Ogden Nash's Poetry, by first line

• Reflections On Ice Breaking

  Candy
  Is dandy

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Requiem

  There was a young belle of Natchez
  Whose garments were always in patchez.

  5 lines, 2 comments
• Columbus

  Once upon a time there was an Italian,
  And some people thought he was a rapscallion,

  26 lines
• Winter Complaint

  Now when I have a cold
  I am careful with my cold,

  64 lines
• The Camel

  The camel has a single hump;
  The dromedary , two;

  4 lines
• The Duck

  Behold the duck.
  It does not cluck.

  8 lines
• The Germ

  A mighty creature is the germ,
  Though smaller than the pachyderm.

  8 lines
• Celery

  Celery, raw
  Develops the jaw,

  4 lines
• The Ostrich

  The ostrich roams the great Sahara.
  Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra.

  4 lines
• The Rhinoceros

  The rhino is a homely beast,
  For human eyes he's not a feast.

  4 lines
• The Cuckoo

  Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives,
  They fail as husbands and as wives,

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Common Cold

  Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
  You shall not sneer at me.

  40 lines
• PG Wooster, Just as he Useter

  Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library,
  Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary,

  24 lines, 1 comment
• Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man

  It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
  That all sin is divided into two parts.

  35 lines
• Song of the Open Road

  I think that I shall never see
  A billboard lovely as a tree

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too

  Foreigners are people somewhere else,
  Natives are people at home;

  48 lines, 1 comment
• A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty

  Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
  Feels the sun with terror,

  24 lines, 3 comments
• Listen...

  There is a knocking in the skull,
  An endless silent shout

  24 lines
• Old Men

  People expect old men to die,
  They do not really mourn old men.

  6 lines, 1 comment
• One From One Leaves Two

  Higgledy piggledy, my black hen,
  She lays eggs for gentlemen.

  34 lines
• Pretty Halcyon Days

  How pleasant to sit on the beach,
  On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,

  40 lines
• The Solitary Huntsman

  The solitary huntsman
  No coat of pink doth wear,

  27 lines
• Tableau at Twilight

  I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
  Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.

  16 lines
• A Word to Husbands

  To keep your marriage brimming
  With love in the loving cup,

  4 lines, 4 comments
• Soliloquy in Circles

  Being a father
  Is quite a bother.

  34 lines
• Song To Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children

  My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky;

  57 lines
• Further Reflections on Parsley

  Parsley
  Is gharsley.

  2 lines
• Everybody Tells Me Everything

  I find it very difficult to enthuse
  Over the current news.

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice

  There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
  Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.

  22 lines, 3 comments
• More About People

  When people aren't asking questions
  They're making suggestions

  16 lines

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