WHAT is it roughens true love's course, and makes men cuss till they are hoarse, and leads to quarrels and divorce? Bad cooking. What is it ruins love's young dream, and queers the matrimonial team, and makes the married life a scream? Bad cooking. What is it comes when women prance to euchre party and to dance, and leave the home at every chance? Bad cooking. What follows when the girls grow smart, and say they're wedded to their Art, and learn some Ibsen junk by heart? Bad cooking. What happens when they play the harp as well as some imported sharp, instead of frying German carp? Bad cooking. What is it fills untimely graves, out where the bone-yard bluegrass waves, with victims of the kitchen knaves? Bad cooking. What is it drives the boys from home, in glaring, noisy dens to roam, and from cold steins to blow the foam? Bad cooking. Why are the people taking pills, and medicine in flowing rills, and always paying doctor's bills? Bad cooking. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT? by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1878 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A MIGRANT THRUSH by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT OCTOER WOODS by EMMA INGOLD BOST EPITAPH ON GOODMAN HURST OF THE GEORGE AT HORSHAM by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |