Today’s Poem: Ode to an Expiring Frog

Mrs. Leo Hunter’s most acclaimed work, channeled by Charles Dickens

Sir Edwin Landseer, Study of a Frog, c. 1850 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Ode to an Expiring Frog

by Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying
On thy stomach, without sighing;
Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log,
Expiring frog!

Say have fiends in shape of boys
With wild halloo, and brutal noise
Hunted thee from marshy joys,
With a dog,
Expiring frog!