Project Gutenberg 2009-12-12 Public domain in the USA. 67 Burgess, Gelett 1866 1951 Burgess, Frank Gelett The Purple Cow! Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Purple Cow!" by Gelett Burgess is a whimsical poem that first gained popularity in the late 19th century, specifically during the 1890s. As a light-hearted work of children's literature, it embodies an imaginative and playful spirit. The poem humorously expresses the narrator's fanciful musings about a mythical purple cow, reflecting themes of uniqueness and the absurd. In this playful piece, the narrator shares their bemusement over the idea of a purple cow and expresses a desire to see such a creature. The poem concludes with a catchy twist, indicating a preference for witnessing a purple cow rather than becoming one themselves. Through its charming simplicity and catchy rhyme, "The Purple Cow!" captures the imagination of readers, inviting them to embrace the joy of whimsical thinking and the beauty of the fantastical over the mundane. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30656/30656-h/images/cover.jpg en Nonsense verses PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 75013 75018 2024-09-13T06:24:18.370278 2023-09-13T11:12:34.076288 text/html text/html 72584 2009-12-12T09:45:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2694716 2009-12-12T09:45:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2356824 2024-09-13T06:24:21.620307 application/epub+zip 2356520 2024-09-13T06:24:19.082288 application/epub+zip 90573 2024-09-13T06:24:18.702279 application/epub+zip 2399508 2024-09-13T06:24:23.605298 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2387121 2024-09-13T06:24:21.234283 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 125126 2022-09-14T07:35:35.981760 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 47360 47156 2024-09-13T06:24:17.925311 2023-09-13T11:12:33.479244 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 47255 2009-12-12T09:45:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18606 2009-12-12T09:45:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18179 2024-09-13T06:24:23.738246 application/rdf+xml 25727 2024-09-13T06:24:18.783261 image/jpeg 3906 2024-09-13T06:24:18.741301 image/jpeg 3154379 2024-09-13T06:24:18.472271 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia