The Burgess Nonsense Book (1901)
by
Frank Gelett Burgess
A Woman's Reason: A Quotation
To put an End to Conversation.
I'm Sure every Word that you say is Absurd;
I Say it's All Gummidge and Twaddle;
You may Argue away till the 19th of May,
But I don't like the Sound of the Moddle!
The name of the original text first appeared in
The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq.
(New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1901).
The first publication date is unknown.
Selected poems are out of copyright and are in public domain.Public domain text taken from Representative Poetry Online:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem316.html
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