Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUNT JANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR


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AUNT JANE, by                    
First Line: Aunt jane has little shiny feet
Last Line: To think how soon aunt jane will die.
Subject(s): Aunts; Mortality


AUNT JANE has little shiny feet
And pretty buttons in each ear;
She has the nicest things to eat!
I like to come and visit here.
She has a dog -- his name is Roy;
He's great -- we have a lot of fun.
She hasn't any little boy
And so she has to borrow one.

MY cousin Roy is very plain --
I think he never combs his hair.
I like him better than Aunt Jane --
She has the kind of clothes that tear.
Roy never gets too tired to play --
He's always jolly -- anyway,
I like him better . . . through the day. . . .
But when he goes to sleep at night
He doesn't care for me a bit.
But I'm not scared without a light,
Because Aunt Jane comes in to sit
And hear my prayers, and tuck the spread
Around my neck, and smooth my head, --
And then I don't care how she's dressed,
I know I love Aunt Jane the best.

AUNT JANE, of course, is very old;
She must be twenty-three or four.
Nothing I do can make her scold,
Not even when I bang the door.
The other day it made me cry
To think how soon Aunt Jane will die.





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