Living
There was an Old Person of Tring
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Person of Tring,
Who embellished his nose with a ring;
He gazed at the moon every evening in June,
That ecstatic Old Person of Tring.
Cite this poem
MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Tring.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/42/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Tring.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/42/.
Read this poem with the Codex →