• “my mother says I must not pass
    Too near that glass;
    She is afraid that I will see
    A little witch that looks like me,
    With a red, red mouth to whisper low
    The very thing I should not know!”

    “Alack for all your mother’s care!
    A bird of the air,
    A wistful wind, or (I suppose
    Sent by some hapless boy) a rose,
    With...

  • “my mother says I must not pass
              Too near that glass;
    She is afraid that I will see
    A little witch that looks like me,
    With a red, red mouth, to whisper low
    The very thing I should not know!”

    Alack for all your mother’s care!
              A bird of the air,
    A wistful wind, or (I suppose
    Sent by some hapless boy) a...