1. Home »
  2. English Poets »
  3. Edward Lear

Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Portugal

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Portugal,
Whose ideas were excessively nautical:
She climbed up a tree,
To examine the sea,
But declared she would never leave Portugal.




Quotes of the Day

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
• Ellen DeGeneres


Poems of the Day