What Polly Found In Her Stocking.

With the first pale glimmer,

Of the morning red,

Polly woke delighted

And flew out of bed.

To the door she hurried,

Never stopped for clothes,

Though Jack Frost's cold fingers

Nipt her little toes.

There it hung! the stocking,

Long and blue and full;

Down it quickly tumbled

With a hasty pull.

Back she capered, laughing,

Happy little Polly;

For from out the stocking

Stared a splendid dolly!

Next, what most she wanted,

In a golden nut,

With a shining thimble,

Scissors that would cut;

Then a book all pictures,

"Children in the Wood."

And some scarlet mittens

Like her scarlet hood.

Next a charming jump-rope,

New and white and strong;

(Little Polly's stocking

Though small was very long,)

In the heel she fumbled,

"Something soft and warm,"

A rainbow ball of worsted

Which could do no harm.

In the foot came bon-bons,

In the toe a ring,

And some seeds of mignonette

Ready for the spring.

There she sat at daylight

Hugging close dear dolly;

Eating, looking, laughing,

Happy little Polly! 

 

This is a very sweet children's poem written by Louisa May Alcott. It is a poem based on her fantasy and imagination. Louis May Alcott says that "she imagined herself as Polly and the joy she got when she found her Doll ", that's how she wrote this poem about how Polly got a Dolly in her stocking and then she wanted scarlet mittens and some sees of mignoette..She basically talks about the desires of Polly and how overwhelmed she was when she got what she wanted. Its a children's poem in The 18th century which was one of Louisa May's Favourites.