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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: nonsense Matches Found: 142 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "'TIS MIDNIGHT, AND THE SETTING SUN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "hilarious, leap from bough to bough" Subject(s): Night;nonsense; Bedtime "IGNOTUM PER IGNOTIUS, OR A FURIOUS HODGE-PODGE OF NONSENSE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "or yield or die's the word, what could he mean" Last Line: "do limping legacies bequeath, / and jest upon their blind forefathers' eyes" Subject(s): Nonsense A BALLAD OF BEDLAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o lady, wake! The azure moon" Last Line: "till the creation I am thine, / to some rich desert fly with me" Subject(s): Nonsense;women A COUNTRY SUMMER PASTORAL; FROM ETYMOLOGICAL DEDUCTIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would flee from the city's rule and law Last Line: Of grasshoppers out to grass Subject(s): Country Life;nonsense;summer A FOOTBALL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she clung to him, the game was o'er" Last Line: For I am only half-back Subject(s): Boredom;fools;football;nonsense; Ennui;idiots A TRAGIC STORY, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a sage in days of yore Last Line: The pigtail hangs behind him. Subject(s): Hair; Nonsense AESTIVATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In candent ire the solar splendor flames Last Line: Depart, -- be off, -- excede, -- evade, -- erump! Variant Title(s): Intramural Aestivation; Or Summer In Town;aestivation: An Unpublished Poem Of My Late Latin Tutor Subject(s): Nonsense ALPHABET, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A was once an apple pie Last Line: Piece of zinc! Variant Title(s): A Nonsense Alphabe Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Nonsense AN ALPHABET, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A was once an apple pie Variant Title(s): A Nonsense Alphabet Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Nonsense AN UNSUSPECTED FACT, by EDWARD CANNON Poem Text First Line: If down his throat a man should choose Last Line: And he would wipe his feet on that! Subject(s): Nonsense; Teeth; Toothaches ANIMAL ALPHABET, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The absolutlely abstemious ass Last Line: Who carried five monkeys on his back all %the way to jellibolee Subject(s): Animals; Nonsense AT DINGLE BANK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lived at dingle bank - he did Last Line: Their fate; likewise his garden quail. Subject(s): Nonsense ATTALIK GHAZEE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That has settled on your knee? Subject(s): Nonsense BISCUIT TREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This remarkable vegetable production has never yet been described or Last Line: Cannot be said to remain on Subject(s): Nonsense; Trees BODY AND SPIRIT, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: Go, you must go-it is I who can sing Last Line: For you who are big, and brave and bold! Subject(s): Nonsense CALICO PIE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calico pie, / the little birds fly Last Line: They never came back to me! Subject(s): Nonsense COSSIMBAZAR, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hookabadar Last Line: Join in the chorus, my hookabadar. Subject(s): India; Jungles; Music & Musicians; Nonsense FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 4. THE BOOLA-BOOLA MAID, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the wilds of madagascar dwelt a boola-boola maid Last Line: As she sings this song with glee Subject(s): Madagascar; Nonsense FIVE SURE WAYS TOWARD SELF-ACTUALIZATION, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1) disclose your mantra to complete strangers at the Last Line: These essays. Send them to your enemies on their birth- %days, wedding anniversaries, valentine's da Subject(s): Jokes; Nonsense FOLDING TIME, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, herds pursue Last Line: "husheen-na-hoon." Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nonsense FORK TREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pleasing and amazing tree never grows above four hundred and Last Line: Produce a musical tinkling to the ears of the happy beholder Subject(s): Nonsense; Trees HUMPTY DUMPTY RECITATION [OR, SONG], by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter, when the fields are white, / I sing this song for your delight Last Line: I tried to turn the handle, but --. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): Verses Recited By Humpty Dumpty;humpty Dumpty's Poem Subject(s): Nonsense HYDER IDDLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hyder iddle diddle dell Subject(s): Nonsense I MUST STOP NOW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Said when the fat blue-beetle got into his inside Subject(s): Nonsense IN A ZAGUAN, by KATE MULLER CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Here sit I in the zaguan, in the sunshine, fiercely idle, fiercely happy. Last Line: Little crusita. Subject(s): Nonsense INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MY UNCLE ARLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my aged uncle arly! / sitting on a heap of barley Last Line: (but his shoes were far too tight.) Subject(s): Nonsense; Uncles JABBERWOCKY, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Last Line: And the mome raths outgrabe. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Dragons; Nonsense LETTER TO LADY WYATT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lady wyatt, %if I am interrupting you please excuse me Last Line: More, so will leave off immintiately. % yours sincerely, %edward lear Subject(s): Letters; Nonsense LETTER TO RUTH DECIE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear little tiny child Last Line: Give my love to your papa & mama Subject(s): Nonsense LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of brigg Last Line: Could be seen when he walked about brigg Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of sheen Last Line: That placid old person of sheen Subject(s): Nonsense; Serenity LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of blackheath Last Line: That uncommon old man of blackheath Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of rye Last Line: You abstemious old person of rye! Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man in a garden Last Line: And I trust you'll go out of my garden Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of minety Last Line: At the heads of the people of minety Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of the dargle Last Line: For the fish in the depths of the dargle Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of bradley Last Line: With a poker and tongs, he beat time to his songs, %that melodious old person of bradley! Subject(s): Nonsense; Singing And Singers LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man who screamed out Last Line: And continued to knock him about Subject(s): Nonsense LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of wilts Last Line: That elegant person of wilts Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of spithead Last Line: That doubtful old man of spithead Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of wick Last Line: That laconic old person of wick Subject(s): Nonsense LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of thames ditton Last Line: You abruptious old man of thames ditton Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LINES ON NONSENSE, by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, nonsense is a treasure! Last Line: Lest in her light she perish, %and vanish from our sight Subject(s): Nonsense LUNAR STANZAS, by HENRY COGSWELL KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Night saw the crew like pedlers withtheir packs Last Line: And revel o'er me, like a soulless sheep. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Nonsense; Bedtime MESOPOTAMIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: 'tis sweet to roam when morning's light Last Line: "to-whit, to-whit, to-whoo!" Subject(s): Nonsense;wandering & Wanderers; MEXICAN NURSERY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There comes the water splashing and croaking Last Line: My little brothers will get a good soaking Subject(s): Nonsense;water MR. AND MRS. SPIKKY SPARROW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a little piece of wood Last Line: "zikky sikky tee!" Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Childhood MR. FINNEY'S TURNIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mr. Finney had a turnip Subject(s): Food & Eating;gardens & Gardening;nonsense MRS JAYPHER FOUND A WAFER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For there's nothing half so dread- %ful, as lemons in your head! Subject(s): Nonsense MY DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream next tuesday week Subject(s): Dreams;nonsense; Nightmares NONSENSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A little nonsense, now and then Last Line: And call it nonsense, call it chaff? Subject(s): Laughter; Nonsense NONSENSE, by BARBARA LAU Poem Source First Line: Stars. Jean pluck stars from sky, name them Last Line: Hiccup water late. Too tired to chop wood Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE, by JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh that my lungs could bleat like buttered peas Last Line: Shall be made friends in a left handed trance. Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE BOTANY: 1, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baccopipia gracilis bottlephorkia spoonifolia Last Line: Plumbunnia nutritiosa pollybirdia singularis Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nonsense; Plants NONSENSE IMMORTAL, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From france or spain or the himalayas Last Line: And the brown cows go to the broom? Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 10, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There comes the water curling and running Last Line: I fear my aunt jennie will need a good sunning Subject(s): Nonsense;water NONSENSE RHYMES: 12, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-e-I-o-u- / the burro too Last Line: Knows more than you Subject(s): Donkeys;nonsense; Burros NONSENSE RHYMES: 13, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tan-te-tan / who is it today? Last Line: Next time will do Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "maybe I do, maybe I don't" Last Line: His name is don antonio Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 15, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Would you have me chat Last Line: (let me tell it to you again.) Subject(s): Animals;cats;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 16, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pa-pa, ma-ma / I wish to marry" Last Line: Who can dance like a fairy Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Little maiden dressed in mourning Last Line: "weep not, here am I" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 18, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-b-c-d / where can the burro be? Last Line: Of aunt merced Subject(s): Donkeys;nonsense; Burros NONSENSE RHYMES: 19, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Josie gave to me a rose Last Line: For I must go with isabel Subject(s): Flowers;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What day is tomorrow Last Line: "ta-lan, ta-lana" Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 21, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bread, breadbaker" Last Line: His boots made of hide Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 22, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Say your goodbyes Last Line: And I ate twice Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 23, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How pretty and neat Last Line: With nuts to eat Subject(s): Monkeys;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All my boasting friends Last Line: Here does the lawyer dwell! Subject(s): Law & Lawyers;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ramon sallies / through the alleys Last Line: Catch him quick! Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What have you there? Last Line: "no, poor creature!" Subject(s): Nonsense;worms NONSENSE RHYMES: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nana caliche Last Line: Will eat her dough Subject(s): Chickens;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 8, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I do not go to the fields today Last Line: Likes to flirt and tease Subject(s): Flirtation;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 9, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Down the hill the waters cascade Last Line: And now my horses will have to wade Subject(s): Animals;horses;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMNES: 20, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rejoice, rejoice, my little orange tree" Last Line: "homely, homely, but not ignored." Subject(s): Courtship;nonsense NONSENSE SONG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jack and the jolick and the jamborie Last Line: They'll reach the stars before they are done! Subject(s): Nonsense NONSENSE VERSES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep! Last Line: Remember the loss is her own if she lose it. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Idleness; Nonsense; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence NONSENSE VISITED, by DOROTHY BRUMMEL Poem Source First Line: I looked at him with ideaho eyes Last Line: Now he and I are twain Subject(s): Nonsense O! MIMBER FOR THE COUNTY LOUTH, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yours ever, %edward lear Subject(s): Friendship; Nonsense; Writing And Writers OH, MY GERALDINE, by FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND Poem Full Text First Line: Oh, my geraldine, / no flow'r was ever seem so toodle um Subject(s): Nonsense ON A BEAUTIFUL BAR BUTTERFLY IN THE BLACK CAT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vinea submittit car(e)as non semper edulis Last Line: She-goats bred in vineyards are not always edible Subject(s): Goats; Latin; Nonsense OTHER EARLY LIMERICKS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man who forgot Last Line: Which he very soon filled full of tears Subject(s): Grief; Nonsense; Old Age PELICAN CHORUS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King and queen of the pelicans we Last Line: We think so then, and we thought so still! Subject(s): Animals; Nonsense PEPPERING ROADS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you wish to see roads in perfection Last Line: Amply pay you for all you have passed! Subject(s): Nonsense; Roads; Shoes; Travel; Walking PSYCHOLOPHON, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twine then the rays Last Line: Thus I inhibit! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Nonsense RECEIPT FOR GEORGE SCRIVENS, ESQ, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ten pounds, for a drawing of the seeders of lebanon. Edward lear Subject(s): Nonsense REMMINISSENCIZ OF ORGUST 14 AITNUNDREDNAITY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a great person of stratton Last Line: To leave micheldever for stratton Subject(s): Nonsense; Sleep SCIENTIFIC PROOF, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Text First Line: If we square a lump of pemmican Last Line: And what's the price of coal. Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Nonsense; Science; Scientists SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 50, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pin has a head, but has no hair Last Line: And baby crows, without being a cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Pin Subject(s): Language; Nonsense; Words; Vocabulary SONNET FOUND IN A DESERTED MAD HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize! Last Line: Like a potato riding on the blast Subject(s): Insanity;nonsense; Madness;mental Illness TABLE AND THE CHAIR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the table to the chair Last Line: Till they toddled to their beds Subject(s): Brothers; Nonsense; Togetherness; Walking THE AKOND [OR, AKHOND] OF SWAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, or why, or which, or what, is the akond of swat Last Line: Is the ahkond of swat! Subject(s): Nonsense THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the coast of coromandel Last Line: For the yonghy-bonghy-bo. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Nonsense THE CUMBERBUNCE, by PAUL WEST Poem Text First Line: I strolled beside the shining sea Last Line: "the difference 'twixt 'might' and 'could'!" Subject(s): Nonsense; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE CUMMERBUND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sate upon her dobie Last Line: And swollow you outright. Subject(s): Nonsense; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When awful darkness and silence reign Last Line: The dong with a luminous nose! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Nonsense; Noses THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the duck to the kangaroo Last Line: As the duck and the kangaroo? Subject(s): Ducks; Friendship; Kangaroos; Nonsense; Mallards; Drakes THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK: FIT 3. THE BAKER'S TALE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "and the notion I cannot endure!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Nonsense THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd never dare to walk across Last Line: I fear that I should be! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Bridges; Fear; Nonsense THE JIM-JAM KING OF THE JOU-JOUS; AN ARABIAN LEGEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far off in the waste of desert sand Last Line: Allah il allah! Oo-aye! Amen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;legends;nonsense;translating & Interpreting THE JUMBLIES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis 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): Children; Nonsense; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE MAN IN THE MOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the raggedy man on a hot afternoon Last Line: "him!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Childhood THE NEW VESTMENTS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived an old man in the kingdom of tess Last Line: "any more, any more, any more, never more!'" Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nonsense THE NUTCRACKERS AND THE SUGAR-TONGS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nutcrackers sate by a plate on the table Last Line: They faded away; and they never came back! Subject(s): Nonsense THE OCEAN WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bright breaks the warrior o'er the ocean wave Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wandering & Wanderers;; Ocean THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE POBBLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pobble who has no toes Last Line: "that pobbles are happier without their toes." Subject(s): Nonsense THE PRINCESS'S FINGER-NAIL; A TALE OF NONSENSE LAND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the castle of high-bred ease Last Line: And this is the end of my nonsense tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Nonsense THE PURPLE COW, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw a purple cow Last Line: I'd rather see than be one. Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Cows; Nonsense THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the top of the crumpetty tree Last Line: With the quangle wangle quee. Subject(s): Friendship; Hats; Nonsense THE SHIPWRECK, by EDWARD HENRY PALMER Poem Text First Line: Upon the poop the captain stands Last Line: Preserved the sinking yawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, E. H. Subject(s): Disasters; Nonsense; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the table to the chair Subject(s): Brothers; Nonsense; Togetherness; Walking; Half-brothers THE THINGUMBOB SAT AT EVENTIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wind; Ocean THE TWO OLD BACHELORS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two old bachelors were living in one house Last Line: And from that hour those bachelors were never heard of more. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nonsense; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE WHANGO TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The woggly bird sat on the whango tree Subject(s): Nonsense;trees THE [LAZY] ROOF, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roof it has a lazy time Last Line: They do not have much fun! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Nonsense; Roofing & Roofers THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF AYR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which dazzled the people of ayr Subject(s): Nonsense; Youth THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF JANINA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You propitious old person of janina!' Subject(s): Nonsense THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN A TREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To make themselves nests in that tree Subject(s): Environment; Nonsense; Trees THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF CASHMERE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And perceived two fat ducks of cashmere Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF PORT GRIGOR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That electric old man of port grigor Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN ON THE BORDER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which vexed all the folks on the border Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WITH A RIBBON, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This is quite the best use for my ribbon Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BUDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which perplexed all the people of bude Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CASSEL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which perplexed that old person of cassel Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF DUNDALK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had better go back to dundalk!' Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF EALING, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which distressed all the people of ealing Subject(s): Animals; Nonsense THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF FLORENCE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which choked that old person of florence Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF JODD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And squeaked to the people of jodd Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF LOO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That vexatious old person of loo Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PISA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Round the walls of the city of pisa Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age; Punishment THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF RIMINI, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And was never more heard of at rimini Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF WARE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He's a moppsikon floppsikon bear! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nonsense THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three jovial huntsmen Subject(s): Hunting;moon;nonsense; Hunters TO MARIE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the breeze from the bluebottle's ... Blim Last Line: "panky-doodle ker-chuggetty-chug!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nonsense; Soul; Nightmares TURVEY TOP, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Twas after a supper of norfolk brawn Last Line: And would flourish in turvey top. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nonsense; Nightmares UFFIA, by HARRIET R. WHITE Poem Text First Line: When sporgles spanned the floreate mead Last Line: Pangwangling was her pace. Subject(s): Love; Nonsense UNCLE SIMON AND UNCLE JIM, by CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle simon he Last Line: And squatted down by he. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Artemus; Brown, Charles Farrar Subject(s): Nonsense; Uncles VIDE COLLINS HASSAN-OR THE CAMEL DRIVER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreary silence down the bustling road Last Line: When first from bowman's lodge they bent their way Subject(s): Grief; London; Nonsense; Poverty WHO'LL TEND BABY?, by E. E. Poem Text First Line: Who'll take care of the baby?' Last Line: "she went to pay her taxes!" Subject(s): Babies; Children; Irony; Nonsense; Infants; Childhood WISE MEN OF GOTHAM, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a bowl to sea went wise men three Last Line: And they had not caught the moon Subject(s): Nonsense WONDERS OF NATURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah! Who has seen the mailed lobster rise Subject(s): Flowers;nature;nonsense |
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