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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REJECTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a nawful pretty teacher at our school, an'
Last Line: If I do what I've been plannin', an' I die in her front yard.
Subject(s): Admiration; Boys; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors
First Line: There's a nawful pretty teacher at our school, an'
Last Line: If I do what I've been plannin', an' I die in her front yard.
Subject(s): Admiration; Boys; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors
There's a nawful pretty teacher at our school, an' once I told her
That I thought we might be married if she'd wait till I was older;
There was no one 'cept my mother that I liked so well, I said.
She didn't even answer, but she laughed at me instead.
She's forgotten all about it, an' it seems to me a pity
That folks what are so cruel should be made so awful pretty.
But I guess I'll make her sorry that she treated me so hard,
If I do what I've been plannin', an' I die in her front yard.
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