The Stalling Of Q. H. F.

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Title:     The Stalling Of Q. H. F.
Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams]

Horace: Epode 14

"Mollis inertia cur tantam diffuderit imis"

Maecenas, you fret me, you worry me
Demanding I turn out a rhyme;
Insisting on reasons, you hurry me;
You want my iambics on time.
You say my ambition's diminishing;
You ask why my poem's not done.
The god it is keeps me from finishing
The stuff I've begun.

Be not so persistent, so clamorous.
Anacreon burned with a flame
Candescently, crescently amorous.
You rascal, you're doing the same!
Was no fairer the flame that burned Ilium.
Cheer up, you're a fortunate scamp,
... Consider avuncular William
And Phryne, the vamp.

[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: Stalling Of Q. H. F

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