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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography
First Line: With little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering april evening
Last Line: Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven.
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers
First Line: With little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering april evening
Last Line: Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven.
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers
WITH little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering April
evening—
(The moonlight over the tree-tops just beginning to shine in at the cottage
door)—
Her big brown eyes and comical big mouth for very gladness unresting, like
a small brown fairy—
She stands, the five-year-old child.
Then, so gentle, with tiny tripping speech, and with a little wave of the
hand—
"Good-night" she says to the fire and to the moon,
And kissing the elder wearier faces,
Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven.
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