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Subject: GRANDDAUGHTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherds had an angel
Last Line: Through all the heavenly height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Grandchildren; Magi; Grandsons; Granddaughters


A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have
Last Line: Where I am going.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood


A THOUSAND TIMES, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovely are little hills where young grass climbs
Last Line: But I bend closer to each granddaughter.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters


BLACKBERRIES FOR AMELIA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fringing the woods, the stone walls, and the lanes,
Subject(s): Blackberries; Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters


DIPPING CANDLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A-dipping candles used to be
Last Line: Can turn no tastier trick today.
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandchildren; Vermont; Relatives; Grandsons; Granddaughters


FLEUR DE LYS, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember / one time she walked within
Last Line: Must be a glory to behold.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters


FOR REBECCA, FOR WHOM NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN PAGE AFTER PAGE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have a language that serves us more, or less
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Language; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Words; Vocabulary


GRANDCHILD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take her to the park, I swing her in the little swing
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters


GRANNIE'S DREAM: A TRUE INCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the winter e'ening fire
Last Line: "the dream ye tauld this nicht to me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Dreams; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nightmares; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I wish him? Strength and health
Last Line: May even as his grandsire be!
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters


MY SON'S SON TO HIS SON'S SON - PERHAPS, by MABEL RUTHERFORD BRIDGES    Poem Text                    
First Line: See that lovely, stately thing!
Last Line: And write of trees.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Pine Trees; Grandsons; Granddaughters


NURSING HOME: THE VISIT, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild-animal fear is upon him
Last Line: His hair through the cage.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nursing Homes; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living


PRIVILEGE, by RUTH MILLER REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: If youth were all- fleet - footed, gay with song
Last Line: The master walked beside the least of these.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Walking; Youth; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


SAFE CONDUCT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snowplow was a rattling iron box
Last Line: As distant as this world.
Subject(s): Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Plowing & Plowmen; Snow; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


SAMANTHA QUITS GROWING, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From ultrasound to ultrasound
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Growth; Sickness; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Illness


THE GRANDCHILD, by PEARL M. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When baby feet go pit - a - patter
Last Line: Next to your mother, in my heart.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round
Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ.
Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy
Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see.
Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO ALFRED TENNYSON, MY GRANDSON, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden-haired ally whose name is one with mine
Last Line: Mayst thou never be wrong'd by the name that is mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters