LITTLE Rapacity Greed was a glutton: He'd eat any meat, from goose-livers to mutton; All fowl, flesh, or sausage with all savors through it -- You never saw sausage stuffed as @3he@1 could do it! His nice mamma owned, "O he eats as none other Than animal kind"; and his bright little brother Sighed, pained to admit a phrase noneulogistic, "Rap eats like a -- pardon me -- Cannibalistic." "He eats -- like a @3boor,"@1 said his sister -- "a shameless Plebeian, in sooth, of an ancestry nameless!" "He eats," moaned his father, despairingly placid And hopeless, -- "he eats like -- he eats like an acid!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL by HAROLD HART CRANE THE WATER MILL by SARAH DOUDNEY THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK by HERMAN MELVILLE THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE by ALFRED TENNYSON TO MY READERS by ALEXANDER ANDERSON PLORATA VERIS LACHRYMIS by WILLIAM BARNES SOLILOQUIES OF A SMALL-TOWN TAXI-DRIVER: ON THE WRITING OF POETRY by EDGAR BARRATT |