All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

Chapter 67: FANNY.

Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

A varied anthology of travel sketches, short tales, poems, and domestic vignettes by multiple contributors, offering lively impressions of foreign cities and countryside alongside thrilling adventures and gentle children’s stories. Pieces range from first-person travel sketches that capture street scenes, markets, and local customs to whimsical and moral short fiction and occasional verse. The collection alternates descriptive reportage and imaginative narratives, often accompanied by illustrations, and emphasizes vivid sensory detail, folk practices, everyday amusements, and small moral or comic resolutions, providing a blend of light entertainment, practical observation, and homely sentiment.

FANNY.

BY CLARA DOTY BATES.

WHAT do the wistful eyes discover,

Full of their baby dignity?

Lips, I know, are as red as clover,

Cheeks like the bloom that flushes over

Peaches, sun-ripe on the tree.

Let but a merry play-thought brighten

Over the little pensive face,

Then how the sober shades will lighten,

Then how the dimples deep will frighten

Every grave line from its place.

Well, I know there is mischief sleeping,

Plenty of it, behind this guise;

Little brain has a way of keeping

Back the smiles; but still they are peeping

Out from the brow, the mouth, and eyes.