Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A HOUSE THAT'S A HOME, by IRMA JEFFERS NELSON


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A HOUSE THAT'S A HOME, by                    
First Line: A house that's a home has a soul
Last Line: With experience of bygone days.
Subject(s): Home; Houses


A house that's a home has a soul;
It breathes and it laughs and sighs,
It shares with its owners their joys,
And for their sorrows it cries.

A house that's a home can convey
To the visitor who stops for a while
Thoughts and wishes the owners have,
And a house can be grave or can smile.

Once I went into an old house
Where folks had lived and had gone,
And I could almost hear it talk
Of the sights it had looked upon.

The walls seemed to want to tell me
Of the things that they had seen,
And the ceilings bent to whisper
From their lofty heights serene.

I knew I should hear a story
If that old door could but speak,
And the high old latticed window
Had a romance in its creak.

The passage that led from the kitchen
To a room with a window seat
Seemed to give forth a friendly echo
Of the patter of many feet.

The quietness of the bedrooms
Up the long and winding stair
Registered a careful memory
Of folks who had rested there.

Then up in the dusty attic
Where discarded things were thrown,
Where children played on rainy days,
What joy that place must have known!

I would always choose an old house
That is used to folks and their ways;
It reaches out to welcome one
With experience of bygone days.





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