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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAMILY CARES, by ANNETTE WYNNE
First Line: I have but one child-cora ann
Last Line: That, really, I should like to know.
Subject(s): Children; Family Life; January; Mothers; Childhood; Relatives
First Line: I have but one child-cora ann
Last Line: That, really, I should like to know.
Subject(s): Children; Family Life; January; Mothers; Childhood; Relatives
I HAVE but one child—Cora Ann,
Yet she is such a load of care,
I wonder how Mathilda Jones
Can manage with her family there;
Matilda lives across the street,
And, counting teddy-bears, and all,
And darky dolls, and little Japs,
Her family's twelve—and that's not small;
It must be hard to keep in shoes
A family of so great a size;
My Cora Ann so careless is
That sorely she my patience tries:
If Tilda's children are like her,
How can she ever manage so,
When times are hard, and prices high—
That, really, I should like to know.
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