Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WIDOW-MAN, by ANN COBB First Line: I've brung you my three babes, that lost their maw three years ago Last Line: Little chaps get so sleepy-headed when the dark comes down! Subject(s): Widows & Widowers | ||||||||
I've brung you my three babes, that lost their Maw a year ago. Folks claim you are right women, larnd, and fitten for to know What's best for babes, and how to raise 'em into Christian men.. I've growed afeared to leave 'em lest the house ketch fire again. For though I counsel 'em a sight each time I ride to town, Little chaps get so sleepy-headed when the dark comes down! A body can make shift somehow to feed 'em up of days, But nights they need a woman-person's foolish little ways (When all of t'other young things are tucked under mammy's wing, And the hoot-owls and the frogs and all the lonesome critters sing). You'll baby 'em a little when you get 'em in their gown? Little chaps get so sleepy-headed when the dark comes down! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT by NORMAN DUBIE NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA by NORMAN DUBIE POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR by NORMAN DUBIE THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT by NORMAN DUBIE DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WIDOW IN A STONE HOUSE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER GETTING TO KNOW YOU by RUTH STONE |
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