BY MOTHER GOOSE AND OUR OWN SARA TEASDALE

Bennie's kisses left me cold,
Eddie's made me yearn to die,
Jimmie's made me laugh aloud,--
But Georgie's made me cry.

Bennie sees me every night,
Eddie sees me every day,
Jimmie sees me all the time,--
But Georgie stays away.

(C) Franklin Pierce Adams
03/28/2017


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