Oliver Herford

Poems (5)

• A Belated Violet

  Very dark the autumn sky, / Dark the clouds that hurried by; …

• The Elf and the Dormouse

  Under a toadstool / Crept a wee Elf, …

• The First Rose of Summer

  “oh dear! is Summer over?” / I heard a rosebud moan, …

• The Mon-Goos

  This, children, is the famed Mon-goos. / He has an ap-pe-tite ab-struse: …

• Why Ye Blossome Cometh before Ye Leafe

  Once hoary Winter chanced—alas! / Alas! hys waye mistaking— …