Franklin P. Adams Poems
- 1. An Election Night Pantoum
Gaze at the good-natured crowd,
List to the noise and the rattle!
Heavens! that woman is loud-
Loud as the din of a battle.
... - 2. The Return Of The Soldier
Lady when I left you
Ere I sailed the sea,
Bitterly bereft you
Told me you would be.
... - 3. The Last Laugh
Horace: Epode 25
"Nox erat et cælo fulgebat Luna sereno---"
... - 4. Lines On Reading Frank J. Wilstach's
As neat as wax, as good as new,
As true as steel, as truth is true,
Good as a sermon, keen as hate,
Full as a tick, and fixed as fate--
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