LITTLE Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And doesn't know where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, Bringing their tails behind them. Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still a-fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left their tails behind them. It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray Into a meadow hard by, There she espied their tails side by side, All hung on a tree to dry. She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye, And over the hillocks went rambling, And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, To tack again each to its lambkin. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BROOK IN THE CITY by ROBERT FROST UNDER THE WATERFALL by THOMAS HARDY SINCERE FLATTERY OF R.B. by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN MADISON CAWEIN by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON CHRISTMASSE DAY by JOSEPH BEAUMONT TO A WIND-FLOWER by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |