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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD, by THOMAS HOOD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I sawe a mayd sitte on a bank
Last Line: The momente that her care was drownd!
Subject(s): Child Care; Drowning; Baby Sitters; Governesses
First Line: I sawe a mayd sitte on a bank
Last Line: The momente that her care was drownd!
Subject(s): Child Care; Drowning; Baby Sitters; Governesses
I sawe a Mayd sitte on a Bank,
Beguiled by Wooer fayne and fond;
And whiles His flatterynge Vowes She drank,
Her Nurselynge slipt within a Pond!
All Even Tide they Talkde and Kist,
For She was fayre and He was Kinde;
The Sunne went down before She wist
Another Sonne had sett behinde!
With angrie Hands and frownynge Browe,
That deemd Her owne the Urchine's Sinne,
She pluckt Him out, but he was nowe
Past being Whipt for fallynge in.
She then beginnes to wayle the Ladde
With Shrikes that Echo answerde round --
O! foolishe Mayd to be soe sadde
The Momente that her Care was drownd!
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