Poems Every Child Should Know by  Mary E. Burt

A Farewell

"A Farewell," by Charles Kingsley (1819-75), makes it seem worth while to be good.

My fairest child, I have no song to give you;

No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;

Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you

For every day.


Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;

Do noble things, not dream them all day long:

And so make life, death, and that vast forever

One grand, sweet song.


Charles Kingsley.


 Table of Contents  |  Index  |  Home  | Previous: If I Had But Two Little Wings  |  Next: Casabianca
Copyright (c) 2005 - 2023   Yesterday's Classics, LLC. All Rights Reserved.