Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THINGS! THINGS! THINGS!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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Last Line: From things, things, things!
Subject(s): Property


Things! Things! Things!
On the tables, on the door.
Tucked away behind the door.
On the aheives and on the chairs.
Dangerously on the stairs.
Bureaus crammed and closets filled.
Boxes packed and boxes spilled.
Bundles everywhere you go.
Heaps and piles and overflow
Of things, things, things!

Things! Things! Things!
Things of value, worthless trash.
Things preserved or gone to smash.
Ancient things or things just bouught,
Common things and things far-sought.
Things you mean to throw away.
Things you ho>!>e to uMe some day.
Cellar, attic, all between,
One exasperating scene
Ot things, things, things!

Things! Things! Things!
Things that take our precious time.
Hold us from the life subime.
Things that only gather dust.
Things that rot and things that rust.
Things that mould and things that freeze.
Things that harbor foul disease.
Things that mock and defy
Till at last we grimly die
Of things, things, things !

Things! Things! Things!
Let me cease to be their fool!
Let me fly their crafty rule!
Let me with unsparing knife
Cut their canker from my life!
Broad and clear an'E t all serene
Let me make my mansion clean.
Now and evermore to be
Calm, unfretted, grandly free
From things, things, things!





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