by Coleridge · Cluster: Maturation and Growth · Childhood · Innocence and Experience
Abstract
A light playful occasional verse addressed to a small girl (‘Little Miss Fanny’); celebrates childhood, mirth and innocence in a brief comic lyric.
Connections
Archetypes: Child Motifs: Childhood Themes & Concepts: Maturation and Growth, Joy, Innocence and Experience Forms & Genres: Lyric, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Little Miss Fanny,
So cubic and canny,
With blue eyes and blue shoes —
The Queen of the Blues!
As darling a girl as there is in the world —
If she’ll laugh, skip and jump,
And not be Miss Glump!
1834. First published in Athenæum, Jan. 28, 1888. First collected
1893.