How?

________________________________________________
Title:     How?
Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams]

How can I work when you play the piano,
Feminine person above?
How can I think, with your ceaseless soprano
Singing: "Ah, Love--"?

How can I dream of a subject aesthetic,
Far from the purlieus of prose?
How, with the call of the peripatetic
"High! High cash clo'es!"?

How can I write when the children are crying?
How can I poetize--how?
How can I help imperfect versifying?
(There is some now.)

How can I bathe in the thought--waves of beauty?
How, with my nerves on the slant,
Can I perform my poetical duty?
Frankly, I can't.

[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: How?

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN