I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on… — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share
I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
