When her little baby frets and cries, The tender-hearted Mrs. Rue Just wrings her hands, and heaves great sighs, "Boo-hoo-hoo-o-o!" And -- she cries, too! There they sit and cry together, And oh! there's a spell of rainy weather! When her little baby frets and cries, The tender-hearted Mrs. True Just laughs with her mouth, and smiles with her eyes, -- "Cock-adoo-doo-o-o!" And -- baby laughs, too! There they sit and crow together, And oh! there's a spell of sunny weather! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF TWO CROWS by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE by MALCOLM COWLEY FINALITY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO AN EARLY DAFFODIL; SONNET by AMY LOWELL AUTUMN SONG by KATHERINE MANSFIELD YOU ARE FIRE EATERS by MARIANNE MOORE HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 4. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH LYGDAMUS by EZRA POUND |