@3To rest my fagged brain now and then, When wearied of my proper labors, I lay aside my lagging pen And get to thinking on my neighbors; For, oh, around my garret den There's woe and poverty a-plenty, And life's so interesting when A lad is only two-and-twenty.@1 @3Now, there's that artist gaunt and wan, A little card his door adorning; It reads: "Je ne suis pour personne," A very frank and fitting warning. I fear he's in a sorry plight; He starves, I think, too proud to borrow, I hear him moaning every night: Maybe they'll find him dead to-morrow.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STORY OF SEVENTY-SIX by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT BATTLE OF THE BALTIC by THOMAS CAMPBELL THE JOURNEY by EMILY DICKINSON WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK by ELIZABETH I HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY by ROBERT HERRICK MISGIVINGS (1860) by HERMAN MELVILLE |