Purple Cow Parodies

Parodies of the poem "The Purple Cow" by Gelett Burgess. By Carolyn Wells A cow of purple is a joy forever.Its loveliness increases. I have neverSeen this phenomenon. "John Keats" She lived unknown, that Cow, and soI never chanced to see;But if I had to be one, oh,The difference to me! "William Wordsworth" For the wind is in the gum-tree,And the hay is in the mow,And the cow-bells are a-calling"Come and see a Purple Cow!" "Rudyard Kipling" Hence, vain deluding cows.The herd of folly, without colour bright,How little you delight,Or fill the Poet's mind, or songs arouse! "John Milton" I dream of a purple creatureWhich is not as kine are now;And resembles cattle onlyAs Cowper resembles a cow. "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" Though cows of rare sorts I am buying,Not one breathes a balm to my breast.Oh, rapturous, rose-crowned occasion,When I such a glory might see!But a cow of a purple persuasionI never would be. "Algernon Swinburne" Our most hearty laughterSomething sad must rouse.Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows. "Percy Bysshe Shelley" Full many a cow of purplest ray sereneIs haply grazing where I may not see;Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween,But neither of these creatures would I be. "Thomas Gray" Ask me no more. A cow I fain would seeOf purple tint, like a sun-soaked grape - "Alfred Tennyson" Open then I flung a shutter,And, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a Purple Cow which gayly tripped around my floor. "Edgar Allan Poe" By Oliver Herford Corniferous wet-nurse of the human race,Calm, comfortable cow, with placid prideYielding your offering at eventide "Thomas Gray" By Susan and David Hollander And to my horror down the laneCame a sight; I froze insideA spectral cow with purple hide. "Edgar Allan Poe" In Bovine majesty she stands,Her purple tail she swings,The amethyst cow "Emily Dickinson" References "Diversions of the Re-Echo Club" by Carolyn Wells in The Book of Humorous Verses compiled by Carolyn Wells. Copyright 1920, 1936 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. External links Angryox site Poemhunter Category:Poetry