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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEATH - BABIES Matches Found: 387 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIT OF HEAVEN, by GERTRUDE D. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Child of the slums, how happy Last Line: Is a childor a trampor a beast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, G. Gertrude Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise A BOTANICAL TROPE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elliptical regrets figure the nights Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o hades, death's inexorable king" Last Line: When sorrow broods above the home he left? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S GRACE AT FLORENCE; A.A.E.C., by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of english blood, of tuscan birth Last Line: For death's annunciation.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S GRAVE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I linger by this grass-grown mound Last Line: And love this plot shall keep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A CHRYSALIS, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little madchen found one day Last Line: Was but the radiant creature's flight! Subject(s): Butterflies; Death - Children; Death - Babies A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old. Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A DEAD BABY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little soul, for such brief space Last Line: So, our first dream, our first hope -- is over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A DEAD CHILD, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five years alone had vanished since my birth Last Line: I learnt but little of life's sins and grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A GHOST STORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her life was plain, her death Subject(s): Death - Children; Roses; Death - Babies A GRAVE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A HUSBAND'S VOICE, by FRANK WILLIAM HOLSLAG Poem Text First Line: My heart-and your heart Last Line: Since baby's gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies A HYMN OF SLEEP, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Another day is dying Last Line: And are asleep on jesu's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Religion; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nought loves another as itself Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore? Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies A MOTHER'S LAMENT [FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON], by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate gave the word, the arrow sped Last Line: With him I love, at rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell? Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR A VERY NEW ANGEL, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, god, be lenient her first night there Last Line: When she wakes up, do things for her my way! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where enormous shadows creep Last Line: He was john jones, son of john jones. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Graveyards; Death - Babies A SUPERSTITION REVISITED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While on the lavender by the door Last Line: Defied eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ABER STATIONS: STATIO PRIMA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I make so much of aber fall? Last Line: That's all, that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just listen to the blackbird -- what a note Last Line: I hope he won't go mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ABER STATIONS: STATIO TERTIA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream is very sweet Last Line: That sent a shiver to my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ABSENCE, by HARRY TRAVIS RHODES Poem Text First Line: Little brown eyes, little clown eyes Last Line: In the land god made like thee! Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Death - Babies AD ASTRA: 158, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Except like little children ye believe Last Line: Faith that shall open wide the gates of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; God; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise ADDRESS TO MRS. WM. ANDERSON, ON THE DEATH OF HER ONLY SON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We weep with those who weep:' I sympathize Last Line: Shall blossom in the paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Sons; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the front door close Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement AFTER THE LAST LESSON, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful he seems to me Last Line: Stands clear before our eyes. Subject(s): Death - Children; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ELEGY: PRINCESS KATHERINE BORN, CHRISTENED, BURIED IN ONE DAY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that can aptly mix your joys with cries Last Line: Resign our office to the hierarchy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgins promis'd when I dy'd Last Line: Maids, and here strew violets. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement APPARITION, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts; Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives ARALUEN (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep Last Line: Other hands will come and tend them -- other friends in other hours. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies ARCHEDIKE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child of hippias, foremost captain once / in hellas' land, lies here Last Line: She lifted not her heart to vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each day, when the glow of sunset Last Line: "yes, dear! They are all at home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies AT DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon? Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AT HOME TONIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lessons are done and the prizes won Last Line: "yes, ""home to-night!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Death - Babies AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She stood at the beautiful gate of heaven Last Line: But never to be divided more. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AUTUMN, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly we go with the old dog close behind us Last Line: Of dead illusions as of children that have died. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness BABE BURIED AT SEA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deep sea took the dead. It was a babe Last Line: Never to fade, nor die. -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean BABY BELL, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not heard the poets tell Last Line: Out of this world of ours. Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Babie Bell Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies BABY'S DYING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby's dying, / do not stir Last Line: Kiss and miss her after while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BEATEN TO DEATH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: At depth of night, this thought on home had shone Last Line: Was dying through two hours -- beaten to death. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies; Educators; Professors BECAUSE IT HAPPENED, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A death-cry ripens, and rises - a boy's Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BEREAVED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me come in where you sit weeping Last Line: Who have no child to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, weep not, dearest, though the child be dead Last Line: That where our treasure is, our hearts may be. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BEREFT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though heaven has gained one angel more Last Line: Gaze through the gates of paradise. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Sons; Death - Babies BEYOND THE SUNSET, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Beside the cripple's casement Last Line: Beyond the sunset veil. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials BURIAL OF AN EMIGRANT'S CHILD IN THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The desolation and the agony Last Line: Kneel, and bow submitted hearts to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Forests; Funerals; Death - Babies; Woods; Burials 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 CATHARINE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We children every morn would wait Last Line: "and tell the master catharine's dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CHIMES, by WALTER EDWARDS HOUGHTON JR. Poem Text First Line: It was a silly night Last Line: But I still live to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CLEVEDON VERSES: 2. DORA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt upon her brother's grave Last Line: My god, I leave it unto thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies CLEVEDON VERSES: 3. SECUTURUS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each night when I behold my bed Last Line: And I would gladly die. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies COME AWAY, DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come away, death, make no mistake Last Line: A dead-born child destroy its mother.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CONSOLATIN TO M. DU PERIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must thy grief, du perier, knowe no end? Last Line: Can lead us unto peace. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness CONSOLATION TO M. DU PERRIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Du perrier, must thy grief eternal be Last Line: This only gives us rest. Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies CONSOLATION; TO M. DUPERRIER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will then, duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal? Last Line: That gives us any rest. Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies CORIDON ON THE DEATH OF HIS DEAR ALEXIS, OB. JAN. 28, 1682/3, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis! Dear alexis! Lovely boy! Last Line: For what my sighs and pray'rs can ne'er retrieve? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CRAUSHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay so, a wee house, / an' three acres av green Last Line: "from broadwaymaureen!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Love; Thought; Death - Babies; Thinking CUTHBERT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful mother / of a beautiful boy Last Line: Welcomed by christ who has conquered the grave! Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Mothers & Sons; Death - Babies; Paradise DAHN THE PLUG 'OLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A muvver was barfin' 'er biby one night Last Line: "your biby 'as fell dahn the plug 'ole / not lorst, but gorn before!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DAVID'S CHILD; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In face of a great sorrow like to death Last Line: But when the heart is broken -- not a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine faded from the room Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise DEAD BOY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN Poet's Biography First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental; Death - Babies; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who navigated with success Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death found strange beauty on that cherub Last Line: The signet-ring of heaven. Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Tears; Death - Babies DEATH OF AN INFANTS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One little bud adorned my bower Last Line: T will bloom again on high. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ah, venerate this hallowed ground Last Line: "their little mistress they bemoan." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies DESIDERIUM: IN MEMORIAM, S.F.A., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The call of homing rooks, the shrill Last Line: Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness DESTINY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down Last Line: Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Roses; Death - Babies DETROIT, TOMORROW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan; Death - Babies DIED YOUNG, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: And she is sleeping now without a dream Last Line: In that you know the mystery of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DIM HOUSE, BRIGHT FACE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She still cries over that dead child Last Line: The ones who can't know yet what living was Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DOROTHY, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little dorothy, she is no more! Last Line: Are more lost than my heart, which died not when it broke! Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EILEEN, DIARMUID, AND TEIG, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind unto these three, o king! Last Line: Be kind, o king, unto this two and one! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM ON A DEAD CHILD, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frowning fates have taken hence / callimachus, a child Last Line: So were his troubles small. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Variant Title(s): Calimachus Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM: 19. NICOTELES, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philip's nicoteles, a twelve-year lad Last Line: Lies buried here; the hope his father had. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH FOR A YOUNG LADY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Youth, beauty, love, a mother's joy divine Last Line: But sees the daylight dawn beyond the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL INFANT, by THOMAS MAURICE Poem Text First Line: Bright to the sun expands the vernal rose Last Line: Put forth fair blossoms, charmed us, and expired. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They killed her lamb, and no one wept Last Line: This was the little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies Last Line: Now let him sleep in peace his night of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Last Line: And bade it blossom there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its balmy lips the infant blest Last Line: Death sang to sleep with lullaby. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this greedy stone Last Line: The only melancholy stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Erotion Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON MRS. ANNE PRIDEAUX, DAUGHTER OF DR. PRIDEAUX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature in this small volume was about Last Line: Threw dust upon it, and shut up the book Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Prideaux, John (1578-1650); Death - Babies EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep with me, all you that read Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little vault, this narrow room Last Line: The flames, the arrows, all lie here. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady mary villiers lies Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn. Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (3), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The purest soule that e're was sent Last Line: Of room to lodge th' inhabitant. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF ROBERT DIGBY, AND HIS SISTER MARY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Fair example of untainted youth Last Line: Tis all a father, all a friend can give! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE TOMBSTONE OF A CHILD, LAST OF SEVEN THAT DIED BEFORE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little, silent, gloomy monument Last Line: Spread their gay wings before the throne, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH OVER THE GRAVE OF TWO BROTHERS, A CHILD AND A YOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, that canst gaze upon thine own fair boy Last Line: Where god hath sealed the fount of hope he gave. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Graves; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she lies, a pretty bud Last Line: The earth that lightly covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement EPITAPH: CATHERINE BAKER (1778-1779), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah lovely child and art thou fled Last Line: So soon to join the silent dead Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH: HENRY BROWN (1851-1861), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How soon I was cut down when innocent at play Last Line: The wind it blew a scaffold down and took my life away Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear father and dear mother: let me crave Last Line: The little girl so lightly bore on you. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FAR OUT AT SEA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Last Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FEBRUARY ELEGY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bald year, frozen now in february. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FIELD BURIAL, by CARROLL CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: Dying so young, may I retain of youth' Last Line: "shall blossom into clover, gorse and flower." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones 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 FOR MOHAMMED ZEID OF GAZA, AGE 15, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no stray bullet, sirs Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Death - Children; Gaza, Palestine; Arab-israeli Conflict; Death - Babies FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here Last Line: Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR THERE IS NO HELP IN THEM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies on that white breast she loves, and well Last Line: So disenchanted and so sadly wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: Adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness HEAVEN'S GLORY SHONE WHERE HE WAS LAID, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares HER FIRST-BORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was her first sweet child, her heart's delight Last Line: Nor knows how soon it will be borne away. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies HIS DAUGHTER, DYING ON HER FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That fatal day, which lent my earliest breath Last Line: "mine calls aloud for tears, and bids me weep." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies HOLY INNOCENTS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They scarcely waked before they slept Last Line: Dear mothers, come: for heaven is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation! Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee! Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies I LIVE A PRAYER, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: With human love Last Line: This is my prayer. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies ICE CHILD, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold for so long, unable to speak, Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ICONOCLASTS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There are those who would silence the thrush Last Line: Comes the luminous face of christ! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Theology IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them allthey are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN HEAVEN, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence filled the courts of heaven Last Line: "thy will, o lord, be done!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise IN MEMORIAM ALPHONSE CAMPBELL FORDHAM, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Yes, my darling, when life's shadows Last Line: "surely at the ""gates of gold." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE SHADOWS: 13, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And, well-beloved, is this all, this all? Last Line: O heart! Be merciful -- I loved him utterly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies INFELICE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the skies are tinted blue Last Line: Ah, woe is me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise IT IS WELL, by LUCY H. HOOPER Poem Text First Line: Twas a low grave they led me to, o'ergrown Last Line: "above that quiet refuge -- ""it is well." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones LAMENT, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merry merry lark was up and singing Last Line: Sleeps sound till the bell brings me. Variant Title(s): The Merry Lark Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LAMENT FOR A LITTLE CHILD, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in the tomb, love Last Line: O my little child! Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie - angels named her Last Line: From me like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; God; Summer; Death - Babies LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You gave the youngster into my care. - he's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You put the kid in my care. He's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTICE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little lettice is dead, they say Last Line: On the hills, and no longer rue her! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LIFT ME HIGHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift me higher! Lift me higher! / from this sphere of earthly dross Last Line: "lifted higher"" -- than life's cares." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise LINES ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON CHARLES, by DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, thou wast my heart's delight Last Line: My son! My father! Guide me there. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My Son Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Sons; Death - Babies LINES TO A YOUNG MOTHER, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young mother! What can feeble friendship say Last Line: And laid my first-born in the silent tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies LITTLE JOHNNY, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LITTLE MATTIE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Thirteen a month ago! Last Line: Rather than such angels, lord! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LITTLE NORA, OR THE PORTRAIT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask'd of little nora, but he drew Last Line: Still nursed her pile of summer-wreaths and smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LONE CHILDER, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: When the wind was soft sobbin' the night Last Line: For to hush where lone childer had died! Subject(s): Death - Children; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness LONELY CABIN, by JOHN A. SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Some say the cabin fell almost apart Last Line: After she found her son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Despair; Mothers & Sons; Murder; Death - Babies LOST AND SAVED, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou wert born into the world Last Line: In happier skies than ours! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LUCY (5), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three years she grew in sun and shower Last Line: And never more will be. Variant Title(s): The Education Of Nature;four Natural Women Subject(s): Death - Children; Nature; Death - Babies LULLABY, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little one, sleep softly Last Line: Together--I and you. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies MAMMA DIN'T RAISE NO FOOLS, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died before we could honor Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day Last Line: Mary burkemary burke! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise MARY RUANE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-like girl that we knew! Last Line: Unweariedly! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MATERNAL GRIEF, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Departed child! I could forget thee once Last Line: Immortal as the love that gave it being. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureenmaureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MEDEA: SPEECH OF THE CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haggard queen! To athens dost thou guide Last Line: Perish when thy victims bleed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MELANCHOLY; AN ODE, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, vain mirth, and noisy joys Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy innocent gone home Last Line: On heavenly banks. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 1, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have dark egyptians stolen thee away Last Line: In changeless baby loveliness still there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 10, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis christmas, and we gaze with downbent head Last Line: In the dim nursery that men call death! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 11, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How patiently they did their work of old Last Line: In sunrise tints on memory's missal page. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 12, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the season when the elves of spring Last Line: And the wild tulips on the grassy shelves! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 13, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now florence fills her lap with buds of may Last Line: "of sun and rain, of smile and sorrow born." Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 14, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pale pressed rose-bud in the book of death Last Line: O'er his inscrutable angelic face. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 15, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how, with fancy's hand Last Line: The eye-lids sealed in pale seraphic rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 16, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little ship that passed us in the night Last Line: And she was gone; and we were left behind. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 17, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall the scents, the insect whirr Last Line: Which now, god knows, is hidden but too well. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 18, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, through the open window of the room Last Line: And watch it breathless, lest it should be she. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 19, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What alchemy is thine, o little child Last Line: Shrines in its sanctuaries while ages flow. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 2, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two springs she saw - two radiant tuscan springs Last Line: We, left alone, shall seek one bud in vain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 20, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What essences from idumean palm Last Line: Obliterate the rolls of human fame. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 3, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could know the silent shapes that pass Last Line: Of vast and lifeless seas in the beyond? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 4, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rosy as the lining of a shell Last Line: To wake the sleep-struck playground of the dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 5, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wast thou, little baby, that art dead Last Line: Enough for us, thou wast thy baby self. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 6, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bless the law that veils the future's face Last Line: Its footing, and fall headlong from to-day. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 7, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantled in purple dusk, imperial death Last Line: "now let the little children come to me." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 8, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I mind me, now that she is dead Last Line: That leave the shores that are for those that seem! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 9, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brook that fell too soon into the sea Last Line: In death's dim ocean that before us lay. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: SONNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis march; and on the hills that stretch away Last Line: Intone in march, as did their antique sires. Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MODERN LOVE: 11, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the yellow meadows, where the bee Last Line: Is lying a dead infant, slain by thee. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched on the dying mother's lap, lies dead Last Line: And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823); Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The mouth of a girl who had long lain among the reeds looked gnawed away Last Line: Oh, how the little muzzles squeaked! Subject(s): Autopsies; Death - Children; Expressionism - Poets; Morgues; Death - Babies MOTHER AND CHILD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She feared the baby would fall Last Line: Hands resting upon her Subject(s): Mothers; Death – Children; Death - Babies; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east Last Line: Let none look at me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians MOTIF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the garret sleeps the roof Last Line: In its crib by the mold'ring wall Subject(s): Babies;death - Children;rest; Infants;death - Babies MY BOY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little bird once Last Line: And wish that I were dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MY BOY JACK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the news of my boy jack? Last Line: And gave to that wind blowing and that tide! Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies MY CHILD, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot make him dead! Last Line: T will be our heaven to find, that - he is there! Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY PRETTY CHILD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mo paistin deas, I did not know Last Line: And knew how far god's gardens are. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MY SISTER'S FUNERAL, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Funerals; Grief; Death - Babies; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness NIGHTMARE BEGINS RESPONSIBILITY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I place these numbed wrists to the pane Last Line: Nightmare begins responsibilit Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled Last Line: How to this port at every step I go. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON A CHILD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of a day, thou knowest not Last Line: Thou wilt not ever see her weep. Variant Title(s): To A Dead Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ON A DEAD CHILD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee Last Line: And the things we have seen and have known and have heard of, fail us. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON A NUN, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of two fair virgins, modest, though admired Last Line: And knock, and knock, and knock -- but none replies. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Variant Title(s): Sonnet On A Nun Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Nuns; Death - Babies ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! Thou such a one hast smit Last Line: If he be dead or flown away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Tuberculosis; Death - Babies; Consumption (pathology) ON AN INFANT, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, a sleeping infant lies Last Line: "had been as short as thine." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be, rather than be called, a child of god' Last Line: Possessor, not inheritor. Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies ON AN INFANT'S DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little life Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM FOR 1979, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without kings and warriors occasional verse fails Subject(s): Africa; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Death - Babies ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Text First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross! Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies to each her parents' ruth Last Line: Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On My First Daughter Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Parents; Death - Babies; Parenthood ON READING IN A NEWSPAPER THE DEATH OF A MOTHER AND THREE CHILDREN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, my soul, sustain the mournful page! Last Line: Frail is our knowledge, frailer is our bliss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEAD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou in this wide cold church art laid Last Line: Death follows with uplifted dart. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Consolation; Death - Children; Graveyards; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by HUGO MUNSTERBERG Poem Text First Line: Dear child, now you have gone to sleep so gently Last Line: Is truly blessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Terberg, Hugo Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by EDWARD S. SILVERA Poem Text First Line: You came like the dawn Last Line: So you stole away in the dark. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came, you went, as angels go Last Line: Forth from god's hand into god's hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis o'er, - in that long sigh she past Last Line: "the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted Last Line: That till the world's last end shall make thy name to live. Subject(s): Death - Children; Plague; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death never came so nigh to me before Last Line: Doth waken thy beloved with a kiss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Death - Babies; Theology ON THE DEATH OF A HIGHLY GIFTED AND PRECOCIOUS CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too fair, too pale, too pure and wise Last Line: Heaven took what it had lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well did the holy prophet say Last Line: To gather infant buds to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by EVARISTE DE PARNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scaping from childhood, still a child Subject(s): Death - Children; Youth; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis difficult to feel that she is dead Last Line: In its most ravishing sweetness rudely broken. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sweet child, and hast thou gone, for ever fled! Last Line: "and murmur not at your great father's will." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by DIRK SMITS Poem Text First Line: A host of angels flying Last Line: But left the shell on earth. Variant Title(s): Death Of An Infant Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The little child is dead Last Line: And love and mortal fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT OF FIVE DAYS OLD, by ELIZABETH BOYD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How frail is human life! How fleet our breath Last Line: And the shocked father tear for tear return. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF J.C., AN INFANT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rise Last Line: Not at your bar must sov'reign wisdom stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF TWO LITTLE CHILDREN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Bitter chance! No hand the blow could ward! Last Line: And one low funeral bell shall bring ye home! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness PATCH AV GREEN AN' FIELD AV CORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, a field av goold corn jist ferenst a wee green Last Line: For wee childer's all ris up an' reapin' the day! Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Play; Roses; Death - Babies PILGRIMAGE, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: A score of years had passed since they had laid Last Line: And scarlet poppies, swaying with each breeze.) Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That is your little playmate, jane Last Line: Would any child not die!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness POISONOUS FRUIT, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As tommy and his sister jane Last Line: Again along the shady lane. Subject(s): Death - Children; Poisons And Poisoning; Death - Babies POOR LITTLE JOE, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prop yer eyes wide open, joey Last Line: O, my god! Can joe be dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Child Labor; Death - Children; Death - Babies PRAYER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: She cannot tell my name / nor whence I came Last Line: When my child's call I hear, I catch her to my heart. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies PREMONITION, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the cottage stair Last Line: Her eyes might never look. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 40, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under thy rod, my god, thy smarting rod Last Line: My musick shall thy praises sweetly bring. Subject(s): Death - Children; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruined and ill, - a man of two score Last Line: Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Daughters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE, by JOHN HENRY BONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that we retain of our dead friends Last Line: Remember only when her babe first smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 18. MARGARET EMMA HENLEY (1888-1894), by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you wake in your crib Last Line: Peace of the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SHE CAME AND WENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a twig trembles, which a bird Last Line: Only to think she came and went. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 123, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby lies so fast asleep Last Line: Kiss her once and leave her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 24, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did baby die? Last Line: But bow and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SLEEP, DARLING, SLEEP, by MARY B. C. SLADE Poem Text First Line: Fold thy hands, little one Last Line: Rest, darling, rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SNOWBANKS NORTH OF THE HOUSE, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house... Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We set wreaths of brightness on the graves of the passionate Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SONG FOR THE FUNERAL OF A BOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On stems from silver woods Last Line: As dews that on the uplands shine and go! Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. Variant Title(s): "desideria;transient Joy;""surprised By Joy-impatient As The Wind""; Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Wordsworth, Catherine (1808-1812); Death - Babies; Bereavement STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though parental affection lament thee Last Line: Through the god of the spirits of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies SYLVIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across a space peopled with stars I am Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness THAW, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empty mocking bird nests Subject(s): Corpses; Death - Children; Cadavers; Death - Babies THE ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the barred window sandbags Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BLUE HOG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have to buy the acid Last Line: Who's said to still be in the district. Variant Title(s): A Blue Hog Subject(s): Death - Children; Devil; Pigs; Revenge; Death - Babies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Boars; Hogs THE BOOTLESS BAIRN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days of the whirling snowflakes, nights of the / weeping wind Last Line: They fall on the bootless bairn, and crush the hapless child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIAL OF AN INFANT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest infant bud, whose blossom-life Last Line: To dress them, and unswaddle death. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE BURIAL OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark-eyed maids, at shut of day Last Line: Highest and nearest god's right hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIED CHILD, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Text First Line: He is not dead, nor liveth Last Line: To his mother saith. Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Call my brother back to me Last Line: "would I had loved him more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Half-brothers; Death - Babies THE CHILD'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy sight, sorrento, green thy shore Last Line: From long deep slumbers at the morning light. Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE CHILD'S GRAVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the churchyard where pretty joy lies Last Line: Her sweet dawning smile and her violet eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHILD'S LAST SLEEP; SUGGESTED BY MOMUMENT OF CHANTREY'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepst - but when wilt thou wake, fair child? Last Line: Beautiful dust! When we look on thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Death - Children; Sculpture & Sculptors; Women; Death - Babies THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long." Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CHILDLESS MOTHER'S LULLABY, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, many's the time in the evening Last Line: "tenderest angels will guard thy rest." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE COAL STRIKE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Red are the rails with rust to-day Last Line: Who went to heavenstarved. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Heaven; Hunger; Poverty; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne. Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE DAWN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: He shook his head as he turned away Last Line: "are dancing and singing. ""thank god the dawn!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Mothers; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: But yesterday she played with childish things Last Line: She will not smile to-day, for she is dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, dear, now Last Line: And share thy rest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child had of the garden made a friend Last Line: "come, let me see your fine new summer-dress!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD AND THE MOCKING-BIRD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a land of balm and flowers Last Line: Moans round their place of sleep! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD SON, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy was in the clay Last Line: God comfort them that mourn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement THE DEATH LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, baby, sleep!" Last Line: In dreamless sleep Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cover him over with daisies white Last Line: For the first-born, love, is dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DOLL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry you in a glass jar Last Line: Dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dolls; Toys; Death - Babies THE DYING BOY TO THE WINDFLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And have ye come again Last Line: I follow! Lead the way! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Death - Babies THE DYING CHILD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could not die when trees were green Last Line: He died so quietly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Spring; Death - Babies THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear? Last Line: The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides so late through the midnight blast? Last Line: But alack! In his arms the child lay dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE FAITH OF A CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've learned the tale of the crooning waves Last Line: Of rosses by the sea. Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Faith; Heaven; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had begun in the gloaming Last Line: Folded close under deepening snow. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Snow; Dead, The; Death - Babies THE FOUNTAIN AT THE TOMB, by NICIAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay weary traveler, stay! Last Line: His buried child to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE GIFT OF THE SEA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead child lay in the shroud Last Line: "we let it die in the dark!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean THE GOLD PIECE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: My lord will not miss of all his store Last Line: Because I have stolen from my lord the ransom he would not give. Subject(s): Death - Children; Gold; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise THE GOOD LORD GAVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The good lord gave, the lord has taken from me Last Line: Oh, 'tis lonely, lonely, by the little grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 100. A NEW-BORN DEATH (2), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou, o life, the lady of all bliss Last Line: And did these die that thou mightst bear me death? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Death - Babies THE INDIAN WITH HIS DEAD CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of the midnight Last Line: My father's path I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Native Americans; Death - Babies; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE IRISH MOTHER'S LAMENT, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half the long night, my children, I lie waking Last Line: In the next glad spring time? Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Absent Ones Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives THE LAST CRADLE SONG, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu Last Line: I'll sing to my baby for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LITTLE ONE THE WATER-SPIRIT LOVED, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: So young he could not go alone on earth Last Line: Before whom I must smile dry-eyed? Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Mothers; Water; Death - Babies THE LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LOST CHILDREN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little girls, one fair, one dark Last Line: But the child keeps on playing, so I play Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Death - Babies THE LOST LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Simple and sweet as a child Last Line: Simple and sweet as a child. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Paradise THE LOST SISTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They waked me from my sleep, I knew not why Last Line: Which rent thee from me. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I believe in the community of little children Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE MOTHER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas! Christmas! Merry christmas! Rang the / bells. / o god of grace! Last Line: While twain spirits, joy and sorrow, hovered o'er my plundered nest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE MOTHER'S LAMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale and cold is the cheek that my kisses oft press'd Last Line: And only to wake when ascended to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Cold is his brow, and the dew of the evening Last Line: Henceforth will I worship my saviour alone! Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S PLEA, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand not here in judgment, haughty priest Last Line: "leaves life its worth. That lost I welcome death." Subject(s): Death - Children; Faith; Mothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed THE MOURNER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night that wee francesca died Subject(s): Mourning; Death - Children; Bereavement; Death - Babies THE MOURNING MOTHER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou weep, mourning mother Last Line: Wait on, thou mourning mother. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE RABBIT TRAP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in de sage fiel', settin' in de sno' Last Line: An' little phil sleeps in de sleet an' de rain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Death - Children; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SCULPTURED CHILDREN; ON CHANTREY'S MONUMENT IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair images of sleep Last Line: The faith, trust, joy, of immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Monuments; Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies THE SPANISH CHAPEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a mountain brook my guide Last Line: "an angel thus to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Spain; Women; Death - Babies THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us! Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE TREASURE BOX, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Ah! Here's the box! And there's his baby shoe Last Line: His glory home! O little star of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; War; Death - Babies THE TURNSTILE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Sad were we as we did peace Last Line: His last white arms, and they stood still. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE TWO MYSTERIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies THE WHITE HEARSE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, I have walked with you through summer days Last Line: Discards the life, and builds on blood its wealth. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman sentinel stood helm'd and tall Last Line: Jesus went calmly on his way to nain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Death - Babies THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice Last Line: Weep for his mother! -- weep, young bride, for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers-in-law; Death - Babies THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute -- looking at the grave in which he lies! Variant Title(s): The Boy Poet;the Boy And The Owls Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute - for he died when he was ten years old. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THOMAS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead, my son! My son! Last Line: "the tears of parting blind me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THRENODY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-wind brings / life, sunshine, and desire Last Line: "lost in god, in godhead found." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TIMOMACHUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in his father's arms he lay / and breathed the joy of youth away Last Line: A heart so brave, so cool a head.' Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A BEREAVED MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, say not that your little son is dead Last Line: Is your ambassador. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TO A BEREAVED MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER TWO LITTLE BOYS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother bereaved! From thy desolate hearth Last Line: Tis well with thy children, with thee it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep breathes at last from out thee Last Line: "who say, ""we 've finished here." Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): To T. L. H. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies TO A CHILD IN HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: How dost thou fare in the high, silent skies? Last Line: Since thou art there and I to earth exiled? Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO A DEAD BABY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale little feet, grown quiet ere they could run Last Line: There is a heaven that makes this earth complete. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Life; Infants; Death - Babies TO A DYING BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bubble, break! All heaven thou hast Last Line: Love calls thee to depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A DYING INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to thy rest, my child! Last Line: Amid yon cherub-train. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A FATHER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand of the highest, who woundeth, can heal Last Line: That thou may'st go to him, though he cannot return. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Death - Babies TO A GENTLEMAN & LADY ON THE DEATH ... CHILD NAMED AVIS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On death's domain intent I fix my eyes Last Line: And seek beatitude beyond the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LADY AND HER CHILDREN, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON ..., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song Last Line: And to your god immortal anthems raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LITTLE CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear eyes of heaven's chosen hue Last Line: I feel god's wondrous tenderness. Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO A YOUNG GIRL DYING, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is palm sunday: mindful of the day Last Line: Pray that our pilgrimage may end like thine! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO ADA, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the smile and thine the bloom Last Line: Thou art not near a father's heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by MEHETABEL (WESLEY) WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO HER SACRED MAJESTY, THE QUEEN MOTHER, ON DEATH OF MARY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Respite, great queen, your just and hasty fears Last Line: And dereliction adds unto remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Death - Babies TO JOY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not this enough for moan Last Line: Alone on that most wintry wild? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO KING CHARLES AND QUEEN MARY FOR LOSS OF THEIR FIRST-BORN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who dares deny, that all first fruits are due Last Line: Cannot but heap that grace, he will require. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie!' angels missed her Last Line: Than the morning skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Tears; Death - Babies; Paradise TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER, UPON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let thy tears, le vayer, let them flow Last Line: -- surely these claim immitigable [or, eternity of] tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothe Le Vayer, Francois De La; Death - Babies TO MRS. J. CLELAND ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED SON AND ONLY CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My olive plant, so green and fair Last Line: "and thou wilt join him ne'er to sever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO OLINTHUS GREGORY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a spot where pity's foot Last Line: Sees all life held most dear enshrined. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies TO ONE BEREFT, by ETHEL KNAPP BEHRMAN Poem Text First Line: War drums shall never summon him, nor cold Last Line: Such love can not be covered in a grave. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO THE HONOURABLE T.H. ESQ; ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Last Line: "converse with heav'n, and taste the promis'd joy" Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO THE LADY CREW, UPON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, madam, will ye longer weep Last Line: To spring againe another yeare. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At times our britain cannot rest Last Line: Will mix with love for you and yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Blackwood, Frederick (1826-1902); Death - Children; India; Death - Babies TO THE MEMORY OF A FAVOURITE CHILD; THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is on the haunted air Last Line: An altar for my prayers and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THEODORE, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such are the little memories of you Last Line: Kneel nightly now in agony of prayer. Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The billows on the beach are leaping around it Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lost william, thou in whom Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy little footsteps on the sands Last Line: When we returned to gaze on thee -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TOYS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have laid you away as we lay Last Line: With the toys of a little dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Toys; Death - Babies TROUBLE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One folds the little white hands, and lays a flower Last Line: God wot,a living grief is worse than the peace that folds the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TWO CHILDREN, DYING OF ONE DISEASE, AND BURIED IN ONE GRAVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought forth, in sorrow, and bred up in care Last Line: By taking this inheritance of dust. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones UNDER THE VIOLETS, by EDWARD YOUNG (1818-) Poem Text First Line: Under the violets, blue and sweet Last Line: O grave! I would thy gates were wide. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UNTITLED, by MARY JO BANG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here a pretty baby lies Last Line: Th' easy earth that covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON A CHILD; AN EPITAPH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But borne, and like a short delight Last Line: Love and they'l thank you for't. Adieu. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF J.K., FIRST BORN OF H.K., by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed spirit, thy infant breath Last Line: Since what is thy fate now, must once be mine. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON WEDLOCK, AND DEATH OF CHILDREN, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious knot god made in paradise Last Line: Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Parents; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies; Parenthood UPON YOUNG MASTER ROGERS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gentle blood, his parents only treasure Last Line: He leap'd o'er age, and took the shortest way. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness VERA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, I know not if thy poor old father Last Line: I could not keep her here, nor lose her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Love; Memory; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF A CHILD NAMED AFTER CHARLES LAMB, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our gentle charles has pass'd away Last Line: The poet and the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Death - Children; Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Death - Babies VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF P. BURGESS; A CHILD OF SUPERIOR ENDOWMENTS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not length of years which lends Last Line: Partake with joy its light forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies VERSES, SUGGESTED BY THE FUNERAL OF AN EPITAPH IN BURY CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When siloam's tower in fragments strew'd the ground Last Line: The boon of immortality was given! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials WAIL OF THE DIVORCED, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I give thee up, my child, my dearest, earliest born Last Line: And may'st thou find a home at last in heaven's celestial bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WE ASSUME: ON THE DEATH OF OUR SON, REUBEN MASAI HARPER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We assume / that in 28 hours Last Line: You did not know we loved you. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WRETTEN BY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD ROBERT PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord hath called for my sonne Last Line: Enoughe my lord; now lett me dye. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Death - Babies WRETTEN MY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD PERIGRENE PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my all was given before Last Line: Thy hand maid's pleas'd, compleatly happy still: Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fingers lie in the lap Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness |
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