Leonard Leslie Brooke
Who is Leonard Leslie Brooke
Leonard Leslie Brooke (24 September 1862 – 2 May 1940) was a British artist and writer.Early life and educationBrooke was born in Birkenhead, England, the second son of Leonard D. Brooke. He was educated at Birkenhead School and the Royal Academy Schools. While travelling in Italy, Brooke survived a serious illness, but was left permanently deaf.CareerBrooke was an accomplished oil painter. In 1894, he displayed a painting entitled “I was ever a fighter, so one fight more” at the New Gallery on Regents Street, London. The painting shows a vigorous half-length of a bare-headed soldier of the seventeenth century, which a reviewer praised for 'the breezy life of the face and pose'. Brooke also displayed painted his relative, Mr. Stopford Brooke. Other exhibits included 'Love among the R...
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- Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie.
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
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- To Market, To Market
To Market, To Market.
To market, to market, to buy a fat Pig;
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- There Was A Man
There Was A Man.
There was a man, and he had nought,
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- Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
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- There Was A Little Man
There was a little man,
And he had a little gun,
And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead;
He went to the brook
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