Все книги

Harry Graham

Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the ManyGraham Harry Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many Dedicated to Helen Whitney Do you recall those bygone days,When you received with kindly praiseMy bantling book of Rhyme?Praise undeserved, alas! and yetHow sweet! For, tho' we ...

Familiar FacesGraham Harry Familiar Faces THE CRY OF THE PUBLISHER O my Author, do you hear the Autumn calling?Does its message fail to reach you in your den,Where the ink that once so sluggishly was crawlingCourses swiftly through your stylographic pen?'Tis the season when the editor grows activ...

Misrepresentative WomenMisrepresentative Women Publishers’ Preface Gentle Reader, who so patiently have waitedFor such viands as your poet can provide,(Which, as critics have occasionally stated,Must be trying to a delicate inside,)Once again are opportunities affordedOf a banquet, or a déjeuner ...

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless HomesDedicated to P. PAuthor's PrefaceUncle JoeImpetuous SamuelInconsiderate HannahAunt ElizaSelf-SacrificeLa Course InterrompueJohnThe Fond FatherNecessityUnselfishnessScorching JohnMisfortunes Never Come SinglyThe Perils of ObesityTender-HeartednessJim; or, the Def...

Verse and WorseGraham Harry Verse and Worse AUTHOR'S PREFACE With guilty, conscience-stricken tears,I offer up these rhymes of mineTo children of maturer years(From Seventeen to Ninety-nine).A special solace may they beIn days of second infancy. The frenzied mother who observesThis volume in her ...

Fiscal BalladsGraham Harry Fiscal Ballads FOREWORD I'm only a common workin'-man,With a eye to my vittles an' beer,But afore I puts my money on Joe,There's a thing or two as I'd like to know,Which 'e 'asn't a-made quite clear. I admit as it sounds attractive-likeFor to shut them furriners out,But...

Misrepresentative MenHarry Graham Misrepresentative Men Foreword ALL great biographers possess,Besides a thirst for information,That talent which commands success,I mean of course Imagination;Combining with excessive TactA total disregard for Fact. Boswell and Froude, and all the rest,With just s...

The Mother of ParliamentsThe Mother of Parliaments PREFACE The history of England's Parliament is the history of the English people. To the latter it must consequently prove a source of never-failing interest. That it does so is clearly shown by the long list of writers who have sought and found ...

More Misrepresentative MenGraham Harry More Misrepresentative Men Authors Foreword (To the Publisher) WHEN honest men are all in bed,We poets at our desks are toiling,To earn a modicum of bread,And keep the pot a-boiling;We weld together, bit by bit,The fabric of our laboured wit. We see with eye...