The Grandmother

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Title:     The Grandmother
Author: Elizabeth Madox Roberts [More Titles by Roberts]

When Grandmother comes to our house,
She sits in the chair and sews away.
She cuts some pieces just alike
And makes a quilt all day.

I watch her bite the little thread,
Or stick the needle in and out,
And then she remembers her grandmother's house,
And what her grandmother told about,

And how a very long ago--
She tells it while she cuts and strips--
We used to live in Mary-land,
And there was a water with ships.

But that was long before her day,
She says, and so I like to stand
Beside her chair, and then I ask,
"Please tell about in Mary-land."

[The end]
Elizabeth Madox Roberts's poem: Grandmother

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