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GRANDFATHER'S LOVE by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THEY SAID HE SENT HIS LOVE TO ME
Last Line: I LIKE HIS COUGH-DROPS TWICE AS MUCH.
Subject(s): GRANDPARENTS; GRANDMOTHERS; GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDMOTHERS;
They said he sent his love to me,
They wouldn't put it in my hand,
And when I asked them where it was
They said I couldn't understand.

I thought they must have hidden it,
I hunted for it all the day,
And when I told them so at night
They smiled and turned their heads away.

They say that love is something kind,
That I can never see or touch.
I wish he'd sent me something else,
I like his cough-drops twice as much.



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