Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, O MOTHER, MOTHER DEAR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT


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O MOTHER, MOTHER DEAR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since you were tired and went away
Last Line: Without you, mother dear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Variant Title(s): The Dead Mother
Subject(s): Mothers; Socialism


SINCE you were tired and went away
We've brought you flowers every day;
Now through your grass live daisies peer,
O mother, mother dear!

They say you are not very far,
But since we cry we know you are;
We should not cry if you were near,
O mother, mother dear!

Mother, you know we sometimes cry
In the dark night, we don't know why;
You would not let us cry for fear,
O mother, mother dear!

We think perhaps you did not know
Your little children loved you so,
Or you would not have left them here,
O mother, mother dear!

If we are good we think that then
Perhaps you will come back again;
Come in a week--a month--a year,
O mother, mother dear!

O mother, mother, come to-day!
Why did you ever go away?
We are so tired of being here
Without you, mother dear!





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