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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 child—or a tramp—or 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 broadway—maureen!"
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 all—they 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 burke—mary 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: Maureen—maureen!
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 heaven—starved.
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