Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PAST MINDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: A tender-hearted maiden, in the latest fashion dressed Last Line: "she doesn't mind such little things, for she is on your hat!" Subject(s): Birds; Hats | ||||||||
A tender-hearted maiden, in the latest fashion dressed, Rebuked a wicked urchin who was bearing off a nest: "Fie! Fie! You cruel fellow! What? Nest, and eggs, and all? I think I hear the mother-bird in yonder thicket call. I think I see her pretty breast a-tremble like a leaf. Put back the nest, you naughty boy, or she will die of grief!" "Oh, no, she won't," the bad boy said; "she doesn't care for that! She doesn't mind such little things, for she is on your hat!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS by GERTRUDE STEIN THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT by EDWARD LEAR SHE LOOKS BEYOND TO-MORROW by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT DRAB BONNETS by BERNARD BARTON TO LADY CHARLOTTYE GORDON; DRESSED IN A TARTAN SCOTCH BONNET by JAMES BEATTIE COCK UP YOUR BEAVER by ROBERT BURNS MOTHER'S BONNET by NATHALIA CRANE A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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