Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ORPHANS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five o'clock one april morn Last Line: "and broken up the home." Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings | ||||||||
At five o'clock one April morn I met them making tracks, Young Benjamin and Abel Horn, With bundles on their backs. Young Benjamin is seventy-five, Young Abel, seventy-seven -- The oldest innocents alive Beneath that April heaven. I asked them why they trudged about With crabby looks and sour -- "And does your mother know you're out At this unearthly hour?" They stopped: and scowling up at me Each shook a grizzled head, And swore; and then spat bitterly, As with one voice they said: "Homeless, about the country-side We never thought to roam; But mother, she has gone and died, And broken up the home." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE by AMELIA OPIE THE MITHERLESS BAIRN by WILLIAM THOM LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM LOOKING FORWARD by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE; A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE by BERTON BRALEY THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB AN EPICED ON MR. FISHBOURNE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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