[LM_NET] HIT: Looking for name of poem & poet

[Anne-Marie Gordon <media.teatime@GMAIL.COM>]

You know, I just love LM_Net!  Nearly 20 people took the time to help
me out, and you've made a 2nd grade teacher very happy.

My original request: 'I have a teacher looking for the source of a
poem with the repeated
refrain, "The Goblins will get you if you don't watch out!"  Can
anyone identify the poem and the poet?'

The response:  the poet is James Whitcomb Riley.  The poem, first
published in 1875, is most often titled "Little Orphant Annie," and
the text is here:
http://www.poetry-archive.com/r/little_orphant_annie.html   It can
also be found in various collections (and online) as "Little Orphan
Annie,"  "Little Orphant Allie" and "The Gobble-Uns."

Riley's poem's narrator was actually named "Allie," but a typesetter's
mistake led to the poem being published as "Little Orphant Annie,"
which later inspired the name of the Annie of comic-strip fame (and
explains why the poem is often called "Little Orphan Annie.")  The
poem is often shown in dialect, with the refrain written as, "the
Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!"  Another LM_Netter
pointed out that Riley's birthday is tomorrow.  Riley is also famous
for the poem "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin" (or "Punkin.")

Thanks so much!
-- 
Anne-Marie Gordon, NBCT
Library Media Specialist
Livonia Primary Library
Livonia, NY
agordon@livoniacsd.org
media.teatime@googlemail.com
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Webpage: http://classrooms.livoniacsd.org/agordon/
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