Notes
1] Sometimes attributed to Cosmo Monkhouse, on slim grounds. Riga is a port-city in Latvia.
Online text copyright © 2010, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: William S. Baring-Gould, The Lure of the Limerick (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1967): 106.
First publication date:
1874
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/6/7
Form: limerick
Rhyme: aabba