Who is Bert Leston Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor (c. 1920) Bert Leston Taylor (November 13, 1866 – March 19, 1921) was an American columnist, humorist, poet, and author.Bert Leston Taylor became a journalist at seventeen, a librettist at twenty-one, and a successfully published author at thirty-five. At the height of his literary career, he was a central literary figure of the early 20th century Chicago renaissance as well as one of the most celebrated columnists in the United States.
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Bert Leston Taylor Poems
- Farewell
Provoked By Calverley's "Forever"
"Farewell!" Another gloomy word ... - Post-impressionism
I cannot tell you how I love
The canvases of Mr. Dove,
Which Saturday I went to see
In Mr. Thurber's gallery. ... - Bygones
Or ever a lick of Art was done,
Or ever a one to care,
I was a Purple Polygon,
And you were a Sky-Blue Square. ... - Old Stuff
If I go to see the play,
Of the story I am certain;
Promptly it gets under way
With the lifting of the curtain. ... - Upon Julia's Arctics
Whenas galoshed my Julia goes,
Unbuckled all from top to toes,
How swift the poem becometh prose!
And when I cast mine eyes and see...
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- Welfordwrites: a bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. bert leston taylor
- Hodarinundu: when i was 15 i had to go in front of the class and recite a poem of my choice. everyone had really intense, heartfelt romantic poetry, and then it was my turn and all i could do was recite bert leston taylor's "the dinosaur". teacher wasn´t impressed. :/
- Welfordwrites: a bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. bert leston taylor
- Welfordwrites: a bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. bert leston taylor
- Welfordwrites: a bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. bert leston taylor