ONLY a baby 'Thout any hair, 'Cept just a little Fuzz here and there. Only a baby, Name you have none, Barefooted and dimpled, Sweet little one. Only a baby, Teeth none at all; What are you good for, Only to squall? Only a baby, Just a week old; What are you here for, You little scold? BABY'S REPLY. Only a baby! What sood I be? Lots o' big folks Been little like me. Ain't dot any hair? 'Es I have, too; S'pos'n' I hadn't, Dess it tood drow. Not any teeth -- Wouldn't have one; Don't dit my dinner Gnawin' a bone. What am I here for? 'At's petty mean; Who's dot a better right 'T ever you've seen? What am I dood for, Did you say? Eber so many sings Ebery day. Tourse I squall at times, Sometimes I bawl; Zey dassn't spant me, Taus I'm so small. Only a baby! 'Es, sir, 'at 's so; 'N' if you only tood, You'd be one, too. 'At 's all I've to say, You're mos' too old; Dess I'll det into bed, Toes dettin' cold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN PROTESTS (AFTER A PAINTING BY HUGO BALLIN) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER by GEORGE CANNING A MORNING THOUGHT by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL THE SECOND COMING by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS PROMETHEUS BOUND: PROMETHEUS THE TEACHER OF MEN by AESCHYLUS |