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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FATHER, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: That was his sort
Last Line: And cut him short.
Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War
First Line: That was his sort
Last Line: And cut him short.
Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War
That was his sort.
It didn't matter
What we were at
But he must chatter
Of this and that
His little son
Had said and done:
Till, as he told
The fiftieth time
Without a change
How three-year-old
Prattled a rhyme,
They got the range
And cut him short.
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