Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LOST SHOE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: Poor little lucy
Last Line: For her lost shoe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


Poor little Lucy
By some mischance,
Lost her shoe
As she did dance:
'Twas not on the stairs,
Not in the hall;
Not where they sat
At supper at all.
She looked in the garden,
But there it was not;
Henhouse, or kennel,
Or high dovecote.
Dairy and meadow,
And wild woods through
Showed not a trace
Of Lucy's shoe.
Bird nor bunny
Nor glimmering moon
Breathed a whisper
Of where 'twas gone.
It was cried and cried,
Oyez and Oyez!
In French, Dutch, Latin
And Portuguese.
Ships the dark seas
Went plunging through,
But none brought news
Of Lucy's shoe;
And still she patters,
In silk and leather,
Snow, sand, shingle,
In every weather;
Spain, and Africa,
Hindustan,
Java, China,
And lamped Japan,
Plain and desert,
She hops -- hops through,
Pernambuco
To gold Peru;
Mountain and forest,
And river too,
All the world over
For her lost shoe.





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