Katherine Mansfield Poems

To the little, pitiful God I make my prayer,
The God with the long grey beard
And flowing robe fastened with a hempen girdle
Who sits nodding and muttering on the all-too-big throne
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There was a child once.
He came to play in my garden;
He was quite pale and silent.
Only when he smiled I knew everything about him,
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And again the flowers are come,
And the light shakes,
And no tiny voice is dumb,
And a bud breaks
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In the profoundest ocean
There is a rainbow shell,
It is always there, shining most stilly
Under the greatest storm waves
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Little Star, little Star,
Come down quick.
The Moon is a bogey-man;
He'll eat you certain if he can.
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In the very early morning
Long before Dawn time
I lay down in the paddock
And listened to the cold song of the grass.
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My Babbles has a nasty knack
Of keeping monkeys on her back.
A great big black one comes and swings
Right on her sash or pinny strings.
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Out in the garden,
Out in the windy, swinging dark,
Under the trees and over the flower-beds,
Over the grass and under the hedge border,
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There was a man lived quite near us;
He had a wooden leg and a goldfinch in a green cage.
His name was Farkey Anderson,
And he'd been in a war to get his leg.
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I saw a tiny God
Sitting
Under a bright blue umbrella
That had white tassels
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