Laura Richards was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a fairly wealthy family. Laura wrote over 90 books, which included poetry, children's biographies, and much more. Her famous mother, Julia Ward Howe, wrote the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Her father founded the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, furthermore he was an abolitionist. In the year of 1871, Laura Elizabeth Howe married Henry Richards, to whom she bore 3 children. Mrs. Richards won a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing The Life of Julia Ward Howe, in 1917. Her most famous children's poem is "Eletephony.
"Eletephony"
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
"Antonio"
Antonio, Antonio
Was tired of living alonio.
He thought he would woo
Miss Lissamy Lu,
Miss Lissamy Lucy Molonio.
Antonio, Antonio,
Rode off on his polo-ponio
He found the fair maid
In a bowery shade,
A- sitting and knitting alonio.
Antonio, Antonio,
Said, "If you will be my ownio,
I'll love you true,
And I'll buy for you
An icery creamer conio!"
Oh, Nonio, Antonio!
You're far too bleak and bonio!
And all that I wish,
You singular fish,
Is that you will quickly begonio."
Antonio, Antonio,
He uttered a dismal moanio;
Then he ran off and hid
(Or I'm told that he did)
In the Antecatarctical Zonio.
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850- January 14, 1943)
Laura Richards was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a fairly wealthy family. Laura wrote over 90 books, which included poetry, children's biographies, and much more. Her famous mother, Julia Ward Howe, wrote the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Her father founded the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, furthermore he was an abolitionist. In the year of 1871, Laura Elizabeth Howe married Henry Richards, to whom she bore 3 children. Mrs. Richards won a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing The Life of Julia Ward Howe, in 1917. Her most famous children's poem is "Eletephony.
"Eletephony"
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
"Antonio"
Antonio, Antonio
Was tired of living alonio.
He thought he would woo
Miss Lissamy Lu,
Miss Lissamy Lucy Molonio.
Antonio, Antonio,
Rode off on his polo-ponio
He found the fair maid
In a bowery shade,
A- sitting and knitting alonio.
Antonio, Antonio,
Said, "If you will be my ownio,
I'll love you true,
And I'll buy for you
An icery creamer conio!"
Oh, Nonio, Antonio!
You're far too bleak and bonio!
And all that I wish,
You singular fish,
Is that you will quickly begonio."
Antonio, Antonio,
He uttered a dismal moanio;
Then he ran off and hid
(Or I'm told that he did)
In the Antecatarctical Zonio.