Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BOUNDARIES OF APPRECIATION, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When someone pulls a droll idea Last Line: Shows. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Emotions | ||||||||
WHEN someone pulls a droll idea, When someone thrusts a jocund jab, I laugh right out. You can't call me a Crab. The dollars that I spend are many To get a little bit of fun; I like a joke as well as any One. I never elevate mine eyebrow At what another thinks is rough; I do not have to have the highbrow Stuff. Yet nothing keeps my heart from sinking Alas! how then my spirits droop At jokes about the noise of drinking Soup. And though I have a quenchless yearning For any quip or crank or wheeze, I cannot smile at jokes concerning Cheese. I used to blame this lovely climate; But deep deliberation shows Me why I have so sad a time at Shows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEATHLESS LOVE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE DAWN OF EVENING by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE MISTAKE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE TEMPER by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO BECOME A CREATOR by EDWARD CARPENTER IF BUT A WORD by HENRY CHAPPELL TO A GOLDEN HEART, WORN ROUND HIS NECK by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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