![]() My top ten limericks and limerick-like poems, all included here: (#10) "There Was a Young Lady of Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, John Updike, H. Gilbert, Robert Herrick, Leigh Hunt,Įrica Jong, James Joyce, Spike Milligan, Dante Gabriel Eliot, Queen Elizabeth I, Eugene Field, W. Honorable Mention: Thomas Aquinas, Isaac Asimov, Morris Bishop, Robert Conquest, Wendy Cope, T. (#6) William Shakespeare, (#5) Hilaire Belloc, (#4) LewisĬarroll, (#3) Edward Lear, (#2) Anonymous, including the poets of Mother Gooseįame, and (#1) Ogden Nash, my landslide winner. Humorous verse), (#8) Algernon Charles Swinburne, (#7) W. Seuss (who employed anapestic limerick meter in much of his ![]() My personal top ten limerick writers are: (#10) Rudyard We have a new page devoted to everyone's favorite coronavirus conqueror: Just reflects one person's opinion, for whatever Limerick Timeline that goes back much further than you might suspect. (However, children areĪdvised to stop reading after the four Ogden Nash limericks.) We also have a Raunchy jokes, you have certainly found the right page. Limericks by unexpected authors like Salman Rushdie and Dean Martin! If you like Including Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash. Here you will find limericks by the expected masters of the form, Interested in the most entertaining and least-buttoned-down of the English ![]() This page attempts to answer such questions for students, educators and anyone Anonymous (I touched this one up slightly) Made the bishop of Chichester's breeches stir. Made all the pale saints in their niches stir. Zaniest, the coolest, the most heretical and irreverent? Here's a big clue which Which limericks are the raciest, the raunchiest, the bawdiest, the weirdest, the She replied, "When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez." Who wrote the best limericks in the English language? Here's a top candidate for The Best Limericks of All Time: Examples, Definition, History, Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Anonymous, Mother Goose, Raciest, Raunchiest, Most Irreverent, Zaniest, Weirdest, Coolest The HyperTexts
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