Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: With little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering april evening Last Line: Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers | ||||||||
WITH little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering April evening (The moonlight over the tree-tops just beginning to shine in at the cottage door) Her big brown eyes and comical big mouth for very gladness unresting, like a small brown fairy She stands, the five-year-old child. Then, so gentle, with tiny tripping speech, and with a little wave of the hand "Good-night" she says to the fire and to the moon, And kissing the elder wearier faces, Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KISS GRANDMOTHERS GOOD NIGHT by ANDREW HUDGINS KICKING THE LEAVES by DONALD HALL THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS by TED KOOSER AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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