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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREMONITION, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat upon the cottage stair
Last Line: Her eyes might never look.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
First Line: She sat upon the cottage stair
Last Line: Her eyes might never look.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
SHE sat upon the cottage stair,—
A tender child of three,
And washed and dressed with wisest care
The doll upon her knee.
And we, who guessed not why there grew
In Annie's baby eyes
That little clouding of the blue,
That shade of awed surmise,
Remembered, in the darkened room,
Where yesterday we took
Our Annie's new-born babe, on whom
Her eyes might never look.
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