“Down On His Luck”
From a painting by Frederick McCubbin : 7 stanzas each of 4 lines about a man who is down on his luck.
He stares into the smoking flames
With dull unseeing eyes.
Recalling his past failures as
His future slowly dies.
Australian Ballads, Poems for Adults, Poetry For Children
Down On His Luck
$3.00
A poem about a man at the end of his tether.