Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORTIFIED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: Little dear heart, tiny wonderer Last Line: I but hope to share in serving! Subject(s): Babies; Infants | ||||||||
Little dear heart, tiny wonderer, With round eyes that search clean through one, Little tender-fisted sunderer Of my old world and my new one, Whence the sunbeam warm that dances In those mirthful baby glances? If that other world endowed thee With a soul of crystal clearness, When our dullened earth has cowed thee With its mortal burden's nearness, Who am I to give thee training To withstand a life's explaining? Even now I see an answer In the little arms upflinging, In thy dimples, wee entrancer, And thy blithesome, wordless singing. Love and gentleness and joying May withstand old Earth's annoying. Though this life's thick fogs be clouding Recollections of some other, May no mist-bank e'er come crowding 'Twixt thee, wee one, and thy mother. Hers the gifts for thy preserving: I but hope to share in serving! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET TO HIS BABY SON by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON BABYHOOD by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN INFANCY by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG BALLAD OF THE LAYETTE by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM A TOAST FOR LITTLE IRON MIKE by PAUL MARIANI THE PAMPERING OF LEORA by THYLIAS MOSS ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS by THYLIAS MOSS IN THE THRIVING SEASON by LISEL MUELLER A BABY AT THE PARTY by BURGES JOHNSON |
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