Children's Poetry Month: Rebecca

Rebecca is hosting Children's Poetry Month on her blog, Rebecca Writes.  she has invited us to join here and of course, I couldn't resist

Rebecca, by Hilaire Belloc

A trick that everyone abhors
In Little Girls is slamming Doors.
A Wealthy Banker's Little Daughter
Who live in Palace Green, Bayswater
(By name Rebecca Offendorft),
Was given to this Furious Sport.
She would deliberately go
And Slam the door like Billy-Ho!
To make her Uncle Jacob start.
She was not really bad at heart,
But only rather rude and wild:
She was an aggravating child. . .

 It happened that a Marble Bust
of Abraham was standing just
Above the Door this Lamb
Had carefully prepared to Slam,
And Down it came!  It knocked her flat!
It laid her out! She looked like that.

 Her Funeral Sermon (which was long
And followed by a Sacred Song)
Mentioned her Virtues, it is true,
But dwelt upon her vices, too,
And showed the Dreadful End of One
Who goes and slams the Door for Fun.

The children who were brought to hear
The awful Tale from far and near
Were much impressed, and inly swore
They never more would slam the Door.
--As often they had done before. 

Comments

[candyinsierras]

Way cute!

[Kim from Hiraeth]

This poem was really fun to read aloud.

My kids never slammed doors, either.