Clapping her platter stood plump Bess, And all across the green Came scampering in, on wing and claw, Chicken fat and lean: -- Dorking, Spaniard, Cochin China, Bantams sleek and small, Like feathers blown in a great wind, They came at Bessie's call. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR A MARRIAGE OF SAINT KATHERINE [OR, CATHERINE] by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI WATER WOMAN by JOSEPH AUSLANDER THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878 by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. TIME'S SHADOW by MATHILDE BLIND A LITTLE SONG by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE CHEF PERNOLLET by BERTON BRALEY THE POET'S OWN EPITAPH by CALLIMACHUS |