Editing Ogden Nash (section)

==Other poems==
Nash, a [[baseball]] fan, wrote a poem titled "[[Line-Up for Yesterday]]", an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Tim |last=Wiles |title=Who's on Verse? |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 31, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/specials/baseball/bbo-baseball-preview-poetry.html |access-date=23 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20001217013500/http://www.nytimes.com/specials/baseball/bbo-baseball-preview-poetry.html |archive-date = December 17, 2000}}</ref> Published in [[Sport (US magazine)|''Sport'']] magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to highly respected baseball players and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order. Lines include:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Baseball Almanac|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml|access-date=23 January 2008 }}</ref>

{{poemquote|<u>C</u> is for [[Ty Cobb|Cobb]], Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they weren't born.
<u>D</u> is for [[Dizzy Dean|Dean]], The grammatical Diz, When they asked, Who's the tops? Said correctly, I is.
<u>E</u> is for [[Johnny Evers|Evers]], His jaw in advance; Never afraid To [[Joe Tinker|Tinker]] with [[Frank Chance|Chance]].
<u>F</u> is for [[Frankie Frisch|Fordham]] And Frankie and Frisch; I wish he were back With the [[San Francisco Giants#New York Giants history|Giants]], I wish.}}

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] orchestral suite ''[[The Carnival of the Animals]]'', which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original recording of this version was made by [[Columbia Records]] in the 1940s, with [[Noël Coward]] reciting the poems and [[Andre Kostelanetz]] conducting the orchestra.

He wrote a humorous poem about the [[IRS]] and [[income tax]] titled ''Song for the Saddest Ides'', a reference to March 15, the [[ides (calendar)|ides]] of March, when federal taxes were due at the time.<ref name="Dew_1946">{{cite book |last=Dew |first=Harold |date= 1946 |title=Poems Past and Present, 1946 Edition |url=https://archive.org/details/poemspastpresent00dewh |location=Vancouver, BC, Canada |publisher=The Wrigley Printing Co. Ltd. |page=244-245}}</ref>

Many of his poems, reflecting the times in which they were written, presented [[ethnic stereotype|stereotypes]] of different nationalities. For example, in "Genealogical Reflections" he writes:

{{poemquote|No McTavish
Was ever lavish}}

In "The Japanese", published in 1938, Nash presents an allegory for the expansionist policies of the Empire of Japan:

{{poemquote|How courteous is the Japanese;
He always says, "Excuse it, please."
He climbs into his neighbor's garden,
And smiles, and says, "I beg your pardon";
He bows and grins a friendly grin,
And calls his hungry family in;
He grins, and bows a friendly bow;
"So sorry, this my garden now."<ref>Nash, Ogden. ''I'm a Stranger Here Myself'' (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1938), p. 35.</ref>}}

He published some poems for children, including "The Adventures of Isabel", which begins:

{{poemquote|Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.
The bear said, "Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!"
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.}}