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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BABY RUNNING BAREFOOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass Last Line: Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood | |||
When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass The little white feet nod like white flowers in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind that pass Over water where the weeds are thinned. And the sight of their white playing in the grass Is winsome as a robin's song so fluttering Or like two butterflies that settle on a glass Cup for a moment, soft little wing-beats uttering. And I wish that the baby would tack across here to me Like a wind-shadow running on a pond, so she could stand With two little bare white feet upon my knee And I could feel her feet in either hand Cool as syringa buds in morning hours, Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!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 A BABY ASLEEP AFTER PAIN by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE |
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