Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RIVAL ARTISTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: This is the way elizabeth draws
Last Line: When she is older!
Subject(s): Children; Drawing; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students


THIS is the way Elizabeth draws.
Isn't it funny?
That's a girl, she says, and she says that this
Is our white bunny!
Elizabeth's six and goes to school,
She makes the letter
"A" all right, but her "B's" like this
And her "C's" no better—
She makes a house stand on its steps
Without a cellar,
And doesn't attend to me at all
When I want to tell her
That houses never stand on steps
(Or almost never).
She just goes on and makes a pig,
The queerest ever!
The only things that she can draw
Are pumpkin faces,
And even then the noses go
In wrongest places.
Now I can draw. But teacher says
I shouldn't scold her,
Perhaps she'll draw as well as me
When she is older!





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