"Militis in galea nidum fecere columbæ,"--

PETRONIUS


WITH IN the soldier's helmet see
The nesting dove;
Venus and Mars, it seems to me,
In love.

(C) Franklin Pierce Adams
03/14/2017


Best Poems of Franklin Pierce Adams

• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
• And Yet It Is A Gentle Art
• Rich Man
• If The Advertising Man Had Been Gilbert
• It Happens In The B.r. Families
• Glycera Rediviva
• Bon Voyage - And Vice Versa
• On Profiteering
• After Hearing Robin Hood
• carpe Diem, Or Cop The Day
• Help
• Ballade Of The Hardy Annual
• Oh Man!
• Again Endorsing The Lady
• A Wish
• To An Aged Cut-up
• On The Uses Of Adversity
• To Alice-sit-by-the-hour