Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nashwas an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 August 1902
CityTown Of Rye, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Beneath this slab/ John Brown is stowed./ He watched the ads,/ And not the road.
Every Englishman knows one thing - that to be an Englishman is the best thing there is.
Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.
Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer
Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is never safe from Gallic revenge, But he who gets even with a German Is obliterated like a vermin
Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,/ But hating, my boy, is an art.
Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to river you comb the town/ For a place to lay your family down.
Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long
People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful