Edward Lear (1812–88)

More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872)

One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes

There was an old man of Hong Kong
There was an old person of Fife
There was a young person in green
There was an old person of Slough
There was an old person of Putney
There was a young lady in white
There was an old person of Brill
There was an old man of Three Bridges
There was an old person of Wick
There was a young lady in blue
There was an old person of China
There was an old man of the Dargle
There was an old man in a Marsh
There was a young person in red
There was an old person of Bree
There was an old man in a barge
There was an old person in black
There was an old man of Toulouse
There was an old man of Blackheath
There was an old man on the Humber
There was an old person of Stroud
There was an old man of Boulak
There was an old man of Ibreem
There was an old lady of France
There was an old man who screamed out
There was an old person of Woking
There was a young person of Bantry
There was an Old Man at a Junction
There was an old man, who when little
There was an old Lady of Winchelsea
There was a young lady of Firle
There was an old person of Rye
There was an old man of Messina
There was a young lady, whose nose
There was an old person of Cannes
There was an old person of Barnes
There was an old man of Cashmere
There was an old person of Hove
There was an old person of Down
There was an old man of Dunluce
There was a young person of Kew
There was an old person of Sark
There was an old person of Filey
There was an old man of El Hums
There was an old man of West Dumpet
There was an old man of Port Grigor
There was an old person of Bar
There was an old person of Pett
There was an old person of Newry
There was an old person of Jodd
There was an old person of Shoreham
There was an old man of Dumbree
There was an old person of Wilts
There was an old man whose remorse
There was an old person of Cassel
There was a young person of Janina
There was an old person of Ware
There was an old person of Dean
There was an old person of Dundalk
There was a young person of Ayr
There was an old person of Skye
There was an old man of Dumblane
There was an old person of Hyde
There was an old person of Rimini
There was an old man in a tree
There was a young lady of Corsica
There was an old person of Bray
There was an old person of Sestri
There was an old person of Bude
There was an old person of Bow
There was a young lady of Greenwich
There was an old person of Brigg
There was an old person of Crowle
There was an old person in gray
There was an old person of Blythe
There was an old person of Ealing
There was an old person of Ickley
There was an old man of Ancona
There was an old person of Grange
There was an old person of Nice
There was an old person of Deal
There was an old man of Thermopylæ
There was an old person of Minety
There was an old man whose despair
There was an old person of Pinner
There was an old person of Bromley
There was an old man of Dunrose
There was an old man on the Border
There was an old man of Spithead
There was an old person of Sheen
There was an old person of Florence
There was an old person of Loo
There was an old person of Pisa
There was an old man in a garden
There was an old man of Thames Ditton
There was an old man of Dee-side
There was an old man at a Station
There was an old person of Shields
There was a young person in pink
There was a young person whose history