Relationships
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater
From The Little Mother Goose, illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1918)
Relationships
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater;
Had a wife, and couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater;
Had another and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/655/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/655/.
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