![]() University College London is available here, and his Leslie Stephen Some other Housman resources are available on the web. There are some questions I won't answer: don't waste your To ask me a question or send me a comment, please read Page and that's probably where you want to be. Originally published by me, Martin Hardcastle, in the early 1990s. The following is a (fairly extensive) selection of Housman's poetry Invented a light that plugs into the sun.A.E. He cried, “Hey, there’s a tack-in-the-box,Īnd it’s cutting me through and through.” Popped out-and wouldn’t get back-in-the-box. IT’S DARK IN HERE ( Where the Sidewalk Ends) THE PLANET OF MARS ( Where the Sidewalk Ends)Īnd they have the same shoes and same laces,Īnd they have the same charms and same graces,Īnd they have the same heads and same faces…Ģ6. Peeked over the ledge where the blue smoke curls,Ģ5. Sat on the edge where the wild wind whirled, THE EDGE OF THE WORLD ( Where the Sidewalk Ends)įor I’ve been down to the edge of the world, I read these words and my blood ran cold.Ģ4. Signed, Morgan the Pirate, Scourge of the Seas. “A curse upon he who disturbs this gold.” Just where the map said a chest would appear.īut carved in the side were written these words: I came to the spot that said, “Dig right here.” So I haven’t got a horn-I’ll play my nose.įollowin’ the trail on the old treasure map, So you haven’t got a drum, just beat your belly. Which is lots more than most kids can say.īut I’m told they look orange in the night.Ģ2. EARLY BIRD ( Where the Sidewalk Ends)Īnd catch the worm for your breakfast plate. I met a vampire, but he didn’t want my blood,ġ5. I met a devil, but he didn’t want my soul, He only wanted to know the way to Denver. I met a ghost, but he didn’t want my head, MONSTERS I’VE MET ( A Light in the Attic) Her mama said, “Don’t eat with your fingers.”ġ4. RIDICULOUS ROSE ( Where the Sidewalk Ends) YESEES AND NOEES ( Every Thing On It)īut somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfeesġ3. PUT SOMETHING IN ( A Light in the Attic)ġ1. So I’m staying in here where it’s safe and it’s warm,ġ0. The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,įor I hear all the talk of pollution and warĪs the people all shout and the airplanes roar, SOMETHING MISSING ( A Light in the Attic)ĩ. LISTEN TO THE MUSTN’TS ( Where the Sidewalk Ends)ħ. HOW MANY, HOW MUCH ( A Light in the Attic)ģ. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fireįor we have some flax-golden tales to spin.Ģ. ![]() So we at the Why Not 100 have chosen our 46 favorite Shel Silverstein mini-masterpieces, starting with the perfect one:Ī hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer… And Silverstein could do it in only a few lines. Seuss combined whimsy and profundity-imagination and insight-as deftly as Silverstein did. He was a poet who made children smile around the world-with illustrated poetry collections like Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It-even though he himself lost a daughter to a cerebral aneurysm when she was 11. He was a Korean War veteran who espoused peace. You can love him because he was a survivor. You can love him because he called himself Uncle Shelby, even those his real name was Sheldon. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit." So I started to draw and to write… By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. You can love him because he said things like this: "When I was a kid… I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. He created illustrated travel journals for Playboy about everything from a baseball training camp to a nudist colony, from Haight-Ashbury to Fire Island, from Spain to Switzerland (“I’ll give them 15 more minutes, and if nobody yodels, I’m going back to the hotel.”) He wrote iconic songs like “A Boy Named Sue” (he won a 1970 Grammy) and iconic books like The Giving Tree. You can love Shel Silverstein because he was a Renaissance Man, yet a Captain of the Unpretentious-singer-songwriter, screenwriter, playwright, cartoonist, iconic children’s author. ![]()
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