Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls,
Long in one place she will not stay;
Back from your brow she strokes the curls,
Kisses you quick and flies away.

But Madame Bad Luck soberly comes
And stays, - no fancy has she for flitting, -
Snatches of true love-songs she hums,
And sits by your bed, and brings her knitting.

(C) John Milton Hay
06/30/2019


Best Poems of John Milton Hay

• The Crows At Washington.
• A Triumph Of Order.
• A Haunted Room.
• In A Graveyard.
• Israel.
• The White Flag.
• Good And Bad Luck. Translations. After Heine.
• Lagrimas.
• The Sphinx Of The Tuileries.
• Amor Mysticus. Translations. From The Spanish Of Sor Marcela De Carpio.
• The Pledge At Spunky Point.
• Countess Jutta. Translations. From The German Of Heinrich Heine.
• The Enchanted Shirt.
• Expectation.
• The Azra. Translations. After Heine.
• To Flora.
• Banty Tim.
• Student-song.
• Wanderlieder.
• Words.