Laura Elizabeth Richards

Laura Elizabeth Richards Poems

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
...

Skinny Mrs. Snipkin,
With her little pipkin,
Sat by the fireside a-warming of her toes.
Fat Mrs. Wobblechin,
...

The Robin sings of willow-buds,
Of snowflakes on the green;
The bluebird sings of Mayflowers,
The crackling leaves between;
...

Antonio, Antonio
Was tired of living alonio.
He thought he would woo
Miss Lissamy Lu,
...

Two angels came through the gate of
Heaven.
(White and soft is a mother's breast!)
Stayed them both by the gate of Heaven;
...

I sat beside a lady fair,
A lady grave and sweet;
Withal so wise, that well I might
Have sat me at her feet.
...

As Jeremi' and Josephine
Were walky-talking on the green,
They met a man who bore a dish
Of (anything you like to wish!)
...

This is the Wiggledywasticus,
Very remarkable beast.
Nose to tail an eighth of a mile;
...

Once a Gargoyle and a Griffin
Thought they'd go and take their tiffin
With the eminent Confucius, just outside the temple wall;
...

The owl and the eel and the warming-pan,
They went to call on the soap-fat man.
The soap-fat man he was not within:
...

Oh! little loveliest lady mine,
What shall I send for your valentine?
Summer and flowers are far away;
Gloomy old Winter is king to-day;
...

In Araby, in Araby,
In Araby the blest,
There lived a man who thought he'd like
To travel to the west.
...

Where Helen sits, the darkness is so deep,
No golden sunbeam strikes athwart the gloom;
No mother’s smile, no glance of loving eyes,
...

Alphonso, Alphonso, Alphonso and Arabella
They happened to meet
A man in the street,
Who carried a gingham umbrella.
...

The Rummy-jums, the Rummy-jums,
Are very funny people;
(Very, very, very, very,
Very funny people!)
...

Little Prince Tatters has lost his cap!
Over the hedge he threw it;
Into the river it fell
...

The Rummy-jums, the Rummy-jums,
Are very funny people;
(Very, very, very, very,
Very funny people!)
...

The bumblebee, the bumblebee,
He flew to the top of the tulip-tree.
He flew to the top, but he could not stop,
...

Laura Elizabeth Richards Biography

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 - January 14, 1943) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high-profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's, biographies, poetry, and others. A well-known children's poem for which she is noted is the literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony." Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. Samuel Gridley Howe's famous pupil Laura Bridgman was Laura's namesake. Julia Ward Howe, Laura's mother, was famous for writing the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. In 1871, Laura married Henry Richards. He would accept a management position in 1876 at his family's paper mill at Gardiner, Maine, where the couple moved with their three children. In 1917, Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for The Life of Julia Ward Howe, a biography, which she co-authored with her sister, Maud Howe Elliott.)

The Best Poem Of Laura Elizabeth Richards

Eletelephony

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)

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