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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE AND THE CHILD, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you so clasp me
Last Line: And that child even I.'
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Why do you so clasp me
Last Line: And that child even I.'
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
'WHY do you so clasp me,
And draw me to your knee?
Forsooth, you do but chafe me,
I pray you let me be:
I will be loved but now and then
When it liketh me!'
So I heard a young child,
A thwart child, a young child
Rebellious against love's arms,
Make its peevish cry.
To the tender God I turn: --
'Pardon, Love most High!
For I think those arms were even Thine,
And that child even I.'
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