William Cosmo Monkhouse

Here you will find the Short Poem Limerick: There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme of poet William Cosmo Monkhouse

Limerick: There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme

There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time,
When asked, 'Why a third?'
He replied, 'One's absurd!
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.