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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHILDLESSNESS Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BARREN WOMAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Empty, I echo to the least footfall, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Childlessness; Miscarriage BIRTHDAY POEM FOR A CHILDLESS MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the birthday of your death Last Line: You make a birthday of my death. Subject(s): Birth; Childlessness; Death; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Feminism BURIAL OF TWO YOUNG SISTERS; ONLY CHILDREN OF THEIR PARENTS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're here, in this turf-bed - those tender forms Last Line: Blend in a full eternity of bliss. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Children; Death - Babies CHILDLESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If certain folks that I know well Last Line: That you are doing something real. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Childlessness CHILDLESS, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: When bewhiles there's the soft-fallin' show'rs Last Line: Jist for daisies to twine! Subject(s): Childlessness; Daisies; Flowers CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL Poem Text First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed. Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHILDLESS WOMAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Childlessness CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism FLOWERS FOR THE HEART, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers! Winter flowers! - the child is dead Last Line: The childless cannot speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Children; Death - Babies GREED OF WANTING CHILDREN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't have, makes me cry with hunger Last Line: To see no more horizon, only water, only water Subject(s): Childlessness HER SON, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The narrow poplars down her lane a-row Last Line: And this the little son she never had! Subject(s): Childlessness IMMACULATE, by UARDA ROSAMOND GARRETT Poem Text First Line: I have always admired women Last Line: It shelters a hungry heart. Subject(s): Childlessness; Cleanliness; Home LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your street was named for berries Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things. Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives LATER I'LL SAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Listening to %my body breaking Subject(s): Abortion; Childlessness; Death - Children MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge! Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness NEW VISION, by PEARLE R. CASEY Poem Text First Line: When laughter lived at home with me Last Line: My hungry, unused mothering! Subject(s): Childlessness; Mothers NO BABY IN THE HOUSE, by CLARA G. DOLLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No baby in the house, I know Last Line: No baby in the house! Subject(s): Childlessness NOSTALGIA, by MYRTLE HILL ERDMANN Poem Text First Line: O my heart is longing, longing Last Line: Come, my children, come, come home. Subject(s): Childlessness; Longing; Nostalgia NOT EVER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So hot so early. Gold light thrown onto the water to feed Last Line: Those that can get to their feet. Subject(s): Autumn; Childlessness; Nature; Seasons; Fall ONE PERSON: 12, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In our content, before the autumn came Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 12 Subject(s): Childlessness ONE PERSON: 12, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In our content, before the autumn came Last Line: Born of your bitter and excessive pain: %I shall not dream you are my child again Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 1 Subject(s): Childlessness PARENTAGE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah no! Not these! Last Line: And she who slays is she who bears, who bears. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Childlessness SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 121, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motherless baby and babyless mother Last Line: Bring them together to love one another. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adoption; Childlessness SONNET: 28, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, you children that I might have borne Last Line: I shall not see you laugh or hear you weep, %kiss you awake,or cover up your sleep Subject(s): Childlessness THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children she had missed Last Line: Was a dream, but a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Heaven; Mothers; Women; Childhood; Paradise THE FAMILY GROUP, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sunday at the zoo I understood the child Last Line: The strange uncertain rumor of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE GOLD STAR MOTHER PASSES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Text First Line: A gold star gleaming on her breast Last Line: Who had no son to die. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE LADY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: There was an ancient dwelling place Last Line: Of her old name and race. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Childlessness THE VESTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She goes unwedded all her days Last Line: Of the poor girl he never met. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Childlessness; Virginity; Vestals TO A CHILDLESS WOMAN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do Last Line: And you must pray for me before you fall asleep. Subject(s): Childlessness TO AN UNSUNG MOTHERHOOD, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Mothers there are who never mothers were Last Line: But one reward, love's labor to fulfil. Subject(s): Childlessness; Mothers UPON A LADY FAIRE, BUT FRUITLESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice has pudica been a bride, and led Last Line: Trees never beare, unlesse they first do blow. Subject(s): Childlessness |
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