Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BOUNDARIES OF APPRECIATION, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS 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. | 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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