GIVE me no mansions ivory white, Nor palaces of pearl and gold; Give me a child for all delight, Just four years old. Give me no wings of rosy shine, Nor silken raiment, fold on fold; Give me a little boy all mine, Just four years old. Give me no gold and starry crown, Nor harps, nor palm-branches unrolled; Give me a nestling head of brown, Just four years old. Give me a cheek that's like the peach, Two arms to clasp me from the cold; And all my heaven's within my reach, Just four years old. Dear God, You give me from Your skies A little heaven, all mine, to hold, As Mary once her Paradise, Just four years old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MARIPOSA LILY by INA DONNA COOLBRITH TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD COMMON DUST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SONNET TO THE MOON by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS MIANTOWONA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN INVOCATION by ISIDORE G. ASCHER DELIVERANCE by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |