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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A CHILD, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If by any device or knowledge
Last Line: Completer whilst incomplete.
Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood
First Line: If by any device or knowledge
Last Line: Completer whilst incomplete.
Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood
IF by any device or knowledge
The rosebud its beauty could know,
It would stay a rosebud for ever,
Nor into its fulness grow.
And if thou could'st know thy own sweetness
O little one, perfect and sweet!
Thou would'st be child for ever;
Completer whilst incomplete.
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