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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BOY'S NEED, by HERBERT CLARK JOHNSON
First Line: A boy should have an open fireplace
Last Line: And dream of being men -- and boys should dream.
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: A boy should have an open fireplace
Last Line: And dream of being men -- and boys should dream.
Subject(s): Youth
A boy should have an open fireplace
To sit beside, a place to warm his feet
And have the peace of firelight on his face.
A boy should know the songs that wood worms sing
In burning logs in wintertime, as well
As those of robins on the boughs in spring.
Aside from these, a hearth, like a meadow's stream,
Has a strange old way of making boys sit down
And dream of being men -- and boys should dream.
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