Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading

Team.

TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS

By FRANKLIN P. ADAMS

TO

BERT LESTON TAYLOR

GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, BUT FRIEND

    _If that these vagrant verses make
      One heart more glad; if they but bring
    A single smile, for that One's sake
      I should be satisfied to sing.
    As Locker said, in phrasing fitter,
    Pleased if but One should like the twitter.

    If I have eased one heart of pain;
      If I have made one throb or thrill;
    My labour has not been in vain.
      My work has not been all for nil,
    If only One, from Maine to Kansas,
    Shall say "I like his simple stanzas."

    If but a solitary voice
      Should say "These verses polyglot
    Are not so bad," I should rejoice;
      But oh, my publishers would not!
      * * * * *
    And I, though shy and unanointed,
    Should be a little disappointed._

CONTENTS

Us Poets
Rubber-Stamp Humour
The Simple Stuff
"Carpe Diem" or Cop The Day
That for Money!
Xanthias Jollied
Horace the Wise
Jealousy
To Be Quite Frank
R. S. V. P.
Advice
When Horace "Came Back"
Nix on the Fluffy Stuff
Catullus, Considerable Kisser
V. Catullus Explains
The Rich Man
To-night
Those Two Boys
Help! The Passionate Householder to His Love
The Servants
Our Dum'd Animals
A Soft Susurrus
A Summer Summary
A Quatrain
To a Light Housekeeper
How?
Ballade of the Breakfast Table
Ornithology
To Alice-Sit-By-the-Hour
To Alice-Sit-By-the-Hour (Second Idyl)
Notions
My Ladye's Eyen
To a Lady
"A Perfect Woman Nobly Planned"
An Ultimatum to Myrtilla
Love Gustatory
She Is Not Fair
To Myrtilla, Again
Myrtilla's Third Degree
To Myrtilla Complaining
Christmas Cards - To the Grocery Boy
                  To the Janitor
                  To the Waiter
                  To the Apartment House Telephone Girl
                  To the Barber
                  To the Hall and Elevator Boy
Ballade of a Hardy Annual
A Plea
Footlight Motifs—Mrs. Fiske
Footlight Motifs—Olga Nethersole
Ballade of the Average Reader
Poesy's Guerdon
Signal Service
Sporadic Fiction
Popular Ballad; "Never Forget Your Parents"
Ballade to a Lady (To Annabelle)
To a Thesaurus
The Ancient Lays
Erring in Company
The Limit
Chorus for Mixed Voices
The Translated Way
"And Yet It Is a Gentle Art."
Occasionally
Jim and Bill
When Nobody Listens
Office Mottoes
Metaphysics
Heads and Tails
An Election Night Pantoum
I Can Not Pay That Premium
Three Authors
To Quotation
Melodrama
A Poor Excuse, but Our Own
Monotonous Variety
The Amateur Botanist
A Word for It
The Poem Speaks
Bedbooks
A New York Child's Garden of Verses
Downward, Come Downward
Speaking of Hunting
The Flat Hunter's Way
Birds and Bards
A Wish—An Apartmental Ditty
The Monument of Q. H. F.

Us Poets

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