The Laughing Willow E-Book

Oliver Herford

• Herausgeber: Studium Legis
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Oliver Herford, a writer, artist, and illustrator, was born in Sheffield, England on December 2, 1860 (not 1863, as is widely stated) to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver's father, Brooke, was a Unitarian minister who moved the family to Chicago in 1876 and to Boston in 1882. Oliver attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1877 to 1879. Later he studied art at the Slade School in London and the Académie Julien in Paris. Afterward, he moved to New York, where he lived until his death. He has been called "The American Oscar Wilde".[citation needed][1] As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the Little Book of Bores. He also wrote short poems like "The Chimpanzee" and "The Hen", as well as writing and illustrating "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten" (1904) and "Excuse It Please" (1930). His sister Beatrice Herford was also a humorist (font: Wikipedia)

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Oliver Herford

The Laughing Willow

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Indice dei contenuti

EPITAPHS

THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA

THE AIR RAID

VALE DIABOLE

THE WRONG FLOOR

MARCHING TO BERLIN

TARGET PRACTICE

THE SAUSAGE BALLOON

CONCERNING THE CROWN PRINCE

CAMOUFLAGE

THE TANK

THE BIRD-MAN

FRENZYLOGICAL CHART

BRITANNIA SALVATRIX

FATHER WILHELM

THE TOUCHING BALLAD OF GENERAL VON BEERS

AN IMPERIAL SNEEZE

THE RUBAIYAT OF BILLI KAISAM

WAR RELIEF

SUMMER MASS

ABOUT PEOPLE I HAVE MET

ABOUT PEOPLE I HAVE MET

J. M. BARRIE

THE HORSE

THE TOWN CAT

TOWSER

THE OYSTER

THE MOUSE

CURTAIN

PEOPLE I HAVE NOT MET

PEOPLE I HAVE NOT MET

THE TURTLE

MICHAEL O’LEARY

CLORINDA

ALCIBIADES J. SKINNER

EVE

THE HIGHBROW HEN

SIR IPPYKIN

THE PSYCHOLOGY COP

PHYLLIS LEE

MRS. SEYMOUR FENTOLIN

THE DEVIL AMONG THE LADIES

SPRING

THE CATFISH

THE PRODIGAL CENTIPEDE

A BALLADE OF BLACK SOCKS

OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING MARK TWAIN

OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING MARK TWAIN

THE GENTLEMAN OF LETTERS

THE WOMEN OF THE BETTER CLASS

MARK TWAIN

PRINCE POMPOM

THE SERIAL

THE CLOUD

To see the Kaiser’s epitaph

Would make a weeping willow laugh.

EPITAPHS

Willy Nilly

Here lies Willy’s mortal clay

In its Mother Earth’s caresses.

Willy’s soul has flown away—

Where it is you have two guesses.

Here lies Bill

Here lies Bill, the son of Fred.

He lied alive; he now lies dead.

Tears, Idle Tears

Oh, stranger, dry the starting tear!

Kaiser Bill is buried here.

Pax

’Neath this stone lies Kaiser Bill.

He sought for peace—he seeks it still.

Requiescat

Here Wilhelm sleeps. For Mercy’s sake,

Tread softly, friend, lest he should wake!

Ashes to Ashes

Swallow him, O Earth, for he,

Did his best to swallow thee.

THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA