The selected verse of Ogden Nash.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Allow me, Madam, but it won't help -- Ha! Original sin! -- Terrible people -- Song for a temperature of a hundred and one -- Pediatric reflection -- Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man -- Seven spiritual ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore -- Lines indited with all the depravity of poverty -- Reflection on a wicked world -- Party -- More about people -- Family court -- Seaside serenade -- Strange case of Mr. Ormantud's bride -- Lines to be mumbled at Ovington's -- Ms. Found in a quagmire -- Invocation -- Reflection on babies -- Beginner's guide to the ocean -- Lady thinks she is thirty -- Introspective reflection -- Do, do what you done, done, done before, before, before -- Scram lion! -- Reflection on the fallibility of nemesis -- Thoughts thought on a avenue -- For the most part improbable she -- Rabbits -- Thoughts thought while waiting for a pronouncement from a doctor, an editor, a biog executive, the department of Internal Revenue or any other momentous pronouncer -- Passionate pagan and the dispassionate public -- Daddy -- Suppose he threw it in your face -- Bas Ben Adhem -- Pig -- Individualist -- Thunder over the nursery -- Reflections on ice-breaking -- Dragons are too seldom -- Lines to a three name lady -- Funebrial reflection -- I don't mean us, except occasionally -- Life of the party -- Cow -- Reminds me -- After the christening -- Germ -- I know you'll like them -- Pretty halcyon days. Reflections on ingenuity -- No doctors today, thank you -- Happy days, Elmer -- Duck -- Now you see it, now I don't -- Big tent under the roof -- Camel -- "Tomorrow, partly cloudy" -- Song to be sung by the father of infant female children -- Genealogical reflection -- Ask daddy, he won't know -- When you say that, smile, or all right then, don't smile -- Rhinoceros -- I had no idea it was so late -- Plea for less Malice toward none -- Reflection on caution -- Don't guess, let me tell you -- Taboo to boot -- Fish -- Mr. Peachey's predicament or no mot parades -- Some of my best fiends are children -- Turtle -- Don't look now -- Nevertheless -- Reflection on the passage of time, its inevitability its quirks -- Two and one are a problem -- One third of the calendar -- Song of the open road -- Good-bye, old year, you, oaf, or why don't they pay the bonus -- Geddondillo -- Platitudinous reflection -- What's the matter, haven't you got any sense of humor? -- Tin wedding whistle -- These Latins -- Mr. Artesian's conscientiousness -- Voice of experience -- Sea-Gull -- Are you a Snodgrass -- Old men -- Birdies, don't make me laugh -- Electra becomes morbid -- Rooster -- Look for the silver lining -- In which the Poet is ashamed but pleased -- Panther -- Watchman, what of the First First Lady? -- Please pass the biscuit -- Termite -- From a Manhattan tomb -- Hat's got my tongue -- Fly -- Lines to a world-famous poet who failed to complete a world-famous poem or come clean, Mr. Guest -- Sniffle -- Samson Agonistes -- Oh, stop, being thankful all over the place -- Dance unmacabre -- Third Jungle Book.