Poetry for children

Chapter 37: LINES ON THE SAME PICTURE BEING REMOVED TO MAKE PLACE FOR A PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY TITIAN

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This collection assembles short, simple poems and dialogues written for young readers, many by Mary with contributions from Charles, presenting playful scenes of childhood, sibling banter, moral fables, religious reflections, and observations of nature and daily life. Pieces range from light verse about losing baby teeth, toys, and first sights of green fields to didactic fables and tender portraits of family affection, occasionally adapting biblical or anecdotal material. Language is plain and rhythmic, with occasional ballads and moral lessons aimed at cultivating kindness, cleanliness, courage, and sympathy while celebrating imagination and domestic intimacy.

LINES
ON THE SAME PICTURE
BEING REMOVED TO MAKE
PLACE FOR A PORTRAIT
OF A LADY BY TITIAN

XXXV

Who art thou, fair one, who usurp’st the place

Of Blanche, the lady of the matchless grace?

Come, fair and pretty, tell to me

Who, in thy life-time, thou might’st be.

Thou pretty art and fair,

But with the lady Blanche thou never must compare.

No need for Blanche her history to tell;

Whoever saw her face, they there did read it well.

But when I look on thee, I only know

There lived a pretty maid some hundred years ago.