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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Home: II. For Children

No Baby in the House

Clara G. Dolliver

NO baby in the house, I know,

’T is far too nice and clean.

No toys, by careless fingers strewn,

Upon the floors are seen.

No finger-marks are on the panes,

No scratches on the chairs;

No wooden men set up in rows,

Or marshalled off in pairs;

No little stockings to be darned,

All ragged at the toes;

No pile of mending to be done,

Made up of baby-clothes;

No little troubles to be soothed;

No little hands to fold;

No grimy fingers to be washed;

No stories to be told;

No tender kisses to be given;

No nicknames, “Dove” and “Mouse;”

No merry frolics after tea,—

No baby in the house!