Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SNOW IN TOWN, by RICKMAN MARK First Line: Nothing is quite so quiet and clean Last Line: "as big or bigger than me!" Subject(s): Snow | ||||||||
NOTHING is quite so quiet and clean As snow that falls in the night; And isn't it jolly to jump from bed And find the whole world white? It lies on the window ledges, It lies on the boughs of the trees, While sparrows crowd at the kitchen door, With a pitiful "If you please?" It lies on the arm of the lamp-post, Where the lighter's ladder goes, And the policeman under it beats his arms, And stampsto feel his toes; The butcher's boy is rolling a ball To throw at the man with coals, And old Mrs. Ingram has fastened a piece Of flannel under her soles; No sound there is in the snowy road From the horses' cautious feet, And all is hushed but the postman's knocks Rat-tatting down the street, Till men come round with shovels To clear the snow away, What a pity it is that when it falls They never let it stay! And while we are having breakfast Papa says," Isn't it light? And all because of the thousands of geese The Old Woman plucked last night. And if you are good," he tells us, "And attend to your A B C, You may go in the garden and make a snow-man As big or bigger than me!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRIGHT SUN AFTER HEAVY SNOW by JANE KENYON SNOW FALLING THROUGH FOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE SNOW FAIRY by CLAUDE MCKAY NOT ONLY ESKIMOS by LISEL MUELLER THE BOY DECIDES by RICKMAN MARK |
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