Living
Bread and milk for breakfast
From Sing-Song (1872/1893)
Living
Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast
On the cold days of the year.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Bread and milk for breakfast.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/9/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “Bread and milk for breakfast.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/9/.
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