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Edith L M King

I lived from 1871-1962. I was from South Africa, and am in the Asian category.

Edith L. M. King was born at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, became a student in England, and afterwards taught at Eunice High School, Bloemfontein, where she was headmistress at her retirement in 1922. King spent five years studying art in Paris and exhibited her art with the Everard Group (her older sister was Ruth Everard) and elsewhere.

Her children's rhymes have a deceptive simplicity. They are all written from a child's perspective, in a child's voice, but any adult reader will soon find that many of these little pieces highlight the child's innocence and unknowing poignantly against the backdrop of a very dark world.

My poetry

  • Hope
    Wolf has turned to house-dog,
    Tiger-cat tom kitty,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Earth’s Motion
    When we are going in a train
    At sixty miles an hour,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Cattle in Trucks
    Poor cows, poor sheep,
    I weep, I weep
    20 lines
  • To a Kaffir Baby
    Kaffir baby, Kaffir baby,
        Going to the kraal,
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • The Centipede
    I've often watched you, centipede,
    And I can't think however
    19 lines
  • Thunder at Night
    Drop, drop, splash, splash,
        A vivid flash
    7 lines
  • The Woodlouse
    The woodlouse looks as if he were
        A mediæval knight,
    18 lines

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