An old lady who lives to the east got rich a few years ago before poorer than me she now mocks my poverty she laughs that I'm behind I laugh that she's ahead it seems we can't stop laughing from the east and from the west | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO KNOW IN REVERIE THE ONLY PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ABSOLUTE by HAYDEN CARRUTH ON THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL POETS by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE OLD SEXTON by PARK BENJAMIN THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (A) by WILLIAM BLAKE DOUGLASS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT |