Living
To a Child
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Pout not, my little Rose, but take
With dimpled fingers, cool and soft,
This posy, when thou art awake . .
Mama has worn my posies oft:
This is the first I offer thee,
Sweet baby! many more shall rise
From trembling hand, from bended knee,
Mid hopes and fears, mid doubts and sighs.
Before that hour my eyes will close;
But grant me, Heaven, this one desire . .
In mercy! may my little Rose
Never be grafted on a briar.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To a Child.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/662/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To a Child.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/662/.
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