Social Commentaries
Bicycles! Tricycles!
From Child Verse (1900)
Social Commentaries
Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter,
Try cycles first, and buy cycles after;
For surely the buyer deserves but the worst
Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first.
Cite this poem
MLA
Tabb, John Banister. “Bicycles! Tricycles!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/40/.
Chicago
Tabb, John Banister. “Bicycles! Tricycles!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/40/.
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