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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LADDIES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me the boy who never threw
Last Line: Who must be far from well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Variant Title(s): About Boys
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Show me the boy who never threw
Last Line: Who must be far from well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Variant Title(s): About Boys
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Show me the boy who never threw
A stone at someone's cat;
Or never hurled a snowball swift
At someone's high silk hat.
Who never ran away from school,
To seek the swimming hole;
Or slyly from a neighbor's yard
Green apples never stole.
Show me the boy who never broke
A pane of window glass;
Who never disobeyed the sign
That says: "Keep off the grass."
Who never did a thousand things,
That grieve us sore to tell;
And I'll show you a little boy
Who must be far from well.
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