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    Nonsense Verse
    Nonsense Verse
    Nonsense Verse
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    Nonsense Verse

    By Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005355

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      Book preview

      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,

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