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Benjamin Franklin

I lived from 1706-1790. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. He was a philosopher, scientist, inventor, musician, statesman and economist, among other things. He moved to liberal Philadelphia in his twenties and started writing poetry, although he never considered himself to be a poet.

Franklin was an important statesman, signing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, as well as negotiating treaties with other countries.

He died in Philadelphia in 1790, and thousands of mourners turned out for his funeral.

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Links of interest include http://www.falmouth.packet.archives.dial.pipex.com/id74.htm

My poetry

  • The Benefit Of Going To Law
    Two beggars traveling along,
    One blind, the other lame.
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Death Is A Fisherman
    Death is a fisherman, the world we see
    His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be;
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • On The Freedom Of The Press
    While free from Force the Press remains,
    Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains,
    27 lines
  • Wedlock
    Wedlock as old men note, hath likened been,
    Unto a public crowd or common rout;
    8 lines
  • Epitaph In Bookish Style
    The Body of Benjamin Franklin (Printer)
    (Like the cover of an old book
    14 lines
  • Equivocation
    Some have learn't many tricks of sly evasion,
    Instead of truth they use equivocation,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • He Who'd Please All
    Once on a Time it by Chance came to pass,
    That a Man and his Son were leading an Ass.
    26 lines, 1 comment

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