 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.  Poetry Goes to School - Página 35por David Booth, Bob Barton - 2003 - 112 páginasPré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 páginas
...first of these ' Nonsense ' volumes, and opened with the (at any rate temporarily) immortal verse ' There was an old man with a beard, Who said " It is just as I feared," etc. It would almost seem that at this time he was trying, in his kindly way, to instruct the youthful... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1846 - 238 páginas
...originally made and composed for their parents,) IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR, EDWARD LEAR. LONDON, 1862. There was an Old Man with a beard, who said, " It is just as I feared I — Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard ! " There was... | |
 | 1901 - 892 páginas
...said, "Does it trot ? " He said : " Certainly not, It's a Moppsikon Floppsikoa bear." There once was a man with a beard Who said, " It is just as I feared ! — Two Owls and a Hen, Four I. arks and a Wren Have all built their nests in my beard." There was an old person of Wick, Who said,... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 260 páginas
...what he should do ; So he tore off his hair, and behaved like a bear, That intrinsic Old Man of Peru. There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, " It...and a Wren. Have all built their nests in my beard." There was a Young Lady whose eyes Were unique as to color and size ; When she opened them wide, people... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 438 páginas
...he tore off his hair, and behaved like a bear, That intrinsic Old Man of Peru. A BOOK OF NONSENSE. There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, " It is just as I feared l — Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wrea Have all built their nests in my beard." There was... | |
 | 1889 - 708 páginas
...book, and with laughter they shook, At the fun of that Derry down Derry, without a smile. The familiar old man with a beard, who said, " It is just as I...and a wren, Have all built their nests in my beard !" and the interesting young lady whose bonnet came untied when the birds sat upon it ; But she said,... | |
 | 1893 - 112 páginas
...this bell ? I have pulled day and night, till my hair has grown white, But nobody answers this bell! " There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, " It...and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard." For he said, " More than that would make me too fat," That cautious Old Person of Dean. There was an... | |
 | 1899 - 650 páginas
...the best of all "Books of Nonsense" the reader was entertained with the embarrassment of a certain "Old man with a beard, who said it is just as I feared" — the apprehension thus realized being that the fowls of the air would build their nests in the tempting... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1901 - 796 páginas
..."Does it trot ? " He said : ' ' Certainly not, It's a Moppsikon FloppsikoH bear." There once was a man with a beard Who said, " It is just as I feared...and a Wren Have all built their nests in my beard." There was an old person of Wick, Who said, " Tick-a-Tick, Tick-a-Tick, Chickabee, Chickabaw, " And... | |
 | 1901 - 830 páginas
...old person of Ware Who rode on the back of a bear; When they said. "Does it trot?" There once was a man with a beard Who said. "It is just as I feared...and a Wren Have all built their nests in my beard." There was an old person of Wick, Who said, "Tick-a-tick, Tick-a-tick, Chickabee, Chickabaw," And he... | |
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