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Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F. P. A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

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List of poems by Franklin P. Adams 107 total

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A Ballad of Baseball Burdens 395 Views
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 261 Views
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Those Two Boys
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Vain Words 195 Views
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How Do You Tackle Your Work
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Bon Voyage - And Vice Versa
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So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World 132 Views
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An Ode In Time of Inauguration
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The Higher Education
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Rich Man 123 Views
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On First Looking into Bee Palmer's Shoulders
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On the Importance of Being Earnest 122 Views
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Recuerdo
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The Last Laugh
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Advising Chloë 118 Views
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It Was a Famous Victory
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Ballade of Ancient Acts
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A New York Child's Garden of Verses
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon 115 Views
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If the Advertising Man Had Been Gilbert 115 Views
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The Doughboy's Horace
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The Jazzy Bard 114 Views
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The Shepherd's Resolution 114 Views
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To a Vers Librist
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Unshackled Thoughts on Chivalry, Romance, Adventure, Etc. 114 Views
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Despite
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Bedbooks 111 Views
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Lines Written on the Sunny Side of Frankfort Street 110 Views
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A Plea 108 Views
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Us Potes
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An Election Night Pantoum 107 Views
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A Summer Summary
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If the Advertising Man Had Been Praed, or Locker
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Help
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Lines on and from
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Regarding (1) the U.S. and (2) New York
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The Comfort of Obscurity 105 Views
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The Return of the Soldier 103 Views
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Variation on a Theme
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A Lament
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If Amy Lowell Had Been James Whitcomb Riley
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On Profiteering 99 Views
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On Tradition
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I Remember, I Remember
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Rus. Vs. Urbs 98 Views
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The Ballad of the Thoughtless Waiter
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To an Aged Cut-Up, II
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Abelard and Heloïse
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To an Aged Cut-Up
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The Ballade Of The Average Reader 94 Views
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A Poor Excuse, but our own
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To a Prospective Cook 93 Views
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To Myrtilla
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When You Meet a Man from Your Own Home Town
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Ballade Of The Hardy Annual
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To W. Hohenzollern, on Resuming The Conning Tower
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A Soft Susurrus 81 Views
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Georgie Porgie 80 Views
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A Quatrain 79 Views
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On a Wine of Horace's 78 Views
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Fifty-Fifty 75 Views
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To a Light Houskeeper 75 Views
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On the Uses of Adversity 74 Views
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The Stalling of Q.H.F.
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And Yet It Is A Gentle Art
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The Dictaphone Bard
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War and Peace
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An Ultimatum To Myrtilla 69 Views
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Maud Muller Mutatur
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Old Environment
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Thoughts on the Cosmos
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To W. Hohenzollern, on Discontinuing The Conning Tower
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After Hearing Robin Hood
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Such Stuff As Dreams
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A Gotham Garden of Verses
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A Perfect Woman Nobly Planned
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A Word For It
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The Ballad of the Murdered Merchant
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Oh Man!
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'Carpe Diem,' Or Cop The Day
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It Happens in the B.R. Families
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To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour 50 Views
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On the Flight of Time
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Fragment 47 Views
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The Ballad of Justifiable Homicide 47 Views
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Again Endorsing the Lady
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Again Endorsing the Lady, II
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Broadmindedness 45 Views
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Propertius's Bid For Immortality
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The Carlysles
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Office Mottoes
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Song of Synthetic Virility
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What Flavour?
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Ballade Of The Breakfast Table 39 Views
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Ballade of the Traffickers 39 Views
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Lines on Reading Frank J. Wilstach's
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A Psalm of Labouring Life
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Advice
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His Monument
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I'm Out of the Army Now
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A Wish
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Present Imperative 35 Views
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Results Ridiculous
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Glycera Rediviva
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Thoughts in a Far Country
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From: Horace To: Phyllis Subject: Invitation
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How
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