Love Poems – Page 3513

• There was an old person of Putney

  * * * / There was an old person of Putney, / Whose food was roast spiders and chutney, …

• There was an old person of Slough

  * * * / There was an old person of Slough, / Who danced at the end of a bough; …

• There was an old person of Stroud

  * * * / There was an old person of Stroud, / Who was horribly jammed in a crowd; …

• There was an old person of Wick

  * * * / There was an old person of Wick, / Who said, 'Tick-a-Tick, Tick-a-Tick; …

• There was an old person of Wilts

  * * * / There was an old person of Wilts, / Who constantly walked upon stilts; …

• There was an Old Person whose habits

  * * * / There was an Old Person whose habits, / Induced him to feed upon rabbits; …

• There was an Old Sailor of Compton

  * * * / There was an Old Sailor of Compton, / Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on; …

• There was on Old Man of the Isles

  * * * / There was on Old Man of the Isles, / Whose face was pervaded with smiles; …

• There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,

  There's been a Death, in the Opposite House, / As lately as Today — / I know it, by the numb look …

• There's something quieter than sleep

  There's something quieter than sleep / Within this inner room! / It wears a sprig upon its breast — …

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