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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE [OR, A] PICTURE OF AN INFANT PLAYING NEAR A PRECIPICE, by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA Poet's Biography First Line: While on the [or, a] cliff with calm delight she kneels Last Line: And the fond boy springs back to nestle there. Variant Title(s): A Mother's Strategum Subject(s): Children; Childhood | |||
WHILE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels, And the blue vales a thousand joys recall, See, to the last, last verge her infant steals! O, fly -- yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall. -- Far better taught, she lays her bosom bare, And the fond boy springs back to nestle there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE THE POET AT SEVEN by DONALD JUSTICE HOME by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA MENODOTIS by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA UPON VENUS PUTTING ON MARS HIS ARMES by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA |
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