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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EMPTY PURSE, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS Poet's Biography First Line: A mountebank at market boasted loud Last Line: Your purse to open and find nothing there?' | |||
A MOUNTEBANK at Market boasted loud 'The Devil' he to all the world would show; And there was none (so anxious was the crowd The foul fiend to behold) but off must go. He took a large deep purse, and held it so As showed it empty. 'Now, good folk,' he cried, 'Open your eyes. See, is there aught inside?' 'No,' some one said, who looked with earnest stare; 'And is it not "The Devil,"' he replied, 'Your purse to open and find nothing there?' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OF HIS LADYE by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS THE SONNET OF THE MOUNTAIN by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS TO A BORE by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS THE EARTH-CHILD IN THE GRASS by KATHERINE MANSFIELD BARNEY'S INVITATION by PHILIP FRENEAU THE UNPARDONABLE SIN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY TACT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI HELTER SKELTER; OR, THE HUE AND CRY AFTER THE ATTORNEYS by JONATHAN SWIFT |
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