English Poetry. Edward Lear. There Was a Young Lady of Dorking. Эдвард Лир.

Edward Lear (Эдвард Лир)

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There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
Who bought a large bonnet for walking;
But its colour and size,
So bedazzled her eyes,
That she very soon went back to Dorking. 

Edward Lear’s other poems:

1. There Was a Young Person of Smyrna
2. There Was an Old Person in Gray
3. There Was An Old Person Of Basing
4. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
5. Cold Are The Crabs

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