Harry Graham
1874 - 1936
Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham was an English writer. He was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies, but he is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in a style of grotesquerie and black humour.Poems
- THE CRY OF THE PUBLISHER
- THE CRY OF THE AUTHOR
- Gentle Reader, charge your tumbler...
- In many a boudoir nowadays...
- ( THE BARITONE'S BOUDOIR BALLAD )
- ( THE BARITONE'S DRINKING SONG )
- Long ago, our English actors...
- A monocle he always wears...
- He did not wear his swallow-tail...
- What a dangerous trade is the dentist's...
- How few of us contrive to shine...
- Gentle Reader, is your bosom filled with loathing...