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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 27, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poet's Biography
First Line: Since first my little one lay on my breast
Last Line: My darling makes me mother to their youth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Since first my little one lay on my breast
Last Line: My darling makes me mother to their youth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers
Since first my little one lay on my breast
I never needed such a second good,
Nor felt a void left in my motherhood
She filled not always to the utterest.
The summer linnet, by glad yearnings pressed,
Builds room enough to house a callow brood:
I prayed not for another child--nor could;
My solitary bird had my heart's nest.
But she is cause that any baby thing
If it but smile, is one of mine in truth,
And every child becomes my natural joy:
And, if my heart gives all youth fostering,
Her sister, brother, seems the girl or boy:
My darling makes me mother to their youth.
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