Poems by Ogden Nash
Everybody Tells Me Everything
... there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons ...
Family Court
... From the wiles of a stranger ...
First Child ... Second Child
... For months you have dreamed of flippers or claws ...
Good-By Now or Pardon My Gauntlet
... And a flunky though she said the earl's room ...
Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too
... Contrariwise; And hence, my dears, the coroner ...
Grandpa Is Ashamed
... To learn that "Later, dear" means "Never ...
I Didn't Go To Church Today
... How brief this spell of summer weather, ...
I Do, I Will, I Have
... windowsill, it's raining in, and he replies Oh they're all right,it's only raining straight down ...
If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan Would Sit on the Midget's Lap
... But the beep of the banker at Bankers Trust ...
Introspective Reflection
... Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance ...
Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice
... ing the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves ...
Kipling's Vermont
... Kindles for Congregationalist eyes ...
Lather As You Go
... John Brown is stowed ...
Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty
... All of which Explains why I should like very, very much to be very, very rich ...
Lines On Facing Forty
... Do you think my mind is maturing late, ...
