Friday, January 3, 2003

There Was An Old Man In A Tree Comments

Rating: 3.2

There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a bee.
When they said "Does it buzz?"
He replied "Yes, it does!
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Edward Lear
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Savita Tyagi 21 April 2020

Poem Hunter needs to revise its list of 500 best poems.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 20 February 2020

This is an outstanding poem of the day! We thank editors to post this poem.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 20 February 2020

This is so sad that beauty of life is bored of an old man by a bee. This poem transfers high sentiment. This Limerick gives us unlimited fun...10

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Savita Tyagi 20 February 2020

Good limerick. Might be pointing out to something else.

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Dominic Windram 20 February 2020

Another joyously quirky limerick courtesy of Edward Lear!

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Ramesh T A 20 February 2020

Familiarity indeed breeds contempt!

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Mahtab Bangalee 20 February 2020

beautiful, beautiful and nice limerick I enjoyed it greatly

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Rajnish Manga 20 February 2020

Lovely limerick. It inspired me to do its Hindi translation. Thanks a lot.

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aliooo 07 March 2018

every website changes the words what the is this the literature book of gr 7 says there was an old man with a light who was dressed in a garment of white

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Akshith 04 January 2018

It's a good poem and it rhymes good. In my class everbody wrote the same

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Suhana Lulu 23 November 2016

Buzz and brute... two angles of views...beautiful :)

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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon 23 November 2016

Excellent Limerick! Enjoyed reading it. Great humour!

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Ratnakar Mandlik 23 November 2016

Outstanding limerick displaying a fantastic imagery and sense of humor. Thanks for sharing it here.

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Rajnish Manga 23 November 2016

So, Edward Lear, the pioneer of Limerick form, is finally here. The picture portrayed in the poem is very funny. Enjoyed reading it. Thanks.

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Indira Renganathan 23 November 2016

Interesting limerick with a punch on the bee......like it- 10

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Bernard F. Asuncion 23 November 2016

Nice poem..... Thanks for sharing........

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Edward Kofi Louis 23 November 2016

With the muse of the bee and the acts of nature. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Jay Lung 04 January 2005

Awesome, but why cant i download the pdf file? Why it was been block?

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