I HAVE kept all, not one is thrown away, not one given to the ragman, not one thrust in a corner with a "P-f-f." The red ones and the blue, the long ones in stripes, and each of the little black and white checkered ones. Keep them: I tell my heart: keep them another year, another ten years: they will be wanted again. They came once, they came easy, they came like a first white flurry of snow in late October, Like any sudden, presumptuous, beautiful thing, and they were cheap at the price, cheap like snow. Here a red one and there a long one in yellow stripes, O there shall be no ragman have these yet a year, yet ten years. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH by ALFRED TENNYSON LITTLE BELL by THOMAS WESTWOOD ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG by JOSEPH ADDISON A PRIZE RIDDLE ON HERSELF WHEN 24 by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 1 by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES TO ONE BEREFT by ETHEL KNAPP BEHRMAN ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 6. BRIDAL OF HELEN by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS |