Living
There was an Old Man of Berlin
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of Berlin,
Whose form was uncommonly thin;
Till he once, by mistake, was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.
Cite this poem
MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Berlin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/76/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Berlin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/76/.
Read this poem with the Codex →