Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Home: I. About ChildrenChildren
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)C
No fondest father’s fondest care
Can fashion so the infant heart
As those creative beams that dart,
With all their hopes and fears, upon
The cradle of a sleeping son.
A father near him on his knee,
Who wishes all the while to trace
The mother in his future face;
But ’t is to her alone uprise
His waking arms; to her those eyes
Open with joy and not surprise.