Nature
An Inconvenience
From Child Verse (1900)
Nature
To his cousin the Bat
Squeaked the envious Rat,
"How fine to be able to fly!"
Tittered she, "Leather wings
Are convenient things;
But nothing to sit on have I."
Cite this poem
MLA
Tabb, John Banister. “An Inconvenience.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/58/.
Chicago
Tabb, John Banister. “An Inconvenience.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/58/.
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