Famous Plain As Day Poems by Famous Poets

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Include Me Out

...I: "The form they posted me
 I filled and sent - so what?"

I searched the essies," dour with doubt . . .
 Darn! It was plain as day
The scurvy knaves had left me out . . .
 Oh was I mad? I'll say.

Then all at once I sensed the clue;
 'Twas simple, you'll allow . . .
The book I held was Who WAS Who -
 Oh was I glad - and how!...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


The Lascar

...I. 

"Another day, Ah! me, a day
"Of dreary Sorrow is begun!
"And still I loath the temper'd ray,
"And still I hate the sickly Sun!
"Far from my Native Indian shore,
"I hear our wretched race deplore;
"I mark the smile of taunting Scorn,
"And curse the hour, when I was born!
"I weep, but no one gently tries
"To stop my tear, or check my sighs;
"For, while ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Young Night-Thought

...All night long and every night, 
When my mama puts out the light, 
I see the people marching by, 
As plain as day before my eye. 

Armies and emperor and kings, 
All carrying different kinds of things, 
And marching in so grand a way, 
You never saw the like by day. 

So fine a show was never seen 
At the great circus on the green; 
For every kind of beast and man 
Is marching in that caravan. 

As first they move a little slow, 
But still the faster on the...Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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