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LITTLE MARJORIE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE IS LITTLE MARJORIE?'
Last Line: "WHERE IS LITTLE MARJORIE?"
Subject(s): BIRDS; BLUEBIRDS; DEATH; ROBINS; DEAD, THE;

"WHERE is little Marjorie?"
There's the robin in the tree,
With his gallant call once more
From the boughs above the door!
There's the bluebird's note, and there
Are spring-voices everywhere
Calling, calling ceaselessly --
"Where is little Marjorie?"

And her old playmate, the rain,
Calling at the window-pane
In soft syllables that win
Not her answer from within --
"Where is little Marjorie?" --
Or is it the rain, ah me!
Or wild gusts of tears that were
Calling us -- not calling her!

"Where is little Marjorie?"
Oh, in high security
She is hidden from the reach
Of all voices that beseech:
She is where no troubled word,
Sob or sigh is ever heard,
Since God whispered tenderly --
"Where is little Marjorie?"



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