Living

How Many Things in My Pocket?

by Mary Mapes Dodge 1831–1905

From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)

Living

Tap at your brain and unlock it,
Then count all the things in my pocket:
A nail and a screw,
A screw-driver, too;
A cent and a dollar,
A tumbled-up collar;
A neck-tie and glove,
A note from my love;
Two peppermint-drops,
A couple of tops;
A buckle, a ball,
The head of a doll;
A top-snare, of course,
A six-penny horse;
Four pins, always handy,
And three sticks of candy;
Ten nuts and a pen,
A squirt--and what then?
Why, my knife, to be sure,
And an old wooden skewer;
That's all--oh! a string,
A galvanized ring;
A pistol (but no one could cock it),
And that's all I had in my pocket.

MLA

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “How Many Things in My Pocket?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/124/.

Chicago

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “How Many Things in My Pocket?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/124/.

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