SELL him! though snuggled at his mother's breast. Sell him! why should I rear the little pest? Snub-nosed, half-fledged, and, scratching all the while he weeps the better to display his smile. How can I rear a lynx-eyed chatterbox, whose venom at his mother's guidance mocks? The thing's a monster. Find a pedlar! Maybe one leaving town at once will buy this baby! But look! love pleads, he weeps. Nay! cease I tell you! Stay with Zenophila and I'll not sell you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RAIN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES LULLABY by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN; PARODY OF TENNYSON'S 'LOCKSLEY HALL' by THEODORE MARTIN ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF 'KING HENRY THE FIFTH' by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL SONNET: 1 by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY ON THE DEATHS OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND GEORGE ELIOT by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE BASE OF ALL METAPHYSICS by WALT WHITMAN |