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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTHROPOLOGY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my ordernery dolls the best
Last Line: To make 'em all americans like me.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood
First Line: I love my ordernery dolls the best
Last Line: To make 'em all americans like me.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood
I love my ordernery dolls the best
Of any kind that ever could be bought.
No foreign doll that Santy ever brought
Is near so nice, no matter how she's dressed.
I hope my Chinese doll has never guessed
That I don't love him half of what I ought!
I take good care to see that he is taught
His lessons oftener than all the rest.
I wish the Dolly-maker would begin
To mend his ways; I would if I was he!
'Cause if the dolls that have a yellow skin
Are heathenish inside as they can be,
Just think how sensibuller he'd have been
To make 'em all Americans like me.
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