Running for Senator with clumsy pace,
He stooped so low, to win at least a place,
That Fortune, tempted by a mark so droll,
Sprang in an kicked him to the winning pole.

(C) Ambrose Bierce
03/27/2017


Best Poems of Ambrose Bierce

• J.f.b.
• Rebuke
• Rimer
• Elegy
• Thersites
• Polyphemus
• Piety
• Slander
• On Stone
• Indicted
• Peace
• An Actor
• A Man
• A Bubble
• A Spade
• The Legatee
• To Maude
• T.a.h.
• The Woful Tale Of Mr. Peters
• An Alibi