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

Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Nile,

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who sharpened his nails with a file,
Till he cut out his thumbs,
And said calmly, 'This comes
Of sharpening one's nails with a file!'




Quotes of the Day

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
• John F. Kennedy


Poems of the Day
  • Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    Christmas Morning
    by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    If Bethlehem were here today, Or this were very long ago, There wouldn't be a winter time Nor any cold or snow. I'd run out through the garden gate, And down along the pasture walk;