Nonsense Verse
By Edward Lear, Carroll Lewis and Samuel Foote
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Nonsense Verse. Each of us has giggled uncontrollably as a child or adult at some silly nothing, some play on words, some nonsense that, for a moment at least, makes the world seem genuinely funny if a little mad. In this volume of Nonsense verse you’ll find many favourites to take you back to the time and place where most things are a little upside down or back to front including favourites from Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and quite a few others to giggle along with. Many of these titles are on our audiobook version which can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
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Nonsense Verse - Edward Lear
The Poetry Of Nonsense
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at a particular theme through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide and here we look at The Poetry Of Nonsense.
Each of us has giggled uncontrollably as a child or adult at some silly nothing, some play on words, some nonsense that, for a moment at least, makes the world seem genuinely funny if a little mad. In this volume of Nonsense verse you’ll find many favourites to take you back to the time and place where most things are a little upside down or back to front including favourites from Edward Lear, Edward Foote, Lewis Carroll and quite a few others to giggle along with.
Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Sandi Tosvig, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe
Index Of Poems
The Great Panjandrum by Samuel Foote
The Twins by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
The Common Cormorant by Anonymous
As I Was Going Out One Day by Anonymous
There Was A Young Lady Whose Eyes by Edward Lear
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear
How Pleasant To Know by Edward Lear
The Courtship of Yonghy Bonghy Bo by Edward Lear
The Comic Adventures Of Old Mother Hubbard And Her Dog by Anonymous
How Pleasant To Know by Edward Lear
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
I Saw A Peacock by Anonymous
The Common Cormorant by Anonymous
There Was A Mad Man by Anonymous
Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll
The Mad Hatters Song by Lewis Carroll
The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
The Nutcracker & The Sugar Tongs by Edward Lear
The Pelican Chorus by Edward Lear
The Table And The Chair by Edward Lear
I Went To The Pictures Tomorrow by Anonymous
The Walrus & The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
The Mock Turtle's Song by Lewis Carroll
Humpty Dumpty Recitation by Lewis Carroll
The Quangle Wangle's Hat by Edward Lear
Simple Simon by Anonymous
The Twins by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
There Was A Young Lady Whose Eyes by Edward Lear
The Hunting Of The Snark by Lewis Carroll
A Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll
Four Riddles by Lewis Carroll
The Kangaroo And The Duck by Lewis Carroll
The Great Panjandrum by Samuel Foote
So she went into the garden
to cut a cabbage-leaf
to make an apple-pie;
and at the same time
a great she-bear, coming down the street,
pops its head into the shop.
What! no soap?
So he died,
and she very imprudently married the Barber:
and there were present
the Picinnies,
and the Joblillies,
and the Garyulies,
and the great Panjandrum himself,
with the little round button at top;
and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,
till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
The Twins by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
That folks got taking me for him,
And each for one another.
It puzzled all our kith and kin,
It reached an awful pitch;
For one of us was born a twin,
Yet not a soul knew which.
One day (to make the matter worse),
Before our names were fixed,
As we were being washed by nurse
We got completely mixed;
And thus, you see, by Fate's decree
(Or rather nurse's whim),
My brother John got christened me,
And I got christened him.
This fatal likeness even dogged
My footsteps when at school,