Poem by John Bannister Tabb

Bicycles! Tricycles!

  Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter,
  Try cycles first, and buy cycles after;
  For surely the buyer deserves but the worst
  Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first.

1. The Woodpecker
2. The Pleiads
3. The Dragon-Fly
4. The Reaper
5. A Bunch of Roses

Print

1380 Views

Last Poems

To Russian version