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    Nestlings: A Collection of Poems
    Nestlings: A Collection of Poems
    Nestlings: A Collection of Poems
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    Nestlings: A Collection of Poems

    By Ella Fraser Weller

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Nestlings" (A Collection of Poems) by Ella Fraser Weller. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547330349
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      Nestlings - Ella Fraser Weller

      Ella Fraser Weller

      Nestlings

      A Collection of Poems

      EAN 8596547330349

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTORY

      My Baby's Feet

      Two Little Seeds

      Edith

      The Theft

      Who's Afraid

      Lullaby

      Two of Them

      In the Meadow

      Beatrice

      My Boy

      The Fairy's Motto

      A Reverie

      My Choice

      Elliott

      Three Little Kittens

      What is the Use of Trying?

      Only Five

      Unreconciled

      The Naughty Dolly

      Mabel's Lesson

      Baby Kathleen

      Two Boys

      LOVINGLY DEDICATED

      TO THE CHILDREN WHOSE FACES

      ARE

      PICTURED WITHIN

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTORY

      Table of Contents

      These selections have come of occasions. They were not meant for the public eye. The thought of a possible book had given them greater unity, and the vision of a possible critic had probably modified their form. The mother-love for children called for them and they came; there is a conspiracy of mother-loves and the fugitive poems became a book.

      The accompanying illustrations are shadows of real faces and may be readily duplicated in any limited circle.

      Nestlings may serve as an album for some innocent faces, and perpetuate some possibly helpful sentiment.

      S. H. WELLER

      Los Angeles, California

      My Baby's Feet

      Table of Contents

      Within my palm, like roseleaves, dainty, sweet,

      I fold with tenderest love two little feet—

      Two little feet, twin flow'rets come to bring

      To mother's heart the first sweet breath of spring.

      Wearied with play, at last they lie at rest,

      One satin sole against its fair mate pressed.

      Dear little feet, fain would this hand 'ere shield

      Thy tender flesh from thorns which lie concealed

      Along the path which, stretching through the years,

      Leads on to God, through joy and silent tears,

      Oh, would that I could pluck from thy dear way

      Whate'er might tempt these little feet to stray,

      What though my hands be torn by thorn and stone,

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