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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 19-NOV-42, by DEBORAH ESTHER SCHIFTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stench, it seemed, had been there forever. %the jews of
Last Line: Then they were told to enter the shower
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


1932, by LYNN SAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Harry saul wraps the leather straps of tefillin boxes around
Last Line: She makes the man oatmeal and coffee
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews - Women


A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grand-dad, they say you're old and frail
Last Line: You do not hear me, dad.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Sickness; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Illness


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 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 GRANNY, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cross her withered fingers hold
Last Line: Here was thy meek, thy trusting, stainless heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Religion; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology


A PORTRAIT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a slim, young girl, in lilac quaintly dressed"
Last Line: "her grandson, might have been my own grandsire"
Subject(s): Grandparents;love;sex; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers


A SONG O' CHEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grampa he's a-allus sayin'
Last Line: "old -- bob -- white!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Nature; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ACQUEDOTTO, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I should've been born in triseste in 1884
Last Line: It was that of a slow-moving man with mustaches, %a dreamer and banker his whole life
Subject(s): Grandparents


ACQUISITION, by CLARA HYDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandmother counted linens
Last Line: Who never thought it mattered?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ADVICE FROM NANA, by JUDYTH HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always wear your clothes like they have only been yours
Last Line: I always found good men by their smell
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing
Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!"
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


AFTERNOON WITH GRANDMOTHER, by BARBARA A. HUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always shout when grandma comes
Last Line: And I say, 'yes we did!!!'
Subject(s): Grandparents


ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 1. TWO ROOMS, by DIANE GARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can still see nanny bending
Last Line: And laughter without forgetting %the presence of sorrow
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 2. ONE-EYED JOKER, by DIANE GARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After pappy died, nanny followed
Last Line: Nanny would life her teacup %and tell me a story
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


AN INCIDENTAL REPORT ON MY GRANDMOTHER'S DIVINITY, by BOB HICOK            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother had 14 children
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents; Dead, The; Burials; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


AN OLD WOMAN WALKING ON THE ROAD, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grey the day! And grey her life!
Last Line: Trudging, lonely, on her way.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Solitude; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Loneliness


ANISHINABE GRANDMOTHERS, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The world will change
Subject(s): Grandparents


ANNA, by MARILYN KALLET    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one asked anna for stories of russia
Last Line: A mother could love her only daughter
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


ANYUTA, by ANNE COREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother anyuta %the woman I am named for
Last Line: I hear anyuta's screams. %her screams
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


APPLES, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After henry died, his wagon full
Last Line: Their bruises turning to cider
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents


APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today is your / birthday and I have tried
Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today is your %birthday and I have tried
Last Line: And not be ashamed
Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


APRIL FOOL POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today is yout
Subject(s): Birthdays; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ARRANGEMENT OF SKIN, by WALTER GRIFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother was a %taxidermist. She skinned
Last Line: Not feel the prickly straw %against her naked back
Subject(s): Grandparents; Taxidermy And Taxidermists


AT GRANDFATHER'S, by JOHN FRENCH WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My son, upon this curving stair
Last Line: Where bears have lurked and lovers kissed.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


AT THE PIG PEN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandpa messed with his hogs
Last Line: Grandma worried about his tongue
Subject(s): Grandparents; Pigs


AUNT IRIS' WEDDING, by SAUCI S. CHURCHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Except for just a moment
Last Line: Smothered the flames against her breast
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


AUTONOMIC, by JOHN STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When love arrives %like hunger-thirst
Last Line: To lie down first %bones will follow
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Old Age


BABUSHKA, by ANNA WASESCHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this land
Last Line: My mother says: the road to perham gets shorter every year
Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Poland


BALLAD OF THE TWO GRANDFATHERS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shadows I alone can see
Subject(s): Grandparents


BAMBOOZLING GRANDMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a grandma half so good
Subject(s): Grandparents


BE KIND TO AULD GRANNIE, by ARCHIBALD MACKAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be kind to auld grannie, for noo she is frail
Last Line: Like a time-shatter'd tree bending low in the gale.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


BEAUTIFUL GRANDMAMMA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair
Last Line: Was to grow a beautiful grandma for me
Subject(s): Children;grandparents; Childhood;grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers


BEAUTY, by SUSAN GLICKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe there are no easy deaths but grandpa's
Last Line: From inside, my true inheritance
Subject(s): Grandparents


BENDING TIME, by JULIA VAN GORDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near your old homestead, grandfather
Last Line: And watch you harvest oil
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Memory


BESIDE THE BARS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm
Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


BLESSING ON YOUR HEAD, HAND, AND FOOT, by NANCY BERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma and grandpa %get lost at ellis island
Last Line: Filter out through the window screen %and perch on the branch of a tree
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandma and the children left at night
Last Line: To go to a new country
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Immigrants; Relatives


BRAIDING MY DAUGHTER'S HAIR, by MARCY SHEINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is what we waited for
Last Line: My fingers fly, over and through, %over and through
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


BREAD, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you make a connection between this table and that table
Subject(s): Bread; Grandparents; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


BREAD, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you make a connection between this table and that table
Last Line: For the rest of your life these cast-out bodies of lepers
Subject(s): Bread; Grandparents; Memory


BUB SAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon in the sky is a custard
Last Line: An' talk about suddently droppin' off.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Clouds; Grandparents; Moon; Sky; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


BUBBIE, MOMMY, WEIGHT WATCHERS AND ME, by BARBARA NOREEN DINNERSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lady up front was rosalie, she used to be fat, feh
Last Line: I am a strong proud jewish woman from pesant stock
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs


BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate
Last Line: And perch on grandmother's lap
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects


BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING: 15, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to my grandfather's to say good-bye
Last Line: Doomed by his ignorance to stumble and blunder
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Farewell


CALLING FROM THE GATE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother stops scouring the rice pot
Last Line: Enter the home of her kin
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Grandparents


CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many other codices
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many other codices
Last Line: And I studied %I could read him like an open book
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition


CEMETERY, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were smaller, silk ladies
Last Line: Like granite sunk into the untended %green grass of their eyes
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grandparents; Graves; Revolutions; Youth


CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?'
Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time
Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CHILD'S SONG FOR GRANDMA, by NANNIE VICTORIA JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know where the roses grow
Last Line: It's out at my grandma's.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


CHINESE GRANDMOTHER, by LLOYD STONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly she sits in the darkened movie house
Last Line: And politely watches.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Motion Pictures; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Movies; Cinema


CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands
Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.)


CLICHE, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In every photo of her
Last Line: Let your head hang down
Subject(s): Grandparents; Photography And Photographers


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GREAT WHITE FATHER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Engineers %found the great white father dying
Last Line: Bloated with ears and testicles %and human hair
Subject(s): Grandparents; Salmon; Sea Voyages


COMPANIONS; A TALE OF A GRANDFATHER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not of what we ponder'd
Last Line: And what this is all about.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


COMPLETELY SEDUCED, by DI BRANDT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: & missing children
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Wrinkles


CONSTELLATIONS, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nighttime / fore I go to bed
Last Line: Grandma ole.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Slavery; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Serfs


CONVERSATION WITH MY GRANDSON, WAITING TO BE CONCEIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You will bloom %in a family of flowers
Last Line: You are a flower %that has no name
Subject(s): Grandparents


COOKING IN TONGUES, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother's hands drip
Last Line: As we peel skin from the sopressata
Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Love


CORSET, by MYRA SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The corset of my bubbe annie %held her to the feminine
Last Line: When I was grown I wanted fat like hers %rushing over me as unrestrained as water
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


CURTAINS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandpa took me along to the hospital
Subject(s): Grandparents; Hospitals; Window Treatments; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes


DANCING, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home from school I found
Last Line: He asked if some evening he could take me / dancing
Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing; Youth; Old Age


DAUGHTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman who shines at the head
Last Line: Of georgia, daughter of / dazzling you
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Grandparents


DAYS THROUGH STARCH AND BLUING, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mondays, sweating the flat smell
Last Line: Of tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's pressing
Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Grandparents


DEAR CHILDREN TELL ME THAT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our grandma has two little dogs
Last Line: Dear children tell me that?
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


DISHWATER, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slap of the screen door, flat knock
Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers


DOROTHY Q; A FAMILY PORTRAIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmother's mother: her age I guess
Last Line: Through a second youth of a hundred years.
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Quincy, Dorothy; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


DREAMINGS, by EDUARDO GALEANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the end of her days grandma raquel was blind. But in helena's dream grandma
Last Line: And in helena's dream helena tried, but she couldn't
Subject(s): Grandparents


ELEGY, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: June, %and you are gone at ninety-one
Last Line: That sabbath candle at no one's table. Grandma, %who will say the evening blessing?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


ELEGY, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: April again and it is a year again
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ELEGY, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: April again and it is a year again
Last Line: With your enemies, the swift departing years
Subject(s): Grandparents


ELEMENTAL PEA, by LYNN DOIRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After mumbling elemental-pea, que
Last Line: From the swing, I planed a vision
Subject(s): Grandparents; Swings


ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: New on the block
Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner
Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women


EPITAPH ON HIS GRANDFATHER, by THOMAS SHIPMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here lies an aged corpse, which late
Last Line: Being born in good days, but deceased in bad
Subject(s): Grandparents


EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed
Last Line: That she would grow again.
Subject(s): Grandparents; African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed
Last Line: That she would grow again.
Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


EVOCATION OF RECIFE, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Recife %not the american venice
Last Line: Recife, now dead, bighearted recife, recife brazilian as my %grandfather's home
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Brazil; Childhood Memories; Grandparents


FAMILY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgin - she %must have been in that
Last Line: The greenness gone someplace else
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


FAMILY PICNIC, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: All yellow and pink, child
Last Line: Holding you, she recrosses continents
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


FAT, by TONI MERGENTIME LEVI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sensing behind her back %that I had slimmed
Last Line: Slipping out the door at seventeen %dressed only in my nerve and bones
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


FIELD OF PTUJ, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were tired at the very beginning
Last Line: That's not the way you figured it, mon general
Subject(s): Generals; Grandparents; Yugoslavia


FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing
Last Line: But I remember his hands
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing
Last Line: But I remember his hands
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands


FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her hair snipped and tightly curled gives me great comfort
Last Line: Unlike mine, you save me. I would grow so tired were it not for you.
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Grandparents; Hawaii; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


FLIES, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


FLIES, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side
Last Line: I planned long ago I would live here, somebody's grandfather
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents


FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever
Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco.
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood


FOR ARMENAK SAROYAN, MY GRANDFATHER, by ARAM SAROYAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At thirty-six, the story goes
Last Line: I can forgive you
Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Grandparents


FOR GRANNY (FROM HOSPITAL), by JOHN PEPPER CLARK                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, before the ferryman's return
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


FOR GRANNY (FROM HOSPITAL), by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, before the ferryman's return
Last Line: Appear more plumbless than the skies?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Grandparents


FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, RUTH LEVIN, by LESLEA NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two gnarled tree trunks from russia
Last Line: But I'll never give you a great-grandchild %only a love poem I hope you understand
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our rabbi tells us not to live in the past
Last Line: Familiar road turn black with soldiers
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


FOXFIRE, by NANCY WILLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At eighty-six she takes to pressing flowers
Last Line: If she could find herself, herself planting %instead of keeping
Subject(s): Grandparents


FUNERAL LAUGHTER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At my grandmother's
Last Line: Is these seats tooken?'
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents; Graves


FUZZY LOGIC, by E. R. CARLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the mouth of west newport trail
Last Line: This isn't a playground. Stop horsing around up there
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Scars


GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing
Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language


GEO. KUPPER'S FATHER, by TOM DOMEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father drives spikes
Last Line: Grown white and more white %with its churches and bars
Subject(s): Grandparents; North Dakota; Refuse And Refuse Disposal


GIFTS, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She sat amidst %the clutter of her life
Last Line: It always makes %wonderful soup
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GIRL WHO BECAME MY GRANDMOTHER, by MORTON JAY MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every nitght after the household was asleep, the girl who would be my
Last Line: Be sure she was still there
Subject(s): Grandparents


GLINT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother mentioned only once how the piano teacher she had as
Last Line: They're drifting just outside the tune.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Kisses; Lips; Music Teachers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GLISSANDO, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only once I remember my mother's father
Last Line: To get a whole song out of him %or out of that house?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Music And Musicians


GRAMPA SCHULER, by RUTH SUCKOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grampa schuler, when he was young
Last Line: "young fools coming to!"
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRAMPA'S CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First and best of earthly joys
Last Line: Why, the one that's happiest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Happiness; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Joy; Delight


GRAMPY SINGS A SONG, by HOLMAN F. DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis
Last Line: Was chester cahoon of the tuttsville brigade.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs


GRAN'FAITHER AT CAM'SLANG; AT THE TIME OF THE GREAT REVIVAL WORK, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He donn'd his bannet braid an' blue
Last Line: Had leev'd an' gane as saints shou'd gang.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): God; Grandparents; Religion; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology


GRANDFAITHER'S KNEE, by JAMES M. NEILSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the ingle auld grandfaither's sittin'
Last Line: Their sairs hale on grandfaither's knee.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDFATHER, by GEORGE BOWERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandfather %jabez harry bowering
Last Line: Till he died the day before his eighty fifth birthday %in a catholic hospital of sheets white as his
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDFATHER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1915 my grandfather's / neighbors surrounded his house
Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDFATHER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1915 my grandfather's %neighbors surrounded his house
Last Line: Played backwards on his grandson's eyes
Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents


GRANDFATHER, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your eyes brushed me
Last Line: The loudest language you could give
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Memory


GRANDFATHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandfather urinates
Last Line: Because accroding to my grandfather %you need only cross %the door's threshold %to arrive in cuba
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents


GRANDFATHER, by ROBYN OVERSTREET    Poem Source                    
First Line: The question
Last Line: Black shoe firmly %on the brake
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents


GRANDFATHER, by TIM ROBBINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beginning with the time
Last Line: Afraid to cry as you cut our hair %down to the skin
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDFATHER BRIDGEMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heigh, boys!' cried grandfather bridgeman, 'it's time before dinner today'
Last Line: The old man fails never to tell you: 'you've got the french general's there!'
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; War; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDFATHER IN THE OLD MEN'S HOME, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle at last, and as clean as ever
Last Line: Beating their little bibles till he died
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents


GRANDFATHER POEM, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It can not %contain words like: %ubangi %rolling pin %popsicle, %but words like: %supreme court %gra
Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents


GRANDFATHER SQUEERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather squeers,' said the raggedy man
Last Line: "he was forced to request it to thunder again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents; Wisdom; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDFATHER'S LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said he sent his love to me
Last Line: I like his cough-drops twice as much.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDFATHER'S POCKETKNIFE, by JEFF STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: I keep the pulsing finger to myself
Last Line: Bring me that finger, boy
Subject(s): Grandparents; Knives


GRANDFATHER'S STORY, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dive into the elwha river challenges fear
Last Line: As you zig-zag down the beach, your feet gulls' prints
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDFATHER, YOUR WOUND, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wound is open
Last Line: Your head is what I remember
Subject(s): God; Grandparents


GRANDFATHERS HANDS, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandfathers hands in the sausge tub
Last Line: Clicking on and off all the way home
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans


GRANDMA, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma used to sit
Last Line: Bright and brief as an adolescent's dress %on a dark porch
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Past


GRANDMA, by JESSE KULBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I grow older
Last Line: And how I miss her how I miss her how %I miss her
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMA SARAH, by DEBORAH ZUCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was young I would ask you to show me
Last Line: I watch its dormant jewish waves %spring soundlessly to life
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMA'S BIBLE, by LEAFA DORNE SEIBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandma's bible is old and worn
Last Line: Her influence and love of long ago.
Subject(s): Bible; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMA'S BYWORDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma rocks on the porch
Last Line: And we have bucket music
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Language


GRANDMA'S OBITUARY, by SUSAN EISENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At eighty, %she drove once a week to the montefiore rest home
Last Line: But what would my friends say!' she gasped, and died at the thought
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMAMMA'S LECTURE, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandmamma sits in her high-backed chair
Last Line: With her sweetheart, when she was a girl.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMAMMA'S WARNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a fire,' she said. 'love is a fire
Last Line: "oh, did you learn by what your elders told?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grandparents; Love - Nature Of; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMITHER, THINK NOT I FORGET, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmither, think not I forget, when I come back to town
Last Line: That I would like to be.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree
Last Line: Had proved to be there at all.
Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs


GRANDMOTHER, by LISA GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I imagine three men %standing on the shore
Last Line: Quivers as you sleep, %grandmother
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMOTHER, by JOE HORRELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sits with heavy face and grimly knits
Last Line: And the lucretian atom-dance gone mad.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHER, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother, marmita %was given the name minnie
Last Line: And trace her love %forever on me
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMOTHER, by KAREN SEXTON-STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We planted seeds
Last Line: I, her shadow %and she, my world
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDSON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I hear it, now when there is company
Last Line: Does it remind me of?' till someone comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory


GRANDMOTHER DEAR, by MABEL VINCENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandmother dear, I never knew
Last Line: And ages hence be loved by me!
Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Paintings And Painters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHER DYING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not ridden in her christian bed, either
Last Line: Inside it to explain it, nothing, nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDMOTHER POEM #1: SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY, by SEAN HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cold winter months ice'd sike up from red clay
Last Line: Don't have no cold weather now - think it's a warning?
Subject(s): Cold; Grandparents; Schools; Winter


GRANDMOTHER POEM #3: MOVING INTO TOWN, by SEAN HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stayed in the country until I was thirteen years old 'round
Last Line: Contact with 'em. No, we didn't build no fires in town
Subject(s): Grandparents; Moving And Movers; Towns


GRANDMOTHER SOPHIE, by SUSAN SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The silence tells me it's sabbath
Last Line: And sophie on the fire escape %winks a slavic eye
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMOTHER WATCHING AT HER WINDOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was always the river or the train
Last Line: But all the time you keep going away, away
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents


GRANDMOTHER'S, by ERIC P. ELSHTAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jars, ready for future fruits
Last Line: Held to the mouth %of the nothing she cradles
Subject(s): Fruit; Grandparents


GRANDMOTHER'S BARN AT KITTY HAWK, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trotting when orville flew two pusher props
Last Line: That turned and ticked until they stopped
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents


GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the garden that grandmother made
Last Line: Why, where should I be this blessed minute?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHER'S LAND, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hers is a land unsettled
Last Line: In the distance %o welcome her children home
Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life


GRANDMOTHER'S SOUL, by SHARON GOLDYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's an almost eternal soft pillow
Last Line: As I lay my head down and %sleep to dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents; Memory


GRANDMOTHER'S STORY, by ENID SHOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother shlepped these %candlesticks all the way
Last Line: Later she said the candlesticks %were a gift from the czar
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMOTHER'S TEACHING, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmother dear, you do not know; you have lived the old-world life
Last Line: "with my stick and your arm I can manage. But see! There, connie comes up the walk."
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHER'S TIMING, by M. L. BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother lies at home
Last Line: The only lesson left to her to learn
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age


GRANDMOTHER'S VALENTINE, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The branches creaked on the garret roof
Last Line: Grandmother's valentine told me so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cupid; Grandparents; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Eros; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHERS, by MARYLYN CROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father's mother %wore silky dresses
Last Line: You end by choosing your own
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you
Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you
Last Line: Reciting your unwritten novels to the children
Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters; Women


GRANDMOTHERS: 2. HATTIE RICE RICH, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your sweetness of soul was a mystery to me
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDMOTHERS: 2. HATTIE RICE RICH, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your sweetness of soul was a mystery to me
Last Line: Dispersed among the children and grandchildren
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDPA, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandpa is the finest man
Last Line: The way my grandpa does for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDPA LEW, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glassed an eye that wasn't there
Last Line: Remembered as %ornery
Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life


GRANDPA'S APPLE THUNDER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: His wine saps rolled from the edge
Last Line: I was twelve years old
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents; Thunder


GRANDPA'S CHRISTMAS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his great cushioned chair by the fender
Last Line: "with grandma, this year."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Grandparents; Past; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANDPA'S TREES, by BARBARA M. HALES    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandpa built a farmhouse
Last Line: Holding earth and sky together
Subject(s): Grandparents; Trees


GRANDPAPA, by HARRY GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a portrait. Here one can
Last Line: Founder of a distinquished line, %and worthy ancestor of mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D.
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDPARENTS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the deterioration of sight
Last Line: They enter each of them the last lap
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Grandparents


GRANDSER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandser was a fearsome man!
Last Line: Like a brook away to sea!
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNIE MIRK: A HAMILTON GRANNIE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As she lay on her bed, frail, dowie, an' dune
Last Line: Bless a' his sair labours, protect an' provide!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNIE MIRK: A STIRLING GRANNIE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A clever young dominie - noo in a kirk
Last Line: The goal be as bricht as the race he has run.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNIE VISITED AT BLACKHILL, SHOTTS: JULY, 1805, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's fifty towmonds since, an' mair
Last Line: That simmer gloamin' at blackhill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNIE'S CRACK ABOUT THE FAMINE IN AULD SCOTLAN' IN 1739-40, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, saw ye e'er sic witless bairns
Last Line: "may see sic times—sae sad an' sair."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grandparents; Scotland; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


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


GRANNIE'S INGLE-SIDE, by JAMES M. NEILSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The craw the highest fir may tap
Last Line: The days at grannie's ingle-side!
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNIE'S TALE: A BALLAD O' MEMORIE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The days o' langsyne, oh! The days o' langsyne
Last Line: "in that grave lay his wife an' four bairnies dear."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in her elbow chair, she sits
Last Line: Since it has had its day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNY, by WALTER J. HEALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You were ever praising sweetly
Last Line: A bit of irish sod.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Granny's come to our house
Last Line: That runs to kiss their granny!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNY POE, by MARIE RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old granny poe wuzn't a-carin'
Last Line: So I left her not a-carin'.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNY SPINS, by GREGOIRE LE ROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At her wheel the old, old granny
Last Line: Of the flax have all been spun.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Spinning; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRANNY'S LITTLE FLOCK, by CHARLES J. HANFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lamp's dim, the fire's low
Last Line: To her sleepy flock.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Shadows; Weaving & Weavers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRATITUDE FOR A BAD DECISION, by RICK CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather who visitied once
Last Line: I clutched my father's leg %the man coughed like he had a rat in his throat
Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory


GREAT GRANDMOTHER, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No death is ever final. The morning paper
Last Line: Settling above them, certain as the sunset %that these three chicks would multiply forever
Subject(s): Grandparents


GREAT-GRANDFATHER GREEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great-grandfather green never heard, never seen
Last Line: But think how much more fun he could have had now!
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GREAT-GRANDMOTHER CORNELIA ALICE HENDRY-WILDER 1849-1938, by SUZANNE KEYWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hidden in shadow, I become %the shadow, close my eyes, curl
Last Line: Next to mine, the tug, the tangle, %the body rocking, rocking
Subject(s): Grandparents; History


GRUDNOW, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he spoke of where he came from
Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


HEAL-ALL: IN MEMORY OF KANA NAKAMA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the sky is a cipher
Last Line: I've grown too pale and thin
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence


HEALER, by ROCHELLE SHAPIRO NATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mama tells me %how grandmother raised her ten children
Last Line: As if it doesn't hurt at all
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


HEAVY WATER, by RAD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the kitchen, iw atch grandaddy making his bath
Last Line: Yes, I want desperately to believe %I might ignite it
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Grandparents; Water


HELLION, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma poured carbolic acid
Last Line: To the top of the crooked pine
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents


HERON AT LOW TIDE, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No wonder young patsy
Last Line: I can almost feel it snap %once for young patsy
Subject(s): Grandparents; Herons


HOME: ONE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I return to grandmother's
Last Line: Five months of the year?
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Home


HONESTY, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Money doesn't grow on trees, my mother said
Last Line: In water I waited for incoming tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Grandparents; Honesty; Money; Mothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


HORSEFLY, by ALICE HOFFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the edge of the prairie so wide it was called the sea of
Last Line: Neighbors on days like this, and no one has disagreed with him yet
Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Grandparents; Horses


HOW GRANDMA AND GRANDPA MET, by MICHAEL CAREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was quiet and a good student, so no boy, at first, warmed up to the
Last Line: Just as I've told it
Subject(s): Grandparents


HUGGING THE JUKEBOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On an island the soft hue of memory,
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Childen; Grandparents; Jukeboxes; Songs; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


I WAS FOUR IN DOTTED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiss summer pajamas %my face a blotch of
Last Line: Me as so few ever %have since as if %not to lose more
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


IDA, by BARBARA SIEGEL CARLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother didn't believe in god
Last Line: She called me babushkala %& hugged me hard before she left
Subject(s): Grandparents


IF POETRY WERE NOT A MORALITY, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm the kind of woman who
Last Line: As joy, as more horses than we need
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Horses; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


IMMIGRANT, by LINDA WATSKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother's hands
Last Line: My head between her breasts %and listen
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


IN JANUARY, 1962, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With his hat on the table before him
Last Line: Near the soft gray felt hat on the table
Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Winter; Country Life; Old Age


IN MY DREAM - MY GRANDMOTHER, by MAUREEN OWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gerunds!' - she is screaming
Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents


IN THE BLOOD, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown-eyed child
Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing & Dancers; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood


IN YOUR DOUGH KITCHEN, by KAREN NEUBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say you hid in the trunk of a tree
Last Line: I knew you were dying. %I knew that I would never know
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


INCIDENTAL REPORT ON MY GRANDMOTHER'S DIVINITY, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother had 14 children
Last Line: Since the first child emerged to screams %of holy insistence
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents


INHERITING MY GRANDMOTHER'S NIGHTMARE, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider the adhesiveness of things
Subject(s): Grandparents; Conduct Of Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


INVITATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come hither ya slither,' she said. 'get yer lazy
Last Line: While yer grandad has a ball
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Grandparents


IT'S INDIAN SUMMER, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's indian summer, more beautiful than I can remember
Last Line: And black mounds of coal turned to dust in the cellar
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


JENNY'S CHAIR, by BETH A. SPIEGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everybody else calls their mother's mom grandma
Last Line: And in her language that means happiness
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


JOHNNY'S OPINION OF GRANDMOTHERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmothers are very nice folks
Variant Title(s): Grandmother
Subject(s): Grandparents


JOKER FAMILY, by GREG DELANTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You took such care of your hair
Last Line: How the winds blow
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jokes; Laughter


JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am your little grandmother
Last Line: And fields to liverpool
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents


KICKING THE LEAVES, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each fall in new hampshire, on the farm
Last Line: Three of us sitting together, silent, in gray november
Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers


KINDLY WATER OTHER LEVEL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two found together - construct regard
Last Line: A vivid weightless bean
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


KISS GRANDMOTHERS GOOD NIGHT, by ANDREW HUDGINS                    Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Grandparents; Kissing; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


KNITTING, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: You with the knit one purl two
Last Line: How to pick them up
Subject(s): Grandparents; Knitting


LAST EARTHWORDS FOR AWHILE, by LOUISE STEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Answer this question: if a train is moving at forty kilomete
Last Line: Listen,' she says, 'everything is believeable, but what can we do?'
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were some dirty plates
Last Line: What are all those %fuzzy-looking things out there? %trees? Well I'm tired %of them and rolled her h
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers


LATE POEM TO MY FATHER, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly I thought of you
Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Love; Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


LAWYER PETE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every night of his life my grandfather washed dishes
Last Line: Rewashing all the dishes after he went to bed
Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Old Age


LEAVES OF EBONY, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My cigarette glows
Last Line: With ponchos of ice and no hat
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Old Age


LEAVING TRAUB, MY GRANDMA'S STORY, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm ready, all %I can carry packed
Last Line: I will read the lost words %directly from my heart
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground
Last Line: Said what they meant %and I guess nobody ever does
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


LEGACIES, by HEBERTO PADILLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know if the old people will return one day
Last Line: Never have remorse, as we have
Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Old Age


LEGACIES, by UNKNOWN+261    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmother could save nothing from the dust
Subject(s): Grandparents


LEGACY, by GENA FORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandad, I didn't burn it
Last Line: No one here could play it
Subject(s): Grandparents; Violins


LEGACY, by LESLEA NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two came from russia
Last Line: And finally surrendering %to the night
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


LEGACY 2, by LEROY V. QUINTANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandfather never went to school
Last Line: Where grandfather stood %that day
Subject(s): Grandparents


LETTERS TO MEEMA, by PAMELA GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a kitchen
Last Line: And you %are out there
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


LIFTING DARKNESS, by KATHRYN MANCLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother was always up before dawn
Last Line: Gently lifting darkness %from these rooms
Subject(s): Grandparents


LILLIAN, QUEEN OF THE KELLS, by CASSANDRA SAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that nana is dead
Last Line: And open %all of the letters
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


LINES TO MY GRANDFATHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear grandpapa, -- to be obedient
Last Line: Affectionate granddaughter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


LITTLE BROTHER'S STORY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat in front of the fire
Last Line: And grandmother gave him jumps on her lap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 30, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If my dark grandam had but known
Last Line: With him I make my quest.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers


LITTLE JENNY, by BARBARA UNGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shards of a wine goblet
Last Line: Before the sky spit %bullets and axes
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


LOGIC, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My years to come are numbered on two hands
Last Line: Ten aprils hence, to hear his grandchild sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


LONG ROOT, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: She liked to tell jokes
Last Line: I must say them %backward
Subject(s): German Americans; Germany; Grandchildren; Grandparents


LONG-GONE SUN: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SOMBER HOURS, by CLAIRE MALROUX    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What guardian angel was watching over them %what demon?
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents


LONG-GONE SUN: YEARS LATER, AFTER THE WAR, MY GRANDMOTHER, by CLAIRE MALROUX    Poem Source                    
Last Line: An impotent witness and, as always, %present against her will
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara
Subject(s): Grandparents; Time


LORNA, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pure as the air that breathes the moorland o'er
Last Line: I love you too, I love you too.
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise


LOST PEARL, by SUSAN KAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Click and caught, %framed and fit in glass
Last Line: You hummed as you combed your hair %to a clip at the back of your head
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MANNERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather said to me
Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents; Manners; Courtesy; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MANNERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather said to me
Last Line: So we all got down and walked, %as our good manners required
Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents


MEDICINE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was
Last Line: You're going to live.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism


MILK AND BUTTER LADY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma churned and minded the flies
Last Line: And there wasn't any use %in being that particular
Subject(s): Butter; Grandparents; Milk


MINE WAS NOT A BUBBE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: But an oma
Last Line: Then she died
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MIRRORS, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandma makes me mad
Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MODERN WOMAN, by IRENE RETI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Margit grunbaum reti - %you are a modern woman
Last Line: Never stop learning, %live
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MORE BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I back the car over a soft, large object
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Truth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MORE BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I back the car over a soft, large object
Last Line: Even. If. The. Sky. Is. Falling. %my. Peace. Rose. Is. In. Bloom
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Truth


MORNING, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is eight o'clock in
Last Line: And when I look for my grandmother %where shall I go to find her
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MY FATHER TELLS THIS STORY ABOUT HIS BROTHER FRANK AND THE WICK, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your grandpa marquart, he was a tight sonofabitch you know every
Last Line: Your grandfather, I'm telling you, now there was a tight man
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Money


MY GRAMDMOTHER HATED MY BOYFRIEND, by SUSAN EISENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: All his pleases thank yous
Last Line: Died. She must have hated you
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relationships


MY GRANDFATHER WALKS IN THE WOODS, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere / in the light above the womb
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Grandparents; Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMA HAD A LOVER, by CAROLYN WHITE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And grandma with her young young hand %draws back her golden hair
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MY GRANDMA'S BREW, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere, in lavender, is laid
Last Line: The elder-flower's fragrant crown?
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grandparents; Wine; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMA'S FAVORITE GORDITAS, by BEATRIZ DIAZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: On saturday %a comfortable afternoon
Last Line: My mouth can't resist
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Grandparents


MY GRANDMAMMA'S SEDAN, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ladies of st. James'' / went 'swinging to the play'
Last Line: With skill and grace, comes on apace, my grandmamma's sedan!
Subject(s): Automobiles; Grandparents; Cars; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: She kept an antique shop - or it kept her
Last Line: Only the new dust falling through the air
Subject(s): Grandparents


MY GRANDMOTHER, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother moves to my mind in context of sorrow
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother moves to my mind in context of sorrow
Last Line: The tongues and tasks of her children's children
Subject(s): Grandparents


MY GRANDMOTHER IN THE STARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is possible we will not meet again
Last Line: And only memory making us rich.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Loss; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER WASHES HER FEET, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see her still, unsteadily riding the edge
Last Line: I never had the guts to stir that earth
Subject(s): Farm Life; Feet; Grandparents


MY GRANDMOTHER'S BED, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How she pulled it out of the wall
Last Line: And her bed disappeared without a trace.
Subject(s): Beds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER'S BRAID, by GENIE ZEIGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lift her %thin braid
Last Line: When the grown-ups %smile
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MY GRANDMOTHER'S GHOST, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She skimmed the yellow water like a moth
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Ghosts; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE LETTERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no stars to-night
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE LETTERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no stars to-night
Last Line: And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof %with such a sound of gently pitying laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Grandparents


MY GRANDMOTHER'S POEMS, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They've disappeared now, as you did
Last Line: Two sunstruck tatters dancing in the mirror
Subject(s): Grandparents


MY GRANDMOTHER'S [TURKEY-TAIL] FAN, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It owned not a color that vanity dons
Last Line: My grandmother's turkey-tail fan.
Subject(s): Fans; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY GRANDMOTHER, THE REVOLUTIONARY, by SANDRA GARDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother %in the russian revolution
Last Line: And left a note in yiddish %that no one could read
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


MY GRANDMOTHERS IN AMERICA, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I take you out
Last Line: Swimming in your children
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grandparents; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MY LAST AFTERNOON WITH UNCLE DEVEREUX WINSLOW, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I won't go with you. I want to stay with grandpa!'
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY LAST AFTERNOON WITH UNCLE DEVEREUX WINSLOW, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I won't go with you. I want to stay with grandpa!'
Last Line: Uncle devereux would blend to the one color
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslo
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents


MY MOTHER, CLIMBING HER FAMILY TREE, by DONNA DOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I write to my mother asking about relatives
Last Line: Daily, through the holy, holy land we are living in now
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Family Life; Grandparents


MY SAINTED, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY SANCTIFIED GRANDMOTHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not my own. Theirs
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Speech


NAMES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother's name was nora swan
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


NAMES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother's name was nora swan
Last Line: Bedstraw, toadflax - from whom I did descend in perpetuity
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grandparents


NAN'S BROOCH, by CARL LEGGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother could never understand how
Last Line: I didn't tell carrie. My grandmother never told on me
Subject(s): Friendship; Grandparents


NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed
Last Line: A glimmer in his bloodshot eye
Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past


NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above
Last Line: On the tables . . . Grandmother. Grandfather
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above
Last Line: On the tables ... Grandmother. Grandfather
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music And Musicians


NONE OF IT, by JANET KAPLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: God lists who'll live who'll die
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jewish Families; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like
Last Line: The dead don't get around %much anymore
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age


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


OLD AND YOUNG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandpa, what are the drums a-saying?
Last Line: I'll be a soldier in your place.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


OLD GREAT-GRANDMA, by NORA YAZZIE HUNTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I drive a long stretch of dirt road
Last Line: We return you to earth as rain begins to sprinkle its blessings
Subject(s): Grandparents


OLD TILLICUM, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A timber blue haze dissolves
Last Line: I rise too late %to return home with little crow. Instead, I hear %his first jump through chance's h
Subject(s): Grandparents


OLD-FASHIONED VALENTINE, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Larkspur and mignonette! Well does she know
Last Line: Drops fragile bits of heaven at her feet.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ON LEARNING THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE OCCUPIED 2790 GREEN ST., by JANET WINANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Odd of them to put a consulate
Last Line: There's no one anymore to fix these things
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


ON LOVE: OSCAR GINSBURG, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, friends and strangers
Last Line: Son, brooding about the strangeness of love
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Love


ON THE DEATH OF MRS. JENNINGS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis past: dear venerable shade, farewell
Last Line: Who gave the dearest blessing I possess.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ONE SOLID PIECE, by LINDA SHEAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the corner of the kitchen
Last Line: She knew she would have to make room %for this legacy
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


ONE THOUSAND SATURDAYS, by DEBORAH STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By early adolescence, I was deposited more and more at grandma's. I
Last Line: Budding bosom and discovered it would hurt
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Grandparents; Pain


OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay, skin down in the moist dirt
Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt
Last Line: Lay aside your fears that I will be undone, %for I shall not be moved
Subject(s): Grandparents


PERFECT ENDING, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be anti-grandmother in your little black box
Last Line: Shut up, in everyear, in the negative mirror %in the absolute no light
Subject(s): Grandparents


PERMANENT, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blew me from the porch
Last Line: That's going to be permanent
Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Grandparents; Hair; Permanence


PHOEBE, OR MY GRANDMOTHER WEST, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, phoebe! How slily, love's arrow to barb
Last Line: A counterfeit true of her grandmamma west.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Girls; Grandparents; Love; Time; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


PICASSO'S PANTALOONS, by JEFFREY LEVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last time out for stone crabs, my grandfather pointed
Last Line: How my son studies the ground
Subject(s): Grandparents; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PINEAPPLE SURPRISE, by NIKKI GRIMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma wasn't much for hugging
Last Line: Baked for nobody else but me
Subject(s): African Americans; Cakes; Food And Eating; Grandparents; Love


PLAIN WEDDING, by JEAN JANZEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I try to imagine my grandparents
Last Line: Blemished, but with touch %upon touch, to be filled
Subject(s): Grandparents; Marriage; Religion


PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked
Last Line: Plow cemetery, downhill from the church
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming; Graveyards; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked
Last Line: My life in time will seal shut like a scar
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming


PLUMS, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma bruchac lies with closed eyes
Last Line: Her hand moves from yours to accept that gift
Subject(s): Grandparents; Plums


POEM FOR GRANDMOTHERS, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your figures stamp across the paths of memory
Last Line: The root and passion of us all
Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters


POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


POOR DEAR GRANDPAPA, by D'ARCY W. THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is the matter with grandpapa?
Last Line: Tommy without a t.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


PORTRAIT OF MY GERMAN GRANDPARENTS, 1952, by THOMAS R. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see them always in midsummer, the retired minister and his wife seated
Last Line: And holds it there, feeling the slow winter pulse
Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits


PRAYER FOR AN OLD MAN IN HEAVEN, by WILLIAM ARNETTE WOFFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear lord, when grandpa stiles knocks at your door
Last Line: Oh, give him one. It will please him lots, I know.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Heaven; Prayer; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise


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


RECIPE, by SUSAN (RITTER) LEVINKIND    Poem Source                    
First Line: A guggle muggle %I'm not even sure how to spell it
Last Line: Don't burn your throat, %so it feels, yes?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


REFLECTIONS OF LA VIEJA, by ALMA CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I woke up in the morning
Last Line: Goodnight, viejo %yo tambien te amo'
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Wrinkles


RELATIVES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandma lives in this town;
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


REQUEST TO A YEAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the year is meditating a suitable gift
Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


REQUEST TO A YEAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the year is meditating a suitable gift
Last Line: Year, if you have no mother's day present planned; %reach back and bring me the firmness of her hand
Subject(s): Grandparents; Women


RICHARD BROUGHT HIS FLUTE, by NANCY MOREJON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day the two old women were dissecting two birds
Last Line: And all silence was reduced to listening
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents; Women


RITUALS OF THE DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandpa stood under the hickory tree
Last Line: Which showed a woman buying bvd's, %back ventilated drawers
Subject(s): Grandparents


ROBERTO RECALLS HIS DEAD GRANDFATHER, by RAY GONZALEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: He does not believe in the devil
Last Line: All crazy and have no tongue
Subject(s): Grandparents


ROCK OF AGES, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother, just back from the hospital, her heart lost
Last Line: In a view of earth we otherwise never get to see
Subject(s): Grandparents


ROOTBOUND, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In april, in the nursery, the impatiens
Last Line: Opening to receive his dark embraces
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Babies; Expressionism - Poets; Grandparents; Mothers


ROSE, by MARGO HITTELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crazy, they called you
Last Line: I'm sorry %I love you
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


ROUNDHEAD AND CAVALIER, by WILLIAM YANDELL ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old noll looked down from the wall, and spoke to me
Last Line: His wart went red.
Subject(s): Cavalier, Jean (1681-1740); Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mamushka, it has been so long since we have spoken
Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


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


SALVAGE, by BETH KEMPER GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: From falling barns my grandfather bought boards
Last Line: And wondered %if blight blesses us
Subject(s): Absence; Drinks And Drinking; Grandparents; Memory


SARAH IN HER DAUGHTER'S HOUSE ... REMEMBERS THE SHUL, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm remembering: %in the old country, you know, in the shul
Last Line: The tears cames running some more
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now
Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology


SENRYU (78), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the pilgrimage to ise
Last Line: How many grandchildren
Subject(s): Grandparents


SHARING THE WISDOM, by ELAINE STARKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come, old one, %to my bones that ache from
Last Line: Your thin frame and silvered mind, %a talisman against growing old
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


SHE LIVES WITH HER OWN GRANNY DEAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cries william when first come from sea
Last Line: "grenadier! Did you say, etc"
Subject(s): Grandparents;laughter;pain; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers;suffering;misery


SHIMASANI (GRANDMOTHER), by GERTRUDE WALTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shimasani, you have traveled a long way
Last Line: Trying hard to taste your life %shimasani, you have traveled a long way
Subject(s): Grandparents


SHIMASANI/ MY GRANDMOTHER, by DELLA FRANK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother's house is small
Last Line: And I wish my dear grandma good-night %shimasani 'ayoo' anii nishnih
Subject(s): Grandparents


SHORT HAND, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years grandma's gloves lay
Last Line: That's when I feel her hand in mine
Subject(s): Generosity; Grandparents


SHUFFLE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Foolscap the shape of whys
Last Line: Young one wet in my womb thinking
Subject(s): Grandparents


SKETCH, by CECILIA MEIRELES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was as dark and slim as a polynesian girl
Last Line: How to be cut apart and always come back whole
Subject(s): Forests; Grandparents; Life


SKY, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a bright blue day in october
Last Line: And the lakes look as deep as the sky
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Old Age


SNAKEBITE, by MORRIS CREECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a moment, hunched in his body's glistening fever
Last Line: Of the terrible acts by which love is painstakingly known
Subject(s): Animals; Grandparents; Snakes


SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence
Subject(s): Mothers; Grandparents; Snow; Childhood Memories


SO GOOD, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing to me
Subject(s): Weather; Birds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


SOME ON IN, THE SENILITY IS FINE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People live forever in jacksonville and st. Petersburg and tampa
Last Line: Don't go around saying quote I don't mind being a grampa but I hate being married to a gramma unquot
Subject(s): Grandparents


SONNET, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was far too young to comprehend
Last Line: And wonder at the whiteness of his hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


SONNET (ON THE DEATH OF HIS GRANDMOTHER), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
Last Line: Wherefore does any grief our joy impair?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


SOOTHING THE BURN, by ELIZABETH POLINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister and I, barely teenage
Last Line: I feel her palms gather the burn, open to fire
Subject(s): Grandparents; Sisters; Sunbathing; Vacation


SORBY ELEGY, by LARS GUSTAFSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild chervil and chamomile surge against the base
Last Line: From other years. And the june wind sweeps by
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Memory


STAYING AT GRANDMA'S, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes they left me for the day
Last Line: And leave the other there alone?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Holy Ghost; Religion; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Holy Spirit; Theology


STAYING AT GRANDMA'S, by JANE KENYON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes they left me for the day
Last Line: And leave the other there alone
Subject(s): Grandparents; Holy Ghost; Religion


STEERAGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By now, the sachel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence
Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


STILL LIFE, by KAREN HEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Precariously held by a magnet to the filing cabinet next to my desk, is a
Last Line: Night she whispered his name, over and over, like a question, 'cliff?'
Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Old Age


STILLEBEN, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As she might have called it
Last Line: South and southeast. %have I?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory


STROKES, by TIM ROBBINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few weeks after my grandmother's stroke
Last Line: And when I break her heart by ignoring her %it's not me
Subject(s): Grandparents; Poetry And Poets; Stroke


SURVIVORS, by GEORGIA KREIGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That summer, %left to ourselves
Last Line: Reckless, prickly, %at her mercy
Subject(s): Grandparents


TALKING TO GRANDPA EASTMAN, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do you think, restless one?
Last Line: I won't dig up this dirt again
Subject(s): Anger; Daughters; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Mothers; Sex; Unfaithfulness


TALL WOMAN WALKING, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun stares
Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes
Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TALL WOMAN WALKING, by PAT MORA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun stares
Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes
Subject(s): Grandparents; Women


TEAR, by THOMAS KINSELLA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sent in to see her
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TEAR, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sent in to see her
Last Line: You vanish with early tears
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents


THE ASH TREE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother led me out
Subject(s): Grandparents; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood Memories; Ash Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE AULD STAIRHEID, by JAMES NORVAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: At hin hairst - when leaves are cast in humplocks on the blast
Last Line: And their beacon through life's blast was that auld stairheid.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE BEE-BAG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was ist a brownie - a
Last Line: The fairies stold away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Grandparents; Childhood; Elves; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Click the grief castanets.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE DRY SPELL, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking early / with the warming house
Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Cokking & Cooks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers


THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF STERLING AND SARAH LANIER, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rainbow span of fifty years
Last Line: Macon, georgia, september, 1868.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


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 GRANDFATHER, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There's a kind of morning prayer
Last Line: Filled the room.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE GRANDFATHER-FATHER POEM, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rolled in the grass
Subject(s): Grandparents; Fathers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE GRANDMOTHER'S APOLOGY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And willy, my eldest born, is gone, you say, little annie?
Last Line: But stay with the old woman now; you cannot have long to stay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Grandparents; 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 GRANDMOTHERS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are
Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through
Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mortality


THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: As small children, we were taken to meet them.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE HOMECOMING OF THE BRIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarah greenleaf, of eighteen years
Last Line: On the barn floor pealed the smiting flail.
Subject(s): Brides; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were some dirty plates
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE MORNING BAKING, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandma, come back, I forgot
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE MOTHER'S CHAIR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The century's day had just begun
Last Line: As she rests in the prim little rocking-chair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Babies; Grandparents; Mothers; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed
Last Line: Glimmer of a glimmer in his bloodshot eye
Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


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


THE OLD SPINNING WHEEL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember the old spinning wheel
Last Line: "from grandmother's old spinning wheel."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Grandparents; Sewing; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE PHOSPHORESCENT MAN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smell of roast beef and browning potatoes
Last Line: Clung to the stair obstinate as salt.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE PLEASURES OF OLD AGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my grandmother lisette turned ninety-nine
Subject(s): Old Age; Romance; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE POET GOES ABOUT HER BUSINESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Michele has become another dead little girl. And easy poem
Last Line: Toward any dark trees
Subject(s): Death – Children; Grandparents


THE QUIET BETWEEN US, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The red coal of the sun
Subject(s): Grandparents; Relationships; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE RAG BAG, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When we went down to grandma's
Last Line: When we are coming to town.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE SEEKERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our grandfathers were strangers and their absurd notions
Last Line: We'll have to walk because we're going farther
Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Knowledge; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot
Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE THROWBACK, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even I can't help but notice, my sweet
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE VERY END, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My eyes are strange to the print tonight
Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Dead, The


THE WEAKNESS, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That time my grandmother dragged me
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE WORDS UNDER THE WORDS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother's hands recognize grapes
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THERE IS A PLACE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Where much water fell
Subject(s): Faces; Grandparents; Native Americans; Riddles


THREE BASKETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bertha's basket: maiden bertha, with the / merry dancing eyes
Last Line: Folding dearest work for others, whether she be maid or wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Household Employees; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THREE PORTRAITS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her manners were perfectly dainty
Last Line: I hope to understand her.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TO A GRANDMOTHER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At six o'clock in the evening
Last Line: To feel those arms again!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TO BETTY LEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear betty lee, my thought for you
Last Line: "to pen this sentence, ""I love you."
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Love; Relationships; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TO MY GRANDMOTHER, by HELEN E. MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now you need never start
Subject(s): Grandparents


TO MY GRANDMOTHER, 187-1970, by CAROL ASCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly you're gone and I see years ago
Last Line: Dead, now dead %and a time is over
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


TO MY GRANDMOTHER; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY MR. ROMNEY, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This relative of mine
Last Line: Grandpapa.
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Grandparents; Home; Romney, George (1734-1802); Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TOOLON HOSPITAL, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the stranger in the room
Last Line: And I am just beginning to understand
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Hospitals


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully
Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering april evening
Last Line: Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven.
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TRAIN WRECK, 1890: MY GRANDMOTHER LIES DOWN WITH THE DEAD, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You come in to the past, dark, where the fires still burn
Last Line: Never tell them who, in the black plunge of love, %you belong to again
Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R.
Subject(s): Disasters; Grandparents; Railroad Wrecks


TRAUB, IN MY GRANDMA'S WORDS, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small village, %a few huts
Last Line: Opens like a child's mouth %to the russian sky
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


TRAVELING AS A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the desert of itabira
Last Line: The family, itabira, the rest
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Silence


TRUTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were two ways to get to my grandmother's house. One was to cross
Last Line: The diffusion of countless spores %flying thick in the air like fine dust swelling your nostrils. Br
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Roads


TRUTH FOR MANY, ISN'T WORTH A PENNY, by HENRY HABIBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: His grandma %djindja clabel yocopra
Last Line: While spitting in the face %of djindja %clabel %yocopra
Subject(s): Grandparents


TWO GRANDMOTHERS, by IRENE ARCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: One grew pale lilies in the shade
Last Line: Remembering when her heart was flame.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


TWO-DOLLAR BILLS, by MATTHEW MOSES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you had to sit %on the hall steps to read
Last Line: They're a piece of history now
Subject(s): Grandparents; High School Students; Teenagers


UNDER GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath the house of my father's childhood
Last Line: Dried and crumbled, grain by grain, in the night breezes
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Grandparents


UNITED JEWISH APPEAL, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind
Subject(s): Old Age; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


UNTITLED, by ASHA RADJKOEMAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nani you too left the earth
Last Line: God will grant us the honor %of your corpse
Subject(s): Grandparents


UPSTATE NEW YORK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandfather says that
Last Line: Silas I guess we can't %all be jesus can we?
Subject(s): Grandparents


VIGOROUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY', by MAX GUTMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doc smiles weakly, looks at us
Last Line: That gram and gramps are - %well, you know
Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents


VISIT, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmother, I dreamed of you again
Last Line: So I may sleep, rest at night
Subject(s): Grandparents


VISIT AT ONE, by PAUL T. HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather's bones %and nicotine skin half-step
Last Line: And first daughter's arm %half-steps him back
Subject(s): Grandparents; Poetry And Poets


VOICES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will never taste cantaloupe
Last Line: Ocean shell, chinese button, against the sky.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Legacies; Memory; Regret; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


WAR HERO, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where recollections end,
Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood


WEARINESS OF MEN, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother said when she was young
Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers


WHAT FALLS OUTSIDE THE FRAME, by J. P. CRAIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lines are down this morning
Last Line: A blur in an arched window as the film slows, %a hat tipping to the camera?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Photography And Photographers


WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your thoughts are for the poor and weak?
Last Line: Well, I'm your grandson. You'll grow wiser.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grandparents; Hate; Love; Names; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


WHAT HANDS IN MY HANDS, by DAISY ZAMORA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather's wide hands, freckled and brown
Subject(s): Grandparents; Hands


WHAT I HAVE OF YOU, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I try to hold you as an idea in my head
Last Line: How it glowed and rose and took you home from oz
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents


WHAT I KNOW ABOUT MY GRANDMOTHER, by PAUL MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember her flowered apron, her hair
Last Line: We have no pictures that show her young
Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age


WHAT MY GRANDFATHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather was given a medal
Last Line: His best friend ate all nine at once and died
Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii


WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day after we lost the war
Last Line: The soft rattling words of our tongue
Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii


WHEN 'GRAND OLD MEN' PERSIST IN FOLLY, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then straight onward to sanremo
Subject(s): Grandparents; Melancholy; Old Age


WHEN BUILDINGS LOSE THEIR PURPOSE, by JOHN B. LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather's house
Last Line: Behind the weather at the windows %with no one looking out
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses


WHEN ELSE, by SUSAN THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather goes out for bagels
Last Line: Who has no bank account of her own
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Life


WHEN GRANDMA COMES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's never any noise or fuss
Last Line: All snuggled up against her breast.
Subject(s): Babies; Comfort; Grandparents; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


WILLOW WARE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On grandmamma's table is waiting for me
Last Line: "that beautiful, queer, little land of blue"
Subject(s): Grandparents;legends;willow Trees; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers


WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother
Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents


WOMAN OF THE HOUSE, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a patrician evening in ireland
Last Line: In the family earth beside her husband %only to think of her, now warms my mind
Subject(s): Grandparents


WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Years after surviving
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry & Poets; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years after surviving
Last Line: On the arch of her white %pubic bone
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry And Poets


YARTZEIT; FOR IDA CHERIN, by SHEILA BENDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma, I haven't heard from you
Last Line: I think, if this is the only way I can get %what I want, nu, okay yes
Subject(s): Death; Grandparents


YOU'RE THE TOP, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the people that I've ever known
Last Line: Bright and beautiful and useless
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ZAYDEE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does the sea burn? Why do the hills cry?
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ZAYDEE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does the sea burn? Why do the hills cry?
Last Line: The long streets were still and the snow %swirled where I lay down to rest
Subject(s): Grandparents


ZENITH, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was part of her parlour's darkness
Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii; Radio; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Second World War