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Born in November 15, 1881 / Died in March 23, 1960 / United States / English

Poems by Franklin Pierce Adams

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Help

... Two trained physicians when you cough, ...

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Melodrama

... The bank and the safe and the will and the forgery-- ...

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Horace The Wise

... ..urget?".] Tee hee! I must laugh when I think of his finish, ...

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Ballade Of The Average Reader

... L'ENVOI Most read of readers, if you've read ...

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Thoughts On The Cosmos

... Who sees the Rose, nor feels the Thorn ...

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The Ballad Of The Thoughtless Waiter

... And my comrade's heart gave a sudden start ...

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On The Uses Of Adversity

... The burglar seeks the plutocrat, attracted by his dress- ...

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To A Thesaurus

...   Transcribe, set forth, compose, address, ...

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Ballade Of The Breakfast Table

... ]   Cereal--one of the brands[Footnote: To advertisers: This space for sale ...

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Speaking Of Hunting

... Than that ill-fated jest--I refer to the quest-- ...

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A New York Child's Garden Of Verses

... IV New York is so full of a number of kids ...

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Heads And Tails

... Henry Peck. Lowers Scylla--frowns Charybdis--and the bark is like to sink-- ...

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When Horace "Came Back"

... LYDIA When I was the person you penned all that verse on, ...

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The Jazzy Bard

... 'Cause I got the para-, I said I got the paragraphic, I mean the column constructin' blues ...

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Propertius's Bid For Immortality

... "Carminis interea nostri redæmus in orbem--" ...