I cheated looked it up -quite impossible!!!
Here's another
I'm the world's wonder, for I make women happy
- a boon to the neighbourhood, a bane to no one,
though I may perhaps prick the one who picks me.
I am set well up, stand in a bed,
have a roughish root. Rarely (though it happens)
a churl's daughter more daring than the rest
- and lovelier! - lays hold of me,
rushes my red top, wrenches at my head,
and lays me in the larder.
She learns soon enough,
the curly-haired creature who clamps me so,
of my meeting with her: moist is her eye!
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Halvard Johnson
Sent: 04 June 2012 17:02
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Subject: Re: riddle
Loved that book. Maybe even still have it . . . somewhere or other.
Serving the tri-state area.
Hal
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I found this whilst surfing through BAP's blog. Thought we might like
> to put our collective heads together - although I'm off to bed now.
> Night all
> - I leave you with a riddle ::
>
> A Riddle from "The Earliest English Poems"
>
> Many were met, men of discretion,
> wisdom and wit, when in there walked. . .
>
> Two ears it had, and one eye solo,
> two feet and twelve hundred heads,
> back, belly, a brace of hands
> a pair of sides and shoulders and arms and one neck. Name, please.
>
> --Translated by Michael Alexander:
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> poetryetc
>
