Poetry First Aid Kit - Poems for Everyday Dilemmas, Decisions and Emergencies by Abbie Headon

Author:Abbie Headon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2013-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

I don't mind the trouble, if you would not cry,

But pay me for all with a kiss;

That's right, take the towel and wipe your wet eye;

I thought you'd be good after this.

Ann Taylor (1782–1866)

If the joy of raising a toddler sometimes loses its sparkle:

Characteristics of a Child Three Years Old

Loving she is, and tractable, though wild;

And Innocence hath privilege in her

To dignify arch looks and laughing eyes;

And feats of cunning; and the pretty round

Of trespasses, affected to provoke

Mock-chastisement and partnership in play.

And, as a faggot sparkles on the hearth,

Not less if unattended and alone

Than when both young and old sit gathered round

And take delight in its activity;

Even so this happy Creature of herself

Is all-sufficient, solitude to her

Is blithe society, who fills the air

With gladness and involuntary songs.

Light are her sallies as the tripping fawn's

Forth-startled from the fern where she lay couched;

Unthought-of, unexpected, as the stir

Of the soft breeze ruffling the meadow-flowers,

Or from before it chasing wantonly

The many-coloured images imprest

Upon the bosom of a placid lake.

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