Miserable little woman in a brown coat -- quit whining! My hand for you! We'll skip down the tin cornices of Main Street flicking the dull roof-line with our toe-tips! Hop clear of the bank! A pin-wheel round the white flag-pole. And I'll sing you the while a thing to split your sides about Johann Sebastian Bach, the father of music, who had three wives and twenty-two children. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE WIND AT THE DOOR by WILLIAM BARNES LIMBO by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE HE FELL AMONG THIEVES by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT THE SURF by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS THE DRIED MILLPOND by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |