This is a short collection of poems and artwork by E.P. Rose of Galisteo, New Mexico Elizabeth Rose was born by the light of a Hurricane lamp in the Himalayan foothills. A Raj orphan shipped from India at age seven, she roamed the moors of an English home for children, where her imagination developed unschooled and uncensored. In 1986 she left England and now lives in Galisteo, New Mexico. She writes poetry for children and crafted a historical biography of her father titled Poet Under a Soldier's Hat.

100 years of Colonial Rule in British India 1850-1947 through the personal stories of one family. Caught in two World Wars, pre Mutiny skirmishes, and the Great Sepoy Rebellion the true saga of lives not so "pukkha" as might be supposed. Hugh Roses back-story exposes child marriage, social taboos, adulterous affairs over many summers in a Himalayan Hill Station, illegitimate pregnancies and banishment to England. More a poet than a soldier, Hugh, a British Officer of the Raj, serves with the 3rd Queen Alexandras Own Gurkha Rifles in the Kyber Pass bordering the Northwest Frontier Afghanistan....

Children's verse in english and spanish.This collection opens up a world of language delightful to children of all ages and those who read to them. Elizabeth Rose penned these poems and drawings daily as dawn broke over the Mexican beach.

Children's verse in English and Spanish.This collection opens up a world of language delightful to children of all ages and those who read to them. Elizabeth Rose penned these poems and drawings daily as dawn broke over the Mexican beach.