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Good Children Street by
Eugene Field.
There's a dear little home in Good-Children street -My heart turneth fondly to-dayWhere tinkle of tongues and patter of feetMake sweetest of music at play;Where the sunshine of love illumines each faceAnd warms every heart ...
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Childhood by
Richard Aldington.
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in God's goodness; I can believe In many avenging gods. Most of all I believe In ...
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Child Moon by
Carl Sandburg.
The child's wonderAt the old moonComes back nightly.She points her fingerTo the far silent yellow thingShining through the branchesFiltering on the leaves a golden sand,Crying with her little tongue, "See the moon!"And in her bed ...
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The Children Of The Night by
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, Seem lost in Fortune's winnowing. But some are strong and some are weak, -- And ...
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Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by
Ted Hughes.
Margaret, are you grievingOver Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By ...
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Questions Of The Children by
Raymond A Foss.
Impossible questions, real-life questions rang through the church this week, hard painful impossible questions of lossof death in sudden and agonizingly long waysof young lives lost to cancer, to SIDS, of questions and loss for ...
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The Dream Of The Children by
George William Russell.
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still:They followed the rill in its gleaming To the heart-light of the hill. Its sounds and sights were forsaking The world ...
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The Poor Children by
Victor Hugo.
Take heed of this small child of earth; He is great; he hath in him God most high. Children before their fleshly birth Are lights alive in the blue sky. In our light bitter world ...
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Child by
Sylvia Plath.
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.I want to fill it with color and ducks,The zoo of the newWhose name you meditate --April snowdrop, Indian pipe,LittleStalk without wrinkle,Pool in which imagesShould be grand ...
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The Sea Child by
Katherine Mansfield.
Into the world you sent her, mother,Fashioned her body of coral and foam,Combed a wave in her hair's warm smother,And drove her away from homeIn the dark of the night she crept to the townAnd ...