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Edward Lear [1812-1888] English
Rank: 105
Poet (with poems)

Children, Humour, Nonsense, Victorian


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

Peace



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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.
101
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
102
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. Peace
103
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
104

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