Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHILD'S THOUGHTS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY First Line: When I'm grown up and children talk a little Last Line: And wonders to see them hatched so soon. Subject(s): Childhood Memories | ||||||||
I WHEN I'm grown up and children talk a little, I'll never say, "You drive me wild," Nor answer them, "Whatever next, I wonder!" Nor yet, "Good Heavens, what a child!" II When I go to bed I think of the wood, And the still, dark pond by the willows, Where the moorhen sits on her islet of roots With the cold, damp sticks for pillows. She sits alone by the sleeping pool, She looks at the sky and ponders, She broods on her eggs and covers them all, And looks at the sky and wonders She thinks the stars were the eggs of the moon, And wonders to see them hatched so soon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL HELP ME TO SALT, HELP ME TO SORROW by JUDY JORDAN THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE THE DOGWOOD THE ANSWER by ROBERT KELLY A BOY GOES INTO THE WORLD by JANE KENYON DRAWING FROM THE PAST by JANE KENYON THE POOL by ALEXANDER ANDERSON A DISCLAIMER by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY |
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