'Gozo my child is the isle of Calypso' (Edward Lear)

Gozo my child is the isle of Calypso

That naughty young woman who made egg flip so

And all day long with a spoon did sip so,

And every morn in the sea did dip so

Whereon Ulysses seeing her strip so

And all of her beautiful ringlets drip so

From her beautiful head to her beautiful hipso

Because her curls she would never clip so,

--  Took to staying away from his ship so,

And she his mariners all did trip so

And fed them with chickens that had the pip so

For fear he should ever give her the slip so

And over the ocean start for a trip so

    Singing – (with peculiar sweetness --) "This is

I who have wheedled the wily Ulysses,

With kurls and cobwebs and kustards and kisses

    Gip so, whip so, crip so, and quip so

    Flip so, bip so, rip so and zip so –

          O naughty Calypso!

Which has made the little hills for to skip so!”

Key:  

Upper: Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus By The Sea, 1869

 

Lower: Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus and Calypso, 1883