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Subject: LEAR, EDWARD (1812-1888)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... A NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: ... The silly song
Last Line: Where are you?
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


ABOARD THE SS COFFEE-CUP, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Must we splish and splash about?
Last Line: Came the echo of a sigh: %g-g-good b-b-b-bye!
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


ADVENTURES OF MR LEAR & THE POLLY (& THE) PUSSEYBITE ON THEIR WAY., by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr lear goes out a walking with a polly & the pusseybite
Last Line: A deep hole & are never seen or distinguished or heard of never more %afterwards
Subject(s): Boats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Sea; Travel


BORN IN A CROWD, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I was my mother's twentieth child
Last Line: She always looked after me
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Sisters


BUT AH! (THE LANDSCAPE PAINTER SAID), by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yours affectionately %edward lear
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Paintings And Painters


CREATURES WEARING CLOTHES, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The zoo at regent's park
Last Line: He settles back to draw %a creature wearing clothes!
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Zoos


DAY IN THE LIFE ..., by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Lear %wakes at ten
Last Line: Hums a little %silly ...
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


EARL OF DERBY AND RHW BOOK OF NONSENSE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now out of london town the train
Last Line: The painter bowed, 'yours truly, %ladies - edward lear. Good day!'
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


EAT YOUR HEART OUT, EDWARD LEAR!, by ROGER WODDIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They went to sea in a sieve, they did
Last Line: And they went to sea in a sieve.
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


EDWARD LEAR, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Left his friend to breakfast alone on the white
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Poetry & Poets


EDWARD LEAR, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Left his friend to breakfast alone on the white
Last Line: And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Poetry And Poets


EDWARD LEAR, by LEE UPTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never can one choose to be %a laureate of restlessness
Last Line: No weeping without purchases
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


FINDING PARADISE (AND LOSING IT), by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Lear had widely traveled
Last Line: And he bade a sad pharewell
Variant Title(s): Edward Lear Finds Paradise (and Loses It
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


HOW PLEASANT TO APE MR. LEAR, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
Last Line: Who called him a mother %instead of an eminent mother
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


HOW PLEASANT TO KNOW MR LEAR!, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How pleasant to know mr lear!'
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


I'VE JUST SEEN MRS. HOPKINS-AND READ HER THE LINES, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For both reading-and pictures. Good bye. Edward lear
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Printing And Printers; Rhyme


IN THE KINGDOM OF LEAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There lived a young man in the kingdom of lear
Last Line: For they loved that old man in the kingdom of lear
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FACE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you often take for granted
Last Line: To be for taking all those blows %in the middle of your face
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


LETTER BY NUMBERS TO HIS FRIEND / CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm off 2 seek my 4chun with the sunrise
Last Line: With bird in hand
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


OLD FOSS (THE CAT) RECALLS HIS LIFE WITH MR. LEAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'd say when we ate a late breakfast
Last Line: I bow to the king of high bosh
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


PLEA TO BOYS AND GIRLS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You learned lear's 'nonsense rhynes' by heart, not rote
Last Line: All that I wrote in love, for love of art
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Poetry And Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)


POONA OBSERVER, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are able to present our readers with an inaccurate misrepresentation
Last Line: Conkimplation of the surrounding scenery
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


QUEEN TAKES DRAWING LESSONS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At buckingham palace in royal red
Last Line: She smiled. 'you clevah chap!'
Variant Title(s): The Queen Takes Drawing Lessons From King Lea
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901)


THAT MAN WITH THE BATTERING RAM'LL, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Up the peak of a pokey old mammal!
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


THERE ONCE WAS A MAN, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And I fear it would be such a bore!
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


THERE ONCE WAS A MAN WHO LOVED VOWELS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Your half-moony meloobbious fowls
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Vowels


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DUNDEE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For the fish are just wild for him
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


THOU SHALT WALK IN THE MIDST OF THY TUTORS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time a youthful cove
Last Line: Vy! Vot a cove he'll be!
Subject(s): Children; Education; Language; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Paintings And Painters; Youth


TO E. L., ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Last Line: And fluted to the morning sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Greece; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Greeks


TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old poop from poughkeepsie
Last Line: Said he, ''when I say 'noli tangere,' me is implicit but not, I think, tacit!
Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear: 2
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A touchy old gent from cohasset
Last Line: Is implicit but not, I hope, tacit
Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear:
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A touchy old gent from cohasset
Last Line: Said he, ''when I say 'noli tangere,' me is implicit but not, I think, tacit!'
Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear: 1
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)


TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old poop from poughkeepsie
Last Line: That peppy old poop from poughkeepsie
Variant Title(s): Two Limericks After Lear:
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888)