POETIC BIRDS
William Blake wrote this "redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage"
robin
Since it emphasizes the wrong food, never withhold this course to make jr. eat all his spinach
dessert
According to the vows, people go into marriage "for better or" this
worse
Since elephant pacifiers are hard to find, baby elephants may do this until they are 6 years old
suckle
Before the pumpkin, the Irish used to carve turnips for these Halloween standards
a jack-o-lantern
In "A Song of Sixpence" 1 of these pecked off the maid's nose
blackbird
Many babies, after learning to stand, keep standing until exhausted, since they don't know how to do this
sit down
As a verb, it means to get on a horse, as a noun, the horse itself
mount
In Africa, wild elephants are found only south of this expansive arid region
the Sahara
In cooking, pumpkins & this vegetable may be used interchangeably
squash
A dead one was hung about the ancient mariner's neck
albatross
About this birthday, baby starts to throw toys & food, not to drive mom crazy, but just because he can
first
A mass of metal shaped for easy storage or transportation
ingot
Indian elephants are strong swimmers, able to regulate their buoyancy by swallowing this
air
Probably from Latin "pepo" for pumpkin, it's a roasted pumpkin seed
a pepita
While Shelley wrote "To a Skylark" Keats wrote an "Ode to" this bird
Nightingale
To discourage twins' private language, mom might refuse their demands unless expressed this way
in English
Slang for money, in I Timothy 3:3, King James Bible, it completed "not greedy of filthy..."
lucre
Elephants are highly evolved emotionally, & it's said, perform this on incurable members of herd
euthanasia
Term for a New England puritan, or a dolt
a pumpkin head
Tennyson said, "He clasps the crag with crooked hands"
eagle
Playing pat-a-cake, etc. to excess can spoil baby to the point he forgets how to do this for himself
play by himself (amuse himself)
Spelled "cwen" in Old English, it meant a wife of a famous man, as well as this
a queen
An elephant needs water & mud to cool itself, since its skin lacks these
sweat glands
James Whitcomb Riley said, "It sets my 'heart a-clickin'... when" this "is on the punkin"
the frost