Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes, Harry Graham
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes, Harry Graham
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Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

Author: Harry Graham

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2011


Synopsis

Harry Graham was an English writer of light verse, popular fiction, and history. He is best remembered for his grotesque and humorous verses, which parody the children’s cautionary verses of his day. His most successful work was his series of hilariously cruel Ruthless Rhymes, first published in 1898 under the pseudonym Col. D. Streamer. Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burned to ashes;
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Majenta on August 20, 2022

Ooh, brutal--but sometimes that's just what you need. (What you need to read, or what someone needs to write.) One of the books advertised in the back pages of A MORAL ALPHABET by Hilaire Belloc.......more

Goodreads review by David on February 07, 2009

I just came across this online (it's downloadable at googlebooks). D. Streamer was a pseudonym for Harry Graham, who originated the form of the "Little Willie" poem. (Apparently there was a craze for these poems in the early part of the 20th century - newspapers would run contests and get thousands......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 28, 2021

Such a D E L I G H T F U L little read. So so lovely......more

Goodreads review by Frank A. Perry on August 03, 2019

I first noticed what I thought were called the "Little Willie" poems when I was in 7th or 8th Grade in 1956. They were embedded in a thick Language Arts textbook. They seemed bizarre and wonderfully naughty to my young brain and provided much amusement as antidotes to the sentence-diagramming nouns......more