Edward Lear
1812 - 1888
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.Poems
- The Duck and the Kangaroo
- How pleasant to know Mr Lear
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
- Limerick: There was a Young Lady whose nose
- The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
- Limerick: There was an Old Derry down Derry,
- The Jumblies
- The Akond of Swat
- Limerick: There Was an Old Man with a Beard
- Limerick: There was an Old Man of Madras
- Limerick: There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
- The Pobble Who Has No Toes