A little bread - a crust - a crumb - A little trust - a demijohn - Can keep the soul alive - Not portly, mind! but breathing - warm - Conscious - as old Napoleon, The night before the Crown! A modest lot - A fame petite - A brief Campaign of sting and sweet Is plenty! Is enough! A Sailor's business is the shore! A Soldier's - balls! Who asketh more, Must seek the neighboring life! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ANNIVERSARY [ANNIVERSARIE] by JOHN DONNE A LINE-STORM SONG by ROBERT FROST SONGS OF TRAVEL: 45. TO S.R. CROCKETT by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE UNSCARRED FIGHTER REMEMBERS FRANCE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE SOLITUDE OF SPACE by FLORA CECILE ALLISON CHARACTERS: SUSANNAH BARBAULD MARISSAL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |