Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HER GIFT, by BURGES JOHNSON


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First Line: Her eyes, her mouth, her chin, so strangely small
Last Line: Take mighty hold upon two human hearts.
Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood


Her eyes, Her mouth, Her chin, so strangely small,
Her very hands, in such frail likeness made,
That one caress it seems might crush them all,
And so I gaze, and wonder, half afraid.

So wee a gift—yet wealth of many lands
Could never buy it in the richest marts!
So frail a gift—and yet those baby hands
Take mighty hold upon two human hearts.





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