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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 2. BROWNING, by A. C. WILKIE First Line: You knew her? -- mary the small Last Line: That lamb was sure to soon be caught in. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets | |||
You knew her? -- Mary the small, How of a summer, -- or, no, was it fall? You'd never have thought it, never believed, But the girl owned a lamb last fall. Its wool was subtly, silky white, Color of lucent obliteration of night, Like the shimmering snow or -- our Clothild's arm! You've seen her arm -- her right, I mean -- The other she scalded a-washing, I ween -- How white it is and soft and warm? Ah, there was soul's heart-love, deep, true, and tender, Wherever went Mary, the maiden so slender, There followed, his all-absorbed passion, inciting, That passionate lambkin -- her soul's heart delighting -- Ay, every place that Mary sought in, That lamb was sure to soon be caught in. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 1. DOBSON by A. C. WILKIE AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 3. LONGFELLOW by A. C. WILKIE AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 4. ANDREW LANG by A. C. WILKIE |
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