Annie Matheson (1853-1924). Selected Poems (1900). V. To a Little Child. Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Selected Poems (1900)
V. To a Little Child

By Annie Matheson (1853–1924)


CLEAR eyes of heaven’s chosen hue
When not a cloud is seen above
To fleck the warm untroubled blue,
A little laughing face of love;

A boundless energy of life	5
In dimpled arms and rosy feet;
No breath of care, no touch of strife,
Has dulled thy glad heart’s rhythmic beat.

So girt about with golden light,
By shadows still so little vexed,	10
That many a weary anxious wight
Grows in thy presence less perplexed.

Our smiles come at thy fairy beck,
Frowns pass away at thy caress;
When thy soft arms are round my neck	15
I feel God’s wondrous tenderness.