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Author: Ken Layton Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462046169 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 133
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LIGHT VERSE AND LIMERICKS is a compilation of my poetry that I found humorous over the last sixty years. It is an attempt on my part to see the world through laughing eyes, to put a touch of whimsy into words, and to bring smiles to anyone who happens to read my lines. Laziness and lack of funds are the villains I name for keeping me from publication before this. My intention now is to get these poems into book form so, possibly, my wife, Glenda, won't burn them when I die, and to satisfy a sixty year desire to have a book of my own within my library.
Author: Ken Layton Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462046169 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 133
Book Description
LIGHT VERSE AND LIMERICKS is a compilation of my poetry that I found humorous over the last sixty years. It is an attempt on my part to see the world through laughing eyes, to put a touch of whimsy into words, and to bring smiles to anyone who happens to read my lines. Laziness and lack of funds are the villains I name for keeping me from publication before this. My intention now is to get these poems into book form so, possibly, my wife, Glenda, won't burn them when I die, and to satisfy a sixty year desire to have a book of my own within my library.
Author: W. H. Auden Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0679761705 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 242
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W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Author: W. H. Auden Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 159017089X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Auden's celebrated anthology of light verse is packed with surprising finds while also offering a striking rethinking of the poetic canon. Commissioned by Oxford University Press in the 1930s, when Auden's own work was at its boldest, the book caught its original publisher off guard. For it is less a collection of humorous verses than a celebration of the popular voice in English, in which the work of great satirists like Swift and Byron keeps company with ballads, chanteys, ditties, nursery rhymes, street calls, bathroom graffiti, epitaphs, folk songs, vaudeville turns, limericks, and blues. Turning away from the post-Romantic cult of the sentimental lyric, Auden features poetry that is clear, enjoyable, and, no matter its age, absolutely modern. This new edition includes previously censored poems, together with Auden's remarkable introduction and a new preface by his literary executor, Edward Mendelson.
Author: Brian P. Cleary Publisher: Millbrook Press ™ ISBN: 1467777722 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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What do you get when you combine a poem and a joke? A limerick! These five-line rhyming poems are funny, silly, and sly. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how limericks work—and shows how these little poems can trigger big laughs. Something Sure Smells Around Here is packed with hilarious poems to make you chuckle and chortle. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own limericks!
Author: Christopher Goodwins Publisher: Circle Books ISBN: 9781905047598 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 0
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Praised as being faithful to the text, each limerick numbered for easy reference, indexed by themes and people, The Bible in Limerick Verse will help you move onto the real thing, both for enjoyment and spiritual enlightenment. Book jacket.
Author: Kevin Lucas Publisher: Temptation Press ISBN: 9781947210103 Category : Languages : en Pages : 142
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With more than 3,000 limericks in his repertoire, Kevin Lucas chose to share some of his more salacious works with you in The Little Blue Book of Limericks. Webster's Dictionary defines a limerick as: "a light or humorous verse form of five ... lines"
Author: Kevin Lucas Publisher: ISBN: 9781947210073 Category : Humorous poetry Languages : en Pages : 90
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Puns Upon a Rhyme: A Collection of Limericks to Tickle Your Fancy showcases Kevin Lucas's unique humor and take on the every day occurrences around us. Webster's Dictionary defines a limerick as: "a light or humorous verse form of five ... lines" Lucas has penned over 3,000 limericks to date and chose to share over two-hundred in this collection for your amusement. "On a clean-living lifestyle, I pride myself. By the teachings of Jesus, I guide myself. But my ne'er-do-well twin, Who's conjoined, lives in sin, And I'm greatly distressed--I'm beside myself!" -Kevin Lucas
Author: Ken Layton
Author: Ken Layton
Author: W. H. Auden
Author: Roger Blakewell
Author: W. H. Auden
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Author: Edward Lear
Author: Christopher Goodwins
Author: Kevin Lucas
Author: Kevin Lucas
Author: Edward Lear