Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women | ||||||||
STRANGE mockery of motherhood! They who should feel the fostering care Maternal, and the tender good Of home when fondling arms are there, Must, ere their time, in mimic show Of age and sacred duties, be Thus wise to guide, thus deep to know, The artless needs of infancy. The little mothers! Will they win The bitter-sweet of elder years? Will love protect them from the sin, And faith gleam dauntless through the tears? God grant some guerdon for the loss Of childly joy: and when they come To woman-ways and woman's cross, Give them a fate more frolicsome. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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