Poesy's Guerdon

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Title:     Poesy's Guerdon
Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams]

( * * * I do not believe a single modern English poet is living to-day on the current proceeds of his verse.--From "Literary Taste and How to Form it," by Arnold Bennett.)

What time I pen the Mighty Line
Suffused with the spark divine
As who should say: "By George! That's fine!"

Indignantly do I deny
The words of Arnold Bennett. Why,
Is this not English verse? say I.

And by the proceeds of that verse--
Such as, e. g., these little terc-
Ets--is not filled the family purse?

Do we not live on what I sell,
Sonnet, ballade, and villanelle?

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"We do," She says, "and none too well."

[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: Poesy's Guerdon

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