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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SCHOOLMISTRESS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY
First Line: If she, their nurse, be faint with famine
Last Line: Bid birds and angels bring her bread.
Subject(s): Babies; Orphans; Infants; Foundlings
First Line: If she, their nurse, be faint with famine
Last Line: Bid birds and angels bring her bread.
Subject(s): Babies; Orphans; Infants; Foundlings
IF she, their nurse, be faint with famine,
How shall the foster babes be fed?
Lead her, O God, where Cherith floweth,
Bid birds and angels bring her bread.
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