Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 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, | 5 |
| 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; | 10 |
| 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; | 15 |
| 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! | 20 | | | |
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