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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them
Children are all foreigners
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
As twenty days are now.
To a Butterfly. I 've watched you now a full half-hour
A simple child
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
We are Seven
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it whaen my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it whaen my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
My heart leaps up, 1907
Labor is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul,
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul,
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
The Tower, 1928. Among School Children
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.
The sports of children satisfy the child.
The Traveller
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