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English Integrated Coursebook 7
Uma Unni, Nine Hats
My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear
Charles Causley
About Charles Causley
Charles Causley's work stands apart from modern contemporary poetry. His work refers back to older, more specifically English roots. Much of his poetry is in the balled form and he is one of the most celebrated writers of ballads in English. Besides ballads, he write plays, short stories; and in his later years he published many books of verse for children. His poetry was recognised by the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1971.
By the schoolyard, a day in June.
The keeper stood with chain and bar
And whistle-pipe, and played a tune.
The bruin lifted up its head
And lifted up its dusty feet.
And all the children laughed to see
It caper in the summer heat.
They watched as for the queen it died.
They watched it march. They watched it halt.
They heard the keeper as he cried.
"Now, roly-poly!"
"Somersault!"
And them my mother said there came
The keeper with a begging-cup.
The bear with burning coat of fur.Shaming the laughter to a stop.
They paid a penny for the dance,
But what they saw was not the show;
Only, in bruin's aching eyes,
Far-distant forests and the snow.
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