Social Commentaries
A Literary Method
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
His poems Riley says that he indites
Upon an empty stomach. Heavenly Powers,
Feed him throat-full: for what the beggar writes
Upon his empty stomach empties ours!
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “A Literary Method.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/335/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “A Literary Method.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/335/.
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