Living
There was an Old Man with a beard
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!--
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard."
Cite this poem
MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man with a beard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/109/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man with a beard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/109/.
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