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Poem by Anonymous


Limerick. “There was a sick man of Tobago…”


There was a sick man of Tobago
Lived long on rice-gruel and sago;
But at last, to his bliss,
The physician said this:
“To a roast leg of mutton you may go.”



Anonymous


Anonymous's other poems:
  1. Inscription on a Gravestone in the Churchyard of Melrose Abbey
  2. The Old Scottish Gentleman
  3. Barthram’s Dirge
  4. Kate Kearney
  5. Loch Ina


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