Franklin Pierce Adams Poems

I

In summer when the days are hot
The subway is delayed a lot;
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Up goes the price of our bread--
Up goes the cost of our caking!
People must ever be fed;
Bakers must ever be baking.
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Horace: Book I, Ode 19

"Mater sæva Cupidinum"
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Horace: Book II, Elegy 2

"Liber eram et vacuo meditabar vivere lecto--"
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Horace: Book I, Ode 2

"Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem, mihi, quem tibi"
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["There are so many things I want to talk to you about." Abelard probably said to Heloïse, "but how can I when I can only think about kissing you?" --KATHARINE LANE in the Evening Mail.]

Said Abelard to Heloïse:
"Your tresses blowing in the breeze
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I remember, I remember
The house where I was born;
The rent was thirty-two a month,
Which made my father mourn.
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There was a man in our town, and he
was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges
and sich;
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"Gentle Jane was as good as gold,"
To borrow a line from Mr. Gilbert;
She hated War with a hate untold,
She was a pacifistic filbert.
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Horace: Book I, Ode 23

"Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloë--"
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