Limericks by Edward Lear

  
                         There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!!--
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all Built their nests in my beard!"

There was on Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a remarkable curtsey;
                         She twirled round and round, till she 
                          underground,
                         Which distressed all the people Chersey.


There was an Old Man whose despair
Induced him to purchase a hare:
Whereon one fine day, he rode wholly away,
Which partly assuaged his despair.


        
There was an Old Man who said "Hush!       
I perceive a young bird in this bush!"
When they said, "Is it small?"
 He replied, "Not at all!
It is four times as big as the bush!"