Poems by Franklin Pierce Adams
Ballade Of The Traffickers
... L'ENVOI Take thou my verses, I pray, King, ...
To W. Hohenzollern, On Discontinuing The Conning Tower
... Although my words were strong, and stripped of stuffing, ...
Downward, Come Downward
... (With apologies to the estate of Elizabeth Akers Allen ...
She Is Not Fair
... Nor azure eyes, nor golden hair ...
Erring In Company
... ("If I have erred I err in company with Abraham ...
Bon Voyage - And Vice Versa
... Canst thou endure the hard ship's-mattress ...
To-night
... The world's wild stress sounds less than our own heart-beat ...
The Poem Speaks
... Till, with gum and hooks, ...
Ballade Of Ancient Acts
... L'ENVOI Prince, though our children laugh "Ho! Ho!" ...
A Summer Summary
... Nix! If the country's not for me, ...
To A Vers Librist
... I write, and have but one small fetter: ...
The Ballad Of The Murdered Merchant
... Oh, why hast thou killed this fair merchant ...
A Ballad Of Baseball Burdens
... O the hope, The tenuous hope, the hope that's half a fear, ...
To An Aged Cut-Up I
... Go buy a skein of yarn and make the knitting needles hum, ...
A Psalm of Freudian Life
... brother -- Reading, might say, "How like me!"Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any mate ...
