| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Innocencies (1905)
IV. The Desire | | By Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861–1931) |
| | | GIVE me no mansions ivory white, | |
| Nor palaces of pearl and gold; | |
| Give me a child for all delight | |
| Just four years old. | |
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| Give me no wings of rosy shine, | 5 |
| Nor snowy raiment, fold on fold, | |
| Give me a little boy all mine | |
| Just four years old. | |
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| Give me no gold and starry crown, | |
| Nor harps, nor palm-branches unrolled, | 10 |
| Give me a nestling head of brown | |
| Just four years old. | |
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| Give me a cheek that’s like the peach, | |
| Two arms to clasp me from the cold; | |
| And all my heaven’s within my reach | 15 |
| Just four years old. | |
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| Dear God, You give me from Your skies | |
| A little Paradise to hold, | |
| As Mary once her Paradise, | |
| Just four years old. | 20 | | | |
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