Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Dixon Lanier Merritt.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879โ1972) was an American poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association.
A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.