Love Poems – Page 2617

The Jumblies

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 English
The History Lesson

There was a monkey climbed up a tree,
When he fell down, then down full he.
There was a crow sat on a stone, …

Anonymous English
Sage Counsel

The Lion is the beast to fight,
He leaps along the plain,
And if you run with all your might, …

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch English
Limericks

From “a Book of Nonsense”
THERE was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, “If you choose to suppose …

Edward Lear English
“There was a small boy of Quebec”

There was a small boy of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck;
When they said. “Are you friz?” …

Rudyard Kipling English
“There was a young lady of Niger”

There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger;
They came back from the ride …

Anonymous English
The Days Gone by

O The DAYS gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail …

James Whitcomb Riley English
Seven Times Two

Romance
YOU bells in the steeple, ring out your changes,
How many soever they be, …

Jean Ingelow English
In the Season

It is the season now to go
About the country high and low,
Among the lilacs hand in hand, …

Robert Louis Stevenson English
“Sweet stream that winds”

Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade,
Apt emblem of a virtuous maid,—
Silent and chaste she steals along, …

William Cowper English