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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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''Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,
I'll stare at something less prepoceros.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. The Rhinoceros (l. 3-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford Univer...
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''Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. The Tale of Custard the Dragon (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. ...
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''The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,
He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit,
And Custard gobbled him, every bit.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. The Tale of Custard the Dragon (l. 41-44). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed...
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''I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it,
But I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. The Terrible People, Happy Days (1933).
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''The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. The Turtle (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University...
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers...
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Very like a Whale (l. 19-20). . .
Treasury of Great Poems, English and American, A. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (Rev....
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''One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Very like a Whale (l. 1-2). . .
Treasury of Great Poems, English and American, A. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (Rev. a...
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''What does it mean when we are told
That the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold?''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. Very like a Whale (l. 5-6). . .
Treasury of Great Poems, English and American, A. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (Rev. a...
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''Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy,
You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday,
No wonder you feel that lost sensation;
You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.''
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. We'll All Feel Better By Wednesday, Versus (1949).
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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
being embarrassed by our childer...
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971), U.S. poet. "What I Know About Life," Versus, 1949.
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