Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TROUBLOUS TIMES, by ANONYMOUS First Line: We've had a social squabble down to pohick on the crick Last Line: An' there ain't no joy in livin' up to pohick on the crick Subject(s): Quarrels;socialism; Arguments;disagreements | ||||||||
WE'VE had a social squabble down to Pohick on the crick. It's goin' to smash the town, unless it's settled purty quick. It were an ice cream festival as started all the strife, 'T was Mrs. Jabez Jopples who exclaimed, "To save my life I can't see how it was that Sallie Swoggins come to be Picked out to have the ice cream helped to her ahead o' me, When everybody livin' in the county shorely knows That we could buy and sell the Swoggins family, if we chose!" Now, Jabez and Sam Swoggins has been friends for many a year; An' they're cut up 'bout this quarrel; but they're skeered to interfere. An' all the other women folks are started that's the wust! Whenever there's a party each one wants her victuals first. An' the men folks, they are gettin' so uneasy 'bout the fray They dassn't stop a minute, jes' to pass the time o' day. This "social precedence" has got us worried till we're sick, An' there ain't no joy in livin' up to Pohick on the crick. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE QUARREL by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF by EDGAR LEE MASTERS OUR PRINCIPAL by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER AFTER THE QUARREL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS by FRANCIS BRET HARTE EARLY EVENING QUARREL by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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