Incidents in the life of my Uncle Arly (Edward Lear Poems)
O my aged Uncle Arly!Sitting on a heap of BarleyThro' the silent hours of night,Close beside a leafy thicket:On his ...
Edward Lear Poems (81 Poems)
Calicoe Pie (Edward Lear Poems)
Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,And they never ...
He Lived at Dingle Bank (Edward Lear Poems)
He lived at Dingle Bank - he did; -He lived at Dingle Bank;And in his garden was one Quail,Four tulips ...
Cold are the Crabs (Edward Lear Poems)
Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hills,Colder the cucumbers that grow beneath,And colder still the brazen chops that ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady Whose Bonnet (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady whose bonnet,Came untied when the birds sate upon it;But she said: 'I don't care!All the ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Norway (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Norway,Who casually sat on a doorway;When the door squeezed her flat,She exclaimed, 'What of ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady in White (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady in White,Who looked out at the depths of the Night;But the birds of the airFilled ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Portugal (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Portugal,Whose ideas were excessively nautical:She climbed up a tree,To examine the sea,But declared she ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Dorking (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Dorking,Who bought a large bonnet for walking;But its colour and size,So bedazzled her eyes,That ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Hull (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Hull,Who was chased by a virulent bull;But she seized on a spade,And called out, ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady whose nose (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady whose nose,Was so long that it reached to her toes;So she hired an Old Lady,Whose ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Ryde (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Ryde,Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied.She purchased some clogs,And some small spotted dogs,And frequently walked ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Turkey (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Turkey,Who wept when the weather was murky;When the day turned out fine,She ceased to ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady whose chin (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady whose chin,Resembled the point of a pin;So she had it made sharp,And purchased a harp,And ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Poole (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Poole,Whose soup was excessively cool;So she put it to boilBy the aid of some ...
Limerick: The was a Young Lady of Bute (Edward Lear Poems)
The was a Young Lady of Bute,Who played on a silver-gilt flute;She played several jigs,To her uncle's white pigs,That amusing ...
Eclogue:Composed at Cannes, December 9th, 1867 (Edward Lear Poems)
(Interlocutors--Mr. Lear and Mr. and Mrs. Symonds.) Edwardus--What makes you look so black, so glum, so cross? ...
Nonsense Alphabet (Edward Lear Poems)
A was an antWho seldom stood still,And who made a nice houseIn the side of a hill. Nice little ant!B ...
Mr. and Mrs.Spikky Sparrow (Edward Lear Poems)
IOn a little piece of wood,Mr. Spikky Sparrow stood;Mrs. Sparrow sate close by,A-making of an insect pie,For her little children ...
The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs (Edward Lear Poems)
The Nutcrackers sate by a plate on the table, The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side;And the ...
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat (Edward Lear Poems)
On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, ...
The New Vestments (Edward Lear Poems)
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess,Who invented a purely original dress;And when it was perfectly made ...
The Cummerbund: An Indian Poem (Edward Lear Poems)
IShe sate upon her Dobie, To watch the Evening Star,And all the Punkahs as they passed, ...
Imitation of The Olden Poets (Edward Lear Poems)
Time is a taper waning fast!Use it, man, well whilst it doth last:Lest burning downwards it consume away,Before thou hast ...
Parody of Tennyson’sTo Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece (Edward Lear Poems)
Delirious Bulldogs; -- echoing callsMy daughter, -- green as summer grass; --The long supine Plebeian ass,The nasty crockery boring falls; ...
Limerick: There was an Old Man of Calcutta (Edward Lear Poems)
There was an Old Man of Calcutta,Who perpetually ate bread and butter;Till a great bit of muffin,On which he was ...
Limerick: There was an old person of Nice (Edward Lear Poems)
There was an old person of Nice, Whose associates were usually Geese. They walked out together, in ...
Limerick: There was an Old Person whose habits, (Edward Lear Poems)
There was an Old Person whose habits,Induced him to feed upon rabbits;When he'd eaten eighteen,He turned perfectly green,Upon which he ...
Limerick: There was an old person of Paxo (Edward Lear Poems)
There was an old person of PaxoWhich complained when the fleas bit his back so,But they gave him a chairAnd ...
Limerick:There was an Old Person of Chester (Edward Lear Poems)
There was an Old Person of Chester,Whom several small children did pester;They threw some large stones,Which broke most of his ...