Skip to content
Linespedia

A Mistake.

Topics: classic

"MY dears, whatever are you at?         You ought to be at home;     I told you not to wet your feet -         I told you not to roam.     "Oh, dear! I'm sure you will be drowned!         I never saw such tricks     Come home at once, and go to bed,         You naughty naughty chicks."     Now most of them were five days old,         But one, whose age was six -     "Please, ma'am," said he, "I think we're ducks;         I don't believe we're chicks!"

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

""MY dears, whatever are you at?..."

Lizzie Lawson's contribution to classic is further solidified by the brilliance found in "A Mistake."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

""Who's afraid of a cat?" said he;         "I'm not afraid of a cat."             He was a bird who sat on a rail,         With five other birds"

"Shall I sing you a song, not short and not long,         Of a story-book fairy who hides all among         The covers and leaves of your pic"

"I hear a Song         I think 'tis a thrush's.     He sings to the Wild Rose         See how she blushes!"

"Bring Frost, bring Snow,                 Come winter,                 Bring us holly,     Bring joy at Christmas,                 Off with Mel"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

""Who's afraid of a cat?" said he;         "I'm not..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.