PagineLear popularised the limerick and wrote gloriously silly nonsense poems such as “The Owl and the Pussy-cat”. He was also a fine painter of birds and landscapes.
Public-domain poems, free to read and print.
Yes. Edward Lear’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 4 of them here or as a flip book.
A Book of Nonsense (1846), Nonsense Songs (1871).