Living
There was an Old Man in a tree
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, "Does it buzz?" he replied, "Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a Bee."
Cite this poem
MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man in a tree.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/8/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man in a tree.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/8/.
Read this poem with the Codex →