 Nothing to do but work; Nothing to eat but food; Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep one from going nude. Nothing to breathe but air; Quick as a flash 'tis gone; Nowhere to fall but off; Nowhere to stand but on. Nothing to comb but hair; Nowhere to sleep...  The Master, Mate and Pilot - Page 31908Full view - About this book
 | Woods Hutchinson - Hygiene - 1914 - 372 pages
...gravitation. Even though there be, in the bitter language of the pessimist, — Nothing to breathe but air; Nothing to eat but food; Nothing to wear but clothes To keep us from going nude! Nowhere to go but outl Nowhere to come but back ! yet there must be some place... | |
 | 1924 - 816 pages
...sages." than the boredom so typical of many of our friends, expressed in : "Nothing to breathe but air; Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep us from going nude! Nowhere to go but out, Nowhere to come but back!" Our young mothers need to discover... | |
 | Norman H. Chance - American wit and humor - 1915 - 168 pages
...her, O ! so often, So often, O ! so oft. I caressed her, O ! so often, So often, O ! so oft. * * * Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes Nothing to breathe but air Quick as a flash 'tis gone; Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but... | |
 | College yearbooks - 1918 - 364 pages
...Bryant Economics Club (3); Handball Team (3); Politics Club (3); Political Science Club (3). RR McKIM "Nothing to do but work. Nothing to eat but food....to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude." — Benjamin Franklin King HARRY CHARLES MELLAMED New York City "Lord! I wonder what fool it was That... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...in my large white cravat And say, " What 's that? " // / should die. Nothing to do but work, 'Wl-' Nothing to eat but' food, ' Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude. The Pessimist. 1 Parody on: If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 996 pages
...It might be jest so; I dunno; Jest so, it might been, Then ag'in — Sam Walter Fogs. THE PESSIMIST NOTHING to do but work. Nothing to eat but food, Nothing...nude. Nothing to breathe but air, Quick as a flash 't is gone; Nowhere to fall but off. Nowhere to stand but on. Nothing to comb but hair, Nowhere to... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...They agreed to meet at a cool retreat On the Point of Interrogation. OLIVER HERPORD — Metaphysics. 7 WALTER Foss — House by the Side of the Road. He kept no Christmas-house BEN KING — The Pessimist. 8 Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum. Believing nothing done... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 pages
...shore. Ben King is responsible for at least two humorous jingles of wide popularity. THE PESSIMIST Nothing to do but work; Nothing to eat but food; Nothing...stand but on. Nothing to comb but hair; Nowhere to sleep but in bed; Nothing to weep but tears; Nothing to bury but dead. Nothing to sing but songs, Ah,... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - American poetry - 1923 - 358 pages
...often, How often, oh! how oft. The second exception is the first two quatrains of "The Pessimist": Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing...Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on. These represent the sum of Ben King's achievement—the best that was in hira. 142 WAITING WAITING... | |
 | Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 388 pages
...pull through — Say good-by er howdy-do! Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. [1857-1894] from THE SUM OF LIFE Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing...fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on. Nothing to sing but songs, Ah, well, alas! alack! Nowhere to go but out, Nowhere to come but back. Nothing to... | |
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