Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who lived from 1832 till 1898.
An English novelist, poet, photographer, and mathematician, he was best known for his fantastical childrens’ classics, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (both of which - together with most of his other works - can be found at
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/11/).
He was a mathematical lecturer at Oxford.

We here give you a few chapters from his books Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded:

• A Beggar's Palace (SB 5)
• The Magic Locket (SB 6)
• The Baron's Embassy (SB 7)
• A Ride on a Lion (SB 8)
• A Jester and a Bear (SB 9)
• A Musical Gardener (SB 12)
• Gammon and Spinach (SBC 20)
• The Pig-Tale (SBC 23)

In these chapters you'll find a number of "he thought he saw"-poems:

• He thought he saw an Elephant
• He thought he saw a Buffalo
• He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
• He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
• He thought he saw a Kangaroo
• He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four
• He thought he saw an Albatross
• He thought he saw a Garden-Door
• He thought he saw an Argument

In the last chapter you'll find three groups of "little birds"-poems:

• Little Birds are dining
• Little Birds are feeding
• Little Birds are teaching
• Little Birds are sleeping
  
  
• Little Birds are writing
• Little Birds are playing
• Little Birds are bathing
  
  
• Little Birds are choking
• Little Birds are hiding
• Little Birds are tasting

Other of his poems:
Rules and Regulations

His book The Hunting of the Snark is an epical poem or (as he names it) An Agony in Eight Fits.