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Oliver Herford

1863 - 1935


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Chameleon. A USE-FUL les-son you may con, 10557
2: A Kitten's Fancy The Kitten mews outside the Door, 8543
3: A Mole. SEE, chil-dren, the mis-guid-ed Mole. 12530
4: A Penguin. THE Pen-guin sits up-on the shore 8529
5: A Seal. SEE, chil-dren, the Fur-bear-ing Seal; 11537
6: A Thought It's very nice to think of how 4569
7: A Whale. THE con-sci-en-tious art-ist tries 12544
8: An Alphabet of Celebrities A's Albert Edward, well meaning but flighty, 65510
9: An Arctic Hare. AN Arc-tic Hare we now be-hold. 12511
10: An Inquiry A Birdie cocked his little head, 41290
11: An Ostrich. THIS is an Os-trich. See him stand: 10505
12: Anticipation When I grow up I mean to be 8527
13: Arnold Bennett Tis very comforting to know 12507
14: Brander Matthews I'd best beware how I make free 4474
15: Cerberus Dear Reader, should you chance to go 14516
16: Charles W. Eliot And now comes Dr. Eliot stating 4506
17: Christopher Columbus Columbus is an easy one 4518
18: Daniel Frohman I love to picture Daniel Frohman 4494
19: Dante If you should ask me, whether Dante 4522
20: David Belasco Behold Belasco in his den, 4482
21: Education When People think that Kittens play, 8481
22: F. W. Hohenzollern In things like this I've always tried 4540
23: Facilis Ascensus Up into the Cherry Tree, 16580
24: Foreign Kittens Kittens large and Kittens small, 12456
25: G. K. Chesterton When Plain Folk, such as you or I, 12440
26: George Ade Somehow I always like to think 12436
27: George Bernard Shaw The very name of Bernard Shaw 12419
28: George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw--Oh, yes, I know 4509
29: Gilbert K. Chesterton Unless I'm very much misled, 4466
30: Good and Bad Kittens Kittens, you are very little, 20566
31: Guglielmo Marconi I like Marconi best to see 4486
32: Hafiz When Hafiz saw the portrait free, 4509
33: Happy Thought The world is so full of a number of Mice 2501
34: Henrik Ibsen I once drew Ibsen, looking bored 4452
35: Here's Looking Here's looking 6506
36: Hiram Maxim From Hiram Maxim's hair you'd think 4487
37: Ignace Jan Paderewski When Paderewski is forgot, 4468
38: In Darkest Africa At evening when the lamp is lit, 20466
39: Israel Zangwill This picture though it is not much 4568
40: J. Forbes-Robertson I'm told the Artist who aspires 4526
41: J. Pierpont Morgan In Rome, when Morgan came to town, 12508
42: John D. Rockefeller Few faces interest me less 4541
43: John Drew For Perfect Form there are but few 12528
44: John S. Sargent Here's Sargent doing the Duchess X 4511
45: Kitten's Night Thought When Human Folk put out the light, 16501
46: Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream Well I recall how first I met 28105
47: Medusa How did Medusa do her hair? 14442
48: Napoleon I like to draw Napoleon best 4466
49: Oh, Editor, Editor, Oh, Editor, Editor, 24456
50: Pegasus The ancients made no end of fuss 15422
51: Peter Dunne Shpeaking of Harps, sure me frind Pete 12469
52: Rain The rain is raining everywhere, 4655
53: Rudyard Kipling I seem to see a Shining One, 12422
54: Saint Paul It saddens me to think Saint Paul 4548
55: Shakespeare Will Shakespeare, the Baconians say, 4465
56: Some Geese. EV-ER-Y child who has the use 12459
57: Stairs - A Toast Here's to the man who invented stairs 8566
58: The Ant. MY child, ob-serve the use-ful Ant, 15506
59: The Cat. OB-SERVE the Cat up-on this page. 16482
60: The Centaur The Centaur led a double life: 12578
61: The Chimera You'd think a lion or a snake 14434
62: The Chimpanzee. CHIL-DREN, be-hold the Chim-pan-zee: 6464
63: The Cockatrice If you will listen to advice 12449
64: The Dog The Dog is black or white or brown 20524
65: The Dog. HERE is the Dog. Since time be-gan, 12527
66: The Dolphin The Dolphin was, if you should wish 10423
67: The Dove Of Peace Here's to the Dove of Peace! 8446
68: The Elephant. This is the El-e-phant, who lives 13474
69: The Floor Here's to the floor, 20486
70: The Fly. OB-SERVE, my child, the House-hold Fly, 12540
71: The Game Watching a ball on the end of a string, 12547
72: The Gargoyle The Gargoyle often makes its perch 14474
73: The Giraffe. SEE the Gi-raffe; he is so tall 14520
74: The Golden Cat Great is the Golden Cat who treads 16523
75: The Gryphon It chanced that Allah, looking round, 16453
76: The Harpy They certainly contrived to raise 10438
77: The Hippopotamus. OH, say, what is this fearful, wild 10489
78: The Hydra The Hydra Hercules defied, 16445
79: The Hyppogriff Biologists are prone to sniff 10427
80: The Jinn To call a Jinn the only thing 14431
81: The Joy Ride When Mistress Peggy moves around, 4553
82: The Leopard. THIS is the Le-o-pard, my child; 9481
83: The Lion The Lion does not move at all, 12477
84: The Mermaid Although a Fishwife in a sense, 12531
85: The Milk Jug The Gentle Milk Jug blue and white 12525
86: The Minotaur No book of monsters is complete 12463
87: The Mongoos. THIS, Chil-dren, is the famed Mon-goos. 14461
88: The Moon The Moon is like a big round cheese 12530
89: The Outing My Bed is like a little Bark, 16465
90: The Peter Pan Alphabet 142463
91: The Ph[oe]nix The Ph[oe]nix was, as you might say, 10413
92: The Pig-Pen. OH, turn not from the hum-ble Pig, 10446
93: The Platypus. MY child, the Duck-billed Plat-y-pus 13468
94: The Puncture When I was just a Kitten small, 6521
95: The Puppy The Puppy cannot mew or talk, 20486
96: The Rhinoceros. SO this is the Rhi-no-ce-ros! 10499
97: The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten Wake! for the Golden Cat has put to flight 140509
98: The Salamander The Salamander made his bed 14443
99: The Satyr The Satyr lived in times remote, 16431
100: The Sea Serpent O wondrous worm that won the Height 12443
101: The Shadow Kitten There's a funny little kitten that tries to look like me, 8458
102: The Siren The Siren may be said to be 10508
103: The Sloth. The Sloth en-joys a life of Ease; 8470
104: The Smoker's Year Book Now Time the harvester surveys 144443
105: The Sphinx She was half Lady and half cat 12461
106: The Unicorn The Unicorn 's a first-rate sort. 12458
107: The Whole Duty of Kittens When Human Folk at Table eat, 4488
108: The Wolf. OH, yes, the Wolf is bad, it's true; 12517
109: The Yak. THIS is the Yak, so neg-li-gée: 10470
110: Theodore Roosevelt The ways of Providence are odd. 8443
111: To Fashion Fashion! Lovely Dame! 12434
112: To Her Shadow Here's to her shadow! 3479
113: To Hope Here's to Hope, 8456
114: To Liberty Here's to our Goddess, Liberty, 4431
115: To Music Here's to Music, 4521
116: To Neptune A health to King Neptune, 16432
117: To Our Lady Nicotine Here's to Lady Nicotine! 8420
118: To Our Readers Here's to our Readers, Health! good Looks! 4458
119: To Our Sweethearts To our Sweethearts and Wives, 4458
120: To Stern Critics Here's to stern Critics! 4495
121: To Temptation Here's to temptation! 4518
122: To The Clock Here's to the Clock! 4504
123: To The Creditor Here's to the Creditor, 20385
124: To The Maid With Fancy Free Here's to the maid with Fancy Free; 4473
125: To The Publisher To The Publisher! - Drink! 4443
126: To The Typewriter Here's to the Typewriter! 8462
127: To The Waiter We drink your health, O Waiter! 4436
128: William Dean Howells Not squirrels in the park alone 12420
129: William Howard Taft I'm sorry William Taft is out 4471
130: Winter and Summer In Winter when the air is chill, 12448




About:
Oliver Herford was a British born American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". 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), "Cynic's Calendar" (1917) and "Excuse It Please" (1930). His sister Beatrice Herford was also a humorist.


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