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imageHere’s the poem To a Grandmother by Christopher Morley with an mp3 recording:

MP3 of To a Grandmother

To a Grandmother

At six o’clock in the evening,

The time for lullabies,

My son lay on my mother’s lap

With sleepy, sleepy eyes!

(O drowsy little manny boy,

With sleepy, sleepy eyes!)


I heard her sing, and rock him,

And the creak of the swaying chair,

And the old dear cadence of the words

Came softly down the stair.


And all the years had vanished,

All folly, greed, and stain—

The old, old song, the creaking chair,

The dearest arms again!

(O lucky little manny boy,

To feel those arms again!)

 

This artilce was posted on Friday, July 27th, 2012 at 10:33 am and is filed under Countries & Cultures, England, English, Languages, MP3's of Poems, Poems, Poems about Childhood, Poems about Family, Poems about Grandmothers, Poems about Life, Poetry, Recordings, Recordings of Poems, USA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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