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The Last Laugh

by John Betjeman

John Betjeman

I made hay while the sun shone.
My work sold.
Now, if the harvest is over
And the world cold,
Give me the bonus of laughter
As I lose hold.




Quotes of the Day

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

• Salvatore Quasimodo



Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    A Golden Day
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    The subtle beauty of this day Hangs o'er me like a fairy spell, And care and grief have flown away, And every breeze sings, "all is well." I ask, "Holds earth or sin, or woe?"