The New Mother: With a Poem by Lola Ridge
By Lucy Clifford and Lola Ridge
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The New Mother - Lucy Clifford
THE
NEW MOTHER
By
LUCY CLIFFORD
WITH A POEM
BY LOLA RIDGE
First published in 1882
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Contents
MOTHER By Lola Ridge
THE NEW MOTHER
I
II
Illustrations
The She Kissed Them
It Really is a Most Beautiful Thing, is a Peardrum
MOTHER
By Lola Ridge
Your love was like moonlight
turning harsh things to beauty,
so that little wry souls
reflecting each other obliquely
as in cracked mirrors . . .
beheld in your luminous spirit
their own reflection,
transfigured as in a shining stream,
and loved you for what they are not.
You are less an image in my mind
than a luster
I see you in gleams
pale as star-light on a gray wall . . .
evanescent as the reflection of a white swan
shimmering in broken water.
THE NEW MOTHER
I
The children were always called Blue-Eyes and the Turkey, and they came by the names in this manner. The elder one was like her dear father who was far away at sea, and when the mother looked up she would often say, Child, you have taken the pattern of your father’s eyes,
for the father had the bluest of Blue-Eyes, and so gradually his little girl came to be called after them. The younger one had once, while she was still almost a baby, cried bitterly because a turkey that lived near to the cottage, and sometimes wandered into the forest, suddenly vanished in the middle of the winter; and to console her she had been called by its name.
Now the mother and Blue-Eyes and the Turkey and the baby all lived in a lonely cottage on the edge of the forest. The forest was so near that the garden at the back seemed a part of it, and the tall fir-trees were so close that their big black arms stretched over the little thatched roof, and when the moon shone upon them their tangled shadows were all over the white-washed