Things! Things! Things! On the tables, on the door. Tucked away behind the door. On the aheives and on the chairs. Dangerously on the stairs. Bureaus crammed and closets filled. Boxes packed and boxes spilled. Bundles everywhere you go. Heaps and piles and overflow Of things, things, things! Things! Things! Things! Things of value, worthless trash. Things preserved or gone to smash. Ancient things or things just bouught, Common things and things far-sought. Things you mean to throw away. Things you ho>!>e to uMe some day. Cellar, attic, all between, One exasperating scene Ot things, things, things! Things! Things! Things! Things that take our precious time. Hold us from the life subime. Things that only gather dust. Things that rot and things that rust. Things that mould and things that freeze. Things that harbor foul disease. Things that mock and defy Till at last we grimly die Of things, things, things ! Things! Things! Things! Let me cease to be their fool! Let me fly their crafty rule! Let me with unsparing knife Cut their canker from my life! Broad and clear an'E t all serene Let me make my mansion clean. Now and evermore to be Calm, unfretted, grandly free From things, things, things! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARMAGEDDON by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE MORAL FABLES: THE FOX, THE WOLF, AND THE HUSBANDMAN by AESOP TO MISS DIXON by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD WITHER AWAY by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 11 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH ON BEING SHEWN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY SEAT by ROBERT BURNS EXTEMPORE VERSES ON A TRIAL OF SKILL BETWEEN MSSRS. FIGG AND SUTTON by JOHN BYROM |