Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. Wikipedia
“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
Source: The Owl and the Pussycat
Book of Nonsense http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nnsns10.txt, Limerick 1 (1846).
" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).
The Dong with the Luminous Nose http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/dln.html, st. 1 (1877).
" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).
The Quangle Wangle's Hat http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/quangle.html, st. 1 (1877).
“They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the bong-tree grows.”
St. 2.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)
Calico Pie http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html, st. 1 (1871).
The Pobble Who Has No Toes http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pobble.html, st. 1 (1877).
St. 1.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
St. 5.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
St. 2.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/pw/mrlear.html, st. 1 (1871).
But his shoes were far too tight.
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/pw/arly.html, st. 7 (1895).
“Who, or why, or which, or what,
Is the Akond of Swat?”
The Akond of Swat http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/akond.html, l. 1 (1877).
“It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pebbles are happier without their toes.”
The Pobble Who Has No Toes, st. 6.
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear, st. 2.
The Pelican Chorus http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pelican.html, chorus (1877).
“"Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."”
St. 3.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)
