21. "The Limerick Is Furtive And Mean..." From the Maigue poets to ogden nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oftrisqu© five-line verses. Introductory article. http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/sep02/limericks.html

document.write(''); read full text "The Limerick is Furtive and Mean..." The limerick is furtive and mean; You must keep her in close quarantine, Or she sneaks to the slums And promptly becomes Disorderly, drunk and obscene. "Hickory, dickory, dock, a mouse ran up the clock...." So vivid is the imagery and so strong the rhyme and meter that even the most poetically impaired can supply the last lines to this charming bit of doggerel. It has enthralled children since its publication in 1744. Like a lot of well-remembered poetry, it is a limerick. Limericks are essentially word puzzles in light verse, more often than not infused with sexual innuendo. Nobody wrote wittier ones than Ogden Nash, whose ingenious poetic playfulness complemented the form. Many know his "I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance." The five-line verse probably originated from the limerick-makers of Croom, known as the Maigue poets, who flourished in the 18th century. They were schoolteachers, priests and self-styled persons of letters, living within 20 miles of this southwestern Irish village. Their gatherings at inns and taverns were called poets courts, to which new members were invited by "warrants" to drink, recite, and often sing, their verses. The verse form that the Maigue poets helped foster became an energetic dimension of the Irish cultural landscape. Centuries before step-dancing swept across our stages, sailors from around the world landed in Cork and made the short journey north to the taverns of Limerick. And while there's no concrete evidence to suggest how the limerick spread from continent to continent, the following explanation is offered by an anonymous bard:

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A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971) "... my field the minor idiocies of humanity" Selected Poems by Ogden Nash Short Subjects More Short Subjects, Naturally On People On Work ... On Occasion Ogden Nash poems and stories . For information about Ogden Nash or the use of his works, contact Frances Rider Smith robertg@aenet.org www.aenet.org Previous Page : The Life of OgdenNash

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Pine Valley Poems by Ogden Nash A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Feels the sun with terror, One unwilling step she takes, Shuddering to the mirror. Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. Shining like the morning star, Like the twilight shining, Haunted by a calendar, Miranda is a-pining. Silly girl, silver girl, Draw the mirror toward you; Time who makes the years to whirl Adorned as he adored you. Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; What's a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman? Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then How old is Spring, Miranda? Kipling's Vermont The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eyes An alien suttee. Old Men People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

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@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index FRIDAY 28th May 2004 Text only Make this my homepage How to get BBC Four BBC Homepage ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Ogden Nash 1902 - 1971 World of Books 31 October 1964 Home Service Ogden Nash talks to Kenneth Allsop about the influence of James Joyce, picking and stealing and rhyming techniques 2 min women 2 min 7 other people's descriptions of him 1 min 25 You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. Visit WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer Ogden Nash American writer of humorous poetry A master of light verse, the impact of Nash's poems lies in the rhymes, bizarrely tangential or disconcertingly exact, they are always satisfyingly strange. Read more Further Links Ogden Nash recites You and Me and P.B. Shelley Audio Interviews A-Z A-B C-D E-H I-L ... U-Z

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Ogden Nash is one of the few American humorous poets. He became very famous during his life for his funny work. His many poems are loved by both children and adults. I hope that after you read this you will like his poetry as much as I did. (Frederic) Ogden Nash was born in Rye, New York, on August 19, 1902 . He went to a school in Newport, Rhode Island. Later he attended Harvard University for one year but left because of family financial problems. He decided to get a job. He became a teacher at his old school in Rhode Island, which was called St. George's School, but quit because of stress from his fourteen-year-old students. Ogden Nash then became a salesman, then an adviser, then an editorial staff worker. Then he became a famous poet. He got to be on radio and television. He died on May 19, 1971,in Baltimore, Maryland. Ogden Nash's strongest style in his writing was humor, but he had many others. One of his techniques was to write some of his lines of uneven lengths. He also misspelled and made up words to make them rhyme and sound humorous, which was strange since he went to Harvard, a very serious school. He often wrote about animals, which I like. It makes poems more interesting. Here is a poem of his: The Eel I don't mind eels Except as meals.

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