Christmas Cards (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
ITO THE GROCERY BOYBefore you send me up that card With rime and diction far from subtle,Hear what a now ...
ITO THE GROCERY BOYBefore you send me up that card With rime and diction far from subtle,Hear what a now ...
CARMEN AMOEBAEUM IHorace: Book III, Ode 9."Donec gratus eram tibi--"HORACEWhen I was your stiddy, my loveliest Lyddy, ...
_At not at all infrequent spells I hear--and so do you--The tales that everybody tells And no one listens to._"You ...
With genuflexions to Kipling's _"The Ladies"_We've taken our cooks where we've found 'em; We've answered many an ad;We've had our ...
If couples mated but for love; If women all were perfect cooks; If Hoosier authors wrote no books; ...
A young man once was sitting Within a swell cafe,The music it was playing sweet-- The people was quite gay.But ...
(All of them from two stories in a single magazine.)She "greeted" and he "volunteered"; She "giggled"; he "asserted";She "queried" and ...
While I hold as superficial him who has his young initial Neatly graven on his Turkish cigarette,Such a bit of ...
_Love me to-night! Fold your dear arms around me-- Hurt me--I do but glory in your might!Tho' your fierce strength ...
Time-table! Terrible and hard To figure! At some station lonelyWe see this sign upon the card:[Footnote Asterisk: Train 20: Stops ...
Sullen, grimy, labouring person, As I passed you in my car, I could sense your muffled curse ...
Beside a frugal table, though spotless clean and white,A loving couple they did sit and all seemed pleasant, quite;They did ...
AD PHYLLIDEMHorace: Book IV Ode II"_Est mihi nonum superantis annum_"Phyllis, I've a keg of fine fermented grape juice,Alban wine that's ...
(Caused by "The Ethics of Misquotation" in the November _Atlantic Monthly_.)Quotation! Brother to ...
Why not a poem as they treat The stories in the magazines?"Eustacia's lips were very sweet. He stooped to"-and here ...
O precious codex, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, workAttend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a ...
IMRS. FISKEStaccato, hurried, nervous, brisk, Cascading, intermittent, choppy,The brittle voice of Mrs. Fiske Shall serve me now as copy.Assist me, ...
If a single man is studious and quiet, people say He is grouchy, he is old before his time;If he's ...
Myrtilla, when the thought of youObstructs my cold, unbiased view, And keeps me from My hard ...
(With deep bows to Adelaide Anne Proctor's heirs, administrators and assigns.)Before I trust my ...
Motto heartening, inspiring, Framed above my pretty *desk,Never Shelley, Keats, or Byring* Penned a phrase so picturesque!But in me no ...
What time I seek my virtuous couch to steal Some surcease from the labours of the day,Ere silence like a ...
AD XANTHIAM PHOCEUMHorace: Book II, Ode 4._"Ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori."_Nay, Xanthias, feel unashamed That she you love is ...
(To Annabelle.)Pipe to the tip I'm handing, Kid; Get jerry to the salve I throw;Just paste it in your merrywid ...
GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, BUT FRIEND _If that these vagrant verses make One heart more glad; if they but ...
("If I have erred I err in company with AbrahamLincoln."--THEODORE ROOSEVELT.)If e'er my rhyming be at fault, If e'er I ...
The Passionate Householder to his LoveCome, live with us and be our cook,And we will all the whimsies brookThat German, ...
My desk is cleared of the litter of ages; Before me glitter the fair white pages; My fountain pen is ...
AD LYDIAMHorace: Book I., Ode 13._"Quem tu, Lydia, TelephiCervicem roseam, cerea Telephi--"_What time thou yearnest for the arms Of Telephus, ...
(Cut this out in either case.)Poet, ere you write me, Stem the flowing ink;Or that you indite me Pause upon ...
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