Winter Complaint by Ogden Nash Now when I have a cold I am careful with my cold, I consult a physician And I do as I am told. I muffle up my torso
What’s the Use? by Ogden Nash Sure, deck your limbs in pants, Yours are the limbs, my sweeting. You look divine as you advance . . Have you seen yourself retreating?
Look What You Did, Cristopher! by Ogden Nash In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Someone sailed the ocean blue. Somebody borrowed the fare in Spa For a business trip on the boundin And to prove to the people, by act 1
What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner or Later by Ogden Nash Husbands are things that wives hav And with whom they breakfast with They interfere with the discipline And forget anniversaries, And when they have been particular
The Wasp by Ogden Nash The wasp and all his numerous fami I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodi But I distrust his waspitality.
Always Marry an April Girl by Ogden Nash Praise the spells and bless the ch I found April in my arms. April golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy; April soft in flowered languor,
The Perfect Husband by Ogden Nash He tells you when you’ve got on t And helps you with your girdle wh
Kind of an Ode to Duty by Ogden Nash O Duty, Why hast thou not the visage of a Why displayest thou the countenanc conscientious organizing spinster That the minute you see her you ar
A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty by Ogden Nash Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Feels the sun with terror, One unwilling step she takes, Shuddering to the mirror. Miranda in Miranda’s sight
The Praying Mantis by Ogden Nash From whence arrived the praying ma From outer space, or lost Atlanti glimpse the grin, green metal mug at masks the pseudo-saintly bug, Orthopterous, also carnivorous,
