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Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.

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Alphabet Poem 1877
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The Owl and the Pussy Cat
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The person of Crete
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 102.
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 104.
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Alphabet, No. 5.
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Alphabet, No. 6.
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Book Of Nonsense
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 1.
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 10.
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 100.
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 101.
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Book Of Nonsense Limerick 103.
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Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow
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How pleasant to know Mr. Lear
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Incidents in the life of my Uncle Arly
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
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The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly
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The Dong with a Luminous Nose
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The Jumblies
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The New Vestments
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The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs
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The Pelican Chorus
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The Table And The Chair
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The Quangle Wangle's Hat
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Mr and Mrs Discobbolos
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Alphabet Poem
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Calicoe Pie
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Cold are the Crabs
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He Lived at Dingle Bank
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Imitation of The Olden Poets
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Limerick: The was a Young Lady of Bute
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady in White
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Hull
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Norway,
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Poole
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Portugal
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Ryde
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Turkey
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Tyre
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady Whose Bonnet
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady whose chin
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Limerick: There was a Young Lady whose nose
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Limerick: There was a Young Person of Crete
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Limerick: There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
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Limerick: There was a young person whose history
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Limerick: There was an Ol Man of Quebec
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Limerick: There was an Old Derry down Derry,
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Limerick: There was an Old Lady of Chertsey
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Limerick: There was an old Lady of Winchelsea
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Limerick: There was an Old Man in a boat
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Apulia
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Bohemia
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Cape Horn,
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Coblenz
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Columbia
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Corfu
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Dundee
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Hong Kong
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Jamaica
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Kamschatka
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Kildare
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Kilkenny
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Leghorn
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Madras
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Melrose
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Moldavia
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Nepaul
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Peru
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of th' Abruzzi
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Dee
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the East
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Hague
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Isles
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Nile,
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the North
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the South
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the West
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
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Limerick: There was an old man of Tobago
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Vienna
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Limerick: There Was an Old Man on a Hill
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Limerick: There was an Old Man on some rocks,
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Limerick: There was an old man who felt pert
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Limerick: There Was an Old Man who said,
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Limerick: There was an Old Man who said, 'How
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Limerick: There was an Old Man who said, 'Hush!
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Limerick: There Was an Old Man who Supposed
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Limerick: There was an Old Man who, when little
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Limerick: There was an old man whose despair
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Limerick: There Was an Old Man with a Beard
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Limerick: There was an Old Man with a flute
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Limerick: There was an Old Man with a Gong
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Limerick: There was an Old Man with a Nose
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Limerick: There was an Old Person in Black
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Limerick: There was an Old Person in Gray
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Bangor
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Basing
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Buda
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Cadiz
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Chili
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Dover
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Dutton
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Leeds
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Mold
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Limerick: There was an old person of Paxo
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Philæ,
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Rheims
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Rhodes
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Tring
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Limerick: There was an old person of Troy
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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Wick
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Limerick: There was an Old Person whose habits,
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Limerick: There was an Old Sailor of Compton
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Limerick: There was Old Man in a pew
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Limerick:There was a Young Girl of Majorca
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Clare
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Lucca
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Parma
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Russia
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Sweden
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Troy,
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Wales
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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Welling
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Limerick:There was an Old Lady of Prague
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Limerick:There was an Old Man at a casement
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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Aôsta
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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Calcutta
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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Marseilles
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Limerick:There was an Old Man of the Cape
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Limerick:There was an Old Man of the coast
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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Whitehaven
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Limerick:There was an Old Man with a beard
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Limerick:There was an Old Man with a owl
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Limerick:There was an Old Man, on whose nose
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Limerick:There was an Old Person from Gretna
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Anerley
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Berlin
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Burton
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Cheadle
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Chester
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Ems
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Ewell
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Spain
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Sparta
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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Tartary
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Mr. and Mrs.Spikky Sparrow
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Mrs Jaypher
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Nonsense Alphabet
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Parody of Tennyson'sTo Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece
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Teapots and Quails
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The Akond of Swat
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The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs
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The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
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The Cummerbund: An Indian Poem
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The Duck and the Kangaroo
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The Pobble Who Has No Toes
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The Two Old Bachelors
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There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
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There Was an Old Lady Whose Folly
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There Was an Old Man in a Tree
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There was an Old Man of Calcutta
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There was an Old Man of New York
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There was an Old Man of Thermopylae
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There was an old man on the Border
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There Was an Old Man with a Beard
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There was an old person of Nice
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