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Posted on 05/31/2009 11:15:06 PM PDT by JustAmy
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Barefoot Boy
John Greenleaf Whittier - (1807-1892)
Oh for boyhood’s time of June,
Crowding years in one brief moon,
When all things I heard or saw,
Me, their master, waited for.
I was rich in flowers and trees,
Humming-birds and honey-bees;
For my sport the squirrel played,
Plied the snouted mole his spade;
For my taste the blackberry cone
Purpled over hedge and stone;
Laughed the brook for my delight
Through the day and through the night,
Whispering at the garden wall,
Talked with me from fall to fall;
Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond,
Mine the walnut slopes beyond,
Mine, on bending orchard trees,
Apples of Hesperides!
Still as my horizon grew,
Larger grew my riches too;
All the world I saw or knew
Seemed a complex Chinese toy,
Fashioned for a barefoot boy!
Oh for festal dainties spread,
Like my bowl of milk and bread;
Pewter spoon and bowl of wood,
On the door-stone, gray and rude!
O’er me, like a regal tent,
Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent,
Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,
Looped in many a wind-swung fold;
While for music came the play
Of the pied frogs’ orchestra;
And, to light the noisy choir,
Lit the fly his lamp of fire.
I was monarch: pomp and joy
Waited on the barefoot boy!
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This poem may be read in its entirety at: http://www.bartleby.com/42/797.html
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
LOL! Now, that little lady is getting ready for a night on the town!!!
Good afternoon again, Billie. :) Happy Warm Fuzzy Wednesday. Thank you for the wonderful kid graphics and poems this week. Great way to remember the fathers. Thanks for all you do.
Hi, Amy - looks like I didn't get back to the thread yesterday afternoon. I'm enjoing all the kid graphics for this week - it was fun working with all the little cuties - both the pictures and the poems!
That sure is a pretty garden!
Ohhhh, more of those darling little Dalmations! How cute!
LOL! There probably are online programs that will do that - they have free programs to do so many things without purchasing and installing, but I've always used my own photo editing software. :) You probably have something that came with your scanner that has some of the photo editing features. Almost any photo software will lighten or darken, sharpen or blur, crop, convert from color to black & white or sepia, change physical size (and many also compress bytes)
I REALLY like this laundry basket full of those two sweet things!
Thanks, Majie! And wanted to say again, I'm glad you didn't stay away long! God is good. :)
You matched it well! That's a pretty, pretty post!
Thank you, GeeBee. Sounds like your hubby and your daughter are feeling much better now, and hopefully you will be very soon!
LOL! Yep!
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