To My Valentine
Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts;
I love you more than a gin rickey,
And more than a toothache hurts.
As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates to drop;
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
That's how much I love you—stop!
Ogden Nash an amazing humourist whose short pithy poems
entered the realm as an treasure. Born, Frederick Ogden Nash on
August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York.
Published 19 books of poetry.Elected to the National Institute of
Arts and Letters in 1950. Lived in New York but his principal home
was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971
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To My Valentine
Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts;
I love you more than a gin rickey,
And more than a toothache hurts.
As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates to drop;
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
That's how much I love you—stop!
Ogden Nash an amazing humourist whose short pithy
poems entered the realm as an treasure. Born,
Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New
York.
Published 19 books of poetry.Elected to the National
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950. Lived in New York
but his principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland,
where he died on May 19, 1971
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