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Four Larks and a Wren

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From: NEA Today
Date: 20020301
Author:Anonymous

Four Larks and a Wren

The highly respected Poetry for Young People Series from Sterling Publishing, www.sterlingpub.com, which has published volumes of the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, now offers Poetry for Young People: Edward Lear. There was an old man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!-Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nest in my beard!" Lear's finest and funniest poems race and rhyme with an irresistible beat. Seeming nonsense often hides a serious notion, though. Creatures and people who ...

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