Harry Graham cytaty

Harry Graham – angielski prozaik i poeta.

✵ 23. Grudzień 1874 – 30. Październik 1936

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Harry Graham cytaty

„Dość miał Ojciec wrzasków Dziatwy:
Całą trójkę zrzucił z tratwy
I, po łbach je waląc wiosłem,
Rzekł: „Dość udręk przez was zniosłem!”

Harry Graham

Źródło: Surowy rodzic, tłum. S. Barańczak

O rodzicach

„Czyściciel okna zleciał z parapetu
Piątego piętra i skutkiem impetu
Nadział się na szpic mego parasola.
„Młodzieńcze, cóż za bezmyślna swawola!
– Rzekłem. – Masz szczęście: bo bez tej osłony
Melonik miałbym doszczętnie zgnieciony.””

Harry Graham

Źródło: Bezmyślna swawola, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak

O szczęściu

Harry Graham: Cytaty po angielsku

“What hours I spent of precious time,
What pints of ink I used to waste,
Attempting to secure a rhyme
To suit the public taste,
Until I found a simple plan
Which makes the lamest lyric scan!When I’ve a syllable de trop,
I cut it off, without apol.:
This verbal sacrifice, I know,
May irritate the schol.;
But all must praise my dev’lish cunn.
Who realise that Time is Mon.”

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Harry Graham

Źródło: Other verse, Poetical economy, Lines 1-12

“Uncle, whose inventive brains
kept evolving aeroplanes,
fell from an enormous height
upon my garden lawn last night.
Flying is a fatal sport,
uncle wrecked the tennis court.”

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Harry Graham

Uncle
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

“That morning, when my wife eloped
With James, our chauffeur, how I moped!
What tragedies in life there are!
I'm dashed if I can start the car.”

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Harry Graham

Tragedy
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

“O'er the rugged mountain's brow
Clara threw the twins she nursed,
And remarked, "I wonder now
Which will reach the bottom first?"”

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Harry Graham

Calculating Clara
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

“Weep not for little Leonie,
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench,
Just think how it's improved her French.”

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Harry Graham

Compensation
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

“When Grandmamma fell off the boat,
And couldn’t swim, and wouldn’t float,
Maria just sat by and smiled -
I almost could have slapped the child!”

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Harry Graham

Indifference
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

“Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes;
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.”

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Harry Graham

Tender-Heartedness
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)