Three "tailgaters", short and long. [40]

Three tailgaters:

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
where grass grows green and lush now, and welcomes wayward bees

         where trees bow down to tempests, when thunder roils the skies
         that part to show a morning, as blue as Bonnie's eyes.


O, to have a little house,
A big fat cat, a tiny mouse!

         O, to have a placid life,
         days of leisure with no wife.


Between my finger and my thumb
the cookie crumbles leaving crumbs

         while in my tea cup swirls a sea
         of magic kingdoms dreamt by me.


Based on the original lines:

1. I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
(The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W. B. Yeats)

2. O, to have a little house!
(An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum)

3. Between my finger and my thumb
(Digging by Seamus Heaney)