Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STOCKING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of pieter dundervelt Last Line: She took her gift and married piet. Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Nativity, The | ||||||||
I sing of Pieter Dundervelt In quaint New Amsterdam who dwelt, And loved a maid in beauty's bloom -- Annette DeVries von Schlagenboom. Like all true lovers, more or less, Our Piet inclined to bashfulness, And when he should have pressed his suit Was silent, speechless, dumb and mute. 'Twas drawing near that night of nights When good Saint Nicholas delights To ride with gifts for old and young, When backward Pieter found his tongue. "Oh, will you deign, Annette," said he, "To take a Yuletide gift from me?" Annette, without a thought of ill, Replied, in Dutch, "Of course I will!" Saint Nicholas with reindeer sleigh Had made his round and gone his way, And fair Annette, while others slept, On tiptoe down the stairway crept Before the dawn, her only thought To see what gifts the Saint had brought. And there a marvel met her eyes! A stocking, not of common size, But six feet long and even more Now hung where hers had hung before, Beneath the kitchen mantel-shelf, And snug within was Piet himself! The situation seemed absurd; Annette, however, kept her word; That is, to make the tale complete, She took her gift and married Piet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DIFFERENT VIEWS; A CHRISMAS DUET by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS by AMBROSE BIERCE CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ISAIAH'S COAL by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL |
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