Ogden Nash's Poetry, by title

• À Bas Ben Adhem

  My fellow man I do not care for.
  I often ask me, What's he there for?

  32 lines, 1 comment
• A Caution To Everybody

  Consider the auk;
  Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.

  4 lines, 2 comments
• A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison

  A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison,
  And had an affair with a Saracen;

  5 lines
• A Drink With Something In It

  There is something about a Martini,
  A tingle remarkably pleasant;

  9 lines, 3 comments
• A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty

  Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
  Feels the sun with terror,

  24 lines, 3 comments
• A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor

  The hands of the clock were reaching high
  In an old midtown hotel;

  132 lines
• A Word to Husbands

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

  4 lines, 4 comments
• Adventures Of Isabel

  Isabel met an enormous bear,
  Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;

  39 lines, 2 comments
• Always Marry An April Girl

  Praise the spells and bless the charms,
  I found April in my arms.

  8 lines, 1 comment
• Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer

  This is a song to celebrate banks,
  Because they are full of money and you go into them and all

  40 lines, 1 comment
• Biological Reflection

  A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint
  Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't.

  2 lines, 2 comments
• Celery

  Celery, raw
  Develops the jaw,

  4 lines
• Children's Party

  May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
  I wish to retire till the party's over.

  34 lines
• Columbus

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

  26 lines
• Come On In, The Senility Is Fine

  People live forever in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Tampa,
  But you don't have to live forever to become a grampa.

  26 lines, 1 comment
• Common Cold

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

  40 lines
• Crossing The Border

  Senescence begins
  And middle age ends

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Everybody Tells Me Everything

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

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Family Court

  One would be in less danger
  From the wiles of a stranger

  4 lines
• First Child ... Second Child

  FIRST
  Be it a girl, or one of the boys,

  34 lines
• Fleas

  Adam
  Had'em

  2 lines
• Further Reflections on Parsley

  Parsley
  Is gharsley.

  2 lines
• Good-By Now or Pardon My Gauntlet

  Bring down the moon for genteel Janet;
  She's too refined for this gross planet.

  24 lines
• Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too

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

  48 lines, 1 comment
• Grandpa Is Ashamed

  A child need not be very clever
  To learn that "Later, dear" means "Never."

  2 lines
• I Didn't Go To Church Today

  I didn't go to church today,
  I trust the Lord to understand.

  8 lines
• I Do, I Will, I Have

  How wise I am to have instructed the butler
  to instruct the first footman to instruct the second

  26 lines
• If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan Would Sit on the Midget's Lap

  "Beep-beep.
  BANKERS TRUST AUTOMOBILE LOAN

  36 lines
• Introspective Reflection

  I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
  Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

  2 lines
• 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

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