Another brisk Mother Goose limerick, this one about a woman in a permanent hurry. Its clipped rhythm suits a quick, breathless reading voice.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
There was an old woman in Surrey,
Who was morn, noon, and night in a hurry;
Called her husband a fool,
Drove the children to school,
The worrying old woman of Surrey.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition