Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | Under My Window | | Thomas Westwood (1814–1888) |
| | | UNDER my window, under my window, | |
| All in the Midsummer weather, | |
| Three little girls with fluttering curls | |
| Flit to and fro together:— | |
| There ’s Bell with her bonnet of satin sheen, | 5 |
| And Maud with her mantle of silver-green, | |
| And Kate with her scarlet feather. | |
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| Under my window, under my window, | |
| Leaning stealthily over, | |
| Merry and clear, the voice I hear, | 10 |
| Of each glad-hearted rover. | |
| Ah! sly little Kate, she steals my roses; | |
| And Maud and Bell twine wreaths and posies, | |
| As merry as bees in clover. | |
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| Under my window, under my window, | 15 |
| In the blue Midsummer weather, | |
| Stealing slow, on a hushed tiptoe, | |
| I catch them all together:— | |
| Bell with her bonnet of satin sheen, | |
| And Maud with her mantle of silver-green, | 20 |
| And Kate with the scarlet feather. | |
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| Under my window, under my window, | |
| And off through the orchard closes; | |
| While Maud she flouts, and Bell she pouts, | |
| They scamper and drop their posies; | 25 |
| But dear little Kate takes naught amiss, | |
| And leaps in my arms with a loving kiss, | |
| And I give her all my roses. | | | | |
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