Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I REMEMBER, by BEATRICE HERFORD


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I REMEMBER, by                    
First Line: I remember, I remember the place where I was born
Last Line: "and says, ""was that the doorbell or did I hear the phone?"
Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery


I remember, I remember the place where I was born,
The window where the city's noise came rumbling in at morn,
The iodine and ether and every other smell.
You can't be born at home these days, it really isn't swell;
But Grandma says her mother was born up on a hill
Ten miles from any doctors, and she is living still,
And my great-uncle's uncle will be ninety-six in May,
And he was born upon a ranch from doctors far away,
And Nursie says her Grandpa, the one that went to sea,
Had triplets on the ocean that lived to ninety-three,
And when she's asked where I was born she gives a sort of groan
And says, "Was that the doorbell or did I hear the phone?"





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