Tag: poetry
Tag Description:Why Are You Weeping, Sister?
Why Are You Weeping, Sister? Why are you weeping, Sister? Why are you sitting alone? I’m bent and gray And I’ve lost the way! All my tomorrows were yesterday! I traded them off for a wanton’s pay. I bartered my graces for silks and laces My heart I sold for a pot of gold– Now [...]
Poetic Puns
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Here is an assortment of corny old puns from Poetic Puns, a slim little book dated 1912. I The portrait tumbled [...]
Christmas Hymn
Hail, hail the happy morn, When Christ our Lord was born Sound, sound His praise! The Prince of Righteousness, He came our world to bless, The glorious hymn of “peace” On earth to raise. Angels the song began, And then to ransomed man The strain was given: Hark! joining sweet and mild The voice of [...]
