Disappointed impoverished scholars know the limits of hunger and cold unemployed they like to write poems scribbling away with the strength of their hearts but who collects a nobody's words may as well save your sighs write them down on rice-flour cakes even mongrels won't touch them | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FISHER by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE SONNET: 9 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL CARLYLE AND EMERSON by MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER CHRIST'S KINGDOM AMONG THE GENTILES by ISAAC WATTS THE FISHERMAN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |