Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CALLED FROM BED, OR LIZZIE AND KATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: With merry eyes against the golden west Last Line: With those white darlings, and their naked feet. Subject(s): Waking | ||||||||
With merry eyes against the golden west, Two baby girls half-sat, and half-reposed; And prattled in the sunshine, ere they closed That summer's eve in childhood's balmy rest; But, hark! their mother calls them from below, She bids them rise! Right glad we were to see The twain, whose happy talk came down the stee, Lizzie and Kate, with night-gear white as snow, And winsome looks: And when, with nod and smile, And kiss for each, we left the woodside cot, Upon the warm bright threshold for awhile They stood, as we look'd back upon the spot, Where crimson hollyhocks made contrast sweet With those white darlings, and their naked feet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM IN ORANGE TONES by MARVIN BELL ON RISING FROM THE DEAD by CAROLYN KIZER WAKING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING by ROBERT LOWELL THE AWAKENING by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE WAKING (2) by THEODORE ROETHKE HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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