Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PETS, by MARGARET BENSON First Line: Once on a time I used to dream Last Line: We love you better every day. Subject(s): Pets | ||||||||
Once on a time I used to dream Strange spirits moved about my way, And I might catch a vagrant gleam, A glint of pixy or of fay; Their lives were mingled with my own, So far they roamed, so near they drew; And when I from a child had grown, I wokeand found my dream was true. For one is clad in coat of fur, And one is decked with feathers gay; Another, wiser, will prefer A sober suit of Quaker grey: This one's your servant from his birth, And that a Princess you must please, And this one loves to wake your mirth, And that one likes to share your ease. O gracious creatures, tiny souls! You seem so near, so far away, Yet while the cloudland round us rolls, We love you better every day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAMILY ROMANCE by PETER JOHNSON TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS DRESSING UP OUR PETS by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE THE FEARFUL CHILD by CAROL FROST POEM WITH ONE FACT by DONALD HALL GEIST'S GRAVE by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE NEGRO DANCERS by CLAUDE MCKAY THE TEMPER (1) by GEORGE HERBERT A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA by HERMAN MELVILLE |
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