English Poetry. Alan Alexander Milne. At the Zoo. Алан Александр Милн.

Alan Alexander Milne (Алан Александр Милн)

At the Zoo

There are lions and roaring tigers,
and enormous camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,
and a great big bear with wings.
There's a sort of a tiny potamus,
and a tiny nosserus too -
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!

There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers,
and a Super-in-tendent's House,
There are masses of goats, and a Polar,
and different kinds of mouse,
And I think there's a sort of a something
which is called a wallaboo -
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!

If you try to talk to the bison,
he never quite understands;
You can't shake hands with a mingo -
he doesn't like shaking hands.
And lions and roaring tigers
hate saying, "How do you do?" -
But I give buns to the elephant
when I go down to the Zoo! 

Alan Alexander Milne’s other poems:

1. Уединение • Solitude
2. Lines and Squares
3. The Wrong House
4. Twice Times
5. The Christening

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

William Thackeray (Уильям Теккерей) At the Zoo (“First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black”)

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