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''Calico Pie,
The little Birds fly
Down to the calico tree,
Their wings were blue,
And they sang "Tilly-loo!"
Till away they flew—
And they never came back to me!''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. Calico Pie (l. 1-6). . .
Faber Book of Children's Verse, The. Janet Adam Smith, comp. (1953; paperback 1963...
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''\'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!'
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough.''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear (l. 1-4). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner...
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''Who, or why, or which, or what,
Is the Ahkond of Swat?''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Ahkond of Swat (l. 1-2). . .
Faber Book of Nonsense Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, ed. (1979) Faber and ...
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On the Coast of Coromandel
Where the early pumpkins blow,
In the middle of the woods
Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
Two old chairs, and half a candle,—
One old jug without a...
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo (l. 1-8). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II...
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''I would be your wife most gladly!'
(Here she twirled her fingers madly)
'But in England I've a mate!
Yes! you've asked me far too late,
For in England I've a mate,''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo (l. 46-50). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-...
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''When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;—''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Dong with a Luminous Nose (l. 1-3). . .
New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, The. Christopher Ricks, ed....
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''Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Jumblies (l. 11-14). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general...
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''They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Jumblies (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general e...
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''And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Owl and the Pussy-cat (l. 29-30). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ...
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''The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.''
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Edward Lear (1812-1888), British poet. The Owl and the Pussy-cat (l. 1-4). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed...
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The Pobble Who Has No Toes
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The Pobble who has no toes
Had once as many as we;
When they said "Some day you may lose them all;"
He replied "Fish, fiddle-de-dee!"
And his Aunt Jobiska made him drink
Lavender water tinged with pink,
For she said "The World in general knows
There's nothing so good for a Pobble's toes!"
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