The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not a big one for poetry, but I do have a fondness for nonsense. Lear's rhymes evoke such fantastical images and the words just beg to be read aloud.
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The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses - Edward Lear
Edward Lear
The Jumblies
And Other Nonsense Verses
Published by Sovereign Classic
This Edition
First published in 2014
Copyright © 2014 Sovereign
All Rights Reserved.
Contents
THE JUMBLIES
THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO
THE CUMMERBUND
THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT
THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER AND THE TONGS
THE NEW VESTMENTS
CALICO PIE
THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BÒ.
NOTES
THE JUMBLIES
I
THEY went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And everyone cried, You’ll all be drowned!
They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button, we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And