(15 November 1881 – 23 March 1960 / Chicago, Illinois)

Poems of Franklin P. Adams

21. An Ode In Time of Inauguration 1/3/2003
22. An Ultimatum To Myrtilla 3/30/2012
23. And Yet It Is A Gentle Art 3/30/2012
24. Ballade of Ancient Acts 1/3/2003
25. Ballade Of The Breakfast Table 3/30/2012
26. Ballade Of The Hardy Annual 3/30/2012
27. Ballade of the Traffickers 1/3/2003
28. Baseball's Sad Lexicon 1/3/2003
29. Bedbooks 3/30/2012
30. Bon Voyage - And Vice Versa 1/3/2003
31. Broadmindedness 1/3/2003
32. 'Carpe Diem,' Or Cop The Day 3/30/2012
33. Despite 1/3/2003
34. Fifty-Fifty 1/3/2003
35. Fragment 1/3/2003
36. From: Horace To: Phyllis Subject: Invitation 1/3/2003
37. Georgie Porgie 1/3/2003
38. Glycera Rediviva 1/3/2003
39. Help 3/30/2012
40. His Monument 1/3/2003

Rus. Vs. Urbs

Whenever the penner of this pome
Regards a lovely country home,
He sighs, in words not insincere,
"I think I'd like to live out here."

And when the builder of this ditty
Returns to this pulsating city,
The perpetrator of this pome
Yearns for a lovely country home.

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