Nonsense Verse

Each of us has giggled uncontrollably as a child or adult at some silly nothing, some play on words, some nonsense that, for a moment at least, makes the world seem genuinely funny, if a little mad. In this volume of nonsense verse, you’ll find many favourites to take you back to the time and place where most things are a little upside down or back to front, including favourites from Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and quite a few others to giggle along with. The selections in this volume are: ‘Nonsense Verse – An Introduction ‘The Great Panjandrum’ - Samuel Foote ‘A Chronicle’ – Anonymous ‘The Mad Gardener's Song’ - Lewis Carroll ‘As I Went Over the Water’ – Anonymous ‘As I Was Going Out One Day’ – Anonymous; ‘The Cod’ - Lord Alfred Douglas ‘The Courtship of Yongy Bongy Bo’ - Edward Lear ‘The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog’ – Anonymous ‘How Pleasant to Know’ - Edward Lear ‘Jabberwocky’ - Lewis Carroll ‘I Saw a Peacock’ – Anonymous ‘The Common Cormorant’ – Anonymous ‘Th