This collection of verse and limericks contains much for adults and children to enjoy: humorous verse with cleverly invented language, strong rhythms and quirky, imaginative themes.Lear was the inventor of the limerick and here you will find many of the first and funniest ever written, but there are also longer nonsense poems, songs, narrative verse and hilarious illustrations.

Ever since we read or heard The Owl and the Pussy-Cat as children, the poetry of Edward Lear has charmed us with its wonderful eccentricity. This collection of verse and limericks contains much for adults and children to enjoy: humorous verse with cleverly invented language, strong rhythms and quirky, imaginative themes.

Lear was the inventor of the limerick and here you will find many of the first and funniest ever written, but there are also longer nonsense poems, songs, narrative verse and hilarious illustrations. All in all this collection of Lear's nonsense is a marvellous escape from the commonplace into the world of the absurd.

THE BOOK OF NONSEMIE

NONSENSE SONGS

THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT

THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO

THE DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY

THE JUMBLIES

THE NUTCRACKERS AND THE SUGAR-TONGS

CALICO PIE

MR. AND MRS. SPIKKY SPARROW

THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER, AND THE TONGS

THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR

THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE

THE TWO OLD BACHELORS

THE PELICAN CHORUS