Humbert Wolfe Quotes

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You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.

But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.

Humbert Wolfe

The children play
At hide and seek
About the monument
To Speke.
And why should the dead
Explorer mind
Who has nothing to seek
And nothing to find?

Humbert Wolfe

Space is a wind that does not blow
On Betelgeuse and time – oh time – is a bird,
Whose wings have never stirred
The golden avenues of leaves
On Betelgeuse.

Humbert Wolfe

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

Humbert Wolfe

Like a small gray coffee pot
sits the squirrel.

Humbert Wolfe

The doctor lives by chicken pox, by measles, and by mumps. He keeps a microbe in a box and cheers him when he jumps.

Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe

Born: January 5, 1885

Died: January 5, 1940 (aged 55)

Bio: Humbert Wolfe was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant.

Known for:

Out of Great Tribulation (1939)
Lampoons (1925)

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