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Ogden Nash
(1902 - 1971 / New York / United States)
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119 poems of Ogden Nash
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''Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw,''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Celery (l. 1-2). . .
Faber Book of Useful Verse, The. Simon Brett, ed. (1981) Faber and Faber.
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''Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. "England Expects," I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938).
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''I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Everybody Tells Me Everything, The Face Is Familiar (1940).
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First
Let the rockets flash and the cannon thunder,
This child is a marvel, a matchless wonder.
A staggering child, a child astounding,
Dazzling, diaperless, dumfounding,
Stup...
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. "First Child . . . Second Child," Versus, 1949.
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A young person is a person with nothing to learn
One who already knows that ice does not chill and fire does not burn . . .
It knows it can spend six hours in the sun on its first
day a...
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. "Fortunately," Versus, 1949.
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''Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus? The Primrose Path (1935).
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''Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus? The Primrose Path (1935).
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''Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. I Never Even Suggested It (l. 13-14). . .
Little Treasury of American Poetry, A. Oscar Williams, ed. (1948) Cha...
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''It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. I Never Even Suggested It (l. 17-18). . .
Little Treasury of American Poetry, A. Oscar Williams, ed. (1948) Cha...
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Here is a pen and here is a pencil,
Here's a typewriter, here's a stencil,
Here is a list of today's appointments,
And all the flies in all the ointments,
The daily woes that a man...
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Let George Do It, If You Can Find Him, The Primrose Path (1935).
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