Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LITTLE WONDERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: I'd like to know the whisp'ry things
Last Line: They never tell me—never!
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders


I'D LIKE to know the whisp'ry things
The trees say to each other
And what the stars mean when they laugh
And wink at one another.

I'd like to see inside the dark
That girls are so afraid of,
I'd like to feel the velvet stuff
The summer sky is made of—

It looks so soft and thick and blue
With not a wrinkle through it,
The fairies iron it, perhaps,
I wonder how they do it?

I wonder if the noisy brook
Is cross or only playing—
The birdies chatter all day long,
I wonder what they're saying!

The cow that jumped above the moon—
Did it fall down inside it?
It must be there somewhere, you know,
Where does the moon-man hide it?

Does that cow give the milk that makes
The milky-way, I wonder,
And when it bellows loud, is that
What makes the rumbly thunder?

O dear! There's lots of things to know,
But though big folks are clever
And though I ask and ask all day
They never tell me—never!





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