WHEN Dickens first dawned on us. . . . Hey! to wake On such a morning @3now,@1 to rise and break Brain-fast on such an appetizing spread As Mrs. Lirriper, the unconscious head And front of kindliest humanity -- With @3"Jemmy Jackman, m'am,"@1 full courteously Saluting @3"After you, m'am";@1 and @3"Our boy"@1 -- The @3Junior@1 Jemmy, with the zest and joy So strangely born out of the hopeless state Of sacred motherhood made violate, Yet glorified by the compassion of The mortal, answering the Immortal love. Writing like this must be, not from the wrist, But from the heart no reader may resist. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AMORETTI: 30 by EDMUND SPENSER TEARS by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 33. AL-HALIM by EDWIN ARNOLD FANCY AND IMAGINATION by BERNARD BARTON A TRANSCRIPTION by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |