Author: Edward Lear

Cites

• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Left by his friend to breakfast alone on the white Italian shore, his Terrible Demon arose Over his shoulder; he wept to himself in the night, A dirty landscape-painter who hated his nose. The legions of cruel inquisitive They Were so many and big like dogs; he was upset By Germans and boats; affection was miles away; But guided by tears his successfully reached his Regret. How prodigious the welcome was. Flowers took his hat And bore him off to introduce him to the tongs; The demon's false nose made the table laugh; a cat Soon had him waltzing madly, let him squeeze her hand, Words pushed him to the piano to sing comic songs. And children swarmed to him like seeders. He became a land.
    FROM: Edward Lear, (1939), Poem, England/ US

Cited by

• Wesley Stace (1)
  • IN: Wonder-Kid (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And every one said, "If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve, --"
    FROM: "The Jumblies", (1871), Poem, UK
• Eric Puchner (1)
  • IN: Last Day on Earth (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshskin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!
    FROM: "The Pelican Chorus", (1907), Poem, UK
• Michael Chabon (1)
  • IN: The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And they went to sea in a Sieve.
    FROM: The Jumblies, (1871), Poem, UK