Back The Owl and the Pussy-cat German La Strig' kaj la Kato Esperanto جغد و پیشی Persian The Owl and the Pussycat French הינשוף והחתלתולה (שיר) HE ふくろうと猫 Japanese 貓頭鷹和貓咪 Chinese
| The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | |
|---|---|
| by Edward Lear | |
 Edward Lear's illustration of the Owl and the Pussycat | |
| Illustrator | Edward Lear |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Publication date | 1871 |
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 The Owl and the Pussy-cat at Wikisource | |
"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1870 in the American magazine Our Young Folks[1] and again the following year in Lear's own book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend and fellow poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term "runcible", used for the phrase "runcible spoon", was invented for the poem.
- ^ Lucy Larcom, ed. (February 1870). "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat". Our Young Folks. VI (II): 111–112. Retrieved 5 August 2022.