Verse and Worse
Harry Graham
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. - Summary by mleigh (2 hr 30 min)
Chapters
| Author's Preface | 1:46 | Read by mleigh |
| Foreword | 4:48 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| Abroad | 2:28 | Read by Anthony Joseph |
| United States of America | 2:10 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Great Britain | 1:39 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Scotland | 1:23 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Ireland | 1:13 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| Wales | 0:46 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| China | 2:08 | Read by Anthony Joseph |
| France | 1:28 | Read by dc |
| Germany | 1:28 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Holland | 2:10 | |
| Iceland | 0:57 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| Italy | 1:55 | |
| Japan | 1:19 | Read by mleigh |
| Portugal | 0:36 | Read by Sadiya Bindir |
| Russia | 1:26 | Read by ml16 |
| Spain | 2:49 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| Switzerland | 1:26 | Read by nighthawks |
| Turkey | 1:38 | Read by Steve Nelson |
| Dreamland | 1:34 | Read by Sadiya Bindir |
| Stageland | 0:47 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Loverland | 4:26 | Read by Andrea Atwood |
| Homeland | 1:22 | Read by Anthony Joseph |
| Prelude (Childish Complaints) | 3:18 | Read by Andrea Atwood |
| Appendicitis | 0:32 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Whooping-Cough | 0:33 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Measles | 0:33 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Adenoids | 0:34 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Croup | 0:31 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| Mother-Wit | 0:34 | Read by nighthawks |
| Uncle Joe | 0:31 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| Aunt Eliza | 0:26 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| Absent-mindedness | 1:05 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| John | 1:48 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| Baby | 0:36 | Read by mleigh |
| The Cat | 1:18 | Read by Stefan Von Blon |
| 'Virtue is its own Reward' | 7:35 | Read by Andrea Atwood |
| 'Enough is as Good as a Feast' | 2:28 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| 'Don't Buy a Pig in a Poke' | 1:47 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| 'Learn to Take Things Easily' | 0:58 | Read by mleigh |
| 'A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss' | 2:52 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| 'It is Never Too Late to Mend' | 2:25 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| 'A Bad Workman Complains of his Tools' | 0:52 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| 'Don't Look a Gift-horse in the Mouth' | 2:03 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Potpourri | 4:13 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Bill | 2:30 | |
| The Legend of the Author | 14:22 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| The Motriot | 1:48 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| The Ballad of the Artist | 4:06 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| The Ballad of Ping-pong | 1:51 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Pessimist | 1:54 | Read by nighthawks |
| The Place where the Old Cleek Broke | 2:59 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| The Homes of London | 1:50 | Read by Slyma12 |
| The Happiest Land | 4:21 | Read by Kerry Adams |
| A London Involuntary | 3:11 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Bluebeard | 13:38 | Read by nighthawks |
| The Woman with the Dead Soles | 4:15 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Rosemary (A Ballad of the Boudoir) | 1:28 | Read by Divya Sharma |
| Portknockie's Porter | 2:48 | Read by czandra |
| The Ballad of the Little Jinglander | 4:10 | Read by czandra |
| Aftword | 2:23 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Envoi | 1:29 | Read by mleigh |