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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE STREET, by FRANCOIS COPPEE
First Line: The two little girls were dressed in black
Last Line: "held the little one's nose, and said: ""blow!"
Subject(s): Girls; Mothers
First Line: The two little girls were dressed in black
Last Line: "held the little one's nose, and said: ""blow!"
Subject(s): Girls; Mothers
The two little girls were dressed in black
And the elder—that's the mother—
To the very door of the primary school
Had held the hand of the other.
And at the jam-tarts in the box
She gave her final look,
And ran her eyes once more across
The page of the lesson-book.
Then, as it was a cold morning
And the water was frozen in the pool,
And as the child must always be
In a state to enter school,
Opening the old black shawl
That covered her careful calico
The elder pulled out her handkerchief,
Held the little one's nose, and said: "Blow!"
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