Edward Lear: Quotes about the sea

Edward Lear was British artist, illustrator, author and poet. Explore interesting quotes on sea.
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“They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
In a sieve they went to sea;
In spite of all their friends could say.”

Edward Lear

" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).

“Calico Jam,
The little Fish swam,
Over the syllabub sea,
He took off his hat,
To the Sole and the Sprat,
And the Willeby-Wat,—
But he never came back to me!”

Edward Lear

Calico Pie, st. 2.

“Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.”

Edward Lear

" The Jumblies http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html", st. 1, in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871).