SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 9 January 1869, Page 6

SELECT POETRY.

BABY MAY,

B T' W. JC^ BKNNETT. phßeks as soft as July peaches ; 1 Lips whose dewy scarlet teaches Poppies paleness ground large eyes Ever great with new surprise ; Minutes filled with shadeless gladness ; Minutes just as brimmed with sadness; Happy smiles and wailing cries ; .Crows, and laughs, and tearful eyes ; and shadows, swifter born' Than on wind-swept autumn corn ; Ever some new tiny notion, . Making every limb all motion ; .Catching up of legs and arms ; Throwings back and small alarms ; * piutching fingers ; straightening jerks ; Twining feet, whose each toe works ; Kickings up and straining risings ; Mother's ever new surprisings ; Hands all \Eants and looks all wonder At all things the heavens under ; Tiny scorns of smiled reprovings That have more of love than JLovings ; Mischiefs done with such* winning Archness, that we prize such sinning* ; Breakings dire of plates and glasses ; (Grßspings( GrBspings small at all that passes j Pollings ofTof aH that's able To be caught from tray or table ; Silences -small meditations Deep as thoughts of cares for nations j Breaking into wisest speeches In a tongue that nothing teaches ; All the thoughts of whose possessing Must be wooed to light by guessing ; Slumbers— such-sweet angel-seemings That we'd ever have such dreamings ; Till from sleep we see thee breaking, And we'd always have thee waking ; "Wealth for which we know no measure j . Pleasure high abcye all pleasure ; Gladness brimming over gladness ; Joy in care ; delight in sadness; .Loveliness beyond completeness ; Sweetness distancing all sweetness ; Beauty all that beauty may be ;— That's May Bennett— that's my baby.