Clapping her platter stood plump Bess, And all across the green Came scampering in, on wing and claw, Chicken fat and lean: -- Dorking, Spaniard, Cochin China, Bantams sleek and small, Like feathers blown in a great wind, They came at Bessie's call. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHANSON D'AUTOMNE by PAUL VERLAINE MEETING AT NIGHT by ROBERT BROWNING CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR IN THE TWILIGHT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 5. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 1 by MARK AKENSIDE LEFT BEHIND by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 95, 96. AL-AZALI, AL-BAKI by EDWIN ARNOLD |