Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Humorous Poems: II. Miscellaneous

The Vowels: An Enigma

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

WE are little airy creatures,

All of different voice and features;

One of us in glass is set,

One of us you ’ll find in jet,

T’other you may see in tin,

And the fourth a box within;

If the fifth you should pursue,

It can never fly from you.