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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO FALSTAFF, by GWENDOLYN WESCOTT
First Line: Drunken, fat old fool
Last Line: Died lonesome in the textbooks.
Subject(s): Fictional Characters
First Line: Drunken, fat old fool
Last Line: Died lonesome in the textbooks.
Subject(s): Fictional Characters
Drunken, fat old fool,
Full of wit and fun,
You have laughed your clownish way
Down through centuries
While kings who wept their weighty words
Died lonesome in the textbooks.
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