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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHILD IN THE STREET, by JOHN JAMES PIATT First Line: Even as tender parents lovingly Last Line: The world may pardon us to hold thee dear. | |||
FOR A VOLUME OF DOUBLE AUTHORSHIP EVEN as tender parents lovingly Send a dear child in some true servant's care Forth in the street, for larger light and air, Feeling the sun her guardian will be, And dreaming with a blushful pride that she Will earn sweet smiles and glances everywhere, From loving faces; and that passers fair Will bend, and bless, and kiss her, when they see, And ask her name, and if her home is near, And think, "O gentle child, how blessed are they Whose twofold love bears up a single flower!" And so with softer musing move away, -- We send thee forth, O Book, thy little hour -- The world may pardon us to hold thee dear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEAR PRESIDENT by JOHN JAMES PIATT LEAVES AT MY WINDOW by JOHN JAMES PIATT THE GUERDON by JOHN JAMES PIATT THE LOST GENIUS by JOHN JAMES PIATT THE MOWER IN OHIO by JOHN JAMES PIATT THE ROSE AND THE ROOT by JOHN JAMES PIATT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN by JOHN JAMES PIATT |
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