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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ORPHAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE
First Line: Everything has sisters, brothers
Last Line: Like an orphan in the sky.
Subject(s): April; Children; Orphans; Childhood; Foundlings
First Line: Everything has sisters, brothers
Last Line: Like an orphan in the sky.
Subject(s): April; Children; Orphans; Childhood; Foundlings
EVERYTHING has sisters, brothers,
Pussy willows, stars and others;
Puppy dogs and kittens, too,
Have "relations"—quite a few;
But the moon that lives alone
Has no family of her own,
Has no sister and no brother,
Has no aunt, and has no mother;
And it lives up very high
Like an orphan in the sky.
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