The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense Book

	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
	'Edward Lear'
	Introduction
	Table of Dates
	Further Reading
	A Note on the Texts
	Eclogue: Vide Collins 'Hassan - or the Camel Driver'	3
	To Miss Lear on her Birthday	5
	The Shady Side of Sunnyside	9
	Journal	10
	Turkey Discipline	14
	'When the light dies away on a calm summer's eve'	15
	'From the pale and the deep'	15
	Peppering Roads	16
	Miss Fraser's Album	18
	Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Aegina, Greece	19
	The Bride's Farewell	20
	Ruby	22
	Miss Maniac	23
	'I slept, and back to my early days'	40
	Resignation	43
	'I've just seen Mrs. Hopkins - and read her the lines'	44
	Ode to the little China Man	44
	Peppering Bell	45
	Letter to Harry Hinde	46
	Scrawl	48
	Letter to Fanny Jane Dolly Coombe	49
	'Oh! Pan!'	51
	Letter to George Coombe	52
	The Nervous Family	53
	The Nervous Family: Alternative version	54
	'The gloom that winter casts'	56
	'My dear Mrs. Gale - from my leaving the cradle'	56
	Portraites of the inditchenous beestes of New Olland	57
	'My Sweet Home is no longer mine'	58
	[Illustrations for 'Kathleen O'More']	59
	Scene in the Campagna of Rome	62
	[Lear's adventures on horseback]	63
	[Limericks for the 1846 and 1855 editions of A Book of Nonsense]	71
	[Other early limericks]	108
	The Hens of Oripo	120
	'A was an Ant'	122
	'Ribands and pigs'	135
	Ye poppular author & traveller in Albania & Calabria, keepinge his feete warme	149
	[Lear at the Royal Academy Schools]	150
	'There was an old person of Ramleh'	151
	'O! Mimber for the County Louth'	151
	'Washing my rose-coloured flesh and brushing my beard with a hairbrush'	153
	From a letter to George Grove	155
	'But ah! (the Landscape painter said,)'	156
	[Additional limericks for the 1861 edition of A Book of nonsense]	157
	'General appearance of a distinguished Landscapepainter'	179
	Eggstracts from the Roehampton Chronicle	180
	Letter to Ruth Decie	183
	'There was an old person of Paxo'	184
	'She sits upon her Bulbul'	184
	'O Digby my dear'	185
	'There was an old man with a Book'	185
	Letters to Evelyn Baring	186
	Letter to Nora Decie	188
	[Lear's adventures in Crete]	189
	Letters to Anna Duncan and Lady Duncan	191
	The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple	193
	The Duck and the Kangaroo	207
	'Gozo my child is the isle of Calypso'	210
	Stratford Place Gazette	211
	[Three miscellaneous limericks]	212
	The Adventures of Mr. Lear & the Polly [& the] Pusseybite on their way to the Ritertitle Mountains	214
	'O Thuthan Thmith! Thweet Thuthan Thmith!'	219
	The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World	220
	Growling Eclogue	233
	The Owl and the Pussy-cat	238
	[Mrs. Blue Dickey-bird]	240
	'Some people their attention Fixes'	240
	The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs	241
	'There was an old man who said - "Hum!"	243
	Calico Pie	244
	The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly	246
	[Nonsense Cookery]	249
	[Nonsense Botany - 1]	251
	The Jumblies	253
	'The Absolutely Abstemious Ass'	256
	'The Uncareful Cow, who walked about'	270
	[Creatures playing chequers]	271
	The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-tongs	272
	Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow	274
	The Table and the Chair	277
	'A was once an apple-pie'	279
	'A was an Area Arch'	305
	[Mr. Lear receives a letter from Marianne North]	319
	Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos	321
	The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo	324
	[Limericks published in More Nonsense]	328
	[Extra limericks prepared for More Nonsense]	378
	[Nonsense Botany - 2]	383
	'Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hill'	386
	The Scroobious Pip	387
	The Quangle Wangle's Hat	391
	[Receipt for George Scrivens, Esq.]	393
	'Papa once went to Greece'	394
	The Story of the Pobble, who has no toes, and the Princess Bink	394
	The Pobble who has no Toes	397
	The Akond of Swat	399
	'The Attalik Ghazee'	402
	[Indian limericks]	402
	'O! Chichester, my Carlingford!'	404
	The Cummerbund	405
	Letter to Lady Wyatt	407
	Poona Observer	408
	The New Vestments	409
	The Pelican Chorus	412
	The Two Old Bachelors	415
	[Nonsense Botany - 3]	417
	'A tumbled down, and hurt his Arm'	420
	The Dong with a Luminous Nose	422
	'Finale Marina! If ever you'd seen her!'	425
	In medio Tutorissimus ibis	425
	'O dear! how disgusting is life!'	427
	'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!'	428
	Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos: Second Part	430
	'O Brother Chicken! Sister Chick!'	432
	'Dear Sir, Though many checks prevent'	433
	Remminissenciz of Orgust 14 Aitnundrednaity	433
	'I am awfull aged in apierance lately'	434
	'There was an old man with a ribbon'	434
	Letter to Mrs. Stuart Wortley [The Moon Journey]	435
	[Chichester Fortescue is appointed Lord Privy Seal]	438
	[Nonsense Trees]	439
	'The Octopods and Reptiles'	444
	[The Heraldic Blazons of Foss the Cat]	444
	'Mrs. Jaypher found a wafer'	448
	From a letter to the Hon. Mrs. Augusta Parker	449
	[The Later History of the Owl and the Pussy-cat]	450
	'When "grand old men" persist in folly'	452
	'He lived at Dingle Bank - he did'	452
	'And this is certain; if so be'	453
	Eggstrax from The Maloja Gazette	454
	'When leaving this beautiful blessed Brianza'	455
	Some Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly	456
	'He only said, "I'm very weary'"	458
	'I must stop now'	458
	'I think human nature is pretty much the same all along'	458
App	Examples of Lear's Nonsense Similes	461
App	Work Erroneously Attributed to Lear	465
	Notes	467
	Index of Titles	551
	Index of First Lines	555
	Subject Index	565