Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner
When Letty had scarce pass’d her third glad year,
And her young artless words began to flow,
One day we gave the child a colour’d sphere
Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know,
By tint and outline, all its sea and land.
She patted all the world; old empires peep’d
Between her baby fingers; her soft hand
Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leap’d,
And laugh’d and prattled in her world-wide bliss;
But when we turn’d her sweet unlearnèd eye
On our own isle, she raised a joyous cry—
‘Oh! yes, I see it, Letty’s home is there!’
And while she hid all England with a kiss,
Bright over Europe fell her golden hair.
And her young artless words began to flow,
One day we gave the child a colour’d sphere
Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know,
By tint and outline, all its sea and land.
She patted all the world; old empires peep’d
Between her baby fingers; her soft hand
Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leap’d,
And laugh’d and prattled in her world-wide bliss;
But when we turn’d her sweet unlearnèd eye
On our own isle, she raised a joyous cry—
‘Oh! yes, I see it, Letty’s home is there!’
And while she hid all England with a kiss,
Bright over Europe fell her golden hair.
posted on behalf of Lata Aaji
I liked this poem a lot.It is really cute.I think it shows the innocence of Letty and describes her in a beautiful way.It shows how happy and free she feels when she explores the whole world by looking at a globe.It shows the love for her home and country. She is delighted to see that England, her home-place, shares a part of the world and that she can see the whole of it at one glance.It also shows her parents or narrators as loving and caring as they know how delighted she will feel when she finds and looks at her own country and imagines her home in it.She not only learns a lot but also has fun while doing so.
ReplyDeletereally sorry, but the above comment was from Anagha.
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