A little bread - a crust - a crumb - A little trust - a demijohn - Can keep the soul alive - Not portly, mind! but breathing - warm - Conscious - as old Napoleon, The night before the Crown! A modest lot - A fame petite - A brief Campaign of sting and sweet Is plenty! Is enough! A Sailor's business is the shore! A Soldier's - balls! Who asketh more, Must seek the neighboring life! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY WILD PLUM BLOSSOMS by EVA K. ANGLESBURG SEPTEMBER: FEAST OF ST. PARTRIDGE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT LINES WRITTEN ON WINDOWS OF THE GLOBE INN, DUMFRIES by ROBERT BURNS THE WANDERER by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER |