Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEY SAY I'M TOO LITTLE FOR ANY THING!, by ANONYMOUS First Line: From a child I've been subject to strife Last Line: Altho' I'm too little for anything! Subject(s): Fortune;size & Shape | ||||||||
From a child I've been subject to strife, My unlucky form seems to fit ill; For I never could get me a wife, Because I'm so ugly and little! I'm one of those unthriving roots, Such a poor bandy-legg'd skinny thing, That I'm scarcely four feet in my boots, So they say I'm too little for anything! * * * I courted a lass six feet high, But fun folks would at me be pitching; They'd say she was up in the sky, While I was below in the kitchen; Then out the boys after us ran, And, shouting aloud, thus would many sing. O! there goes a queer little man, Don't you think he's too little for anything? * * * For a soldier poor me she forsook, For he well knew the way how to flatter her; Then a-courting I went to a cook, As tall as a giant, and fatterer, -- In nine months she'd got -- what a go! A poor little dumpy and skinny thing; Said I was its father, although You know I'm too little for anything! She vow'd that I for it should pay, Her words did me greatly agitate, So the beadle came to me next day, And hiked me away to the magistrate; Says his worship, your words, Miss, give o'er, From this youth your tricks will not a penny wring, He can't be its father, I'm sure, Because he's too little for anything! So single I fear I must go, Scorn'd by the young and the beautiful, Would some lady pity my woe, I'd ever be tender and dutiful. When married -- what joy 'would impart, When around us time youngsters would many bring, For I vow that I'd e'er do my part, Altho' I'm too little for anything! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEN WITH SMALL HEADS by THOMAS LUX SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ANY SIZE WE PLEASE by ROBERT FROST EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN by ROBERT BURNS ON SIM AND SIMON by CHARLES COTTON GIANTS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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