Web Directory

» Alien Limerick Generator
   This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.
   http://www.herald.co.uk/~mel/limerick.html

» Bad Gods Limerick Page
   Famous poems rewritten as limericks.
   http://badgods.com/limerickpoems.html

» Bibliography of Limericks
   List of print books of and on limericks, compiled by Karl Dilcher.
   http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~dilcher/limericks.html

» Funny Limericks For Everyone
   A limerick blog, with a new funny limerick posted each day. Accepts submissions.
   http://www.funny-limericks-for-everyone.1ton.info/

» Giggle Poetry - The Limerick
   Limerick writing for kids. By Bruce Lansky.
   http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclassdetail.aspx?LessonPlanID=2

» Here-Be-Limerick-Poems.com
   Limerick poems, funny or jaded, useful for: birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, toasts/roasts, retirement, work humor, bitter dregs, friendship, and professions.
   http://www.here-be-limerick-poems.com

» Less Ludicrous Limericks
   A collection from thinks.com. A companion to "More Ludicrous Limericks."
   http://thinks.com/words/less-ludicrous-limericks.htm

» Limerick Books of the 1820s
   The two earliest known books of limericks, with a link to a third. Part of an Edward Lear home page.
   http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/limbooks/index.html

» Limerick Poetry
   A limerick page for children, with a simple explanation and some family-friendly examples, including the option to print out limericks in color. Be warned: the site generates pop-up and new-browser-window ads.
   http://www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/m-limerick.htm

» Limerick o' the Day
   A daily (ribald) limerick, with an archive of previously featured limericks.
   http://pagebuild.com/limerick/limerick.htm

» Limericks
   Limericks by teachers in England. Includes suggestions for classroom activities.
   http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/limerick.htm

» Loony Limericks
   Huge and still growing collection of limericks both naughty and nice. Visitors can also add a line to the mass limerick.
   http://home.earthlink.net/~kristenaa/

» Meskhi lines
   Limericks and short lines by Slava Meskhi. English, Russian and Georgian languages.
   http://meskhi.livejournal.com/

» More Ludicrous Limericks
   A collection from thinks.com. A companion to "Less Ludicrous Limericks."
   http://thinks.com/words/more-ludicrous-limericks.htm

» OEDILF - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
   A project to write at least one limerick for every word in the English language.
   http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php

» Poetic Limericks
   Genuine poetry written in the limerick style. Background information on this style of poetry and samples of the work of Joel D. Ash. Gateways to online books containing Poetic Limericks.
   http://www.poeticlimericks.com/

» Polish Limericks
   Translations of English and Polish limericks (English-Polish and Polish-English).
   http://www.limeryki.pl/English/English.html

» Smithsonian Magazine - "The Limerick is Furtive and Mean..."
   From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses. Introductory article.
   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/limerick.html

» The "L" Blog
   A limerick blog. The limericks, however, are not in the classic form, and the rhymes are often not exact.
   http://its-the-l-blog.blogspot.com/

» The Classic Nantucket Limerick
   The original Nantucket limerick published in the Princeton Tiger in 1924, with various extensions that appeared in other publications.
   http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/poetry/art8660.html

» The Limerick
   A brief but insightful description of the limerick form.
   http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Handbook/limerick.html

» The Pentatette Home Page
   The Limerick Special Interest Group website. Includes definitions, technical and scholarly information on limericks.
   http://limericks.org/pentatette/reply.html

» There Was a Young Man Who Sent E-mails
   The incomplete collected limericks of Richard C. Long.
   http://www.richardlong.org.uk/

» Writing Limericks for Fun and Profit
   Twelve tips, with additional commentary and numerous examples by Robert Birch. Includes collections of both clean and bawdy limericks.
   http://female-orgasms.com/limericks/