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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poet's Biography First Line: Cabbage-tree, cabbage-tree, what is the matter? Last Line: To make you the loveliest curls, cabbage tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Girls | |||
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, what is the matter? Why are you shaking so? Why do you chatter? Because it is just a white baby you see, And it's the black ones you like, cabbage tree? Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, you're a strange fellow With your green hair and your legs browny-yellow. Wouldn't you like to have curls, dear, like me? What! No one to make them? O poor cabbage tree! Never mind, cabbage tree, when I am taller, And if you grow, please, a little bit smaller, I shall be able by that time, bay be, To make you the loveliest curls, cabbage tree. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE RETURNED GIRLS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A GIRL by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS GIRLS ON THE RUN: 1 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 10 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 14 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 2 by JOHN ASHBERY GIRLS ON THE RUN: 3 by JOHN ASHBERY A FEW RULES FOR BEGINNERS by KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
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