Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CYNTHIA JANE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: My dear,' said her mother to cynthia jane Last Line: "come to school with a hole in her stocking!" Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood | ||||||||
"MY DEAR," said her mother to Cynthia Jane, "What is this that I see in your stocking? A child of your years should be saddened to tears By a sight so untidy and shocking." "I will mend it at once," cried sweet Cynthia Jane, All abashed at such sad dereliction But Lucinda May Spence called her over the fence AndAlas! How too rare is perfection! The darning-wool ball, found that day by the cat, Shows the dear child intended to do it, But, when sleep closed the game of Lucinda and Jane, The stocking still lay where she threw it! Swift punishment came in a terrible dream Of rude boys who, laughing and mocking, Said again and again: "Look at Cynthia Jane, Come to school with a hole in her stocking!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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