There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others

Laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. This volume features selections by legendary poets Robert Frost, Edward Lear, and Carolyn Wells; renowned writers Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mark Twain; and world leaders Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Queen Elizabeth I, and President Woodrow Wilson. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm. Enjoy common varieties, including geographical and bawdy limericks, as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Travel the world with a man from Nantucket and a young lady of Niger. Explore the animal kingdom with a fly and a flea in a flue and a pelican with food stuffed in his beak. Experience the mundane, such as a tooting tutor tutoring two tooters, and the peculiar, including walking around a room that has no floor. With classics from the golden age and contemporary verse, this irresistible, rib-tickling anthology has something for everyone, from humor buffs to poetry lovers.