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Poem by Ogden Nash


The Lion


Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan!
He was eaten by a lion;
Following which, the lion's lioness
Up and swallowed Bryan's Bryaness.



Ogden Nash


Ogden Nash's other poems:
  1. Two Dogs Have I
  2. Song of the Open Road
  3. Lather As You Go
  4. Kipling's Vermont
  5. Everybody Tells Me Everything


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • William Morris The Lion ("The Beasts that be")
  • Hilaire Belloc The Lion ("The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste")
  • Oliver Herford The Lion ("The Lion does not move at all")

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