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A poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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The Height Of The Ridiculous |
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Title: The Height Of The Ridiculous Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] I WROTE some lines once on a time They were so queer, so very queer, I called my servant, and he came; "These to the printer," I exclaimed, He took the paper, and I watched, He read the next; the grin grew broad, The fourth; he broke into a roar; Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |