Show me the boy who never threw A stone at someone's cat; Or never hurled a snowball swift At someone's high silk hat. Who never ran away from school, To seek the swimming hole; Or slyly from a neighbor's yard Green apples never stole. Show me the boy who never broke A pane of window glass; Who never disobeyed the sign That says: "Keep off the grass." Who never did a thousand things, That grieve us sore to tell; And I'll show you a little boy Who must be far from well. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS AFTER WINTER by STERLING ALLEN BROWN WERE I BUT HIS OWN WIFE by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING A TRUE HYMN [HYMNE] by GEORGE HERBERT ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IN THE BELFRY OF THE NIEUWE KERK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE DEAD DRUMMER; A LEGEND OF SALISBURY PLAIN by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |