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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIRST STEPS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a desert vast and cheerless
Last Line: Sturdy legs, step out!
Subject(s): Children; Walking; Childhood
First Line: Like a desert vast and cheerless
Last Line: Sturdy legs, step out!
Subject(s): Children; Walking; Childhood
Like a desert vast and cheerless
Stretch the nurs'ry lands.
Who could gaze with vision fearless
O'er those trackless sands?
Though there waits a shelter peerless—
Mother's reaching hands!
Eyes alight with exultation,
Lips that shape a shout;
Just a flutt'ring hesitation,
Just a sigh of doubt.
Dare—and launch a generation!
Sturdy legs, step out!
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COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL
THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL
A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL
CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS
ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE
THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE
A BABY AT THE PARTY by BURGES JOHNSON