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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BABY, by KALIDASA Poet's Biography
First Line: On parents' knees, a naked, new-born child
Last Line: Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.
Variant Title(s): A Moral Tetrastich;so Live;to An Infant Newly Born
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood
First Line: On parents' knees, a naked, new-born child
Last Line: Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.
Variant Title(s): A Moral Tetrastich;so Live;to An Infant Newly Born
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood
On parents' knees, a naked, new-born child
Weeping thou sat'st, when all around thee smiled:
So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep,
Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.
Other Poems of Interest...
THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN
CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL
COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL
THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL
A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL
CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS
ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE
THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE