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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORPHAN BORN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lone, unfathered chick Last Line: My incubator. Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Orphans; Child Birth; Midwifery; Foundlings | |||
I AM a lone, unfathered chick, Of artificial hatching, A pilgrim in a desert wild, By happier, mothered chicks reviled, From all relationships exiled, To do my own lone scratching. Fair science smiled upon my birth One raw and gusty morning; But ah, the sounds of barnyard mirth To lonely me have little worth; Alone am I in all the earth -- An orphan without borning. Seek I my mother? I would find A heartless personator; A thing brass-feathered, man-designed, With steam-pipe arteries intermined, And pulseless cotton-batting lined -- A patent incubator. It wearies me to think, you see -- Death would be better, rather -- Should downy chicks be hatched of me, By fate's most pitiless decree, My piping pullets still would be With never a grandfather. And when to earth I bid adieu To seek a planet greater, I will not do as others do, Who fly to join the ancestral crew, For I will just be gathered to My incubator. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE by AMELIA OPIE THE MITHERLESS BAIRN by WILLIAM THOM LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM LOOKING FORWARD by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE; A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE by BERTON BRALEY THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB AN EPICED ON MR. FISHBOURNE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE |
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