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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MOTHER SINGING, by EDWARD MOXON Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, 'tis a mother singing to her child
Last Line: Lifts her soft voice, and sings, though sad the while.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Hark, 'tis a mother singing to her child
Last Line: Lifts her soft voice, and sings, though sad the while.
Subject(s): Mothers
HARK, 't is a mother singing to her child
Those madrigals that used her ears to greet,
When she, an infant like that spring-flower sweet,
Lent her charm'd ears to nurse, or mother mild,
That sang those nursery stories strange and wild --
Of knights, of robbers, and of Fairy queens
Dwelling in castles mid enchanted scenes --
The songs which plain antiquity beguiled.
Or is her theme of him, her lord, whose bark
Is ploughing, 'neath his guidance, Indian seas;
Or far detain'd by polar skies, that freeze
His glad return? She, tuneful as the lark
That warbling soars, though Phoebus cease to smile,
Lifts her soft voice, and sings, though sad the while.
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