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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEATH - CHILDBIRTH Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have a song for the death in her body Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth A LADY DYING IN CHILDBED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As gilly flowers do but stay Last Line: Lives in the pretty lady-flower. Variant Title(s): Upon A Lady That Died In Child-bed, And Left A Daughter Behind Her Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Having interr'd her infant-birth Last Line: Their ravish'd spirits did possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Variant Title(s): Ode Upon Question Moved: Whether Love Should Continue Ever Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth ANNIVERSARY, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she walked by Last Line: He likes to comb her hair. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Slavery; Stillbirth; Serfs; Death - Childbirth BAPTISM OF AN INFANT AT ITS MOTHER'S FUNERAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence is that trembling of a father's hand Last Line: Be wafted from the minstrelsy of heaven. Subject(s): Baptism; Stillbirth; Christenings; Death - Childbirth DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The EPITAPH ON SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE'S CHILD WHO DIED IN HIS BIRTH, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, here lies a child that never cri'd Last Line: Nothing that ever di'd hath liv'd so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth FOR A STILL-BORN CHILD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost among immediate creaks chirrups wrong sounds Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth MOTHER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One wept whose only child was dead Last Line: "a mother, a mother was born." Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): Maternity Subject(s): Mothers; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw where in the shroud did lurk Last Line: A more harmless vanity? Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Mothers; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth ON AN INFANT UNBORN, AND THE MOTHER DYING IN TRAVAIL, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd Last Line: And keeps in travail till the day of doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth ON THE DEATH OF MY SISTER THE COUNTESS OF BRIDGEWATER IN CHILDBED, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god thy judgments unto sinfull eye Last Line: How much she knew her glory in the call. Subject(s): Brackley, Lady Elizabeth (1626-1663); Sisters; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SOME OTHER TIME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told him we our game would play Last Line: Some other time that never came. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Play; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITH CONANT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stand about this place - we, the memories Last Line: In immeasurable weariness! Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELIZABETH CHILDERS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust of my dust Last Line: Death is better than life! Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth STILL LIFE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Aubergin and yellow glazes Last Line: Idle now, it lolls at ease. Subject(s): Babies; Brothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Half-brothers; Death - Childbirth STILLBIRTH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On a platform, I heard someone call out your name: Subject(s): Grief; Stillbirth; Sorrow; Sadness; Death - Childbirth STUDY IN STILL LIFE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Regal lilies in a bowl Last Line: My buddah of desire. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth THE CRADLE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How steadfastly she'd worked at it! Last Line: Her coffin was his bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cradles; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth THE DEATH OF QUEEN JANE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Queen jane was in labour Last Line: Lying mouldering away Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth THE FAIREST THING IN MORTAL EYES, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make my lady's obsequies Last Line: The fairest thing in mortal eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Death - Childbirth THE TOMB OF MADAME LANGHANS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many hopes were borne upon thy bier Last Line: "here am I, with the child whom thou hast given!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Stillbirth; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth THE YOUNG MOTHER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The host lifts high the candlelight Last Line: The son for whom she died! Subject(s): Mothers; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth THOUGHTS WHILE MAKING THE GRAVE OF A NEWBORN CHILD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room, gentle flowers! My child would pass to heaven Last Line: And by this gate of flowers she pass'd away! Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth |
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