"Sharing an umbrella is a better thing to do than sitting by the windowsill, waiting for the blue."  From Eastern Mennonite College's 1973 yearbook.

A Christmas wish from Purple Parrot, Jan. 1922.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Solved, at last -- the full moon is a bubble that bursts at first cock crow.  From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.

What a delightful microscope-themed poem, in which protozoa hail one as queen!  From The Century, 1879.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Collier's, 1915.

From Overland Monthly, 1916.

From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.

From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.

From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.

From Harper's, 1879.

"Sun is nothing / believe in candles" -- a transposition of two phrases from a poem by G. Jake Bordeaux, 1978.

From Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland.

From St. Nicholas, 1898.

"Weakly, insolent and rested" as opposed to "healthy, wealthy and wise."  From The Current Sauce, 1957.

From the [Swarthmore] Eunomian, 1883.

From Casserole, Dec. 11, 1970.

From Casserole, Oct. 23, 1970.

Irving Layton, quoted in The Martlet, 1965.

From Ethos, 1932.