Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JESUS THE CARPENTER, by CATHERINE C. LIDDELL First Line: Isn't this joseph's son?' - ay, it is he Last Line: Unexpected, you know! Alternate Author Name(s): Fraser-tytler, Catherine C. Subject(s): Jesus Christ | ||||||||
"IS N'T this Joseph's son?" -- ay, it is He; Joseph the carpenter -- same trade as me -- I thought as I'd find it -- I knew it was here -- But my sight's getting queer. I don't know right where as His shed must ha' stood -- But often, as I've been a-planing my wood, I've took off my hat, just with thinking of He At the same work as me. He warn't that set up that He couldn't stoop down And work in the country for folks in the town; And I'll warrant He felt a bit pride, like I've done At a good job begun. The parson he knows that I'll not make too free, But on Sunday I feels as pleased as can be, When I wears my clean smock, and sits in a pew, And has thoughts a few. I think of as how not the parson hissen, As is teacher and father and shepherd o' men, Not he knows as much of the Lord in that shed, Where He earned His own bread. And when I goes home to my missus, says she, "Are ye wanting your key?" For she knows my queer ways, and my love for the shed, (We've been forty years wed.) So I comes right away by mysen, with the book, And I turns the old pages and has a good look For the text as I've found, as tells me as He Were the same trade as me. Why don't I mark it? Ah, many says so, But I think I'd as lief, with your leaves, let it go: It do seem that nice when I fall on it sudden -- Unexpected, you know! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MEDITATION ON SAVIORS by ROBINSON JEFFERS COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK TO A WREN ON CALVARY by LARRY LEVIS THE TRANSFIGURATION by EDWIN MUIR SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL |
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