The Purple Blog

I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
but I can tell you anyhow;
I’d rather see than be one!

…

Having become inextricably linked with this verse, he wrote the following Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue:

Ah yes, I wrote The Purple Cow,

I’m sorry now I wrote it;

But I can tell you, anyhow,

I’ll kill you if you quote it!

His other works:

Vivette (1897) Novelette
The Lively City O’Ligg (1899) Juvenile
Goops, and How to be Them (1900) Juvenile
A Gage of Youth (1901) Poems, chiefly from The Lark
The Burgess Nonsense Book (1901) Prose and Verse
The Romance of the Commonplace (1901)
More Goops, and How Not to Be Them (1903) Juvenile
The Reign of Queen Isyl (1903) Short stories in collaboration with Will Irwin
The Picaroons (1904) Short stories in collaboration with Will Irwin
The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne (1904) Satire and Parody
Goop Tales (1904) Juvenile
A Little Sister of Destiny (1904) Short stories
Are You a Bromide? (1906) short book
The White Cat (1907) Novel
The Heart Line (1907) Novel
The Maxims of Methuselah (1907) Satire and Parody
Blue Goops and Red (1909) Juvenile
Lady Mechante (1909) Novel
The Master of Mysteries (1912)
The Maxims of Noah (1913)
Have You an Educated Heart? (1923)
The Purple Cow

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