Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TILL EULENSPIEGEL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography First Line: Eulenspiegel, merry lad Last Line: Blooms with laughter and delight. Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Pranks | ||||||||
EULENSPIEGEL, merry lad, What a laughing life you had! Prank and jest were yours by right Or at noontide or at night, And the simple tricks you played On the spinster and the jade Only helped sad hearts to be Lighter through felicity. If you knocked upon the door Of a house you'd missed before, How the little home would wake, Laughing for your laughter's sake! Never since Time was begun Has Life frowned on harmless fun; Never has there been a day Filled too full of foolish play. Let the somber folk and dense Laugh at your young innocence; Tricks that they have never guessed (Many a little quip and jest) Play upon them till they take Long, long leave of grieving. Make Plots and plans of such design As will cause old eyes to shine. Trip your way into my heart, Eulenspiegel! Let me part With the sorrow and the tears That are marching down the years. Play your pranks with all of us, In that way felicitous, Till the darkness of our night Blooms with laughter and delight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE by WILLIAM BARNES POLLY BE-EN UPZIDES WI' TOM by WILLIAM BARNES WHAT DICK AN' I DID by WILLIAM BARNES ONLY A PIN by ISAAC HINTON BROWN THE PRACTICAL JOKER by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT THE GUILE OF DAD MCGINNIS by W. T. GOODGE THE SILKEN SNAKE by ROBERT HERRICK A CURIOUS REMINISCENCE by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY (19TH CENTURY) CITY ROOFS by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE |
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