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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BIT OF MULL, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER First Line: Today my little girl, behind a door Last Line: "that mull? Your mother wore it yesterday!" Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity | |||
Today my little girl, behind a door, Pulled out a sack which held old cloth and rags -- That dreams and memories may be found in bags, When lost awhile, I never knew before. A heap of scraps (silk, gingham, muslin, wool) To me became the pages of a book That told a story. -- Then just one she took And said: "O father, see how beautiful!" A bit of mull! . . . (We sat beside a lake, In April time, my love and I. The trees Bent low and turned the shaded blue to gray. We watched the sun and sky and waters make The afterglow there weave a living frieze) . . . "That mull? Your mother wore it yesterday!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON by NORMAN DUBIE SIMPLE PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA by NORMAN DUBIE I'M WITH STUPID by PETER JOHNSON ELECTION DAY, 1984 by CAROLYN KIZER AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK by KAREN SWENSON FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG TO A BLOCKHEAD by ALEXANDER POPE THE CASE OF SABRINA SIMPSON USCH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS COME HOME by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. ANOTHER FRANCIS OF ASSISI by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER |
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