英语谜语Riddles

Why is six afraid of seven?　
-----------------------Because seven eight nine.

What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?
-----------------------Mom.

Why do lions eat raw meat?
-----------------------Because they never learn to cook.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
-----------------------To get to the other side.

Why did the fox cross the road?
-----------------------To get the chicken.

Why did the gum cross the road?
-----------------------It was on the chicken’s foot.

Why did the turkey cross the road twice?
-----------------------To prove it was not a chicken.

Why did the weasel cross the road twice?
-----------------------He was a double crosser.

Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
-----------------------It didn’t have the guts.

What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?
-----------------------Ann umbrella.

What's black and white and red all over?
-----------------------A zebra that doesn’t know how to put lipstick on.

What is the largest ant in the world?
-----------------------An elephant.

How much is a skunk worth?
-----------------------One scent.

What kind of monkey can fly?
-----------------------A hot air baboon.

Why did the cake like to play baseball?
-----------------------Because it was a good batter.

What goes hahaha, plop?
-----------------------Someone laughing their head off.

Why didn't the lady run away from the attacking lion?
-----------------------They told her it was a maneating lion.

Why has no one ever spotted a leopard in Africa?
-----------------------Because leopards are already born with spots.

What did the banana do when it heard the ice scream?
-----------------------It split.

I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.

---------------------　lightning, Emily Dickinson

Many-maned scud-thumper,
Maker of worn wood,
Shrub-ruster,
Sky-mocker,
Rave!
Portly pusher,
Wind-slave.

---------------------　 John Updike

Make me thy lyre, even as the forests are.
What if my leaves fell like its own --
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone.

---------------------　the west wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley

This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the body falls home.
---------------------　　river, Gerard Manley Hopkins

I've measured it from side to side,
'Tis three feet long and two feet wide.
It is of compass smal

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