THERE was a man and he had nought, And robbers came to rob him; He crept up to the chimney top, And then they thought they had him. But he got down on the other side, And then they could not find him; He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days, And never looked behind him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE STIRRUP-CUP by SIDNEY LANIER SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS by JOHN MILTON AT THE SEASIDE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE LADY'S DRESSING ROOM by JONATHAN SWIFT |