Benjamin Franklin King Jr.

thumb|Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. by Chas A. Gray Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (March 17, 1857 – 1894) was an American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards. Quotes     If I should die to-nightAnd you should come in deepest grief and woe—And say:—"Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"    I might arise in my large white cravat    And say, "What's that?" "If I should die" Parody on: "If I should die to-night, / My friends would look upon my quiet face / Before they laid it in its resting-place, / And deem that death had left it almost fair", Belle E. Smith Nothing to do but work,    Nothing to eat but food,Nothing to wear but clothes    To keep one from going nude. "The Pessimist" Published as "The Sum of Life" in The Western Medical Reporter (February 1893), p. 48 Nothing to breathe but air    Quick as a flash 'tis gone;Nowhere to fall but off,    Nowhere to stand but on. "The Pessimist" Nowhere to go but out,Nowhere to come but back. "The Pessimist" External links Ben King's verse, 1894, from the Internet Archive Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), p. 838 Category:1857 births Category:1894 deaths Category:Humorists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:People from Michigan Category:19th-century poets from the United States