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The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
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Two and one are a problem
Taboo to boot
The sea-gull
I had no idea it was so late
Mr. Artesian's conscientiousness
I yield to my learned brother, or Is there a candlestick maker in the house?
Reflection on the passage of time, its inevitability and its quirks
The drop of a hat
The centipede
What's the matter, haven't you got any sense of humor?
Lines to be mumbled at Ovington's
Invocation
Everybody tells me everything
The strange case of the wise child
Song of the open road
Lines to a world-famous poet who failed to complete a world-famous poem, or Come clean, Mr. Guest!
When you say that, smile! or All right then, don't smile
Children's party
A lady thinks she is thirty
Mr. Peachey's predicament, or No mot parades
Nevertheless
Don't look now
Procrastination is all of the time
The terrible people
Song for the saddest ides
The rooster
Hush, here they come
The facts of life
A ride on the bronxial local
The turtle
It's never fair weather
Don't grin, or you'll have to bear it
Isn't that a dainty dish? No!
A stitch too late is my fate
It must be the milk
The fish
Don't guess, let me tell you
The secret town
Man bites dog-days
Poor Mr. Strawbridge
A watched example never boils
The strange case of the irksome prude
Biological reflection
When the devil was sick could he prove it?
Spring song
The shrew
Will consider situation
Prayer at the end of a rope
The panther
Golly, how truth will out!
Did someone say "babies"?
Out is out
The squirrel
How long has this been going on? Oh, quite long
Washington's birthday eve
The kitten
For the most improbable she
I know you'll like them
The beggar (after William Blake)
Shrinking song
You cad, why don't you cringe?
Yes and no
First payment deferred
Ma, what's a banker? or Hush, my child
The canary
That reminds me
Baby what makes the sky blue?
The mind of Professor Primrose
Reflection on caution
Midsummer's daymare
I never even suggested it
My dear, how ever did you think up this delicious salad?
What's the use?
Goody for our side and your side too
Oh, stop being thankful all over the place
Arthur
Everybody eats too much anyhow
The rhinoceros
Song to be sung by the father of infant female children
One from one leaves two
Genealogical reflection
There's a host born every minute
Tell it to the Eskimos, or Tell it to the Esquimaux
Very like a whale
The lamb
The strange case of Mr. Goodbody, or A team that won't be beaten, can't be beaten
The Wapiti
The case of identity
Read this vibrant exposé
Reflection on a common misapprehension
What almost every woman knows sooner or later
Turns in a worm's lane
Kindly unhitch that star, buddy
Literary reflection
The strange case of the baffled hermit
May I drive you home. Mrs. Murgatroyd?
One third of a calendar
Roulette us be gay
Obvious reflection
Suppose I darken your door
The sage of Darien
A child's guide to parents
Epstein, spare that yule log!
Lines written to console those ladies distressed by the lines "Men seldom make passes, etc."
Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man
Drusilla
The spring sitting
The bird to the bees
Reflections on ingenuity
How to tell a quail from a partridge
They don't speak English in Paris
The strange case of the girl o' Mr. Sponsoon's dreams
Grasshoppers are very intelligent
The oyster
Listen
Carlotta
Pretty halcyon days
I'll take a bromide, please
Ode to C.B.E., practically the only new male child I know of
Ding dong, toot toot, all aboard
Home, 99 44/100% sweet home
Home thoughts from little moose
Long live delays of ancient Rome
The duck
The clean platter
Aside to husbands
Uncalled-for epitaph: the sports announcer
Hearts of gold, or A good excuse is worse than none
Adventures of Isabel
The camel
The evening out
September morn
Mr. Barcalow's breakdown
The big tent under the roof
The turkey
Kind of an ode to duty
The life of the party
Aimee McPherson
Oh, please don't get up!
The marketeers
The pigeon
Pipe dreams
Seaside serenade
Abdication of a jester
Lines to a three-name lady
To bargain, toboggan, to-whoo!
One, two, buckle my shoe
I always say a good saint is no worse than a bad cold
The egg
Oh, did you get the tickets? Because I don't think I'll go, after all
Edouard
The seven spiritual ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore
The strange case of the ambitious caddy
After the christening
The germ
The anatomy of happiness
Pride goeth before a raise, or Ah, there, Mrs. Cadwallader-Smith!
A word on wind
The wombat
Columbus
The cow
Song for a temperature of a hundred and one
Some of my best friends are children
Jangle bells
Nature knows best
A parable for sports writers, society columnists, bond salesmen and poets, or Go get a reputation
England expects
Away from it all
Look what you did, Christopher!
Epilogue to Mother's Day
The ant
Don't cry, darling, it's blood all right
The purist
The strange case of the society girl's neck
Lucy Lake
The eight o'clock peril
In which the poet is ashamed but pleased
Splash!
The Japanese
Judgment day
The unselfish husband
Common sense
Just a piece of lettuce and some lemon juice, thank you
Miriam's lucky day
The tale of Custard the dragon
Electra becomes morbid
Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer
The calf
A clean conscience never relaxes
Apartment to sublet, unfurnished
I have it on good authority
Remembrance of things to come
Funebrial reflection
The strange case of Mr. Fortague's disappointment
The party
Curl up and diet
Reflections on ice-breaking
The passionate pagan and the dispassionate public
Captain John Smith
To a small boy standing on my shoes while I am wearing them
Summergreen for president
Confessions of a born spectator
The pig
A drink with something in it
"My child is phlegmatic ..." anxious parent
The cobra
Let me buy this one
Rainy day
My daddy
Cat naps are too good for cats
The strange case of the pleasing taxi-driver
Benjamin
The city
A good parent's garden of vision
The lama
Waiting for the birdie
The queen is in the parlor
Do sphinxes think?
To the lady passing time better left unpassed
Who understands who anyhow?
The parent
Parsley for vice-president!
Nine miles to the railroad
The strange case of the dead divorcée
The common cold
Just keep quiet and nobody will notice
Coffee with the meal
The rabbits
This is going to hurt just a little bit
Experience to let
Oh to be odd!
Song for ditherers
Reflection on the fallibility of nemesis
Song before breakfast
Political reflection
First families, move over!
Fragonard
Savonarola of Mazda Lane
Admiral Byrd
Birth comes to the archbishop
The strange case of Mr. Donnybrook's boredom
An introduction to dogs
Introspective reflection
Lines indited with all the depravity of poverty
I'll get one tomorrow
People
Family court
Bernarr Macfadden
The middle of the month
Spring comes to Murray Hill
Time marches on
Reflection on babies
A plea for a league of sleep
Wednesday matinee
The phœnix
Lines in dispraise of dispraise
More about people
Traveler's rest
Arthur Brisbane
Riding on a railroad train
The stork
The rebuffers
Reflection on a wicked world
Malice domestic
Hymn to the sun and myself
The banquet
Pediatric reflection
Ha! Original sin!
A brief guide to New York
Gervaise
Incompetent and immaterial
Lines in praise of a date made praiseworthy solely by something very nice that happened to it
Such an old theme, but such fresh distress
So penseroso
Interoffice memorandum
Complaint to four angels
Old men
The individualist
A carol for children.
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