Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PROF.'S LITTLE GIRL, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD


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THE PROF.'S LITTLE GIRL, by                    
First Line: She comes to the quad when her ladyship pleases
Last Line: The signs of her sex in the prof's little girl.
Subject(s): Children; Lust; Childhood


SHE comes to the Quad when her Ladyship pleases,
And loiters at will in the sun and the shade;
As free from the burden of work as the breezes
That play with the bamboo is this little maid.
The tongues of the bells, as they beat out the morning,
Like mad in their echoing cases may whirl
Till they weary of calling her, -- all their sharp warning
Is lost on the ear of the prof's little girl.

With a scarred-over heart that is old in the knowledge
Of all the manoeuvres and snares of the Hall,
Grown wary of traps in its four years at college,
And able at last to keep clear of them all, --
Oh, what am I doing away from my classes
With a little blue eye and a brown little curl?
Ah me! fast again, and each precious hour passes
In slavery sweet to the prof's little girl.

She makes me a horse, and I mind her direction,
Though it takes me o'er many a Faculty green;
I'm pledged to the cause of her pussy's protection
From ghouls of the Lab and the horrors they mean;
I pose as the sire of a draggled rag dolly
Who owns the astonishing title of Pearl; --
And I have forgotten that all this is folly,
So potent the charm of the prof's little girl!

Yet, spite of each sacrifice made to impress her,
She smiles on my rival. Oh, vengeance I'd gain!
But he wears the same name as my major professor,
And so in his graces I have to remain;
And when she trots off with this juvenile lover,
Leaving me and the cat and the doll in a whirl,
It's pitiful truly for us to discover
The signs of her sex in the prof's little girl.





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