10 Best Famous Limerick Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Limerick poems. This is a select list of the best famous Limerick poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Limerick poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of limerick poems.

• All Famous Limerick Poems

There live a great man named Joe
who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
While his rival would taunt and tease
Joe silently bore the stings.
And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

There was an old person of Fife,
Who was greatly disgusted with life;
They sang him a ballad, 
and fed him on salad,
Which cured that old person of Fife. 

 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!
It's a regular brute of a bee!"

 Things that go 'bump' in the night
Should not really give one a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
That lets in the fear,
That, and the absence of light!

 Drake is going west, lads
So Tom is going East
But tiny Fred
Just lies in bed,
The lazy little beast.

 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 nests in my beard.

 There was a young lady whose eyes,
were unique as to colour and size;
When she opened them wide,
people all turned aside,
and started away in surprise.

 THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF NEW YORK, WHO MURDERED HIMSELF WITH A FORK; 
BUT NOBODY CRIED THOUGH HE VERY SOON DIED, --
FOR THAT SILLY OLD MAN OF NEW YORK.

 There was a young belle of Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
When comment arose
On the state of her clothes,
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez!

There was an old man of Hong Kong,Who never did anything wrong;He lay on his back, with his head in a sack,That innocuous old man of Hong Kong.