Do you seek, when you take up your paper, Some beastly and horrible tale, Some Saint who has Cut up a Caper, Some Paragon Landed in Jail? Are you keen for a serpentine Scandal, For a briskly salacious Divorce, For a Preacher who Goes Off the Handle, A Wife who has cause for Remorse? Do you look for an Accident bloody, For the Plague's insidious woe? For the Crooks who have made it a study To steal from the high and the low? For a sweepingly Fierce Conflagration, An Earthquake that Shatters a Town, For War's remote Desolation, For a Storm and a Thousand that Drown? Do you feel disappointed and cheated When headings are peacefully tame? Have the editors then been defeated, -- A newspaper only in name? Ah, editors mainly are feeders Of mouths that they measure or guess! It's the yellow, sensational readers Make the yellow, sensational press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DESERTED GARDEN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A VISION OF CONNAUGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE CITY CHILD by ALFRED TENNYSON EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 37. LOVE'S MY POLE-STAR by PHILIP AYRES THE LAY OF THE LEGION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |