Social Commentaries
Childish Complaints: Whooping-cough
From Verse and Worse (1905)
Social Commentaries
If only I had Whooping-cough!
I'd join a Circus troupe!
And folks would clamour at the door,
And pay a shilling--even more,
To see me 'Whoop The Whoop.'
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MLA
Graham, Harry. “Childish Complaints: Whooping-cough.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/72/.
Chicago
Graham, Harry. “Childish Complaints: Whooping-cough.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/graham_h/72/.
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