 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 544 pages
...Fragments Aurea, 1648. (Poem written 1U41.)* If all the world -were paper IF all the world were paper, And all the sea were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, How should we do for drink ? God b'w'ye] God BVy', 1648 ; Good Boy, 1(MU and 1658. If all the world... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 1002 pages
...sea. I answered him as I thought good, As many as red herrings grow in the wood. IF IF all the land were apple-pie, And all the sea were ink; And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we do for drink? THE END INDICES INDEX OF AUTHORS AUTHORS UNKNOWN All's Well That Ends Well Amazing Facts... | |
 | 1885 - 834 pages
...anything that the rest of the world isn't doing ! " If all the world was apple-pie, And all the sea was ink ; And all the trees were bread and cheese ; What should we have to driuk ? " says an old nursery rhyme ; and we feel like getting very much to the state of things at... | |
 | Wim Tigges - Nonsense literature - 1988 - 314 pages
...reminiscent of the famous nursery rhyme: If all the world were paper, And all the sea were ink, If all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink? (Opie & Opie 1973: 436). What indeed, if! In nonsense, all the world is paper and all the seas are... | |
 | Hal Rammel - American wit and humor - 1990 - 188 pages
...is just as traditional."28 The nursery rhyme If all the world was paper. And all the sea was ink. If all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink?26 survives from a much longer poem appearing in Witt's Recreations ( 1 64 1 ) . The often-reprinted... | |
 | Philip Smith - Juvenile Fiction - 1992 - 100 pages
...swim! I feel that I would be in luck If I could only be a duck! — CLINTON SCOLLARD If If all the land were apple-pie, And all the sea were ink; And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we do for drink? The Fisherman The fisherman goes out at dawn When every one's abed, And from the bottom... | |
 | Arthur Rackham - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 132 pages
...'twill last for ages long, With a gay lady. 93 I F all the world was apple-pie And all the sea was ink And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink? iris and boys come out to play; The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave... | |
 | Kathy Charner - Education - 1997 - 276 pages
...nobody's with me I'm always alone. If All the World If all the world were apple pie, And all the seas were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese What should we have for drink? A Swarm of Bees A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is... | |
 | Joan Bolker - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 292 pages
...data. There's a Mother Goose rhyme that goes: If all the world were paper, And all the sea were ink; If all the trees were bread and cheese, . What should we have to drink? Yes, indeed — for if we assign a category to every wish and leave the fulfillment of these wishes... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. 98 If all the world were paper, And all the sea were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese What should we do for drink? 99 (by an American Lawyer) Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection. 100 (annotation... | |
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