# Little Bo-Peep — Poetry character guide

> Little Bo-Peep in Poetry by George MacDonald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bo - Peep

**First appearance:** 0042-little-elfie

## Snapshot

A lost child of rhyme whose wandering sheep become, in MacDonald's verse, the lonely soul seeking its divine companion.

## Who they are

Bo-Peep haunts these poems as an emblem of the soul's solitude — the small figure who has strayed from the fold and cannot find her way home alone. Her loss rhymes with the poet's confession that 'we all are lonely, Maker — each a soul shut in by itself,' and with the promise that the child who runs from her mother's lap will run back to 'home's heart.' She matters because she gives the collection its recurring shape: the wanderer who must be sought, and the Shepherd who will not rest until she is found.

## In the story

### [Little Bo-Peep](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_8_se/chapters/little-bo-peep)

The protagonist who loses her sheep, follows their trails, and ultimately gains a larger flock.

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