Franklin P. Adams

Capitolo 1

GOING TO TOBOGGAN ON PARNASSUS

Of Franklin P. ADAMS





To

BERT LESTON TAYLOR

GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, MA FRIEND

    _If that these vagabond verses do
      A happier heart;  if theirs but hands
    A solo smile, for the cause of that
      I should be satisfied to sing.
    As Locker said, in tailor of phrasing,
    Settled if but One should like the chirruping.

    If I have assuaged a heart of the pain;
      If I have done one to beat or I have thrilled;
    My jobs you/he/she has not been in vain.
      My job has not been everything for zero,
    If Only one, from Maine in Kansas,
    It will say "I like its simple rooms."

    If but a solitary voice
      You/he/she should say "This polyglot of verses
    It is not so bad", I should cheer me;
      But oh, my publishers are not able!
      *       *       *       *       *
    And me, although timid and unanointed,
    You/he/she should be a small disappointed._





CONTAINED



Us the Poets
To cover of rubber-postage stamp Humour
The Simple Stuff
"Carps Diem" or he/she Catches The day
What for Money!
Xanthias Jollied
Horace the Wise man
Jealousy
Being Completely Frank
R. S. V. P.
Board
When Horace "Came Indietro"
Rejects on the Downy Stuff
Catullus, Considerable Lover
V. Catullus Explains
The Rich Man
To-night
Those Two Boys
Helps! The Impassioned Landlord to Your Love
The Servants
Our Animals of Dum
A Susurrus Molle
One summer Summary
A Quatrain
To a Donna of Light house
As?
Ballad of the Breakfast Table
Ornithology
To Alice-sit-from-the-time
To Alice-sit-from-the-time (Secondo Idillio)
Notions
The Eyen of my Ladye
To one Mrs.
"A Donna Perfetta Nobly Planned"
An Ultimatum to Myrtilla
Gustatory love
You Are not Equitable
To Myrtilla, again
Myrtilla is third degree
To Myrtilla Lagnando him
Christmas Schede - Á. the Grocery Boy
                  To the Custodian
                  To the Waiter
                  To the apartment Telephone House Ragazza
                  To the Barber
                  To the Room and Elevator Boy
Ballad of a Game annual Plant
A Declaration
Light of the footlight Motivates--Mrs. Fiske