There was an Old Man of the Dee.

About Edward Lear

English artist and poet, master of literary nonsense. Creator of the limerick form and beloved poems like "The Owl and the Pussycat."

More poems by Edward Lear

• Angel Island — Edward Lear (1912)
• The Akond of Swat — Edward Lear (1872)
• The Butterfly — Edward Lear (1872)
• The Courtship of the Yonghy Bonghy Bò. — Edward Lear (1872)
• The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly — Edward Lear (1872)
• The Dong with a Lonesome Bong — Edward Lear (1872)
• The Dong with a Luminous Nose — Edward Lear
• The Duck and the Kangaroo — Edward Lear (1872)

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More Humor & Wit poems

• A Sea Dirge — Lewis Carroll
• Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires. — Alexander Pope
• Epitaph. Another, on the Same. — Alexander Pope
• If Loue be blind — John Milton
• Mac Flecknoe — John Dryden
• No, Thank You John — Christina Rossetti
• Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff — John Keats
• Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) — Lord Alfred Tennyson

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