title: Grampoppa: A Poem in Pictures
author:  Anna J. Small Roseboro 
description: Anna J. Small Roseboro is an educator who believes in writing poetry with her students and encourages them to share their work with family and friends. She is a wife and mother who enjoys writing about memories of time spent with family and friends.
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  # An Ideal Family
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Katherine Mansfield
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  
  THAT evening for the first time in his life, as he pressed through the swing
  door and descended the three broad steps to the pavement, old Mr. Neave felt
  he was too old for the spring. Spring—warm, eager, restless—was there, waiting
  for him in the golden light, ready in front of everybody to run up, to blow in
  his white beard, to drag sweetly on his arm. And he couldn't meet her, no; he
  