Poems by Edward Lear
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Ryde
... Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied ...
Cold are the Crabs
... And colder still the brazen chops that wreathe ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady Whose Bonnet
... Came untied when the birds sate upon it ...
Limerick:There was an Old Man at a casement
... That incipient Old Man at a casement ...
Limerick: There was an old man of Tobago
... To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go ...
Limerick: There was an Old Sailor of Compton
... Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on ...
Limerick:There was a Young Girl of Majorca
... Which astonished that Girl of Majorca ...
Parody of Tennyson'sTo Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece
... O! ain't you glad you were not there! ...
Limerick:There was an Old Person of Cheadle
... Who was put in the stocks by the beadle ...
Limerick:There was an Old Person of Spain
... That umbrageous Old Person of Spain ...
Eclogue:Composed at Cannes, December 9th, 1867
... Symonds.) Edwardus--What makes you look so black, so glum, so cross ...
Limerick: There was an Old Man of Kildare
... When he said,-- "Here I stays,-- ...
Limerick: There Was an Old Man who Supposed
... That the street door was partially closed ...
Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Isles
... Whose face was pervaded with smiles ...
Limerick: There was an Old Man of Coblenz
... The length of whose legs was immense ...
