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RHYMES WITHOUT REASON

Written by Mervyn Peake
Illustrated by Mervyn Peake
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1944

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Front cover

Cover of RHYMES WITHOUT REASON by Mervyn Peake

Contents

  • Upon my Golden Backbone
  • All over the Lilac Brine!
  • The Sunlight falls upon the Grass
  • The Crocodile
  • The Giraffe
  • My Uncle Paul of Pimlico
  • It makes a change
  • What a day it's been!
  • How mournful to imagine
  • The Jailor and the Jaguar
  • The Camel
  • I wish I could remember
  • I waxes, and I wanes, Sir
  • The Hippopotamus
  • A Languorous Life
  • Sensitive, Seldom and Sad