Raise girls but not too many once born they have to be trained you'll pat their heads and tell them to be careful or smack their behinds and yell to be still and before they learn how to weave they won't touch a basket or broom Old Lady Chang cautioned her jennies you're big but no match for your mother | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM by WILLIAM COWPER OUR COUNTRY by JULIA WARD HOWE RECUERDO by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY DEAD MEN, TO A METAPHYSICIAN by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS by EDWIN ARNOLD |