Harry Graham

Jocelyn Henry Clive Graham (1874–1936), known as Harry Graham, was an English writer and soldier who served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards. He worked as a journalist and later wrote lyrics for operettas and musical comedies.

He is remembered for his humorous verse of grotesque and black comedy, much of it published under the name “Col. D. Streamer.” Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1901–02) was followed by Perverted Proverbs, Misrepresentative Men and Women, Verse and Worse, Familiar Faces and The Motley Muse; the poems here are taken from those seven books (1902–1913). Verse and Worse reprints several earlier pieces, which appear only once, under the earlier book.