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Poem by Edward Lear


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There was an Old Lady of Prague,
Whose language was horribly vague;
When they said, 'Are these caps?'
She answered, 'Perhaps!'
That oracular Lady of Prague.



Edward Lear


Edward Lear's other poems:
  1. There was an Old Person of Leeds
  2. There was an Old Man with a gong
  3. There was an Old Man of the Isles
  4. There was an Old Person of Ischia
  5. There was an Old Man in a boat


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