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Subject: MOTHERS Matches Found: 2533 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "HUSH-A-BA BIRDIE, CROON, CROON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: An they'll no be hame till noon Subject(s): Children;mothers; Childhood 2-FEB, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: Groundhog's day, %your birthday today mother Last Line: In the black sky of time Subject(s): Death; Mothers 27-INCH GOD (IN STEREO), by JOE QUINN Poem Source First Line: Standing close the screen Last Line: Pulled down down down a deep and empty blue Subject(s): Angels; God; Mothers 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Last Line: The story of replacement Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women 6 A.M., by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: What turns the world? Last Line: Her body blind to shut me out Subject(s): Mothers 8 HOPE ROAD, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is not my story Last Line: On its hinges, milk left to curdle %in the pitcher on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 8/9, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languor, uselessness & general swamp I'd be or Last Line: Roving traveler. Subject(s): Babies; Fertility; Mothers; Infants A BABY IN THE HOUSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that a baby was hid in the house Last Line: I am sure, very sure, there's a babe in that house. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Mothers; Infants A BALLAD OF GLYNDWR'S RISING, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, the moon is crimson, and a mist is in the sky Last Line: For there's many will be sleeping at the falling of the dew. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen A BOY'S MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she's so good to me Last Line: An' love him purt' nigh much as ma. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Love; Mothers; Punishment; Childhood A BOY'S TRIBUTE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prettiest girl I've ever seen Last Line: Is ma. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Boys; Mothers A CHILLY NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rose at the dead of night Last Line: And I was indeed alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Mothers; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime A COLD FRONT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This woman with a dead face Subject(s): Mothers; Abortion A CRADLE SONG, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! My dear, lie still and slumber Last Line: Can to greater joys aspire. Variant Title(s): A Cradle Hymn Subject(s): Mothers; Religion; Theology A CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angels are stooping [or, bending] Last Line: When you have grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A CRADLE SONG (FOND NONSENSE), by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of pictures; but the dearest and the best Last Line: "hush-a-baby-by." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped A DEAD MOTHER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: White-faced mother, what fragrant things Last Line: "to watch till my child appears." Subject(s): Abortion; Mothers A DIFFERENT WAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers have a way with them Last Line: Only in a different way. Subject(s): Mothers A DISCORD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buds were out on the lilac-trees Last Line: That sweet spring morning, was lying dead. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The A DREAM IN THE NIGHT; TO MY MOTHER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes it seems thy face -- thy long-hid face Last Line: With tears I call thee, yet thou dost not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mothers A FACTORY GIRL, by C. J. BUELL Poem Text First Line: Only a factory girl Last Line: She hopes for a better day. Subject(s): Mothers A FAITHFUL MOTHER'S LOVE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child! A faithful mother's love Last Line: Be safe on earth and blest above. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Faith; Love; Mothers; Belief; Creed A GIRL LEADING HER BLIND MOTHER THROUGH THE WOOD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The green leaves as we pass Last Line: With but one sense the soul may overflow. Subject(s): Blindness; Mothers; Visually Handicapped A HEART SONG, by ELIZABETH RIAL SARGENT Poem Text First Line: On my ear there fell a cry of hate! Last Line: A mother's heart was singing to its child. Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers A HEART'S PROTEST, by ETHEL OSBORN HILL Poem Text First Line: Long years to raise my little brood I strove Last Line: I am not old -- nor am I through with life. Subject(s): Mothers; Widows & Widowers A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold. Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness A HOUSE JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER'S, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Home A JOYFUL MOTHER OF CHILDREN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of children nine and twenty that I bore Last Line: I ended well my fivescore years and five Subject(s): Mothers A LESSON FOR MAMMA, by SYDNEY DAYRE Poem Text First Line: Dear mamma, if you just could be Last Line: Now, mamma, couldn't you? Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters A LIFE STORY, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above her little sufferer's bed Last Line: And now he understands. Subject(s): Mothers A LITTLE CHILD'S HYMN; FOR NIGHT AND MORNING, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that once, on mother's knee Last Line: Wast a little one like me. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A LITTLE LAD'S ANSWER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our little lad came in one day Last Line: " 'tis home, for mother's living here." Subject(s): Mothers A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire. Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A LULLABY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, baby, hush-a-bye Last Line: Let your mother rest now. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants A LULLABY, by WILLIS WALTON FRANZ Poem Text First Line: Close to the heart that is throbbing in love for you Last Line: Sweet is thy rest. Subject(s): Mothers A LULLABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, my little one, shadows are falling Last Line: Mother is near to thee—sleep, darling, sleep. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood A MAN'S DEBT, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I toast the mother with the hallowed features Last Line: A sweet wife's love or saintly mother's prayer. Subject(s): Mothers A MASQUERADE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little old woman before me Last Line: "that I was ninety-nine." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Masquerades; Mothers & Daughters; Old Age A MESSAGE, by ANNA NELSON REED Poem Text First Line: If there is any way, dear lord Last Line: Such as we always knew on earth! Subject(s): Mothers A MITHER, BUT NO A WIFE, by JAMES M. NEILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whist, my bonnie bairnie, dinna greet sae sair Last Line: Thy smiles the only sun-blinks ever on me fa'. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Male-female Relations A MOTHER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rained all day the day she died Last Line: She never thought the skies were gray. Subject(s): Mothers; Rain A MOTHER BEFORE A SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, by WINNIE LYNCH ROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Was it for this I braved a pathless dark Last Line: I paid for laurel wreath and marble shaft. Variant Title(s): A Mother Before A Military Monument Subject(s): Mothers; Peace; Soldiers; War A MOTHER IN EGYPT, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the noise of grief in the palace over the river Last Line: Should reach to him there! Subject(s): Egypt; Mothers A MOTHER SHOWING THE PORTRAIT OF HER CHILD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living child or pictured cherub Last Line: Less than it bestows. Subject(s): Children; God; Kisses; Mothers; Portraits; Childhood A MOTHER SINGING, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, 'tis a mother singing to her child Last Line: Lifts her soft voice, and sings, though sad the while. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER SPEAKS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the reason for my being! Yes Last Line: Lie closer to my heart, my little one! Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER SPEAKS, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: This is my joy. My babe thrice blest Last Line: This is my joy. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Joy; Delight A MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst not understand my words Last Line: Nor any rocking then. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in thy dazzled half-oped eye Last Line: Thou dost not heed my lay. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When mother sits beside my bed Last Line: She knows it all; you can't fool her Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, I hold my hand to take Last Line: The mystery of thy pierced hands—the broken bread. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A MOTHER'S ANSWER (2), by LILLIE E. BARR Poem Text First Line: The good man took the sacred book Last Line: "beyond its strength will try." Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, thou hast known Last Line: Bless her in earth and heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Religion; Theology A MOTHER'S BREAST, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When among all life's miracles I try Last Line: Makes gentlest landfall on a mother's breast. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S CALL, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, sons, over the sea! Last Line: Slow, sure, complete! Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S CHRONOLOGY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: You measure life by months and days Last Line: With which I grieving deck his grave. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Time; Dead, The A MOTHER'S COUNSELS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter, the book divine Last Line: Of union in the sky Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S DEDICATION, by MARGARET PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Dear son of mine, the baby days are over Last Line: God shall uphold you that you fight aright. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War A MOTHER'S DREAM, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow was falling thick and fast Last Line: All's well! All's well! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S EVENING HYMN, by MARTIN LUTHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my dear, sleep safe and free Last Line: Till thou attain'st th' eternal light. Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers; Nativity, The A MOTHER'S FUNERAL, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Sune ye'll lay yer mither doon in her lanely bed and narrow Last Line: O love their god, and be gude bairns, and o love ane anither! Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The A MOTHER'S GIFT - THE BIBLE, by W. FERGUSSON Poem Text First Line: Remember, love, who gave thee this Last Line: A mother's gift! Remember, boy. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a little dreaming, such as mothers know" Last Line: And that is all Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S HEART, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: Never was prideful wealth, power, or fame Last Line: The unselfishness that is a mother's heart. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S HEART, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love! Love! - there are soft smiles and gentle words Last Line: A mother's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses Last Line: The things they will do when they grow. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER DROWNED SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "alas, alas thine empty seat, my son!" Last Line: They hold no love for me. I would go hence Subject(s): Children - Lost;death;drowning;lament;mothers & Sons; "dead, The; A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HER BOY-CHILD, by PETER GARDINER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm simmer sun in his glory is shinin' Last Line: Or hoo can a mither dae wantin' her bairn? Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The A MOTHER'S LOVE, by MARY WANZER FURNISH Poem Text First Line: Who knows what depths it reaches Last Line: That warmth still lingers on at sundown? Subject(s): Love; Mothers A MOTHER'S LOVE, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's love - how sweet the name Last Line: This is a mother's love. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S PICTURE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady, the loveliest ever the sun looked down upon Last Line: That all the rest may be thrown away. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S PICTURE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She seemed an angel to our infant eyes! Last Line: The fair, young angel of my infancy. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S PLACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No earthly friend can fill a mother's place Last Line: Quick to interpret and to gratify Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S PRAYER, by EDITH M. GEMMER Poem Text First Line: The sun is brightly shining Last Line: When our bobby goes to school. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Prayer; Schools; Childhood; Students A MOTHER'S PRAYER, by HELEN P. METZGER Poem Text First Line: So many cares to burden all the day Last Line: Just to keep sweet. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S PRAYER, by BLANCHE BANTA RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: Oh grant, dear lord, that I may be Last Line: The mother that was meant for me. Subject(s): Mothers; Prayer A MOTHER'S PRAYER IN ILLNESS, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Take them first, my father! Let my doves Last Line: Let me find rest beside them, at thy feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A MOTHER'S SONG, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not yet known mother's grief Last Line: I rock him on my knee. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRIEDA MARTINI BUCHEN Poem Text First Line: My golden harp has one lone string Last Line: Thy tender lilt is sweet! Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S SONG, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, crooning soft and low Last Line: Dimpled arms and velvet cheek. Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl Last Line: Whales. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails A MOTHER'S SONG, by LELIA S. MARSTALLER Poem Text First Line: My son, your country is calling Last Line: And I am one of the mothers. . . . Subject(s): Mothers; Nations; War A MOTHER'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me, - I love you Last Line: Love me,--I love you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 2 Subject(s): Mothers A MOTHER'S TEAR, by ANNE TERESE STOMMEL Poem Text First Line: Whence hast thou sprung Last Line: Of busy mart! Subject(s): Mothers; Tears A MOTHER'S WEALTH, by WILLIAM C. CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gi'e to the winds the gowd, it has nae charms for me Last Line: Their love is a' my gear, their smile is bliss to me! Subject(s): Love; Mothers; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes A MOTHER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, o mother! Forever I cry for you Last Line: "sleep, for thy mother bends over thee yet!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sleep A MOUNTAIN MOTHER, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me my son must die Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Death - Fathers; Revenge A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A NECKLACE, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rubies of red for my lady Last Line: That sealeth a little one's love. Subject(s): Mothers A NEW BEING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know myself no more, my child Last Line: And many a weeping head. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Pity; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness A NEW MOTHER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my lady when she died Last Line: -- well, I loved my own dear lady best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Love; Marriage; Mothers; Tears; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NURSERY SONG, by ANN AUGUSTA GRAY CARTER Poem Text First Line: As I walked over the hills one day Last Line: While my little chick nestles here on my arm. Subject(s): Mothers A PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD IS MOTHERHOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Who helps god fashion an immortal soul Subject(s): Mothers A PLACE FOR THE BOYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah, what if they should? What if your boy or mine" Last Line: "that we kept a small corner,--a place for the boys" Subject(s): Mothers A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A PORTRAIT, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sunny girlhood's vernal life Last Line: A coronet for mabel! Subject(s): Mothers A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset deepens in the west Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep! Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, give the mothers of the world Last Line: Which aims at universal good. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers A PRAYER FOR A VERY NEW ANGEL, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, god, be lenient her first night there Last Line: When she wakes up, do things for her my way! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A QUATRAIN TO MY MOTHER, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: As beautiful, still trees arch and draw close Last Line: And framed its vastness for my little thought. Subject(s): Love; Mothers A QUESTION, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, god, that mother's hearts are made Last Line: One baby died? Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Mothers A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A REMEMBERED FACE, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On euripides' plays we debated Last Line: Ere darkness had blighted his days. Variant Title(s): The Blind Student Subject(s): Mothers A REMEMBRANCE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices of the loved and lost are stirring at my heart Last Line: I know there wells a spring of love through all my being yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Mothers A REQUIEM, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Mother, thy mortal balms about me! Last Line: And the daisies! Subject(s): Mothers A ROMAN DOLL, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How an image of paint and wood Last Line: But I keep her kiss forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys A SEA BALLAD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the sea, is that the sea? Last Line: "god without pity! O son, little son!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean A SEMBLANCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over your mother's grave Subject(s): Graves; Mothers; Prayer; Tombs; Tombstones A SENSE OF DIRECTION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was moonless the night I drove my son Last Line: Am shivering in its draft. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Maps; Mothers & Sons A SONG FOR TWO VOICES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother, isn't it fun Last Line: Sin and shame, sin and shame. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness A STREET MOTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes were staring high Last Line: Swooned at her feet! Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Mothers; Valor; Bravery A SWEET LULLABY, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come little babe, come silly soul Last Line: From this thy father's quality. Variant Title(s): A Cradle Song Subject(s): Mothers A SWEET-EYED CHILD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet - eyed child Last Line: "was I your doll?" Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Mothers; Toys; Childhood A THOUGHT FOR MOTHER'S DAY, by MAMIE COLLINS BARRY Poem Text First Line: From the pages of earth's history gleam the fairest of the fair Last Line: Mother love still guides our footsteps through the long and busy day. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Mothers A THREAD OF HAIR, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: Here, in her old work-basket Last Line: As I sit here alone! Subject(s): Mothers A TITANIC MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Och! 'tis come again, april, the same fine air Last Line: Of an april morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): April; Grief; Mothers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A TOAST, by MARIE BEATRICE GANNON Poem Text First Line: Let us drink with a will to the maidens Last Line: Come: a toast and a drink--with a will! Subject(s): Mothers A TOAST TO OUR MOTHERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now, boys, just a moment! You've all had your say" Last Line: "but drink one more toast, boys, a toast to ""our mothers!" Subject(s): Mothers A TRIBUTE, by V. LOUISE BEACH Poem Text First Line: I heard this morning / 'neath my window sill Last Line: "my mon, she knows." Subject(s): Mothers A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER, by INNICE M. DRAPER Poem Text First Line: Today we wear the white carnation Last Line: Like you in all the world, my loving mother. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Mothers A TRINITY OF MOTHERHOOD, by FRED CLARE BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: A mother's love--its meaning who can measure Last Line: The chords of memory sweep! Subject(s): Mothers A TRUE INCIDENT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a summer's morn, a southern mother Last Line: "is it well with the child?"" ""it is well!" Subject(s): Mothers A VINE-ARBOUR IN THE FAR WEST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laura, my laura! Yes, mother! I Last Line: "but I'll say to him, ""o my poor father, we wait you, come in.""'" Subject(s): Arbors; Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Mothers; Sun; Relatives A VOICE TO THE DYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A WINTRY LULLABY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, wind, blow Last Line: Knows no world but mother's love. Subject(s): Mothers A WITCH'S DAUGHTER AND A COBBLER'S SON, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A witch's daughter Last Line: See how they run! Subject(s): Children; Cobblers; Mothers; Parents; Witchcraft & Witches; Childhood; Parenthood A WOMAN COMMENDS HER LITTLE SON, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To the aid of my little son Last Line: For love of my little son. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers; Prayer; Sons A WOMAN MOURNED BY DAUGHTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, not a tear begun Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters A WOMAN'S FACE AT THE WINDOW, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There''s a woman's face at the window, a face that / has faded white Last Line: But if it is you she 'waits tonight, god grant that you bring her joy. Subject(s): Mothers A WOMAN'S VOICE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His head within my bosom lay Last Line: "within thy heart and mine as one." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Women A YOUNG MOTHER, by DIOSCORIDES Poem Text First Line: I was polyxene in life Last Line: I was aged eighteen and died. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The ABE LINCOLN BUILDS A COFFIN, by HAZEL HILLIS Poem Text First Line: A coffin for my mother! Last Line: No lips but mine to pray. Subject(s): Coffins; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Mothers; Presidents, United States ABORTION, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: On that sudden trip to new york Last Line: Of blood in the river %growing thinner, washing away Subject(s): Abortion; Mothers ABSENCE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My birthday! O beloved mother! Last Line: And be no more, as now, in a strange land, forlorn. Variant Title(s): Birthday Verses Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ABSENT, by VIRGINIA HART LIDE Poem Text First Line: Two sons I have away from home Last Line: Like dry earth drinking rain. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers & Sons; Separation; Isolation ACCOMPANY THE EMPEROR ON A VISIT TO THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE, by WU ZETIAN Poem Source First Line: Upon seeing the place that my deceased mother once patronized Last Line: Even tears of blood will not bring her back Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Mothers ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean ACROSTIC FOR MOTHER, by A. V. CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: That you'd live through a son's funeral, bells loud and Last Line: Nothing from the old days in the joe rich valley Subject(s): Mothers AD ASTRA: 15, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When life seems valueless, the future void Last Line: She scants her offspring for her latest gown! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mothers AD ASTRA: 20, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And so our love for nature is not vain Last Line: —to find her chastenings are with love o'erstrewn. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Mothers AD ASTRA: 34, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then let the future cradle what it may Last Line: Who lives for god, feareth no wind of strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood AD MATREM, by JULIAN HENRY FANE Poem Text First Line: Oft in the after days, when thou and I Last Line: Shall link my love unto thine honored name. Subject(s): Mothers ADDIO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The corpse my mother made Last Line: Oh, daughter, if I could call Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Corpses ADDIO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The corpse my mother made Last Line: Oh, daughter, if I could call Subject(s): Mothers ADDRESS TO MRS. WM. ANDERSON, ON THE DEATH OF HER ONLY SON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We weep with those who weep:' I sympathize Last Line: Shall blossom in the paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Sons; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Bereavement ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS, REMBRANDT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: They entered slowly like birds wanting bread Last Line: The shadow on her breast is only of her hand Subject(s): Barns; Cattle; Mothers; Shepherds And Shepherdesses ADVERSARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's hardest to forgive Last Line: Ripe on a plate. And while you live %relentlessly she understands you Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Last Line: Don't confuse hunger with greed; %and don't wait until you are dead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women AFRAID, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little noises do not bite! Last Line: Drive you to your mother! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Mothers; Childhood AFTER A MOTHER'S DEATH, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, in my earlier years Last Line: A mother die: I'm silent now. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The AFTER PERSEPHONE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Heaven got sweeter, its paperweight curve Last Line: Sealed in the swollen red glob %hell had to pay Subject(s): Mothers AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A seacoast late at night, and a wheel of wind Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The AFTERBIRTH, by MARISA P. CLARK Poem Source First Line: My mother never could forgive herself Last Line: Work: I love you, mother. Take care. Goodbye Subject(s): Birth; Children; Memory; Mothers AFTERTHOUGHT, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first mother in whom I took my first nature Subject(s): Mothers ALBUM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. It is 1939 Last Line: She is / they are Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ALBUM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. It is 1939 Last Line: She is. %they are Subject(s): Children; Mothers ALICE CLAY AND SALLY MITCHELL, by MARION STROBEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alice clay has curls as wild Last Line: And I don't want her to Alternate Author Name(s): Mitchell, James Herbert, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers ALICE RAY, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds their love-notes warble Last Line: We gain by what we give. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ALISON'S MOTHER TO THE BROOK, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brook, of the listening grass Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers ALIVE, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light; and water. One drop Last Line: But alive. Like my eyes. Alive Subject(s): Children; Mothers ALL MOTHER, by ELIZA SPROAT TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had an eagle's wing Last Line: The crown may go for me. Subject(s): Love; Mothers ALL THAT IS GREEN, by ROB GRIFFITH Poem Source First Line: This halogen morning, we'll take you Last Line: All that returns from memory %in the wreckage of every spring Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Mothers ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hushaby, %don't you cry Last Line: Go to sleepy, little baby Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers ALMYRA WILMARTH; 3 YRS. 7 MOS. 4 DAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A suffering little child has come unto thee Last Line: And in your bosom of love have comfort and rest Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women ALPHABESTIARY: M, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: M is for mothers, who are, above all Last Line: Kept this, things would go badly Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Mothers AMBITION, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy says his father wants to be a smurf Last Line: Now that the father wants his identity based on %something the son understands Subject(s): Ambition; Fathers; Marriage; Mothers; Secrets AMONG THE NAMES TO MORTALS GIVEN, by E. L. CASSAURIA Subject(s): Names; Mothers AN ANCIENT TOAST (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: St. Leon raised his kindling eye Last Line: "and gently said--""my mother!" Subject(s): Mothers AN ENGLISH MOTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every week of every season out of english ports go forth Last Line: Until women's tears are reckoned in the budgets of your wars. Subject(s): England; Mothers; English AN ENIGMATIC SIGNIFIER, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Cats AN EPITAPH UPON A WOMAN, AND HER CHILD, BURIED TOGETHER, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this marble stone doth lye Last Line: For, tree, and fruit, shall spring againe. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Mothers; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones AN EVENING FALLS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain Last Line: And see her children there! Subject(s): Mothers AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy AN OLD DOLL, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low on her little stool she sits Last Line: Beyond the claims of kings. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys AN OLD PICTURE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: Through many a year a picture dear Last Line: And I'm her little boy. Subject(s): Mothers AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, good painter, tell me true Last Line: If you paint me the picture, and leave that out. Subject(s): Mothers AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My heart is like one asked to dine Last Line: Because the mother of my wife / has come - and means to stay with me Subject(s): "mothers-in-law;rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894); AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: A little baby, when she cries Last Line: A good deal bigger than he head Subject(s): Children; Mothers ANCESTRAL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood AND / MOTHER WHY DID YOU TELL ME, by STEPHANIE MARKMAN Poem Source Last Line: From your unshed tears Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women AND HER MOTHER CAME TOO, by DION TITHERAGE Poem Source First Line: I seem to be the victim of a cruel jest Last Line: She fainted just off the tee, my darling whisper'd to me %'jack, dear, at last we are free!' - but h Subject(s): Mothers AND NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I should never have done it,' she said Last Line: Of the wrong man Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers; Paternity AND REST, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me birth between your sturdy legs Subject(s): Mothers AND REST, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me birth between your sturdy legs Last Line: To where you are and rest with you Subject(s): Mothers AND SOUL, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Mothers AND THE MOTHER'S FACE IN THE SCALES, by TUVIA RUEBNER Poem Source First Line: And if this time it's oh well the neighbor's son Last Line: Who's no longer a mother and is faceless in the scales? Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Mothers ANGEL WINGS, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: My mother's hands are spread out Last Line: She says-I know Subject(s): Death; Mothers ANGELS IN THE HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Three pairs of dimpled arms, as white as snow Last Line: Those angels are not thine Subject(s): Children; Mothers ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Daughters; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Last Line: To dreaming then? I fight this thing. %all day we scrubbing scrubbing Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible ANNIE'S DAUGHTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering charm of a dream that has fled Last Line: And see the old smile to the young lips rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters ANNUALS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: In the blaze of the backyard Last Line: Yes, this is how it can be Subject(s): Art And Artists; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers; Museums ANY MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no height, no depth, my own, could set us apart Last Line: Body of mine and soul of mine, do I not know? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Forgiveness; God; Heaven; Hell; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Clemency; Paradise ANY WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the pillars of the house Last Line: Take me not till the children grow! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Love; Mothers; Strength; Women; Childhood APOCRYPHA, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When john the baptist was so young Last Line: He shaped a kiss: all day she smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mothers APOLOGY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I have taken your boots Subject(s): Mothers; Conduct Of Life APPEAL TO THE NATURE OF THE SOLITARY HEART, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, take me to thy breast! Last Line: "for strength grows faint, and hope is low!" Subject(s): Mothers APPLE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Father %watching you peel the fruit Last Line: Eating the white meat %with the serpent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APPROACHING THE SPECIAL CHILD'S FIRST BIRTHDAY, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: One year ago my uterus was Subject(s): Mothers APRES, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down, down, ellen, my little one Last Line: Oft as I look on the face of her child. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The APSARA, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: To carry the dead Last Line: Each time you traverse the sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each day, when the glow of sunset Last Line: "yes, dear! They are all at home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ARMOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just about at the tripled-barrelled pistol Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Mothers & Sons; Weapons; Ammunition ARRIVAL, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: She really loved these two smooth youths Last Line: In the rubble of dichotomies. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers ARROW BREAKNG APART, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While lovers sleep, I dig my nails into the earth Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ART PRESENTATION, SENIOR YEAR, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: She's made a box and put the dead friend in it Last Line: By the young woman before us, her calm hands %moving to lay the girl down Subject(s): Mothers ARTIST IN INK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The octopus, artist in ink Last Line: His ocean floor abstracts %endlessly octaving Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged AS IF MAD IS A DIRECTION, LIKE WEST..., by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source Last Line: Unstitched. She's got the needle Subject(s): Mothers AS ONE WHO STANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As one who stands at evening by the ocean's lonely shore Last Line: I hear above life's surge and flow the songs my mother sung Subject(s): Mothers AS THE DEAD PREY UPON US, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The AS YOU USED TO DO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The ways of love and tenderness Last Line: Kiss her as you used to do Subject(s): Mothers AT BETHLEHEM: 3. TO HIS MOTHER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He brought a lily white Last Line: Became as white as snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mothers AT CHAMBERS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the chamber, where now uncaring Last Line: Than in earning the right to a song! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Mothers AT FOURSCORE, by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD Poem Text First Line: She sits in the gathering shadows Last Line: And the snowflakes in her hair. Subject(s): Mothers AT MY BREAST, by PHYLLIS CAPELLO Poem Source First Line: His hair is a velvet phrase Subject(s): Mothers AT ONE WEEK OLD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He will be straight and strong and fair Last Line: Like that behind his daddy's ear! Subject(s): Babies; Future; Mothers; Sons; Speculation; Infants AT PLAY WITH PURITY, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: A girl's lips rehearse with silent, silent puckers Last Line: Invented kisses. Visit. Visits unreturned Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients AT SINGING TIME, by ANNE P. L. FIELD Poem Text First Line: I have a little daughter Last Line: That singing-mothers wear! Subject(s): Mothers AT THE RIVER STYX: A RECONCILIATION, by AMY ANDELORA Poem Source First Line: I move into the dark hospice of memory Last Line: When calling ourselves her saints, her daughters Subject(s): Death; Mothers AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary AULD DADDY DARKNESS, by JAMES FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Auld daddy darkness creeps frae his hole Last Line: Till wee davie daylicht comes keekin' owre the hill. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep AURORA LEIGH; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing books there is no end Last Line: The rest in order: - last, an amethyst Subject(s): Books; Landscape; Mothers; Religion AURORA, JULY WOODS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Little town of trillium and hay Last Line: The long breath of design Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Mothers; Prairies AUTUMNAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long before she died my mother told me Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Venice, Italy; Dead, The AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers of america Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures; Work; Workers; Movies; Cinema AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers of america Last Line: Movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures AVE MARIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave, maria! I am tired Last Line: What it is to be so tired. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary AWAKENING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My mother is pinned to the clothesline Last Line: All these years they have lain silent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States AWFUL MOTHER, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whole weight of history bears down Last Line: Only the awful mother stirs stricken %with grief Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women €ŒOH ANTIC GOD€?, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Aging BABY, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I am the baby Last Line: Asset to have a father Subject(s): Children; Mothers BABY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Baby, glide over rivers Last Line: To paint from memory, but couldn't Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BABY FEET, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, what is half so sweet Last Line: Shall protect you with his love, &and shall guide those little feet %safely down life's broader stre Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Mothers BABY RUNNING BAREFOOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass Last Line: Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood BABY'S FAVORITE RESORT, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They talk of seashore havens and the mountain top hotels Last Line: I know no place that's finer than my mother's arm, for rest Subject(s): Children; Mothers BABY'S PANTOUM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids BABY'S QUERY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, lover of my soul Last Line: "but tell me—what's er bosomfly?" Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants BABY'S SKIES, by M. C. BARTLETT Poem Source First Line: Would you know the baby's skies? Subject(s): Mothers BACK AND FORTH, by MAGGIE MORLEY Poem Source First Line: At creekside Last Line: And will know %what to say Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters BACK TO BACK, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Full Text First Line: At sixteen my mother had been a swimmer Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Mothers BACK TO BACK, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: At sixteen my mother had been a swimmer Last Line: And humming, one foot lifted like a flamingo Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Mothers BACK TO MOTHER'S ARMS, by FRANCES DANA BARKER GAGE Poem Text First Line: Silent and lone, silent and lone Last Line: Back to your mother's arms, back to the home? Alternate Author Name(s): Fanny, Aunt Subject(s): Mothers BAD MOTHER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Drinking peach wine Last Line: A coffin splits deep in a grave Subject(s): Evil; Mothers BAD, MAD, SAD, GLAD, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when I'm bad, bad, bad Last Line: When we have talked and worked things out Subject(s): Mothers BALDER'S WIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her casement like a watchful eye Last Line: To the moan of the willow water. Subject(s): Mothers BALI HAI CALLS MAMA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was putting away the groceries Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives BALLAD MADE AT THE REQUEST OF HIS MOTHER .. PRAY TO OUR LADY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's lady! Regent of this world terrene Last Line: And in this faith I mean to live and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK, by ELIZABETH BUELL Poem Text First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness BALLAD OF FLORENTIN, by GEORGES DUHAMEL Poem Text First Line: He fought the fight for twenty days Last Line: And silently, not to wake her up. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The BALLADE MADE FOR HIS MOTHER THAT SHE MIGHTE PRAYE, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladye of heaven that o'er earth hath swaye Last Line: And in this faith I live and will goe hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Faith; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Prayer; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary BARBARA JOAN, by MADELIN TIGER BASS Poem Source First Line: You are so beautiful the sky stops Subject(s): Mothers BARRENNESS, by NEVA DUMONT Poem Text First Line: Oh, pity her who's never known a care Last Line: At last, and bitter grown for life . . . Not lived. Subject(s): Mothers BATHING MY MOTHER, by AVERILL CURDY Poem Source First Line: I raise one light arm Last Line: So I opened my body %to see as much as I could Subject(s): Aging; Baths And Bathing; Mothers And Daughters; Sickness BEACH BALL, by NINA NYHART Poem Source First Line: Last night my mother appeared on walnut street wearing a skimpy Last Line: Beachball, red and yellow, white and green Variant Title(s): The Catc Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry And Poets BEAUTIFUL CRAZINESS, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: When I wouldn't play with the dolls he bought me, and instead Last Line: Together like a crazy quilt as if that could hide me from the night Subject(s): Death; Mothers BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Rain, rain, beautiful rain Last Line: Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mothers; Rain; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness BECOMING ONE OF THE GUYS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: When he said my thigh was nothing like his girlfriend's Last Line: Dave, wake up, your best head on back to the hut' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Mothers And Sons; New Mexico BEDTIME, by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Tis bedtime; say your hymn, and bid good night Last Line: "paid me my precious wages -- ""baby's kiss." Alternate Author Name(s): Rosslyn, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Childhood; Bedtime BEDTIME NOW!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little leaves, go to bed!' said the wind thro' the trees Last Line: But the leaves were too sleepy to hear what he said! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime BEFORE I SLEPT, I SAW THE NEBULA, by KATHERINE DOAK Poem Source Last Line: I am honored beyond song Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, by GEORGE BANCROFT GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have a gray-haired mother Last Line: Before it is too late. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things within this fading world hath end Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness BEFORE YOU LEAVE, by MARY ELLIS PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Pale, thin %in that bed Subject(s): Mothers BEING A MOTHER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought a child was given to sanctify Last Line: Through being a mother? -- then she's none. Subject(s): Mothers BEING HIS MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being his mother, -- when he goes away Last Line: As when not christ alone was crucified. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Sons; Tears; Separation; Isolation BELIEF, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother said to call her if the h-bomb exploded Subject(s): Brothers; Faith; Crime & Criminal; Mothers; Half-brothers; Belief; Creed BENEDICTION IN PASSING, by IRENE CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Under the clouded road's precipitate edge Last Line: And take your quiet baby to your breast. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness BEREFT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though heaven has gained one angel more Last Line: Gaze through the gates of paradise. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Sons; Death - Babies BERGMAN'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: I made an effort to amuse, unrattled Last Line: Loving dampered nonsense on piano Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients BESS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When bess, the landlord's black-eyed Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Dreams; Nightmares BETRAYAL, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Before the dog came, I never knew Last Line: Love had nothing to do with it Subject(s): Mothers BETTER MOMENTS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's voice, how often creeps Last Line: Subdued and humble as a child. Subject(s): Mothers; Voices BIOGRAPHY, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory had a proud mother Last Line: I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake. Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Stars; Suicide; Nightmares BIRD, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother loomed all hips and breasts, Last Line: Coat of feathers grew over you, trying to save you Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters BIRD CRIES FROM THE NEST IN THE EAVES AT MORNING: SELF-PORTRAIT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When the mother's gone the young sparrows cry Last Line: Calculating the progress of the cat's claw Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Portraits BIRD-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The famous bird-painter hobbles by Last Line: First take singing lessons %from the birds Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BIRDS NEST, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Birds nest Last Line: And men think I'm nothing Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Men; Mothers BIRTH, by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Just when each bud was big with bloom Last Line: Peace laid upon her breast a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Raymond, Grace Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood BIRTH OF A MOTHER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: I'm talking to myself, trouble lover Last Line: For me to step off, %a mother was born Subject(s): Birth; Mothers BIRTHDAY VERSES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to the golden morning Last Line: They have learned that look of mine! Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers BIRTHING BRINGS ME, by SUSAN SUNTREE Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers BIRTHMARK, by GERHARD FALKNER Poem Source First Line: My liturgical mother never breaks her silence Last Line: As she sings the nation's woes Subject(s): Mothers BITTERSWEET, SELS., by JOYCE CAROL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: She %somersaulted Last Line: Who gave me the gift of wings Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BLACK MAMMIES, by JOHN WESLEY HOLLOWAY Poem Source First Line: If ah evah git to glory, an' ah hope to mek it thoo Subject(s): Mothers BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers & Daughters; Women BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Last Line: To define myself %through your denials Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters; Women BLAME, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now my mother has a new man Last Line: Blaming each tire with his foot Subject(s): Change; Marriage; Mothers; Parents BLASTING FROM HEAVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Life BLESSING, by CATHERINE LYNN Poem Source First Line: You telephoned this morning Subject(s): Mothers BLESSING WAY, by JEANNINE ANN O'BRIEN PARVATI BAKER Poem Source First Line: The blue corn meal Subject(s): Mothers BLOOD KNOT, by EILEEN KOSTINER Poem Source First Line: Between us, mother and son Last Line: In your words you speak %what I remember Subject(s): Mothers And Sons; Politics BLOWING KISSES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Nowadays her baby teeth rattle safely Last Line: By killing children in the shark-mouthed streets Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BLUE SOCKS, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: All the socks I bought for mother to bring on my visits, tan soft cotton Last Line: Cremated in her blue socks, I wear all the socks except her blue ones Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory; Mothers BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; India; Parting BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters BODY OF THE DREAM, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was evening and gold light fell Last Line: Trying so hard to get back to Subject(s): Dreams; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Mothers BOOK OF MECHTILDE, by ANNA RUTH HENRIQUES Poem Source First Line: Many years ago, %in the land of jah, there lived a good Last Line: Has come %amen Subject(s): Death; Illumination Of Books; Job (bible); Mothers BORDER CROSSINGS, by HEATHER DUBROW Poem Source First Line: In the hospital waiting room Last Line: Of the cliff I cannot fence Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness BORN DUMB, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little love! My little speechless child! Last Line: The child of our enchantment is born dumb! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness BORNING SONG FOR DON, by LINDA PEAVY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere between the deep tones of a cello Subject(s): Mothers BOTHERING ME AT LAST, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is my mother? Last Line: I looked for her in bed, and found her in her coffin, %bothering me at last Subject(s): Death; Mothers BOUNTY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A child and a rose Last Line: Child, rose and white soul of his mother! Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Friendship; Mothers; Roses; Childhood BOUNTY: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the vision of the tourist board and the true Last Line: I behold their industry and they are giants Subject(s): Mothers BOUNTY: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There on the beach, in the desert, lies the dark well Last Line: Of cavalry under your cloak; come on now, enough Subject(s): Mothers BOUNTY: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bounty! %in the bells of tree-frogs with their steady clamour Last Line: I showed her my first elegy, her husband's, and then her own Subject(s): Mothers BOUNTY: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But can she or can she not read this? Can you read this Last Line: But never your faith in the bounty which is his word Subject(s): Mothers BOW, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Protector of animals, director %of canine gymnastics, the parade of cats Last Line: Stretches his gorgeous nose, curves %his lips into her wanting palm Subject(s): Mothers BOY AND FATHER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Mothers BOY OR GIRL?, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks pray for a boy, and some Last Line: Then, boy or girl - and its dad won't care Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Mothers BOYHOOD, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, then how sweetly closed those crowded days! Last Line: E'en now that nameless kiss I feel. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 2. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER READING, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Happens just once, that fable, the taking of the mother's body Last Line: Later, made believe her shape was just another place Subject(s): Books; Mothers And Daughters BREAD ITSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, in my unwanted suffering, I turn to you Last Line: Of sorrow as the bread itself Variant Title(s): Threnod Subject(s): Mothers; Pain BREAKING AND ENTERING, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: She kept a stash of forbidden matches Last Line: That strikes on love, that can get past all human walls Subject(s): Adolescence; Love Affairs; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from dawn till noon seems one long day Last Line: We've broken the day in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Day; Mothers; Sleep; Infants BREAKLIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light keeps on breaking Last Line: Everything they said Subject(s): Fear; Mothers BREAKLIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light keeps on breaking Last Line: And I understood %everything they said Subject(s): Fear; Mothers BROKEN BED, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Who broke the bed? Some dream monster Last Line: Soon we'll need every bandage in europe, won't we Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I would hear out those lungs Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Songs BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I would hear out those lungs Last Line: On the wings of the buck and wing Subject(s): Mothers; Singing And Singers BUILDING A CITY FOR JAMIE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I am building jamie a city with plenty palaces Last Line: No city?' %no city. Of course not Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BUILDING TRUST, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked it when he fucked me Last Line: Be trusted, not by anyone Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Love – Complaints; Distrust; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BURY ME WITH A BAND, by OFELIA ZEPEDA Poem Source First Line: My mother used to say. 'bury me with a band. Last Line: To remind her of home one last time Subject(s): Funerals; Mothers BURYING MY MOTHER, by JO GAROT MCDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: In the rooms of my mother's brain Last Line: Napoleon's horses cut through snow %crossing russia, hannibal's armies %take the alps, stonehenge %I Variant Title(s): As Time Goes B Subject(s): Mothers BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY MOTHER IS, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are barely able to walk Last Line: And it was good Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers And Daughters; Women BUTTON BOX, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: A sea animal stalked its prey Last Line: You had your buttons, sewed on tight Subject(s): Buttons; Mothers BY A BLEST HUSBAND GUIDED, MARY CAME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of resignation find a hallowed place Subject(s): Death – Children; Mothers BY A GRAVE; IN SPRING, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, mother! Canst thou feel her? - spring has come Last Line: I seem to hear a thrilled heart throb below! Subject(s): Mothers BY THE BARROWS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not far from mellstock - so tradition saith Last Line: Of stoic and devoted self-unheed. Subject(s): Mothers BY THE EVENING FIRE, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If mothers by their failings were condemned Last Line: Wrapped in her love, the restful child finds rest. Subject(s): Mothers BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, KIDS AREN'T THE ONLY THING, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism CAESARIAN, by CAMILLE DU BARRY Poem Text First Line: Woman, you are big with child Last Line: Alas, little mother, you are dead! Subject(s): Babies; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids CAESURA, by PATRICIA CUMMING Poem Source First Line: Here, my child with fever sleeps Last Line: Blame behind a black door, a blank wall Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CALENDAR, by KATHLEEN SALAPOW VANDEMARK Poem Source First Line: You were a secret holiday Subject(s): Mothers CALYPSO, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Dese days, I doh even bada combing out mi locks Last Line: Well, dat the only romance I goin give de time a day Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CANDIDA, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Candida is one to-day Last Line: And there's nothing more to say Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Children; Mothers CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, by MARTHA CHRISTINA Poem Source First Line: Years from now Subject(s): Mothers CAR TRIP, by RUSSELL SMITH Poem Source First Line: My mother keeps the windows rolled up Last Line: Where an outlaw or an orpahn %could hole up Subject(s): Automobiles; Mothers; Travel CARING FOR ONE'S MOTHER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rock the cradle of reposing age Last Line: And keep awhile one parent from the sky! Subject(s): Mothers CARTOON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am making a cartoon of a woman. She is the people Last Line: Feet, snuggle at her breasts. Subject(s): Mothers CASA WAPPY; THE CHILD'S PET-NAME, CHOSEN BY HIMSELF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And hast thou sought thy heavenly home Last Line: Casa wappy! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness CASSANDER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cassander! O cassander!' - her mother's voice seems cle'r Last Line: "cassander! O cassander!"" jes' a-callin' thataway." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Mothers; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CASTILLIAN MOTHER SPEAKS, by BALDOMERO FERNANDEZ MORENO Poem Source First Line: These children nowadays - she says Last Line: A quiet, pleasant popping Subject(s): Children; Mothers CASTLES IN THE AIR, by JAMES BALLANTYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bonnie, bonnie bairn, wha sits poking in the ase Last Line: Hearts are broken, heads are turn'd, wi' castles in the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Ballantine, James Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CAVE PAINTING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: My week-old daughter's Last Line: Emptiness %and then my outline Subject(s): Babies; Daughters; Mothers; Mothers And Daughters CEILING ZERO, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: Though, as a housewife, I deplore Last Line: Each time I trip and sprain an ankle Subject(s): Children; Mothers CESAREAN, V, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: When they said we're gonna hafta take the baby Subject(s): Mothers CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHARTED COURSE, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Always there will be waiting women, son Last Line: Penelope will thread the patient loom. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Sons; Women CHERRIES, by JOE LAMB Poem Source First Line: When I was five, we lived in tesuque Last Line: The cherries were thick, sweet, and %yellow Subject(s): Aging; Cherries; Fruit; Memory; Men; Mothers CHIFFON MORNING, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in bed with my mother Last Line: If it's suffering or joy behind her tears Variant Title(s): Chiffon Morning: I Subject(s): Mothers CHIFFON MORNING, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in bed with my mother Last Line: If it's suffering or joy behind her tears Variant Title(s): Chiffon Morning: Subject(s): Mothers CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Last Line: Wringing of hands, this dark %ceiling without a star Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CHILD AND MOTHER, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand Last Line: The dreamland that's waiting out yonder! Variant Title(s): Mother And I Subject(s): Mothers CHILD SUPPER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I am packing your things again Last Line: I have never been your child Subject(s): Daughters; Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers And Daughters CHILD'S FRAGILE SLEEPING SOUL, by PEGGY O'MARA MCMAHON Poem Source First Line: They tried to steal his soul Subject(s): Mothers CHILD, YOU ARE SHOOTING STAR PROPELLED, by LAURA NEWTON Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers CHILDHOOD, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The infant sang; the mother, life near over Last Line: The slender branches for its load too frail. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The CHILDLESS MOTHER, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in midnight visions Subject(s): Mothers CHILDLESSNESS, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For many years I wanted a child Subject(s): Mothers & Sons CHILDREN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are what the mothers are Last Line: Open with joy and not surprise. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CHILDREN, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What have I made %children Last Line: Love made %children Subject(s): Children; Mothers CHILDREN ARE COLOR-BLIND, by GENNY LIM Poem Source First Line: I never painted myself yellow Last Line: It's the color of life!' Subject(s): Children; Mothers CHILDREN OF PERFECT MOTHERS ARE AFRAID, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source Last Line: Weep, mothers, weep for youselves first. %rub balm on your feet forced into such small shoes Subject(s): Children; Mothers CHILDREN'S KISSES, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So; it is nightfall then Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers CHILDREN: THE BOY-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Show him the bird in its daring flight Last Line: Oh, pray for the boy-child — mother, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Boys; Children; Mothers; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Educators; Professors CHILDREN: THE GIRL-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Give her a flower to keep and hold Last Line: Sing for the girl-child — mother, sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Childhood CHINATOWN 4, by LAUREEN MAR Poem Source First Line: Each evening I watch my mother fight Last Line: They tilt upwards, cling to the air like leaves Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CHINOISSERIE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poem/177301 Subject(s): Mothers; Clothing & Dress CHOICE MADE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At night I feel the ocean Last Line: Nothing but bad luck will follow %all the days of your life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CHRIST THE MENDICANT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger, to his own Last Line: A mother's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS AT THE IN-LAWS, by EVA SALZMAN Poem Source First Line: The photos showed how they were bored: frozen poses Last Line: A limited edition so rare it had ceased to be visible Subject(s): Mothers-in-law CHRISTMAS EVE: MY MOTHER DRESSING, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother was not impressed with her beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers CHRISTMAS EVE: MY MOTHER DRESSING, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother was not impressed with her beauty Last Line: And held the garment away from her %as she pulled it down Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers CHRISTMAS VALENTINE, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source First Line: I asked mama Last Line: Merry christmas, mama Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Love; Mothers CINQUAINS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evil / beware! Subject(s): Evil; Mothers; Spring CIRCLES, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the dusk, weeping Last Line: Around her mother's neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CLASP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds Last Line: Who loved her most, near the source of love %was this Subject(s): Love; Mothers And Daughters CLING TO THY MOTHER, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cling to thy mother, for she was the first Last Line: To thee as faithful, as thou were to me. Subject(s): Mothers CLOISTER, by GEORGE ALLEN Poem Source First Line: She is content to live in heaviness Subject(s): Mothers CLOSE TO ME, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Little fleece of my flesh Last Line: Sleep close to me Subject(s): Children; Mothers CLOSING DOORS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sands of my heart, what wind moans low Last Line: Lost, lost, for thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Loss; Mothers; Sea; Childhood; Ocean COLOSSA, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother has always been larger than life Last Line: Like manhattan reaching for the sky Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 2. THE MOTHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am god's pillar, caught in raising Last Line: "I lift and I listen. I eat god's peace." Subject(s): God; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism COME TO HARM, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were driving from one state to another, Last Line: There will be laughter Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The COMFORT, by EMMA PENROD NORRIS Poem Text First Line: No, my boy, you are not away Last Line: You are by my side all day, my son. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons COMFORT, by SUSAN HARNED ROTH Poem Source First Line: Plunge my hands through the dark, find him Subject(s): Mothers COMING OF AGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those times I spent Last Line: Moves on into night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Mothers COMING OUT, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS Poem Source First Line: The first person I loved Last Line: And I am upstream among my sisters %spawning Subject(s): Mothers COMMUNION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful regia! Your veins are the fermentations Last Line: Already forever far from bethlehem! Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Eucharist; Mothers COMPENSATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She folded up the worn and mended frock Last Line: "and whatsoever is, dear lord, is right" Subject(s): Contentment;mothers COMPLAYNT; AFTER EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm wanton - no I've stopped that Last Line: Continue! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form; Mothers CONCEPTION, by JUSTINE BUISSON Poem Source First Line: Accept me. I am a step Subject(s): Mothers CONCEPTION, by MARY ELLIS PETERSON Poem Source First Line: A garden looks no different Subject(s): Mothers CONSUMMATION, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: Abundant life is nature's law Last Line: To take you through the gates of heaven. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Parents; Teaching & Teachers; Parenthood; Educators; Professors CONTENT IS KING, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I queen it / over emptiness. Subject(s): Mothers CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Sea; Children; Migration; Mothers; Ocean; Childhood CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Children; Migration; Mothers; Childhood COOKIN' THINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother's cookin' things Last Line: I've helped my mother cook. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Childhood; Cookery CORNELIA'S REPLY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelia, a matron of ancient rome Last Line: The pure quenchless light of a mother's love! Subject(s): Family Life; Housewives; Love; Mothers & Sons; Rome, Italy; Wealth; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War COTTAGE AND HALL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes to her sewing-work dropped down Last Line: And may be thinks of alexis. Subject(s): Domestics; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death – Children COUPLES SYNDROME, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's argument Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Mothers; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COURAGE THAT MY MOTHER HAD, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That courage like a rock, which she %has no more need of, and I have Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers COURAGE, TEMPERANCE, AND WISDOM, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Dear annette: sixteen years ago our mothers Last Line: Me ke aloha pumehana, kang Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Courage; Mothers; Wisdom COYOTISMO, by JANICE GOULD Poem Source First Line: My mother lay on her side to birth me Last Line: I was alive seed planted by a woman %in another woman's womb%all things insatiable belong to me Subject(s): Mothers CRACK IN THE WORLD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see the crack in the world Last Line: Walking on the periphery of the world. Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Mothers; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery CRADLE SONG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the moon begins to rise Last Line: Sleep, sleep, thou. Subject(s): Mothers CRADLE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, little baby of mine" Last Line: "awake and asleep, / because I am certain of this?" Subject(s): Babies;mothers; Infants CRADLE SONG, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All by the sides of the wide wild river Last Line: Lull lull, lull lull, lull lullaby! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CRADLE SONG, by MERLE ST. CROIX WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: The winds are whispering over the sea Last Line: And a greater than all to shelter thee. Subject(s): Mothers CRAZY MOTHER, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Crazy. %you are proud of your mother Last Line: But laugh, like %crazy Subject(s): Mothers CREATION, by MARLENE ANNE BUMGARNER Poem Source First Line: My baby quivers inside my belly Subject(s): Mothers CROSSING, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Last night my mother did not die Last Line: After that %I didn't look for her anymore Subject(s): Mothers CRUDE LAMENT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of flames Last Line: Would god they had taken me with them! Subject(s): Mothers; Fire CUDDLE DOON, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht Last Line: "oh, bairnie~, cuddle doon" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CUDDLE TIME, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: On winter mornings I wake up early Last Line: They seem like one- %mommy and me Subject(s): Mothers CUP, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was going through me at that time of childhood Last Line: What was I doing to myself? Or she to me? %oh, surely she to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Children; Morning; Mothers CURSE OF KEHAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I charm thy life Variant Title(s): Malic Subject(s): Mothers CURTAIN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The curtain was tattered but ornate Last Line: In sweet grey gothic penryn, where the rain comes from Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged CUTHBERT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful mother / of a beautiful boy Last Line: Welcomed by christ who has conquered the grave! Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Mothers & Sons; Death - Babies; Paradise CUTLERY, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: You must earn the fork, %but only after you've earned Last Line: The one that won't quit %breathing in your ear Subject(s): Mothers DADDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days have kept on coming Last Line: The days in the confident man Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mothers & Sons DAEMONS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass enough savages on the street Last Line: In you, living what you live by Subject(s): Mothers DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DARK HOURS; THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark hours of tearless, sleepless grief Last Line: That legion fiends might not withstand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; God; Mothers & Sons; Salvation; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition DARKLING I LISTEN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: If I could write the truth Last Line: And moulting; the silence %of cannibal grass and trees Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DARLING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I break this toast for the ghost of bread in lebanon Last Line: "the word ""together"" wants to live in every house." Subject(s): Language; Lebanon; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw thee gliding to my bed Last Line: "mother, and wife, and sister,—one in three!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death - Mothers; Sleep; Women; Dead, The DAUGHTER, by NANCY J. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: She is, alas, the pricking toast crumbs Subject(s): Mothers DAUGHTER, LEFT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In dreams my mother returns Last Line: Go down to the sea %and fish for your true face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay errors Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Subject(s): Life; Mothers & Daughters DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay agonies was the necessary terror Last Line: When you gather around me %newness comes into the world Subject(s): Life; Mothers And Daughters DAUGHTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full 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 DAUGHTERS IN THE MORNING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When kiran and I left in the evening Last Line: The bright lake my darlings Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters DAYSTAR, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wanted a little room for thinking Subject(s): Mothers DAYSTAR, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wanted a little room for thinking Last Line: She was nothing %pure nothing, in the middle of the day Subject(s): Mothers DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine faded from the room Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise DEAD DUCKS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: My friend's husband weighs down Last Line: What are a few dead ducks %compared to our children's joy? Subject(s): Ducks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Mothers DEAR MOTHER - I LOVE YOU, by HELENA BEWLEY Poem Source First Line: No matter how much I do Subject(s): Mothers DEAREST LITTLE ONE, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother yields her little babe to sleep Last Line: "dearest little one!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Mothers DEATH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death calls my dog by the wrong name. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary DEATH FRAGMENT, by JULIE CARR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Furrows of ash and Last Line: The heartbeat gallops / into our room Subject(s): Death - Mothers DEBT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: All day she scrubs the house Last Line: This too is not enough Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DECEMBER. 1919, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard your voice, mother Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DEER AND STARS, by JOHN POCH Poem Source First Line: I loved her for the news I hadn't heard Last Line: She meant beside the letter or the word Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers DEFINITION, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: I search among the plain and lovely words Last Line: I search for words for her -- and there are none. Subject(s): Mothers DEI GRATIA, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Lent again. I claim silence Last Line: Of the deep layers, listening %all the unforgiven night Subject(s): Mothers DELIA REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: California rolls into Subject(s): Mothers DELIA REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: California rolls into Last Line: Of your torn and distraught life Subject(s): Mothers DELIA REXROTH (DIED JUNE, 1916), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Under your illkempt yellow roses Subject(s): Love; Mothers DELIA REXROTH (DIED JUNE, 1916), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under your illkempt yellow roses Last Line: And knowledge past your agony wand waste Subject(s): Love; Mothers DELIVERY, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Bub will let you take your sweet time picking Last Line: A linen someone embroidered in the spring Subject(s): Babies; Love - Marital; Mothers DEMETER, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: What woman can love that goddess? Last Line: One child could replace another? Subject(s): Mothers DEMETER THE PILGRIM, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Love, she thought, would bring her back Last Line: Floating between the sea and sky Subject(s): Mothers DENVER JIM, by SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Say, fellers, that ornery thief must be nigh us Last Line: It reversed the decision,— the court was adjourned. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Mothers & Sons; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States DESCENDENT, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Tell her now I heard her tell her now Last Line: Sleep I heard he covered me don't ask for more Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients DESERT, by DEL MARIE ROGERS Poem Source First Line: In winter my mother goes away Last Line: On the horizon she lifts her hand to warn me Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women DESERT FLOWERS, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers / faded Last Line: Scatter in the wind. Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Mothers DESERT MOTHER, by BERTA HART NANCE Poem Text First Line: Her husband had been gone for weeks Last Line: That gave her strength to go away. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mothers; Strength; Dead, The DIDN'T WE JIM?, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, sir; we lived home till our mother died Last Line: Didn't she, jim? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bible; Death - Mothers; Dead, The DINNER AND DESSERT, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: We're having what for dinner, mom? Last Line: That I'll have room for dessert Subject(s): Mothers DINOSAUR NATIONAL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jewelers, / in goggles and buttercup hardhats, Last Line: Footprints, as they passed in the ashes. Subject(s): Archeology; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Mothers DIRE WARNINGS: FROM MY MOTHER: URBAN GUERRILLA, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't wear pierced earrings. Thieves might run by and Last Line: Don't be rude to waiters. They'll spit in your soup Subject(s): Mothers DIRTY-BILLED FREEZE FOOTY, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Remember that saturday morning Last Line: Whenever she caught sight of you %it would start all over again Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Sisters DISAPPEAR, by STEPHANIE LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Before his mercury grinds into the gravel drive Last Line: Though you'd do anything to give yourself away Subject(s): Mothers DISOBEDIENCE, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: James james %morrison morrison Last Line: If-you-don't-go-down-with me!' Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Children; Mothers DISTURBING MY MOTHER, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: It has been ten years since our last direct exchange Last Line: A cold meat salad smothered in a lettuce of wreaths Subject(s): Mothers DO YOU HAVE SONS?, by LUCY DIGGS Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers DON'T BE SO LAZY!, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: The room will never be clean enough Last Line: Such an amazing freak? Subject(s): Mothers DON'T FORGET TO WRITE, by PEARL B. SHERIDAN Poem Source First Line: It was a day of suitcases Subject(s): Mothers DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 2. SEAMSTRESS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm at pains to know what else I could have done Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Theology DOUBLE AXE, by ANNE HAZLEWOOD-BRADY Poem Source First Line: With torches I have wandered the dark poppy world Last Line: The double axe will fall like boulders of thunder Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters DOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Imagine if you could have either cherry or stove Last Line: Of falling rain, a lover's hand grazing your neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DOWN THERE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: In the days before maples Last Line: Tapping away on the red hot ceiling of hell Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Parents; Pregnancy DRAFT DODGER MOTHER, by CATHERINE LYNN Poem Source First Line: Each man's life is precious Subject(s): Mothers DREAM OF THE LOST MOTHER, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't tell how Last Line: Of one bull all %the blood of another Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers DREAMS, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother sat in the twilight dim Last Line: "but, darling mother, I'll marry you!" Subject(s): Mothers DROWNED IN THE TROPICS; THE MOTHER'S QUESTIONS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowned, say you? Tell me, tell me, how she fares Last Line: After a helpless prey, already struck! Subject(s): Drowning; Mothers DUE RESPECT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DUE RESPECT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers DUTY CALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sundays I jus' love to dine Last Line: An' gives me heaps o' things to eat. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Pity; Sabbath; Temperance; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday; Prohibition DYING MOTHER POEM, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: At the nursing home I lift my old mother Last Line: But it's too late, too late now Subject(s): Death; Mothers E.W., by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your purpled, parchment forearm Subject(s): Mothers; Illness EARTH HELD NO SYMBOL, HAD NO LIVING SIGN, by MARY W. HALE Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers EARTH'S GREATEST CHARMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God made the streams that gurgle down the purple Last Line: God bless the little woman with her baby in her arms! Subject(s): Mothers EARTH'S MASQUERADE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Earth had a merry time last night Last Line: Has pressed me to her throbbing heart! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation EATING FOR GOOD HEALTH: GREEN REVOLUTION BREAKFAST, by JENNIFER MOSS Poem Source First Line: My mother had a cook book Last Line: While the spears of bright grass %grew as tall as my eyes Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Mothers; Vegetables ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 27. THANKSGIVING CHILDBIRTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! The power who left his throne on high Last Line: Of thee thus kneeling, safety he may find. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery ECHOES: 46. MATRI DILECTISSIMAE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the waste hour Last Line: Mother, a mother of men? Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Mothers EGO TRIPPING, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the congo / I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Ego-tripping (there May Be A Reason Why) Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Poetry & Poets EGO TRIPPING, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the congo %I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx Last Line: I cannot be comprehended %except by my permission %I mean...I ...Can fly %like a bird in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Ego-tripping (there May Be A Reason Why Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Poetry And Poets EIGHT FROG DREAMS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: A more innocent creature than the tree-frog Last Line: By outdreaming them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 2ND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept last night Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Mothers; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The ELEGY, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Even now she dreams of failure Last Line: Whose own great heart gave way Subject(s): Mothers ELLEN AT ELEVEN, by SONNY WAINWRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Tears come from the first drops %of menstrual Subject(s): Mothers ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo soul did hear her lips complain Last Line: Would never mwore return. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Mourning; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness ELSA'S BIRTH, by JESSICA MURRAY Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers EMMIE AND CHILD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In this portrait %the bold chintz Last Line: Flux of milk and dusk and something else Subject(s): Babies; Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Mothers; Paintings And Painters; Portraits EMPTYING, by DORIS FERLEGER Poem Source First Line: My appetite is boundless Subject(s): Mothers ENCOURAGEMENT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not weep; I would not weep Last Line: To share our earthly woe -- Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): A. S. To G. S.;a.s. To G.s. Subject(s): Mothers ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by FLORENCE TABER HOLT Poem Text First Line: Mother and child! Though the dividing sea Last Line: Whose lives were given for this larger life. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War ENOUGH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Every morning he brings coconut water Last Line: He coos, offering me the seeds %of his fettered fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ENTER INVISIBLE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: If possible, if nurses Last Line: By a winding scarf, rising to a crown Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients ENVOY: 2. TO MY MOTHER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, too, my mother, read my rhymes Last Line: The little feet along the floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood EPIGRAM: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doubtful breast whilst motherly pity Last Line: To another must I make sepulture.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 80 Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The EPILOGUE TO MOTHER'S DAY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers! Mothers! It was visions of mothers that been relentlessly haunting me Last Line: And then only at the instigation of the chamber of commerce is a son of Subject(s): Mothers EPITAPH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This to a mother's sacred memory Last Line: Whom death hath sunder'd did not meet again! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mothers EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Last Line: And bade it blossom there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ETUDE REALISTE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Last Line: A baby's eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Feet; Mothers; Roundels; Infants; Childhood EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks Last Line: Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. Subject(s): Acadia; Love; Mothers; Social Protest; United States - History EVENSONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay away the story Last Line: I'll be satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mothers; Story-telling EVERLASTING FLOWERS FOR A DEAD MOTHER, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who do you think stands watching Last Line: In glad surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Mothers EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE - I LOVE YOU, MOTHER, by LINDA DENNINGER Poem Source First Line: When I was little Last Line: You are more than my mother; %you are my very dearest friend Subject(s): Mothers EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The coherent starlight Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Mothers; Judgment Day EVERYONE NEEDS SOMEONE LIKE YOU, MOTHER, by LAUREL ATHERTON Poem Source First Line: Everyone needs someone to think that they are special Last Line: I hope everyone has someone %who's as wonderful as you Subject(s): Mothers EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Consider a hammer %striking a nail Last Line: Hanging at odd angles %like broken limbs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXCHANGE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first sound was his guitar Last Line: Than live in the vast, unbridled sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXILE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The downward turning touch Subject(s): Mothers EXPECTATION, by JOHN E. HALL Poem Text First Line: She was a little old lady in a faded dress Last Line: And sonny was coming home! Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers & Sons; Nativity, The EXPERT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He scratches, giggles, sneers, looks, looks away Last Line: Again and he smells the bed where his mother bleeds Subject(s): Blood; Insanity; Mothers And Sons FABLES: 1ST SER. 3. THE MOTHER, THE NURSE, AND THE FAIRY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a son. The blessing sent Last Line: Well might we pass for fools indeed. Subject(s): Mothers FABLES: 2ND SER. 14. THE OWL, SWAN, COCK, SPIDER, ASS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conversing with your sprightly boys Last Line: The blockhead had appear'd an ass. Subject(s): Mothers FACES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There are two pictures hanging on my wall Last Line: And mary maiden gray the mother of me! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Inspiration; Creativity; Virgin Mary; Theology FACES, by LENORA K. HILLIARD Poem Text First Line: Faces, faces everywhere / glad faces, sad faces Last Line: Was my mother's dying face. Subject(s): Mothers FALL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The undertaker, who was with the local minister Last Line: Oh mama,' I said aloud, though I never called %her 'mama,' 'I didn't take very good care of you.' Subject(s): Mothers FALL AT WELLFLEET BEACH, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Scraps of foil, I think: someone's littered Last Line: Is cold enough. I don't let the water touch me Subject(s): Mothers FALSE PLAY, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you love me?' asked the mother of her child Last Line: Great love listened, and blushed, and wept %that they blasphemed him so Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Mothers FAMILY CARES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I have but one child-cora ann Last Line: That, really, I should like to know. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; January; Mothers; Childhood; Relatives FAMILY SAMPLER, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: You'll poke %your eyes out Subject(s): Mothers FAMINE ON A SCHEDULE, by HELEN HARDMAN Poem Text First Line: Hungry, little fellow? Last Line: When the clock strikes two? Subject(s): Mothers FANTASIA, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream / of / giving birth Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood FANTASIA, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream %of %giving birth Last Line: Who will ask %'mother, %what was war?' Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Children; Mothers FAREWELL, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is no part %of that we loved Last Line: And go, dear ashes, go Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO BONDAGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone - sold and gone Last Line: Woe is me, my stolen daughters! Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers; Slavery; Social Protest; Parting; Serfs FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father's got the queerest valentine! Last Line: "that was mother, thirty years ago!" Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Mothers; Parents; Valentine's Day; Childhood; Parenthood FAWN BEFORE DOW SEASON, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day I went to work, Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When I woke, I could hear them bleating Last Line: To her voices still echoing %yu hear me? Hear me gal? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIGHT GOES ON, by EDILBERTO COUTINHO Poem Source First Line: First half Last Line: It was such a pleasure baking it for you Subject(s): Fights; Human Rights; Mothers And Sons; Social Problems FIGURE OF FORMAL LOSS: THE PEARL, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: No longer someone's mother, %she's still a woman, doing the usual chores Last Line: And over it, the luminous shell of her own being: %a shining that passes for who she is Variant Title(s): Figure Of Formal Loss: Pear Subject(s): Mothers FINALLY, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Finally (one year down) I dreamed my mother Last Line: With sleek hides instead of howling Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Relationships; Southern States FINDING WHAT'S LOST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets FIRST BORN, by MARTHA POPSON Poem Source First Line: We'd had an argument Subject(s): Mothers FIRST HOUR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That hour, I was most myself. I had shrugged Last Line: And took me to my mother Subject(s): Mothers FIRST MEETING WITH A POSSIBLE MOTHER-IN-LAW, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought, without the benefit of knowing Last Line: Learning the other's terms of banishment Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Mothers-in-law FIRST MEMORY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother in a stupor, Subject(s): Mothers FIRST MOTHER, by VIVIAN YEISER Poem Source First Line: The lord god walked in the morning cool Alternate Author Name(s): Laramore, Mrs. Robert Eugene Subject(s): Mothers FIRST RITES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At the top of the mountain Last Line: Think it is the face of god Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIRST SNOW, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Mom sits by the living room window Last Line: Firmly on the door %without once using a fist Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Parents; Snow FIRST SUMMER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: The first time I felt like a mother Last Line: To keep a small flame going Subject(s): Babies; Love; Milk; Mothers; Pregnancy FIRST THANKSGIVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes back, from college, I will see Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Homecoming; Thanksgiving Day FIRST WISH, by PHILIP BRADY Poem Source First Line: On her deathbed, my mother did one thing Last Line: Now, senile, barely visible, left to live Subject(s): Death; Mothers; Wishes FIRST YEAR, SELS., by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Mothers FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Each day I will make you Last Line: Like salome's last veil come undone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States FIST, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: The master talks about life Last Line: Given the baby to save herself Subject(s): Mothers FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Mama is chocolate: you must be swirls %of dark fudge Last Line: Flips of sprinkles %on your %summer %face Variant Title(s): Flavors (1 Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Race Awareness FLEDGED, by LEE SHARKEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when loneliness rose to claim me Last Line: And dare not fly to hold her Subject(s): Children; Mothers FLOATING POEM: MANHATTAN MORNING, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: For the past twenty-four hours rain has filled this city Last Line: Hoping to shine a light, send something across Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry And Poets FLOOD, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Water asleep %all across china Last Line: Downstream in their sleep Subject(s): Environment; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FOOTPATH, by STELLA NGATHO Poem Source First Line: Path-let - leaving home, leading out Last Line: Return my mother to me Subject(s): Mothers FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 2. LITTLE GENTIAN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean, little mother, o'er my bed Last Line: This flower shuts too. Subject(s): God; Kisses; Love; Mothers FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Last Line: But that is how things are: I am your mother, %and we are kind to snails Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR MOMS, by LYNN MANNING Poem Source First Line: Somebody asked me the other day Last Line: She's doing 'reeeaal' good Subject(s): Homeless; Mothers; Poverty; Social Problems FOR MONTHS, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: I dragged out of my hard sleep Last Line: Unless she woke-the bargain %that replaced every other Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY DAUGHTER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was lingering summer Last Line: I thank your star, and you. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Feminism FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO LOVES ANIMALS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a week, whether the money is there Last Line: Even the slightest of their calls. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love; Mothers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER, APPROACHING FOUR, by ELEANOR RODMAN MAY Poem Source First Line: Before you came Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an old windmill Last Line: In one of the wars Subject(s): Mothers; War FOR MY MOTHER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an old windmill Last Line: In one of the wars Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by FLORENCE WHITFIELD BARTON Poem Source First Line: Do not lament for her Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by DORIS BRETT Poem Source First Line: Two stories high above saturn street Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by WILLIAM GILSON Poem Source First Line: A chair, the grass and it's spring Last Line: Sits knitting, in my mind she and the breeze %grass, perfect blades just up, and the wood Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was better when we were Last Line: Gauze flutterings of vegetation Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were my first child, really. Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were my first child, really. Last Line: Milk, it was seven years since then, I had forgotten nothing Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by JANE REAVILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Like the twenty-ninth of february, it has returned. 'inoperable' Last Line: A purple bud thrusts its tip into the air %of your lung-and I watch, helpless as any audience Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness FOR MY MOTHER, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: The hand of peace you sent from israel Last Line: This, my hand of peace, this wound which does not heal Subject(s): Mothers; Peace FOR MY MOTHER, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: She is tougher than me, harder Last Line: Most loved though most bare, %at the end of a rich season Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When does the soul leave the body? Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When does the soul leave the body? Last Line: Sunflowers outside the window, %drooping over the snow like tongueless bells Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by WING WATSON Poem Source First Line: My eyes look at you Last Line: You look at me %to see what to paint %I look %to know how to live Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: I sharpen more and more to your %likeness every year Last Line: In the darkness %to leave home Subject(s): Mothers; Women FOR MY MOTHER (MAY I INHERIT HALF HER STRENGTH), by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: My mother loved my father Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, / its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness; Cures; Illness FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, %its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness FOR MY MOTHER IN LIEU OF MOURNING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a thing so long to be true. I don't want Last Line: All a summer’s afternoon, and that’s not all Subject(s): Death – Mothers FOR MY MOTHER, WHO LIVES: 4, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: We come from a long line Last Line: Reach a despairing hand across me %not that night, anyway Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ancestors And Ancestry; Exiles; Mothers FOR MY MOTHER: GENEVIEVE JULES CREELEY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tender, semi- / articulate flickers Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER: GENEVIEVE JULES CREELEY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tender, semi- %articulate flickers Last Line: I am here, %and will follow Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY SON, by ROBERTA RINEAR Poem Text First Line: When you sit at evening time Last Line: Save her own bewilderment. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Sons FOR MY SON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers Last Line: And in your self made whole, whole with yourself and whole with others, %the stars your ancestors Subject(s): Children; Mothers FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing Last Line: None must come save you and she. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks FOR SERENA, by MARIE LEVY Poem Source First Line: Some people think babies come only at night Subject(s): Mothers FOR SILVIA, MY DAUGHTER, CHICAGO READ MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: There is a plain cruelty of light Last Line: Her grief has turned hard as amber Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers And Daughters FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Last Line: Stay together %learn the flowers %go light Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1723, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hail to the lov'd, returning, glorious day! Last Line: Britannia! Ever blest, if they. Subject(s): Birthdays; Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR YOU SWEETHEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I'll forget I have a name Last Line: Knowing you love %to watch flowers bloom Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FOR YOU, MOTHER, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a dream for you, mother Last Line: Will it make you happy? Subject(s): Mothers FOREIGN WOMAN BOARDING A TRAIN, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: A woman lifts her child Last Line: Into her yellow pleats, %leaf after dark leaf Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Railroads FOREVER STREET, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met my withered mother Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Mothers FORGIVE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is easy to forgive a lot of trees Last Line: Call them a forest. Let rain fall on them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FORGIVENESS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I should forgive myself Last Line: As if it were a sealed gate %down into the earth Subject(s): Mothers FORGIVENESS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother, with her darling Last Line: Would be in our hearts that day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Mothers & Sons; Clemency FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Last Line: Forgive myself %then as now Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women FORTY YEARS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These forty years! And forty years ago Last Line: Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain? Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation FOURTH CHILD, by PEGGY O'MARA MCMAHON Poem Source First Line: The part of me Subject(s): Mothers FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs FREIGHT TRAIN, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Swollen like a melon in july Subject(s): Mothers FROM A BRIDGE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my mother standing there below me Subject(s): Bridges; Mothers FROM AN EXCAVATION ON THE WARRIOR RIVER, by ESTHER BARRETT ARGO Poem Text First Line: Ten-seventeen, the numbered label read Last Line: Stared up again at alabama skies. Subject(s): Archeology; Mothers; Prehistoric Antiquities FROM CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness in the room was like enormous riches Last Line: As if plowing through deep drifts of snow Subject(s): Men; Mothers FROM SHORE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: For a week, we live Last Line: Just enough to have %earned this scene Subject(s): Evil; Mothers And Daughters; Seashore FROM THE HOUSE OF YEMANJA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother had two faces and a frying pot Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers FROM THE HOUSE OF YEMANJA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother had two faces and a frying pot Last Line: Where day and night shall meet %and not be %one Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers FROM THE PLEA OF CORNELIA, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Guard, paullus, guard the pledges of our love Subject(s): Mothers FROM THE WINDOW, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: You know the poet who says Last Line: Vi desde...: from pablo neruda, 'caballos' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FROM THE WOMEN'S WRITING, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Mother I went down to the well this morning Last Line: I am glad you are free in your own dimension %and I no longer need to frighten you Subject(s): Fear; Growth; Mothers And Daughters; Sisters FRONT YARD, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: The main difference between yard and lawn Last Line: Hummingbirds never captured, %and lightning bugs for when it's late in my dark room Subject(s): Mothers FRONTISPIECE OF AN ALBUM, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: As on a lake the water flow'rs arise Last Line: Return a tribute back of that which thou didst give. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Mothers FRUIT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Spaghetti sliding %down our kitchen walls Last Line: To paint a smiling face upon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FULFILLMENT, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS Poem Text First Line: She never felt new life, of her a part Last Line: And motherhood's sweet immortality. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Mothers; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards FUNERAL SONG, UPON THE DECEASE OF ANNES HIS MOTHER, SELS., by NICHOLAS GRIMALD Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Grimwoald, Nicholas; Grimoald, Nicholas Subject(s): Funerals; Mothers GAGAKU (80), by STEVE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: Depressed this 2-2-94 morn then Last Line: Even cute in their red %full cotton %coats Subject(s): Family Life; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Mothers GARDEN COURT, by HANNAH ACKERMAN Poem Source First Line: Through the curtain hava sees Last Line: Squints against the clearness of the day %looks at pictures in a magazine Subject(s): Food And Eating; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers And Daughters GARDEN MUSE, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To you who've lived your life elate Subject(s): Mothers GARDEN SYMPHONY, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: My mother's garden brings to me Last Line: Of flower-misted summertime. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers; Summer GARDENING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: My mother wants me to look at the agapanthus, Last Line: It is always difficult to explain yourself %to the faithful. Subject(s): Faith; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers GATEKEEPER, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: It's a relief when it goes Last Line: As the need to get up, get to the other side Subject(s): Mothers GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All things created, moses writes Subject(s): Country Life; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mnemonics; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible GERTRUDE, by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I wish that all the people Last Line: To be forgiven all their %faith Variant Title(s): Gertrude C. Appleman (1901-76 Subject(s): Mothers GETTING UP, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, baby, ope your eye Subject(s): Mothers GHOST OF MY MOTHER, by MATT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: What of her history when all the traces Last Line: And now she nudges me, %with frightened, loving eyes Subject(s): Mothers; Violence GHOST SHIP, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness GHOST SHIP, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core Last Line: Weh, weh, as she wails forth her grief, deeply %suspect, for all her scattered waifs Subject(s): Grief; Mothers GIFT OF A KNIFE, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: When I was very young Last Line: A message in an ancient language %I had yet to decipher Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Surgery GIFT OF BREATHING SLOW, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: The mother %holds her baby Last Line: A smile %out %in his sleep Subject(s): Mothers GIFTS, by UNKNOWN+191 Poem Source First Line: Transient americans, %here we are once more Last Line: We surmount our spoilers, sometimes Subject(s): Children; Mothers GIRL AT THE MIRROR, by LINDA RAMEY Poem Source First Line: Leaning over my scraped, blue-black knees Last Line: At the mirror pulling long points %from her empty sweater Subject(s): Breasts; Daughters; Mothers; Women GLADIOLI, by TED LORD Poem Source First Line: She said they were funeral flowers Last Line: And she surely there to approve Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers GOD BLESS THEE, BOY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother sending forth her child Last Line: "god bless thee, boy!--good-by!" Subject(s): Mothers GOD'S ANSWER TO A GRIEVING MOTHER, by HARRIET PARKER CAMDEN Poem Text First Line: Dear lonely mother - heart, - I heard your prayer Last Line: I have been lonely too. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Heaven; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise GODDESS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She had opened an immense hole in the soft ground Last Line: She whom thou namest death, and she whom thou namest life Subject(s): Men; Mothers GODMOTHER'S WILL, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: At the family reunion, the academic Last Line: As he did, and he was sad Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients GOGGLES AND HELMET, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her living toom Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Hospitals GOING GREYHOUND, by TANIA RUNYAN Poem Source First Line: You sit by a woman holding a sack of frid chicken Last Line: On the way to her old, hungry son Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Mothers And Sons; Travel GOING HOME, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flag at yonder tapering mast Last Line: Room, mother! In thy heart! Place for her in thy prayer! Variant Title(s): Lines On Leaving Europe;my Mother Subject(s): Homecoming; Mothers GOING OUT TO TEA, by JANE MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Mommy's dressing me all up Last Line: I guess her doll %is me! Subject(s): Mothers GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: Don't go down the bank, my mother said Last Line: Then I'd wake, thinking - sweetness, sweetness Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Mountains GONE TO SCHOOL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The baby has gone to school; ah me Last Line: How could she bear the loneliness? Subject(s): Mothers GOOD BYE BEAUTIFUL MOTHER, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: Good bye hyacinth, %satin skin Last Line: Good bye humming bird, good bye Subject(s): Death; Mothers GOOD NIGHT, by LAUREAME M. ROYER Poem Text First Line: Good night, mother Last Line: "good night, mother." Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: HOME TO FARGO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals live by mutual interchange Last Line: Drive to the next time zone. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Fargo, North Dakota; Mothers & Daughters; Graveyards GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She always wanted to be dorothy gayle Last Line: Sailboats like dropped handkerchiefs below me. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Journeys; Trips GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small square with elms Last Line: "but she does. She has to." Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: THE ROAD TO BUFFALO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take all her belongings Last Line: And drove with her knuckles. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters GOODBYE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: He's a child: he kisses the house Last Line: Then retreats, finding its way %back into the woods Variant Title(s): The Good-by Subject(s): Mothers GOODBYE - TO MY MOTHER, by MARGARET LARKIN Poem Text First Line: Let not your heart be altogether lonely Last Line: Good-bye! Good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers; Parting GOULD'S ART OF THE FUGUE, by SUSANNA LANG Poem Source First Line: My mother hushed me: hear the voices Last Line: When she sits down to play. She sings Subject(s): Mothers; Singing And Singers GOYA'S MOTHER, by KEITH ANTAR MASON Poem Source First Line: She is counting pennies endlessly again Last Line: Now... %klink klink klink klink Subject(s): Children; Memory; Mothers GRADUATION PARTY, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: The last time we saw her, she clowned Last Line: To any pain, planning even then %to leave us all Subject(s): Mothers GRANDMOTHER, by PAT GALLANT WELCH Poem Source First Line: I went home to sleep last night Subject(s): Mothers GRANDMOTHER GRANT, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the rejected lies of the new york foundling Last Line: Here is my claim. I need to come into my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Mothers & Daughters; Nuns 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 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 GRAVITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Carrying my daughter to bed Last Line: Once carried the weight of my life Subject(s): Growth; Life; Mothers And Daughters GREENWICH VILLAGE BABY, by JUDITH STAHL VIORST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Irvington children are usually peters and debbies Last Line: Reading aquinas in latin Subject(s): Children; Mothers GUESTS, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: My mother raises her eyes to heaven Last Line: Instead of stirring things up Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Mothers; Religion; Uncles GUILT, by NADINE MAJOR FEINBERG Poem Source First Line: It isn't easy to live with Subject(s): Mothers GYPSY MOTHER, by ISABEL NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hers never was the quiet way Last Line: She calls her children still. Subject(s): Gypsies; Mothers; Gipsies HAIKU, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Crack! Crack! Last Line: Mother died Subject(s): Mothers HAMLET OUT IN THE NIGHT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one to talk to: no one Last Line: I'll be in the street with my riddle Subject(s): Mothers And Sons HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, by WILSON STEWART ROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers HANDS, by MARY ANN SOUTOR Poem Text First Line: My mother's hands could cradle large, brown jugs with ease Last Line: Molded to sift the gold long laid away. Subject(s): Hands; Mothers; Stepmothers HANDS: THE MOTHER, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: Her hands / may not seek rest Last Line: Their life. Subject(s): Hands; Mothers HAPPINESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Know then this truth (enough for a man to know) Last Line: And strongest motive to assist the rest Variant Title(s): Virtue, The Sole Unfailing Happiness;on Virtue Subject(s): Mothers HAPPINESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know then this truth (enough for a man to know) Variant Title(s): Virtue, The Sole Unfailing Happiness; On Virtu Subject(s): Mothers HAPPY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The house was perfectly silent Last Line: And called it anything else: %daughter, cool wind, open window, silence Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers And Daughters; Silence; Wind HAPPY HE WITH SUCH A MOTHER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet there was one Last Line: He shall not blind his soul with clay. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mothers HARBINGER, SELS., by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: In the march winds my mother comes to me Last Line: Into my fingers, piercing my heart Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women HARRIET, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet there was always somebody calling us crazy Last Line: "waht name shall we call our selves / now Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Sisters; Death – Mothers HARVEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring hath the morning gladness Last Line: With the peace of god is blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Harvest; Mothers; Spring; Childhood HAVE YOU WRITTEN TO MOTHER, by JANE RONALSON Poem Text First Line: Pray may I ask you, worthy lad Last Line: You did not write to mother. Subject(s): Mothers HEALTH, by BRIAN BURKE Poem Source First Line: I'm a child & my aunts & some neighbour women Last Line: She's never been ill a day in her life Subject(s): Health; Mothers HEART-SICK, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: O, tears, I know not what you mean Last Line: Ye bitter, scalding, tear-wrung tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Complaints; Mothers; Dead, The HEAVY DAUGHTER BLUES, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I love her for the same reasons Last Line: She is heavy in her grief Subject(s): Grief; Mothers And Daughters HEBREW MOTHER, by BARBARA MILLER MACANDREW Poem Source First Line: Within our palace-gates another king Subject(s): Jews; Mothers HEIRLOOM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gave me childhood's flowers Last Line: Through long indifferent years %treasuring the priceless pearl Subject(s): Mothers; Nature HELEN BIDS FAREWELL TO HER DAUGHTER HERMIONE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is time before I go Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; Coming Of Age; Parting HER BECKETT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to visit my mother is like starting in on a piece by beckett Last Line: And hides again Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters HER FIRST-BORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was her first sweet child, her heart's delight Last Line: Nor knows how soon it will be borne away. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies HER GARDEN, by FREDA DOWNIE Poem Source First Line: My grandmother grew tiny grapes and tiger-lilies Last Line: Sour as social justice, on the wash-house wall Subject(s): Mothers HER LIST, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, my mother has a list of things Last Line: Womb swimming, free, through her body, %toward their place of mooring Subject(s): Mothers HER WAY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You loved the hay in the meadow Last Line: That clouds my road. Subject(s): Mothers HER WORDS AND PRAYERS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She led me first to god Last Line: That thou hast bless'd me since my natal hour. Subject(s): Mothers HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER Poem Text First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child! Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war! Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The HERITAGE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if that men should cease from war Last Line: When you were born. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary HIGH OR LOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Text First Line: For mother in lowly cabin, or mother in palace hall Last Line: The light of heavenly beauty shines in her tender face. Subject(s): Mothers HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen years, her breath in the house Subject(s): High School Students; Mothers & Daughters HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'" Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 5. THE DARK VISION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the sea is immortal, he knows nothing, he cannot / divine Last Line: First he found thee and crowned thee in waste dominions a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HILL MOTHER, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot she goes about her endless task Last Line: A light that's shared by cotter and by queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Mothers HIMALAYA, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Branches: wings: we sheltered in thick fir trees. Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The HIPPOLYTE AT BREAKFAST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has forgotten Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives HIS CHILDREN THREE; TO -- AT TWO YEARS OLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy with the wistful eyes Last Line: He watches over his children three! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The HIS KNOWLEDGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one will love you if you're naughty,' said Last Line: "he answered, ""mother will." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Children; Knowledge; Love; Mothers; Sons; Childhood HIS MOTHER, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sodden image of a man Last Line: "her blind faith in her ""little boy""?" Subject(s): Mothers HIS MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! My wayward boy - my own Last Line: Will you face us there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; God; Mothers; Dead, The HIS MOTHER'S FACE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light upon his eyelids pricked them wide Last Line: As might have well bean learnt there. Subject(s): Mothers HIS MOTHER'S KISS, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was her wont when, tired of play Last Line: "I can not wake him with a kiss!" Subject(s): Mothers HIS MOTHER'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Beneath the hot midsummer sun Last Line: By those old hymns are stirred Subject(s): Mothers HIS MOTHER'S TEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The officers were putting on the train Last Line: But more the memory of my mother's tears. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers HIS MOTHER'S WAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomps 'ud allus haf to say Last Line: "it was mother's way." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals HIS MOTHER'S WAY, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he in his cradle sleepin' Last Line: She kiss him right awake! Subject(s): Mothers HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, by WALTER PARKE Poem Text First Line: He stood on his head by the wild seashore Last Line: Turned somersaults home to tea. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Peace; Ships & Shipping HIS VALENTINE, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: A cupid, on a fat, red-paper heart Last Line: "from jack, age nine -- I love you, mother dear." Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers & Sons; Valentine's Day HISTORY, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: We called it 'life of elvis,' five sixth-grade girls Last Line: Was to lie in that shallow grave Subject(s): Mothers HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HOLDING BACK THE SUN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I step on the gas, my stomach riding Last Line: The known world, reading, reading, reading Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters HOLDING MY SON, by ABBY NIEBAUER Poem Source First Line: The foghorns sing, 'sweet low' Subject(s): Mothers HOLLOW, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: When its heart breaks Last Line: It teaches that %nothing comforts Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Comfort; Hearts; Mothers HOLY INNOCENTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gold on gold, snow on snow Last Line: Should be two that are mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Mothers; Childhood HOLY MOTHER SPEAKS TO HER CHILD AT THE THRESHOLD, by LIANA HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: I love you, little star-flake Subject(s): Mothers HOME AND MOTHER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, my own darling Last Line: Ah me, but a mother is cumbered with cares!) Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood HOME AND MOTHER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is home without a mother?' Last Line: Then, at last, we'll understand. Subject(s): Mothers HOME TO MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No matter how far our feet may rove Last Line: When a loving mother waits us there Subject(s): Mothers HOMELESS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay upon my mother's breast Last Line: So early thy poor child forsaken? Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The HOMESICK, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, o my mother! Come to me Last Line: Thy beauty constant to the constant change? Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation HONESTY, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full 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 HONEY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Near ninety, wanting to die Last Line: A smothering and final goodness, %over an entire life Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Women HOPE, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: In my own mother Last Line: Things grow again Subject(s): Mothers HORSE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: In those days, she woke only Last Line: To his misery, rescued and changed Subject(s): Mothers HOUSE OF CLOCKS, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Forget the colored leaves, simple time Last Line: And nothing answers the silence %but that mechanical song Subject(s): Mothers HOUSE WITH YELLOW SMOKE SONNET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two daughters who seemed to be listening Last Line: Of her spine. Subject(s): Boredom; Daughters; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep; Ennui HOUSED, by MARY THACHER HIGGINSON Poem Text First Line: Goodbye, mamma,' and forth she flies Last Line: Within her sheltered nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Potter, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers HOW BRIEF THE PERIOD OF INFANCY!, by KIM FISCHER Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers HOW PEOPLE DISAPPEAR, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If this world were mine, the stereo Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The HOW TO SEE YOUR MOTHER THROUGH, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Get there. Drive all night Last Line: Whatever it was you were doing Subject(s): Death; Mothers HOW'S MY BOY?, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, sailor of the sea! Last Line: "how's my boy -- my boy?" Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Subject(s): Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails HUMAN AFFECTION, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I love you so Last Line: And the love between them kept them warm Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Mothers HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass Last Line: Here on my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs HYMN FOR THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT GEORGETOWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dwellest not, o lord of all! Last Line: And bless it for a mother's sake! Subject(s): Churches; Mothers; Cathedrals HYMN FOR THE MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My child is lying on my knees Last Line: And I look up to thee. Variant Title(s): Like A Little Child Subject(s): Mothers HYMN OF A VIRGIN OF DELPHI AT THE TOMB OF HER MOTHER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Lost, for ever lost!- no more Last Line: To memory so divinely dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Mothers HYMN, BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! That in the olive shade Last Line: Hallow this grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness I AM ASKING YOU TO COME BACK HOME, by JO CARSON Poem Source Last Line: When I am dead, it will not matter %how hard you press your ear the ground Subject(s): Homecoming; Men; Mothers I AM TO HAVE A CHILD, by EDITH LIVINGSTON SMITH Poem Text First Line: I am to have a child. Flesh of my flesh Last Line: Like to my own--as god would have it be. Subject(s): Mothers I AM WEARY, MOTHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary, mother, and I fain would rest Last Line: I'll see once more the dear ones that I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Mothers; Weariness; Fatigue I AM WEEPING, MOTHER, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Evening prayer, the game, and many a toy. Subject(s): Mothers I CALL HER RIA, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: I call her ria Last Line: With a hoarse voice Subject(s): Household Employees; Love; Mothers I COULD NOT TELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell I had jumped off that bus, Subject(s): Mothers; Suicide; Buses I DREAM ABOUT BEING, by KATHERINE SCHNEIDER AKER Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers I GET IT ALL DONE, by IRIS LITT Poem Source First Line: Those thousand of diapers on the line Subject(s): Mothers I HEAR YOU, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The promises of mother Last Line: And I'm punished %anyhow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I LOVE YOU FOREVER, MOTHER, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: You have shown me how to give of myself Subject(s): Mothers I LOVE YOU, MY IDEAL MOTHER, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: Every day %I think about you with such pride Last Line: And as an ideal mother Subject(s): Mothers I MET A WOMAN YESTERDAY, by KATHERINE SCHNEIDER AKER Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers I MISS MY MOTHER, by MARILYN ELAINE CARMEN Poem Source First Line: Nothing gold can stay Subject(s): Mothers; Transience I MUST HAVE LEARNED THIS SOMEWHERE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved an old doll made of bleached Subject(s): Comfort; Dolls; Mothers I OFTEN PAINT WHITE HORSES BLACK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I often paint white horses black Last Line: And don't forget to put some horses round the edges Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged I PROMISE YOU THIS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Water finds its own level Last Line: The hint of water %already filling their cribs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States I REALLY WOULD HATE TO MOTHER THE GREAT, by PEARL B. SHERIDAN Poem Source First Line: When the meals were all cooked Subject(s): Mothers I SEE MY MOTHER IN BAGGAGE CLAIM, by THOM SATTERLEE Poem Source First Line: She is thirty years younger, her hair Last Line: And out through revolving doors Subject(s): Memory; Mothers I SEND MAMA HOME, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send you down the road from paden Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers I SING THIS SONG FOR OUR MOTHERS: RUISE, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A ship %a chain Last Line: Never lowered gra'ma's head Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I WANT TO BE YOUR DAUGHTER NOW, SELS., by KATIE MCBAIN Poem Source First Line: I wonder why I can't remember Last Line: Even if the hours of it are blurred Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I WAS BORN WITH TWELVE FINGERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My dead mother my live daughter and me %through our terrible shadowy hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters I WAS MADE OF THIS AND THIS, by GERTRUDE ROBINSON ROSS Poem Text First Line: (I was mad eof this and this- / and angel's prayer, a gipsy's kiss.) Last Line: The angel's prayer, or the gipsy's kiss! Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Family Life I WEAR MY WOJB RADIO CAP WITH THE FEATHER, by LINDA BACK MCKAY Poem Source First Line: You fat nursing babies rocking in my chair with me Last Line: And shit purple all over our sidewalk Subject(s): Children; Mothers I WISH THERE WEREN'T SO MANY MILES BETWEEN US, by SUSAN J. SATER Poem Source Last Line: Amd for being the wonderful %mother you are Subject(s): Mothers I WONDER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I wonder if the sun doth shine Last Line: For god himself is love. Subject(s): Love; Mothers I WORSHIP THEE, O SUN! WHOSE AMPLE LIGHT, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers I WOULD BE A FOOL TO WANT MORE CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source Last Line: Approach me without fear Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I'M GRATEFUL TO HAVE A MOTHER LIKE YOU, by CAREY MARTIN Poem Source First Line: A mother like you must be Last Line: And I thank god you're mine Subject(s): Mothers I'M MY OWN MOTHER, NOW, by STELLA CHIPASULA Poem Source First Line: Mother, I am mothering you now Last Line: Where you are no longer a question Subject(s): Mothers I'M THE PERSON I AM TODAY BECAUSE OF YOUR LOVE, by KATHRYN ARDANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: It is because of your love Last Line: In my eyes, mother, you are the best. %I love you Subject(s): Mothers I'VE BEEN A MOTHER FOR MORE THAN 23 YEARS NOW, by KAY KAISER-COOK Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers IF I COULD KEEP HER SO, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a little baby, lying in my arms Last Line: Safe among the angels, I would keep her so. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood IF MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mama / could see Last Line: Clean up your room Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Youth IF MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Good girl %clean up your room Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters IF NATURE SMILES THE MOTHER MUST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is she so much to blame? Variant Title(s): Poem: 1085; Poem: 110 Subject(s): Mothers IF YOU'LL ONLY GO TO SLEEP, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The crimson rose Last Line: If you'll only sleep %till morning Subject(s): Children; Mothers IMAGINE MY MOTHER, by ELIZABETH NOTTER Poem Source First Line: Ten years dead and lives forever Last Line: Always closer, to the forsake woman %who inhabits me Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers IMMORTALITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: So I have sunk my roots in earth Last Line: I that make many souls for heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birth; Children; Immortality; Love; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood IMPORTANT QUERIES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why this hurrying to and fro Last Line: Adorn and bless the nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood IMPRESSIONS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pluck the leaves and print them Last Line: The fingerprints still wet upon its flank. Subject(s): Artifacts; Mothers & Sons IMPRINTED, by ELIZABETH MAXINE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: An hour after she is born-alone Last Line: I could do otherwise %she seems to say Subject(s): Birth; Mothers And Daughters IN A DARK HOUR, by GERTRUDE HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those tender mothers! When such little things Last Line: Would I had died a sinless little child! Subject(s): Mothers IN ALL COLOURS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: All day the beautiful painter he loves Last Line: See Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged IN CHILDBED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the night Last Line: Such strange things did mother say to me. Subject(s): Mothers IN COMMEMORATION OF SON'S TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY, by CADDIE J. RILEY Poem Text First Line: Twas a weary bird Last Line: It was so long ago. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons IN EVERY HOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Madonnas hallow every home Last Line: Are born with every baby's birth Subject(s): Mothers IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them all—they are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN HAITI: 5. HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER; DESCHAPELLES, HAITI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the old beggar who sits Last Line: Of haiti under my small straw hat. Subject(s): Death; Haiti; Mothers; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Men; Mothers IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Men; Mothers IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by ELMER A. C. WOLFE Poem Text First Line: Many a year has come and passed Last Line: She'll welcome me in the heavenly cloud. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers IN MOTHER'S SHADOW, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: I walk behind mother Last Line: In her steady %shadow Subject(s): Mothers IN MY HAND, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: We stand side by side, my mother and I Last Line: Where my own wild life %begins Subject(s): Mothers IN MY OTHER LIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was born with a stone in my hand Last Line: I was a goat on a hillside %sure of the path Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punishment? Banishment? The empty room Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Separation; Insomnia; Anxiety; Sleeplessness IN PRAISE OF LEAVES, by LILIAN SHUMAN DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: Stumbling, we see the future as a cup Subject(s): Mothers IN RETROSPECT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: My mother always kept so many Last Line: The one I never knew. Subject(s): Mothers IN SNOW, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O english mother, in the ruddy glow Last Line: Shot by the stranger on his native hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Mothers; Snow IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the land shifts at day's end Last Line: Exactly like a woman beyond any words Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The IN THE AFTERGLOW, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Source First Line: Mother o' mine, in the afterglow Subject(s): Mothers IN THE GARDEN OF BANANA AND COCONUT TREES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Before the woman's hips Last Line: Clapping hands, bells jingling %on her ankles Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE NIGHT WATCHES, by ALICE MARLAND WELLINGTON ROLLINS Poem Text First Line: Sleep visits not my eyelids; yet I rest Last Line: The low, soft breathing of my ailing child. Subject(s): Mothers IN THE SHADOWS: 24, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis april, yet the wind retains its tooth Last Line: Transfigured in the radiant mist of love. Subject(s): Mothers IN THE SHADOWS: 6, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetly, my mother! Go not yet away Last Line: Except in being near thee without measure. Subject(s): Mothers IN THE STREET, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: The two little girls were dressed in black Last Line: "held the little one's nose, and said: ""blow!" Subject(s): Girls; Mothers IN THE VOICE OF JANE TO HER MOTHER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caught myself / putting away four dresses Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress IN THE WOMB, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still rests the heavy share on the dark soil Last Line: The infant spirit for eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants IN TRANSIT, by JOAN LINDGREN Poem Source First Line: She's popping her gum the whole time Subject(s): Mothers IN VOLHYNIA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In volhynia the peasant mothers Last Line: In a rapture of sorrowless pain. Subject(s): Mothers INFELICE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the skies are tinted blue Last Line: Ah, woe is me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness INFELIX, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, gazing on thy cradle sleep Last Line: And thine own mother comfort thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Comfort; Mothers; Infants INK AND GREEN WASH: IN THE ONCOLOGIST'S WAITING ROOM, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Leather banquettes in Last Line: For me, wait for me Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients INSIDE THE ROOM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There's not much to notice: against the far wall Last Line: The ending, the slow opening. Subject(s): Emptiness; Loss; Mothers; Rain INTENSIVE CARE NURSERY, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: I didn't forget to run my fingers down Subject(s): Mothers INTERIOR WITH METAL INSTRUMENTS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Music - after the walls were washed with irritants Last Line: Wounds. We always soil each other Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients INTERMEDIARY, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: When she came back, my daughter Last Line: How far can you carry this meat? Subject(s): Mothers INVAGINATIONS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I passed the afternoon wandering the bazaar, lingering in stalls so long I al Last Line: And squirmed from his towel down the sand and into the water Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers IRONING, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: The pattern flows. Leaves and flowers blend, a river spinning over the Last Line: -gle pink and blue. Green. I am ironing her blouse. Only this motion is %left Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Blood; Hospitals; Mothers And Daughters IRONY OF FATE, by GRACE JERVIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: When I would soar on wings of song Last Line: "is that new patch sewed in?" Subject(s): Irony; Mothers ISHMAEL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fifteen years I have known your face Last Line: Turns with us lashed to its flank and sounds. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Ships & Shipping ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise IT DOES UP BEAUTIFULLY, by MARILYN JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: She doesn't look up when I enter Last Line: Where she ironed alone 'til the basket was empty Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers IT FELL TO ME, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: It fell to me to go through her things Last Line: Like a jewel wrapped in plastic %to save it from scratches Subject(s): Death; Mothers IT'LL BURST INTO FLAMES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama was beginning to worry about me Last Line: As she walked the parapet again the sunset Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers IT'S A PROMISE, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: May heaven help me not to bore Last Line: Their own maternal chatter Subject(s): Children; Mothers IT'S MOTHER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear mother gets around Subject(s): Mothers JACK MANDOORA ME NO CHOOSE NONE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It begins when the mother Last Line: Chopping steadily %into the silent woods Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, 1978, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It was always about the coconut tree Last Line: Yu haffa aks yuself: is who this tree go a shade from sun? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, OCTOBER 18, 1972, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You tell me about the rickety truck Last Line: The water between us becoming a river Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMIE'S PUZZLE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was grief within our household Last Line: Their meaning will all be plain. Subject(s): Mothers; Solitude; Loneliness JANUARY 20TH, 1993, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: What does it mean, I wonder, to wake up coming Last Line: In a world ravaged by war and tourism Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged JENNIE LUBELL IS IN A NURSING HOME IN PROVINCETOWN, SELS., by ADELINE NAIMAN Poem Source First Line: My mother has died, but I visit her weekly Last Line: For my own dark journey Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Nursing Homes; Women JEOPARDY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I phoned Subject(s): Television; Mothers; Aging; Tv JESSIE MITCHELL€™S MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth JEWISH LULLABY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Husha, o husha Last Line: Will envy my son. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers & Sons JOURNEY: FOR JANET AT THIRTEEN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papers in order; your face Last Line: And wave you off as the bridge goes under Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women JUDEA, by CHARLES M. WALLINGTON Poem Text First Line: I saw in rift of cloud a beaming light Last Line: The soul's broad scope, and brotherhood of man. Subject(s): Children; Jews; Mothers; Childhood; Judaism JULIE SAID / YOU'RE BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE, by BEVERLY SLAPIN Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers JUST THE AGE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're just the age when all around Last Line: You're just the age you need your mother. Subject(s): Mothers KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Last Line: I have found my mother %and I am safe and always have been Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning KATE'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perch'd on the upland wheatfields beyond the village end Last Line: The first visit of compliment that ever I paid. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers KEENE; OR, LAMENT OF AN IRISH MOTHER OVER HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly the cloud of night comes rolling on Last Line: Silent and dark! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ireland; Lament; Mothers & Sons; Irish KEEP HIM A BABY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can; Last Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Men; Mothers; Infants KEEPER OF DREAMS, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: When I grow up, I want to be Last Line: I share with my mother, %the keeper of dreams Subject(s): Mothers KIN, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When news cane that yiour mother'd Last Line: As your own birthmark of his scream Subject(s): Family Life; Death – Mothers; Relatives; Dead, The KING LEAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): England; Hate; Lear, King; Mothers; Social Protest KING RICHARD III, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Mothers; Sea KINGDOM OF TINY SHOES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: We are all dead, lucy, cush, kilroy and me Last Line: Shrugging at such foolishness Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged KINGS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood Subject(s): Mothers KISS THE DEAR OLD MOTHER, by JOSEPHINE POLLARD Poem Text First Line: Kiss the dear old mother, her cheek is wan and wasted Last Line: Kiss the dear old mother now and then. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age KITCHEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jealous when my mother touches anything else. Last Line: As though it were a chicken Subject(s): Mothers KORE (BY AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN, AS REPORTED BY CARL KERENYI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How can a man know what a woman's life is Last Line: In this you can see if she is a good woman or not Subject(s): Men; Mothers LA DULCE CULPA, SELS., by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: What kind of lover have you made me, mother Last Line: With what is left %unrequited Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women LABOR, by JUDY WELLS Poem Source First Line: She was a woman Subject(s): Mothers LALEH OF CARAVY STREET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way I dress, men think Last Line: Out, black dress, luggage for shoes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Youth LAMENT FOR A LITTLE CHILD, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in the tomb, love Last Line: O my little child! Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies LANA TURNER'S WERE THE BEST, by MARJORIE SIMON Poem Source First Line: Mother's were all wrong Last Line: You made us %want to break genetic codes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Turner, Lana (1920-1995) LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: If she had lived my mother would have told me Last Line: Toward the deepest water, its blue embrace Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Death; Landscape; Memory; Mothers; Parents; Water LAST MERMOTHER, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to fish in san francisco bay Last Line: A crust of sand still thickening on the edge %of its quiet bones Subject(s): Mothers; San Francisco Bay, California LAST OF MY CHINESE UNCLES ENTERS THE GATES OF HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my mother, unable to weep, grieves for the dead Last Line: Weep, my hands shout. %weep and live Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Mourning; Uncles LAST WORDS MY MOTHER TOLD ME, by LEAH MAINES Poem Source First Line: The last words my mother told me were not I love you Last Line: In that special place of closed eyes again Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Mothers 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 LAUS INFANTIUM, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In praise of little children I will say Last Line: And left, o little child, its reflex there. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LAWS OF NATURE: MUGGINS AT THREE, by KAY KAISER-COOK Poem Source First Line: At twilight we coasted down the steep canyon Subject(s): Mothers LEAF PILE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now here is a typical children's story Last Line: The mark of my hand a blush on my son's cheek Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sons LEAK IN THE BUCKET OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by R. V. COTTAM Poem Source First Line: Woman %living one mile from three mile island Subject(s): Mothers LEANING INTO THE TILT, by VIRGINIA MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: There is motherhood %in the way he holds his wife Last Line: In the tender angle of their backs Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Sons LEARNER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother tells me she has found her late husband's Last Line: I have come near a clearing, where a spirit of mourning %is bathing herself, and signing Subject(s): Mothers LEARNING TO SPEAK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was the quietest thing I'd ever seen Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Speech; Babies; Oratory; Orators; Infants LEARNING TO TALK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On magnolia avenue there are no magnolias. Someone bought Subject(s): Neighbors; Birds; Mothers; Babies; Infants LEAVING THE BEACH ON A SUNDAY IN A STREETCAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Daughters; Relationships LEAVING THE FIELDS, by MARGARET J. HOEHN Poem Source First Line: My mother's hands were maps of the sweltering valley Last Line: Loss. She was strong and lean; candescent from within Subject(s): Fields; Greyhounds; Mothers; Travel LEGEND OF LIBUSE, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: When dad blacked out Last Line: More certain of her place Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women LESAGE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I had my boat but where was the river Last Line: Was nothing beyond his powers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LESSON AT THIRTEEN, by CATHERINE LYNN Poem Source First Line: You say I %would not understand Subject(s): Mothers LET THE LITTLE ONES COME UNTO ME, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: It was long ago that he uttered Last Line: "let the little ones come unto me." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Mothers LETTER HOME, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: Mother I'm sure you'll remember Last Line: What it's been, what it will be Subject(s): Mothers LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all Last Line: But there will be no america discovered by analogy Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States; America LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all Last Line: But there will be no americas discovered by analogy Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States LETTER TO MY MOTHER, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: Mater dulcissima, now the mists descend Last Line: Perhaps someone will answer? O death of mercy, %death of modyesty. Farewell, dear one, farewell, my Subject(s): Death; Mothers LETTER TO MY MOTHER, by ANITA SKEEN Poem Source First Line: I remember when a sunday friend and I Last Line: Into the long night Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters LETTER; FOR MY 78-YEAR MOTHER AT HOME AWAITING DEATH, by MOON CHUNGHEE Poem Source First Line: Lobe only one thing Last Line: You've been a lovely leaf, now falling Subject(s): Mothers LETTERS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: After mom died my sister Last Line: Grief is little sister %to insanity Subject(s): Letters; Mothers LIES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Probably no one noticed the mornings I disappeared to sit Last Line: The little mothers and sisters. Subject(s): Lies; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Sisters LIFE, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In some misty eon past Last Line: War, and pestilence! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE FOR A LIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a phantom of the weary brain Last Line: This time shall mercy, justice rule, and I for once forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Forgiveness; Mothers; Clemency LIFE OUT OF DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I've said all I would, mother Last Line: "heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LIGHT, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: You show things Last Line: The roses will bloom Subject(s): Mothers LIGHT-YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under my hand mere Last Line: The sudden flare of feeling we almost touch Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sympathy LIKE A HENRY MOORE STATUE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And suspend it in my opening Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); Body, Human; Self; Mothers & Daughters LIKE A SICK CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a sick child that knoweth not Last Line: Could come from any other. Subject(s): Mothers LIKE MY MOTHER MADE: SALMON LOAF SUPREME, by JENNIFER MOSS Poem Source First Line: Rectangular pan Last Line: I wish for company, and plain macaroni Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating; Mothers LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Last Line: The new world. As if the future were theirs Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women LINES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone Last Line: "it feel like burning, said the child trying to be Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters LINES, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, dear mother heart, whose hair is gray Last Line: You know, dear heart, you know. Subject(s): Mothers LINES FOR EUDORA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Eudora welty's mother on her deathbed Last Line: She would hint, though, how they are immense %and dark, and how they drown stars Subject(s): Mothers; Welty, Eudora (1909-2001) LINES ON THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother! O my mother! When thy spirit heavenward fled Last Line: Oh joy, we soon shall meet! Till then, my mother, fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Dead, The LINES TO A YOUNG MOTHER, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young mother! What can feeble friendship say Last Line: And laid my first-born in the silent tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies LINES, FOR MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day let pleasure smile on every face Last Line: Be clouded with a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers LINKS WITH HEAVEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our god in heaven from that holy place Last Line: The little children pleading for their mothers. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mothers LIPSTICK, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who can hurry past the five-and-dime Last Line: From behind his eyelids, feverish and weak? Subject(s): Cosmetics; Lips; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Vanity; Women LISTEN, by PHYLLIS CAPELLO Poem Source First Line: In the next room my children sleep Subject(s): Mothers LITTLE APRIL, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs Last Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients LITTLE BLUE PIGEON (JAPANESE LULLABY), by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings Last Line: Swinging the nest where my darling lies. Variant Title(s): Japanese Lullaby Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LITTLE BOY BLUE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little toy dog is covered with dust Last Line: Since he kissed them and put them there. Subject(s): Mothers LITTLE CYRUS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emily mayfield all the day Last Line: "hush, my darling, it was not I." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Bastards LITTLE DAVID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother of the little boy that Last Line: In voiceless joy -- the little boy that sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood LITTLE FEET, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little feet, so small that both may nestle Last Line: Will guide the baby's feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood 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 JUDE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Po' little jude, why doan' yo' know Last Line: Fo'get dat day. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Infants; Dead, The LITTLE LOVE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little love into my bosom darted Last Line: For his pinions are burnt and won't bear him away. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants LITTLE MAMMA, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it the children don't love me Last Line: Little mamma! Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LITTLE MAN! LITTLE MAN! COME TO ME NOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That only a mother can know Subject(s): Mothers LITTLE MAP, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: All through her babyhood %I made her sickness mine Last Line: With nothing but one finger's nail Subject(s): Mothers LITTLE NORA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off upon a western shore Last Line: Sweet words to make them glad? Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood; Dead, The LITTLE ROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She comes with fairy footsteps Last Line: With the presence of their youth Subject(s): Children; Mothers LITTLE SON, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very acme of my woe Last Line: In turmoil and delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mothers LITTLE STITCHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, thoughts that go in with the stitches" Last Line: To seams in a holy monk's hood Subject(s): Mothers;women LITTLE UNDERSTANDING, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source First Line: And god bless aunt edna Last Line: Daddy love her Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Mothers LITTLE-GIRL-TWO-LITTLE-GIRLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm twins, I guess, 'cause my ma say Last Line: "an' good little girl's comed back to stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Twins; Childhood LIVE FOR IT, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: Window curtain nodding in the may breeze Last Line: So passionately, that we live for it Subject(s): Children; Mothers LIVING DAY BY DAY, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: I have no children and he has five Last Line: Her dream hair flying Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Mothers LIVING HERE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: In the absence of ocean, I have the field Last Line: In this universe but that reassuring thud Subject(s): Mothers LIZA MAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown face full of smiles Last Line: Liza may. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mothers LOGAN BRAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O logan, sweetly didst thou glide Last Line: And willie hame to logan braes! Variant Title(s): Logan Water Subject(s): Logan (river), Scotland; Mothers LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness LONELY CABIN, by JOHN A. SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Some say the cabin fell almost apart Last Line: After she found her son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Despair; Mothers & Sons; Murder; Death - Babies LONESOME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two Last Line: Sence mother 's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two. Subject(s): Mothers; Solitude; Loneliness LONG WALKS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: And tremendous orgasms Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LONGING, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Text First Line: How often in the after years when time Last Line: Forgotten not through life's increasing years! Subject(s): Mothers LONGING AND ASKING, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, when we meet upon that shore Last Line: I may see thee, mother, evermore, %at thy noblest, fullest, latest, best Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers LOOKING, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when I read the funnies Last Line: But this blankness is your mother Subject(s): Mothers LOSING FOOTING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Did your father's breathing become the rasping Last Line: As you lifted your palms to the light? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LOSING MY MOTHER, by PAULA MORPHY Poem Source First Line: Her hair is pulpy seaweed Last Line: She will live forever %between my gym shoes Subject(s): Death; Mothers LOST IN THOUGHT, THE BABY, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Primarily / I am a mother Subject(s): Mothers LOST KITTEN AT THE DOOR, by EMILY TEMPLETON Poem Text First Line: Purr softly ... / for surely someone Last Line: Will put the others of her little brood to bed! Subject(s): Mothers LOVE AFFAIR, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: Some day he'll think me rather silly Last Line: He cannot stay a baby long Subject(s): Children; Mothers LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: Dear valentine, for you I sigh Last Line: It's made of gingerbread with icing Subject(s): Children; Mothers LOVE IN HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child is rocked on mary's knees Last Line: "who lost thee yesterday but finds to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary LOVE OF LAUNDRY, by NANCY HEWITT Poem Source First Line: Every monday my mother had a basement date Last Line: Down with devotion, over and over Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Mothers LOVE SPEAKS, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: If I could stand, dear child of mine Last Line: Shall be to me as two! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LOVE'S SONG, by WEALTHY SHEETZ Poem Text First Line: A song lay hidden in the folds Last Line: A mother's love expressed! Subject(s): Love; Mothers LUCKY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you are lucky in this life, Last Line: And sweet is sweet in any language Subject(s): Luck; Mothers & Sons LUKE, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible LULLABY, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy head upon this pillow Last Line: Safe within a mother's love! Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Mothers; Infants LULLABY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your hands resting %against my scalp Last Line: Wind blowing in %colder than your kiss Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LULLABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Someone would like to have you for her child Last Line: But you are mine Subject(s): Babies; Mothers LULLABY FOR 17, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so young Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth LUMINOUS SAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And bathe in the light of silent victory Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers LUNCH WITH THE ASTRONAUT'S MOTHER, by CAROL HENRIE Poem Source First Line: We were invited. It was friendship drive Last Line: That stippled the calm water Subject(s): Astronauts; Family Life; Mothers LYNTON VERSES: 5, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet breeze that sett'st the summer birds a-swaying Last Line: O lambs, o primroses, o floods! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Mothers LYRICS OF EARTH, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother to whose valiant will Subject(s): Mothers M IS FOR MOTHER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: It was a long, long time ago Last Line: Killed by a thing that was her glory.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mothers M. E. T., by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one so much as you Last Line: Cradling a dove Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Mothers And Sons MA, by ALTER BORDY Poem Text First Line: What can she be thinking of Last Line: "I'll open it, ma." Subject(s): Mothers MA'S TOOLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At home it seems to be the rule Subject(s): Children; Mothers MAD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got mad at my mother Subject(s): Anger; Mothers MADELINE; A DOMESTIC TALE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My child, my child, thou leavest me! Last Line: "peace shall be ours beneath our vines once more." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Women MADONNA, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The child is the future, incarnate Last Line: To the mother adoring her child! Subject(s): Mothers MADONNA AND CHILD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Old Age MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary MAESTRO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hears her Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mothers MAGI, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers MAKEUP ON EMPTY SPACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am putting makeup on empty space Last Line: Singing & moaning in empty space Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MAKING A LIFE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: When the goddess spoke, she said Last Line: Do they, those tiny winged creatures of the air? Subject(s): Mothers MALINCHE'S TIPS: PIQUE FROM MEXICO'S MOTHER, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My face isn't red Last Line: Sound familiar? Subject(s): Mexico; Ancestors & Ancestry; Mothers MAMA IS GONE, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O little lace collar Last Line: And mama is gone, gone on ahead, %to the marvelous mah jong game Subject(s): Mah Jong (game); Mothers MAMA NEVER FORGETS HER BIRDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She 'notices' above Variant Title(s): Poem: 130; Poem: 16 Subject(s): Birds; Mothers MAMA'S CROSS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mama was nailed to the cross Last Line: On every moment we put in our mouths Subject(s): Mothers; Religion MAMA'S PROMISE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no answer to the blank inequity Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MAMMA!, by ANNA MARIA WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My own mamma! Last Line: So long away again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wells, A. M. Subject(s): Mothers MAMMY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her countenance whereon Last Line: It is my mammy's face. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mothers MAN ARRESTED IN HACKING DEATH TELLS POLICE HE MISTOOK MOTHER-IN-LAW..., by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning she'd smear something brown Subject(s): Anger; Mothers-in-law; Murder MAN ARRESTED IN HACKING DEATH TELLS POLICE HE MISTOOK MOTHER-IN-LAW..., by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning she'd smear something brown Last Line: And the axe felt good, coming down %on a life like that Subject(s): Anger; Mothers-in-law; Murder MAN'S PILLOW, by IRVING BROWNE Poem Text First Line: A baby lying on his mother's breast Last Line: Such his last pillow. Subject(s): Mothers MANGOS Y LIMONES (1), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story is about swellings and slick slidings Last Line: Her mouth full of her own stories Subject(s): Hispanic Americans' Mothers Daughters; Women MANY SAID, by KAKKAIPIRTINIYAR NACCELLAIYAR Poem Source First Line: Many said, %'that old woman, the one whose veins show' Last Line: And she rejoiced more than the day she bore him Subject(s): Mothers MANY SORROWS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful she was to look upon Last Line: And to sleep. Subject(s): Mothers; Wellesley College MANY YEARS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: My mother is twelve, dressed in white Last Line: Her dark head Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Eucharist; Memory; Mothers; Past MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How lovingly she looked on him Last Line: Of cross against the sky? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARY ANGELA ROSE WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You think because I am a midwife I will talk to babies lost Last Line: Would join us-even wee ones of our own-if he had remained Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MARY ARDEN, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O thou to whom, athwart the perished days Last Line: And call thee england's pride forevermore! Subject(s): Arden, Mary (d. 1608); Dramatists; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MARY ROCKWELL TALKS TO HER SON IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER HE'S BEEN....., by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: There was no button on the tip? Last Line: In the light of this rosy day Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Mothers And Sons; Sympathy MARY WARREN'S SAMPLER, by NICOLE COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Reversible stitches: my mother and I leaned over a single piece of english line Last Line: To me - as witness my hand mary warren Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sewing MASONRY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a secret in my happy heart Last Line: For that sweet secret in the heart of me! Subject(s): Mothers MASTECTOMY POEMS: 11. THE RIVER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sluiced with the city's detritus Last Line: I hear you, I will come Subject(s): Mothers MATER AMABILIS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the goldenest of streams Last Line: Whom she crooned to sleep and rocked upon her knees. Subject(s): Mothers MATER DOLOROSA, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Text First Line: Last night I heard the keenin' at patrick connell's wake Last Line: "and pray to god her heart will break, that she may die tonight!" Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement MATER DOLOROSA, by GRACE MADELON FRAME Poem Text First Line: A little maid at play Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers MATER DOLOROSA, by MRS. M. E. PAULL Poem Text First Line: Because of one low-laid head all crowned Last Line: So sacred--sweet! Subject(s): Mothers MATERNAL, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They keep them in vials at the institute of tears Last Line: Over broken glass, rocks and soot. I count my bones Subject(s): Mothers MATERNAL GRIEF, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not human Last Line: The ghosts are hungry, the ghosts are divine, %but the pigs eat the meal, and the priests drink the Subject(s): Mothers MATERNAL GRIEF, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Departed child! I could forget thee once Last Line: Immortal as the love that gave it being. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies MATERNITY, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I must go all my days Last Line: Of the miraculous. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers MATERNITY, by ANNE P. L. FIELD Poem Text First Line: Within the crib that stands beside my bed Last Line: In the judean starlight long ago! Subject(s): Mothers MATERNITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a square, such a square little square Last Line: In a world of three dimensions Subject(s): Mothers MATERNITY SONG, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: I can do anything now Subject(s): Mothers MATRES DOLOROSAE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye spartan mothers, gentle ones Last Line: Who gave your dearest for her glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Mothers MATRIARCHLY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave this part away from me Last Line: To bring it on again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MAY I HOLD THE BABY? (A HUMBLE REQUEST OF THE MODERN MAMMA), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear modern mamma, if you please Last Line: If I may hold the baby. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MAY QUEEN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're pretty said the sign Last Line: Take this turn to be loved Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters MAY-81, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was leaving my ninth year Last Line: With hair of coiling flames %each turned away his face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEAT LOAF AGAIN, MOTHER?, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Meat loaf %oxtail Last Line: I couldn't eat another bite! Subject(s): Mothers MEDEA, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, then, done? Last Line: Falls.] Subject(s): Greece; Mothers; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Greeks MEDITERRANEAN, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: - when she disappeared on the path ahead of me Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MEETING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In school, I kept my papers neat Last Line: And I did %god help me, I did Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEMORY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me to tell how it feels Last Line: She smiles, ask me %how it feels Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories; Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Prejudice MEMORY'S DOOR, by MARY OTTO ASHER Poem Text First Line: Within the sacred portals of my heart Last Line: "I see the face of ""mother." Subject(s): Memory; Mothers MENDING, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: She pokes, then pulls %the thin blue thread Last Line: Until that button's %back on %right Subject(s): Mothers MENTAL MOMMY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school at six years old, first grade, Subject(s): Mothers; Coming Of Age; Prisons & Prisoners; Insanity; Hospitals; Convicts; Madness; Mental Illness MEPHIBOSHETH, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if he were a vision that would fade Subject(s): Mothers MERCHANT, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine, mother, that you are to stay at home Subject(s): Mothers MIDLIGHT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers; Nightmares MIDLIGHT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt Last Line: And along the length of a collar that chokes! Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and lone, at midnight sitting Last Line: Of peace to all. Hail, infant year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War MILENA WILETT; I YR. OLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thy mother strives in patient trust Last Line: Her baby's sleeping now Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women MILKLIGHT, by ANI TUZMAN Poem Source First Line: Laying along %my body curved, a crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers MISCARRIAGE, by MARION J. HELZ PERRY Poem Source First Line: I dreamed of a baby Subject(s): Mothers MISFIT, by ROSEMARY FARRAR Poem Text First Line: His mother did not think about Last Line: Then raised it shyly to his lips. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mothers; Estrangement; Outcasts MOM 1965, by MARTA BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: She wears a pink dress Last Line: Because she has more chores to do Subject(s): Mothers MOM AS COMET, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do they know that it won't decide Last Line: Reckless energy, to astound and delight me Subject(s): Mothers MOM'S BELL, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Lost mom Last Line: Excuse for ignoring %her wishes Subject(s): Bells; Mothers MOM'S DOG RULE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mom would cringe if Last Line: Special privileges with %years of good behavior Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Mothers MOM'S GRAMMAR, by JOSE KOZER Poem Source First Line: In may, which bird was it Last Line: Familiar tu; mom in proper castilian Subject(s): Language; Mothers MOMMIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mommies %make you brush your teeth Last Line: And tuck you in at night %and kiss you Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Mothers MON REPOS (MY MOTHER'S GIRLHOOD HOME), by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Text First Line: The orange-tree you planted as a bride Last Line: Are all I care to keep of mon repos. Subject(s): Home; Mothers MONARCH BIRTHMARK, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Eyelash kisses: 'moth goodnight.' her lashes tickle Last Line: A secret song Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients MONDAY'S CHILD, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monday's child is fair of face Last Line: Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. Variant Title(s): A Week Of Birthdays;days Of Birth Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Day; Mothers; Childhood MONOLOGUE OF A MOTHER, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the last of all, this is the last Last Line: And my heart rebels with anguish as night draws nigher. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Mothers MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary mother, pray for one Last Line: Kneeling before the mercy gate. Subject(s): Catholics; Cavalry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched on the dying mother's lap, lies dead Last Line: And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823); Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies MOON, by DEBORAH DALE Poem Source First Line: Pull that curtain behind you. %for the first time Last Line: Take it. Take it %for show and tell Subject(s): Moon; Mothers And Sons; Schools MORNING GLORIES, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I have started them in flats, from a few Last Line: In pale sheets, spare as shepherd's purse, and tight Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Praise; Sun MORNING IN THE BOILING RIVER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: At daybreak we strip and enter it Last Line: Dropping their necks to take long drinks Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy MORNING ON THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get up, my lad! The sun is rising, it is a Last Line: Shoulder blades! Subject(s): Farm Life; Morning; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Last Line: The clear vowels rise like balloons Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MORNING STAR, by HARRIET R. BEAN Poem Text First Line: My mother rose from her chilly bed Last Line: I would not call her back! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As long ago we carried to your knees Last Line: Your faith beyond the silence and the night; / your love still close and watching through the years Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When she undid her hair at night Last Line: Athwart thin clouds of silver mist! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by CATHARINE CARSTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Mother sits in the old armchair Last Line: Children and mother, a loyal pair. Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: There's a hand so firm and tender Last Line: Is burnt in mother's heart. Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life; Home; Love; Mothers; Relatives MOTHER, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Source First Line: Her mind is a library, where dickens, scott Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early one summer morning Last Line: "we gathered them for you." Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Source First Line: Again your kindly, smiling face I see Last Line: That quickly cease when you close by me seem? %let me sleep on, dear god, if I but dream Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by GEORGE GRIFFITH FETTER Poem Text First Line: The noblest thoughts my soul can claim Last Line: The blessed name of mother. Variant Title(s): The Name Of Mother Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mother comes each morning Last Line: Dropped in to say good-night. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: If I thought I needed her - but some things happen Last Line: Soundless, moonlight, sewn Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients MOTHER, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He fell from her knees like a ball of yarn Last Line: The stretched-out hands are alight in the darkness %like an old town Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ANNE HERENDEEN Poem Text First Line: When first I was, the world of sound Last Line: The heart of you! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ROBERT W. JAMES Poem Text First Line: Down the highways and byways of yesteryears Last Line: To your one and only mother. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: You danced with love down ferny, spring-lit byways Last Line: Such joy as makes of life a high emprise! Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Mothers; Paradise MOTHER, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: How can I, mother, ever give to you Last Line: No higher tribute would I need to pay. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Mothers MOTHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid april already, and the wild plums Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The MOTHER, by JENNIFER LEE Poem Source First Line: I am not living Last Line: The curtains are closed %to cut the glare Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers MOTHER, by SHARON MAYER LIBERA Poem Source First Line: Mother, I may do violence to you Last Line: You read and doze, too real for me, too deep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters MOTHER, by GEORGE NEWELL LOVEJOY Poem Text First Line: God thought to give the sweetest thing in his almighty power Last Line: And gave to earth--a mother! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by TITUS LOWE Poem Text First Line: Not a great lady Last Line: And count me a son of god! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: What were the angels' demands? Last Line: One by one, pulled from sleeping hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One wept whose only child was dead Last Line: "a mother, a mother was born." Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): Maternity Subject(s): Mothers; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth MOTHER, by JOSE MONTOYA Poem Source First Line: When I remember the work camps Last Line: That woman - she only complains %in her sleep Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: My mother had no patio garden Subject(s): Mothers; Women MOTHER, by NAGASE KIOKO Poem Source First Line: I am always aware of my mother Subject(s): Mothers; Women MOTHER, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As years ago we carried to your knees Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: They tell me she is dead; and that I knew Last Line: From the warm dream that wraps her in my breast. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by EMILY SELINGER Poem Text First Line: O wonder-word! That throbs and thrills Last Line: Love of the heart, of home, of heaven! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho!' said the child, 'how fine the horses go Last Line: A king goes past.' he wondered at my tears Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: Your love was daffodils in spring Last Line: I have my joy of him. Subject(s): Children; Death; Gratitude; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The MOTHER, by MARY MICHAEL WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Thousands of miles of phone lines slung between us I call before I Last Line: Rough my knees pull up into my chest and I'm sure that I can feel %my insides turning to sand Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters MOTHER, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE Poem Text First Line: With smile just a little bit sweeter Last Line: I'll love you wherever you are. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood MOTHER & CHILD #3, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing below the wrist! Hands are missing Subject(s): Hands; Mothers MOTHER & CHILD #3, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing below the wrist? Hands are missing Last Line: Hands spoke the truth, and when they spoke we heard Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER & CHILD; AFTER CAREW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the destination of the sunlight's particles? Last Line: Under your innocent lashes Subject(s): Babies; Literary Form; Mothers; Infants MOTHER (1), by JANIE ELLEN LUELLING BYRNES Poem Source First Line: You looked so sad as I left you Last Line: You have loves's understanding %from the daughter you have born Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER (2), by JANIE ELLEN LUELLING BYRNES Poem Source First Line: No word in all the world so sweet Last Line: As the word, dear mother, %that means - just you Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER (MARGERY CARRUTH, 1896-1981), by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, now at last I must speak to you. The hour, so late but even so has come Variant Title(s): The Event Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers; Dead, The MOTHER -- 1927 MODEL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She isn't a bit like the mothers Last Line: Her heart's as old-fashioned as eve's. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AMONG THE PHILODENDRA, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: She found the trusted leaves predictable Last Line: Beyond the riot of talk. Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers MOTHER AND BABE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother Last Line: The sleeping mother and babe -- hush'd, I study them long and long. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AND CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come, little mary, the woods are in tune Last Line: The kingdom of heaven, and the light of his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER AND CHILD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She feared the baby would fall Last Line: Hands resting upon her Subject(s): Mothers; Death – Children; Death - Babies; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums MOTHER AND CHILD, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: On my way homewards through the soft night's calms Last Line: And I believed, as you too would have done. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHER AND CHILD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou thinking of,' said the mother Last Line: "my mother, wouldst not thou?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Mothers; Childhood; Paradise MOTHER AND CHILD, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blew wide the casement, and within Last Line: To fold her sabbath wings above its couch. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE CAPITOL; JUNE, 1921, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE Poem Text First Line: Where is the soldier? The unknown Last Line: Brings not its gift in vain! Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Death; Graves; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MOTHER AND CHILD, BODY AND SOUL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've boarded me over like a window or a well. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The true friend is the same Last Line: Is ever prayer of mine! Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Mothers MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Shadows. A little wind in the elms Last Line: To other doors -- and other, and other, and other. Subject(s): Daughters; Funerals; Mothers; Silence; Soul; Burials MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by JOSEPH SEMENOVICH Poem Source First Line: And the mother Last Line: Toward the edge of the platform %as the train pulled in Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PHOTOS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and my sister Last Line: Up where something that %had got away had been Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Sisters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 1, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young laughters, and my music! Aye till now Last Line: Comes not again the young spring joy that went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 10, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not love, not love, that worn and footsore thrall Last Line: "or else when was the moment that love went?" Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 11. LOVE'S MOURN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis men who say that through all hurt and pain Last Line: And faith to love--faith to our dead at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters; Women MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 12, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has made me wayside posies: here they stand Last Line: A presence of my darling mingling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Posies MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 13, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling scarce thinks music sweet save mine Last Line: Thou echo to the self she knows not yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Voices MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 14, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To love her as to-day is so great bliss Last Line: Yet, ah! My child with the child's trustful eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 15, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That some day death who has us all for jest Last Line: But death and her! That's strangeness passing grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 16, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will not have it that my day wanes low Last Line: And I forget to age, through her sweet will. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 17, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And how could I grow old while she's so young? Last Line: Not burdening age, with her, could make me chilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Aging; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 18, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard that the full summer of our round Last Line: And we know then that some time since youth went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 19, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks Last Line: Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 2, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That she is beautiful is not delight Last Line: And oh the beauty of it, being thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 20, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one I miss. A little questioning maid Last Line: The eager baby voice outside my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 21, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardly in any common tender wise Last Line: So gives back such a meaning in her own. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Language; Mothers & Daughters; Words; Vocabulary MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 22, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brook leaps riotous with its life just found Last Line: These in their joyfulness feel the tarn's strong hush. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 23, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sing 'I love you, love' the whole day through Last Line: Possesses the dear trust that each gives each. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Trust MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 24, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You scarcely are a mother, at that rate Last Line: Yet I, I do not envy them indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 25, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think that you love each as much as one Last Line: How should you know who appraise love and divide? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 26, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of my one pearl so much more joy I gain Last Line: Has but one channel, therefore infinite deeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 27, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since first my little one lay on my breast Last Line: My darling makes me mother to their youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the sweet grave face in timorous thought Last Line: She hears a woe, 'tis simple tears she weeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 4, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a child. The quiet juno gaze Last Line: "two hyacinths in my garden almost out!" Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 5, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the broad blue lightnings flamed the sky Last Line: "mother,"" my darling breathed, and slept content." Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 6, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, as young things will, she vexes me Last Line: And, oh my penitent, how dear thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 7, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her father lessons me I at times am hard Last Line: I watch one treasured pearl for me and him. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Discipline; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 8, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child she, half defiant came Last Line: Is their love, love, or some remembered ghost? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 9, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back! Last Line: For yet some sparks to warm the livelong gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND HOME, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Mother! Home! - that blest refrain Last Line: All things go, but these remain! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AND I, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: We are alone, we two, mother and I Last Line: Wait not, thy time is now, kneel thou and pray. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers MOTHER AND MATE, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: Lightly she slept, that splendid mother mine Last Line: "that, leaving you, I left you not alone." Subject(s): Mothers; Women & War; World War I; First World War MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east Last Line: Let none look at me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians MOTHER AND SON, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly for him the future smiled Last Line: God ever gave to you! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER AND SON, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: She goes on with her story Last Line: Even if he could make up his mind %that it's what he wants Subject(s): Men; Mothers MOTHER AND SON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, in the stale cigarette smell Last Line: Drift separately into dawn. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOTHER AND SON, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At nine o'clock in the morning Last Line: To hear above the town's %din life roaring in the veins Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER DEAR, by LETTIE EARLEY VAN HOESEN Poem Text First Line: Mother, what makes the sky so blue? Last Line: "teach me to hear! Teach me to hear!" Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER DIES: 1, by SAITO MOKICHI Poem Source First Line: Broad leaves turn themselves on the trees, gleaming, hiding, never restful Subject(s): Death; Mothers MOTHER DIES: 2, by SAITO MOKICHI Poem Source First Line: From far off I have brought medicines, she watches me because I am her son Last Line: I come along, stand in the silkwoem room, and my loneliness becomes extreme Subject(s): Death; Mothers MOTHER DIES: 3, by SAITO MOKICHI Poem Source First Line: Young oak leaves shine and turn Subject(s): Death; Mothers MOTHER DIES: 4, by SAITO MOKICHI Poem Source First Line: Because spring of heat haze has come Subject(s): Death; Mothers MOTHER FULL OF ZINNIAS, by CHERYL OLSON Poem Source First Line: At the yard sale back of the house Last Line: Perceptible line down my belly Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER IN A REFUGEE CAMP, by CHINUA ACHEBE Poem Source First Line: No madonna and child could touch Last Line: Before his breakfast and school; now she did it %like putting flowrs on a tiny grave Variant Title(s): Refugee Mother And Chil Subject(s): Mothers; Refugees MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Last Line: I am one small woman in a great space, %temporarily free andclear. %I am by myself, climbing into my Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women MOTHER IN GLORY, by MARION S. O'NEAL Poem Text First Line: This rest I do not need; farm life for me Last Line: Come up in yellow roses. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER IN THE PARK, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Her children could drown Last Line: At the corner of her badly %lipsticked mouth Subject(s): Automobiles; Children; Mothers; Parks; Summer MOTHER KNOWS, by E. I. FARRINGTON Poem Text First Line: They say my dad is a very wise man Last Line: "like dad's in the paper? For mother she ""knows." Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by JANIE ALFORD Poem Source First Line: I bent my ears to a lily's cup Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by DOROTHY DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Some said his sins surpassed belief Last Line: Behind the bulwark of her heart. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can forget the attitude of mothering? Last Line: To scream like that, to make me remember Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can forget the attitude of mothering? Last Line: To scream like that to make me remember Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by GRACE DRAYTON Poem Source First Line: Your face is all washed off, dear Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Mom says %she remembers Last Line: I cried & she %was there Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by D. HALL Poem Text First Line: How could she love him better? She believed Last Line: The saddest thing in all his destiny. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I know what she knew Last Line: Moon still in its place. The water on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER LOVE, by RUBY M. MOSES Poem Text First Line: E'en though the earth should pass away Last Line: The afterglow of mother love! Subject(s): Love; Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother love is a mighty benefaction Last Line: No money would bring the women to it Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A mother's smile, - a mother's kiss Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by ROZ WOLBARSHT Poem Source First Line: All my faults, of course, come from you Last Line: There are limits to giving credit where due Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER LOVE, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: I saw a mother working Last Line: Through endless, happy days! Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers MOTHER MINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You nursed me through my infant years Last Line: "dear mother, mother mine" Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER NEVER SEEMS TO CARE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister thinks we need some things Last Line: Mothers never seem to care. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER O' MINE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were hanged on the highest hill Last Line: Mother o' mine, o mother o' mine! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER OF POETS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Typewriter ticketh no more in the twilight Last Line: But there will be need of a motherkin still Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry And Poets MOTHER ON HER DAUGHTER'S WEDDING DAY, by FAITH V. VILAS Poem Source First Line: Once more %through the near door Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "heavy my heart is, heavy to carry" Last Line: The strength you will break my heart with one of these days Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER TO BABE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleck of sky you are Last Line: Up to dear sunshine. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MOTHER TO CHILD, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How best can I serve thee, my child! My child! Last Line: Even so, and so only! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Mothers; Women's Rights; Feminism MOTHER TO HER STARVING CHILD, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: Oh! Sleep; I dread to see those eyes Last Line: And such, ay such, will be my grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Poverty MOTHER TO SON, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, son, I'll tell you Last Line: And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Mothers; Negroes; American Blacks MOTHER TO SON, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knew the love of man Last Line: To you, go thread them for a song. Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER TONGUE, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was growing up my mother lip- Subject(s): Mothers; Speech; Oratory; Orators MOTHER TONGUE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mama, %it is with a thief's luck Last Line: Prepare to birth myself Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers; Women MOTHER WAITS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And mother waits %as only mother can Last Line: And speaks and listens %and tries to understand Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women MOTHER WANT, by MARIA MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: I want to be taken back Last Line: I want her long hands, palms up, %where I can read them Subject(s): Absence; Mothers MOTHER WANTS ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what time it is, wise little flower! Last Line: Why did I ever ask questions of you? Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER WEPT, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother wept, and father sighed Last Line: Mother turned and wept. Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Mothers MOTHER WHO GAVE ME LIFE, by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Falls on my father's house Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER WONDER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I have washed their clothes and their faces Last Line: I wonder! Subject(s): Children; Good; Hearts; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOTHER WORRIES, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: From the moment the little white bundle Last Line: But a mother whatever her colour and creed is findamentally jewish - %she worries! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S BONNET, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: This is her bonnet, with ribbons arrayed Last Line: But it must have had wonderful power to draw. Subject(s): Hats; Mothers MOTHER'S BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the days of childish troubles Last Line: "is the man who deep down in his heart is still ""a mother's boy." Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S BOY, by CORA A. WATSON Poem Text First Line: Make rowdy music, little one Last Line: A tired little child. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S BOYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yes, I know there are stains on my carpet" Last Line: But give me my four splendid boys Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MOTHER'S DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let every day be mother's day! Last Line: With tears, because her babes forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S DAY, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her doing something simple, paying bills Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S DAY OUT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was quite a little boy Last Line: My mother 's very proud of me. Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Sons; Childhood MOTHER'S DRESSER DRAWER, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: There was something hidden in it Last Line: Pouring brine, shining under the whole sky Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Relationships MOTHER'S EXCUSES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother for me made excuses Last Line: Put it over on him, too. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S FAREWELL, by JUAN ZORILLA DE SAN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep, my child! Behold, among the Last Line: And, while the clouds half opened, heaven smiled Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Sleep MOTHER'S FINGERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Mother's fingers fashion wonders Last Line: And in looking at the pictures, quite forget things done at home Subject(s): Mothers; Fingers MOTHER'S GLASSES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've told about the times that ma can't find her pocketbook Last Line: Are the ones who have no mother dear to lose her reading glasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Mothers; Spectacles MOTHER'S HANDS, by W. DAYTON WEDGEFARTH Poem Text First Line: Dear gentle hands have stroked my hair Last Line: No touch that brings such perfect peace as mother's hands. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S HEART, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: My mother's heart Last Line: Shake her up! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S HERITAGE, by HELEN C. SMITH Poem Text First Line: My mother's voice! Fond memory can no richer Last Line: I would that I might leave as rich a heritage behind. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S HOPE, by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Is there, when the winds are singing Last Line: For she listens -- with her heart Alternate Author Name(s): Raymond, Grace Subject(s): Children; Mothers MOTHER'S HYMNS, by EMILY GREENE WEATHERBEE Poem Source First Line: Hushed are those lips, their earthly song is ended Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S JOB, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm just the man to make things right Last Line: Only his mother then will do. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S KISSES, by ANNIE BALCOMB WHEELER Poem Text First Line: They're good for bumps, and good for lumps Last Line: Mother's kisses. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S KNEE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is so wondrous as mother's knee? Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S LITANY BY THE SICK-BED OF A CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saviour, that of woman born Last Line: Hear and aid! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness MOTHER'S LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What is there down so deep Last Line: For mother when doing for you Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her love is like an island Last Line: I find a haven there Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S LOVE, by THOMAS BURBIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sang so wildly Last Line: Softer than the moon at night! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S LOVE, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: There is no love like a mother's Last Line: That make the mortal more than dust. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S LOVE, by JOHN S. REID Poem Text First Line: By her my lisping tongue in prayer Last Line: Still come and bless me with thy love. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S MAY-DAY, by MARGARET J. STANNARD Poem Source First Line: When mother was a little girl Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S PARTY DRESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day,' says ma, 'I'm goin' get Last Line: Because she can't afford it. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mothers MOTHER'S POEM, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: In a matter of days Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S PRAYER, by BEATRICE E. HARMON Poem Source First Line: Father, I thank thee Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S ROCKING-CHAIR, by HARRY M. DEAN Poem Text First Line: Once upon a time she'd take me Last Line: In that old, old rocking-chair. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It's quiet in the house so quiet Last Line: It is strange if I cry for joy Subject(s): Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is so still in the house Last Line: Is it strange if I start to cry with joy? Subject(s): Christmas; Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans MOTHER'S SONGS, by FRANK BARBOUR COFFIN Poem Text First Line: The summer's sun was beaming hot Last Line: The boy long years ago. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S SONGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our mother sings quite different songs Last Line: Seem far and far away! Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers MOTHER'S STORY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came to this house many fear Last Line: A blow unless one old woman is at his side Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Children; Mothers MOTHER'S WAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whenever I am bad all day Last Line: That's why I'm glad for mother's way Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S WAY, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft within our little cottage Last Line: To go home our mother's way. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S WAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way may be long from that land of song Last Line: And mothers will find a way. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S WORK, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thy work be holding dimpled cheeks of babies to thy Last Line: Innocent as birds in the dewy boughs of maytime. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S WORK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear patient woman, o'er your children bending Last Line: That yours is not a hushed and empty nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER'S WORLD, by MARGARET H. ALDEN Poem Text First Line: Eyes of blue and hair of gold Last Line: That is mother's little world. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, HOME, AND HEAVEN, by MARY J. MUCKLE Poem Text First Line: There are three words that sweetly blend Last Line: And peace illumes with genial ray life's darkened solitude! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, I AM MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Someone of it is answering to %your name Subject(s): Light; Mothers And Daughters MOTHER, I HAVE A WISH ESPECIALLY FOR YOU, by DEANNA LAURA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Mother, %may you be blessed Last Line: Be a part %of each day of your life Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, I LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOU FOREVER, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: I have gone through %so many different stages Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY, by LAUREL ATHERTON Poem Source First Line: You have always been the light of my life Last Line: You have always been to me Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, I THANK YOU FOREVER FOR OUR RELATIONSHIP, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: For as long as I can remember Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU MUCH MORE THAN YOU WILL KNOW, by CATHERINE I. DIGIORGIO Poem Source First Line: In my solitary moments, mother Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, I'LL ALWAYS NEED YOU IN MY LIFE, by SHARON JOHNSON O'DONNELL Poem Source First Line: When I was born, I was glad Last Line: I need you and love you more than ever Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, MAY I?, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Mother, may I %take a giant step? Last Line: It's the way of the world: %mothers rule Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, NO WORDS OR GIFTS CAN EXPRESS ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU, by CHERYL GRAY Poem Source First Line: Within my life, mother Last Line: But most of all, as my friend Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, SELS., by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write Last Line: This is a poem that cannot end Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MOTHER, SUMMER, I, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, who hates thunderstorms Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, SUMMER, I, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, who hates thunderstorms Last Line: I can't confront: I must await %a time less bold, less rich,less clear: an autumn more appropriate Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, THEY SAY, by ABU JAFAR OBAIDULLAH Poem Source First Line: There are so many pumpkin blossoms Last Line: Love's sunbeams have spilled over the hearth Subject(s): Mothers; Sons MOTHER, THIS THANK-YOU IS FOR ALL THE ONES I NEVER SAID, by ANN RUDACILLE Poem Source First Line: Mother, I didn't always realize Last Line: That I couldn't love you more Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME, by DEANNA BEISSER Poem Source First Line: There are so many words Last Line: I love you' %with all my heart Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER, YOUR LOVE IS A SPECIAL PART OF MY LIFE, by ANN RUDACILLE Poem Source First Line: Mother, so many times you set aside Last Line: How much I love you Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER-COMFORT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, upon whose golden tresses Last Line: Such sweet blessing from the throne? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Mothers MOTHER-IN-LAW, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me something Last Line: Ask me something Subject(s): Mothers-in-law MOTHER-IN-LAW'S TONGUE, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: Over a rusted van two guys drape velvet rugs Last Line: Rich and light, hiding the idea %of someone like me Subject(s): Mothers-in-law MOTHER-IN-LAW, DON'T BE HOPPING MAD IN THE KITCHEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: A fair wild flower blooming in the fertile soil? Subject(s): Mothers-in-law MOTHER-LOVE, by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will shut these broken toys away Last Line: And a kiss from baby--only one. Alternate Author Name(s): Clemmer, Mary; Ames, Mary Clemmer Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER-RIGHT, by DEBORAH POPE Poem Source First Line: Whatever truth is Last Line: Wincing my heart, %a step before they do Subject(s): Honesty; Mothers; Truth MOTHER-THOUGHT, by KIM JAIHIUN Poem Source First Line: Her face Last Line: Geography of sorrows Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER/DEER/LADY, by HAROLD LITTLEBIRD Poem Source First Line: Doe of the mountains east Last Line: I love you forever, always and in all ways Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the font of being, undefiled Last Line: Shall bring a brightness to the darkened earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what angelic countenance Last Line: To fatherhood and motherhood! Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by EDITH BROWNELL Poem Text First Line: Gray gloomed the hillside Last Line: "ah, comfort thou the mother of the thief!" Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM Poem Text First Line: The night throbs on Last Line: He only knows his mother--give him back. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by ELIZABETH POATE FLEMING Poem Text First Line: How still the house is! Last Line: Lord jesus, heal my little boy! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sickness; Childhood; Illness MOTHERHOOD, by ABBY S. HINCKLEY Poem Text First Line: She softly sings, and paces to and fro Last Line: And, like a tender parent, pitieth. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't knock on my door, little child Last Line: I cannot give you birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Variant Title(s): Black Woman Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Despair; Mothers; Pregnancy MOTHERHOOD, by RUTH KAUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: O god, I know his sins are red Last Line: Exact it, o my god, from me! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text First Line: Mother of christ long slain, forth glided she Last Line: "I am the mother of iscariot." Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHERHOOD, by JOSEPH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: No woman can except by motherhood Last Line: But when they fade they have left nothing there. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by M. E. PIATT Poem Text First Line: I hold within my arms today Last Line: And all the glory shall be thine. Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the awful full-orb'd moon Last Line: Around the world, and link these three again. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birth; Love; Mothers; Silence; Sin; Child Birth; Midwifery MOTHERHOOD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have grace where glory is forgot Last Line: Whose mother-lips kissed christ at bethlehem? Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat on a shelf Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat on a shelf Last Line: Clean, soft and shining %on her chest Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers MOTHERHOOD: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The angels sang above the bed Last Line: There mary wept most bitterly. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Theology MOTHERHOOD: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yours is the knowledge that leaves you sad Last Line: The love that redeems,—god's love and yours. Subject(s): Love; Mothers; Sacrifices MOTHERS, by CATHERINE KEY CAVENDER Poem Text First Line: Mothers are such lovely things Last Line: I wonder they do not have wings! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The mothers of the world, they stand behind mist like the Last Line: Lopped off finally and betrayed, taken into the dark like a %memory, a heavy log in the wall, impres Subject(s): Mothers; Women MOTHERS, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers are just the queerest things! Last Line: Cried and cried like all git out! Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERS, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Radiant with vernal grace and summer flowers Last Line: She hurls her first-born to the crocodiles Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERS, by JANE URQUHART Poem Text First Line: As once that stoic boy of sparta old Last Line: To keep from men the heritage of fear. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mothers; Sons; Sparta, Greece; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Most good things-especially cakes and / toys Last Line: And that's the best of all, no doubt. Subject(s): April; Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHERS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We used to ride the broadway bus together Last Line: I envy you %wait till next year Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MOTHERS - AND OTHERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Others weary of the noise Last Line: Mothers pray, and pray, and pray. Subject(s): Mothers; Prayer MOTHERS AND HUSBANDS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes we had a half wit among us Last Line: Her body kindly, smiling-I would one day find in my husband Subject(s): Bodies; Marriage; Mothers MOTHERS OF MEN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hold no cause worth my son's life,' one said Last Line: Her son the dreamer's cross? Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War MOTHERS OF MEN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, give me good mothers! Yea, great, glad mothers Last Line: "did exult in fulfilling the purpose of god." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Mothers MOTHERS WITH LITTLE SONS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mothers with little sons Last Line: And the ravaged earth be right Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Social Protest; War MOTHERS' EYES, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL Poem Text First Line: Immortal blue, so gentle, holy, true Last Line: The blue, blue tenderness of mother eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Mothers MOTHERS-IN-LAW, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you ever should marry, said major mcgarth Last Line: She will never appear as your mother-in-law! Subject(s): Mothers-in-law MOTHERWORK II: CONSUMPTION/PRODUCTION TALK, by DEB CASEY Poem Source First Line: Mouth latching on to nipple Last Line: Into what we call our business %or life Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Mothers MOUNTAIN SONG: 2. SMART, by FENG MENG-LUNG Poem Source First Line: Mom is smart Last Line: The two of us sharing a single pair of shoes Subject(s): Mothers MOUTH-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Me? He says. 'I paint Last Line: You choose,' he mouths, licking his lips Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged MR. BRIGADIER GENERAL:, by RACHEL LEVINE Poem Source First Line: How can you call my rangy son Last Line: Intestines, blow off the fingers %and palms of other boys? Subject(s): Children; Mothers; War MRS. WINKLESTEINER, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Winklesteiner / made songs in her head Last Line: Never sing at all. Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers MUDDY KID COMES HOME, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And mama complains Last Line: Remember her name Subject(s): Literary Form; Mothers; Forgetfulness MY 20TH CENTURY, by KATHLEEN OSSIP Poem Source First Line: We are having tea and %dobosh torte, my mother Last Line: She moves like a platypus, %neither here nor there Subject(s): Children; Mothers MY ACHILLES SON, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons MY AIN WIFE, by ALEXANDER LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wadna gi'e my ain wife Last Line: For ony wife I see. Alternate Author Name(s): Laing Of Brechin, Alexander Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY BABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cunning mite in robes of white Last Line: "my baby." Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MY BIRD, by EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere last year's moon had left the sky Last Line: And give her angel plumage there! Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Fanny; Judson, Emily E. Subject(s): Mothers MY BIRTHDAY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, there's no soft hand comes now Last Line: Brighter than that of meeting thee. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Nostalgia MY DAUGHTER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My daughter is a fantail carp Last Line: In darkness she turns Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters MY DAUGHTER IS ILL IN SPRING AND SUMMER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Things have a lack of season Last Line: In the drowse of night Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sickness MY DAUGHTER IS SLEEPING, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source Last Line: In the lecherous deletions of sleep Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sleep MY DAUGHTER'S MATTRESS, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My daughter disappeared three years ago. She has been in Last Line: Shake out the scrap rugs on the floor. I keep putting things away Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers And Daughters MY DAUGHTER, LIKE EVE, REALIZES NAKEDNESS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: At graduation, every eighth-grade girl Last Line: Hidden in a row of perfect white bones Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Daughters; Mothers MY DEAREST MOTHER, by TERESA L. CORNETT Poem Source First Line: I love you, mother Last Line: As you have given of yourself to me Subject(s): Mothers MY FATHER'S CHILD, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About her head or floating feet Last Line: Passed into paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart Subject(s): Mothers; Heaven; Paradise MY FATHER'S LEAVING, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back, he was gone. Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers; Abandonment; Family Life; Desertion; Relatives MY GIFT TO YOU, by DENNIS H. STOVALL Poem Text First Line: The finest fibers of my life Last Line: Shall tangle 'round your feet. Subject(s): Mothers MY IDEAL MOTHER, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: An ideal mother should be Subject(s): Mothers MY JEWEL CASE, by BESSE BURNETT BELL Poem Text First Line: I've the queerest, quaintest jewel case Last Line: That wondrous love of mother! Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Mothers; Privacy; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces MY KNEECAPS ARE SWEATING AT 4 AM, by JUDITH STRASSER Poem Text First Line: And I read this as good, a sign Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Sickness; Illness MY LAD, by FAY H. BUTLER Poem Text First Line: I know a lad, a sailor free Last Line: From happy morn till drowsy eve. Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Sons; Childhood MY LITTLE GIRL, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl is nested Last Line: Who has my love and prayers! Variant Title(s): My Drowsy Little Queen Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Mothers; Childhood MY MAMA MOVED AMONG THE DAYS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers MY MAMA MOVED AMONG THE DAYS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then seemed like she turned around and ran %right back in %right back on in Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers; Women MY MENDING BASKET, by BESSIE CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: It is made of the stoutest of willow Last Line: When the baby upset it, last year! Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by FREDERIC HENTZ ADAMS Poem Source First Line: She was as good as goodness is Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by FLORENCE R. ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: So gracious, and so sweet Last Line: My mother. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "such a weak, little, tiny body" Last Line: She has not been able to do Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never call that gentle name Last Line: As those his mother's faith shed o'er his youth. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by BEULAH VICK BICKLEY Poem Text First Line: My mother, dear; most beautiful Last Line: Where love binds you to me. Subject(s): Aging; Mothers MY MOTHER, by EULA BISS Poem Source First Line: My mother is sharpening a knife. She has said that her chickens are an art Last Line: There is it, the body, washed out, wrapped in cellophane Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by GIOVANNA (JANET) CAPONE Poem Source First Line: You were always the loud, strong-willed one Last Line: Nylons %sparking as you walked Subject(s): Mothers; Widows And Widowers MY MOTHER, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: I know a dear old lady Last Line: And twine love's garlands there. Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by JOSEPHINE RICE CREELMAN Poem Text First Line: I walk upon the rocky shore Last Line: My precious mother is with me. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by JOHN ALLISTER CURRIE Poem Text First Line: There are no colors in god's heaven-bent bow Last Line: Life's heaven was short. Eternity's is long. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: Twenty-two years old Last Line: Deeply hidden lust Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by THOMAS WHITTEMORE FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: You painted no madonnas Last Line: My mother's life should show! Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by ALFRED JENNINGS FUNNELL Poem Text First Line: There was a time in days a-gone Last Line: And love be enthroned forevermore. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Mothers MY MOTHER, by HELEN UNDERWOOD HOYT Poem Text First Line: My mother's cheeks are fat Last Line: Rhymes just for her delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Daniels, Helen Underwood Hoyt Subject(s): Mothers; Obesity MY MOTHER, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: Mother held a coffee mug in both hands Last Line: The mailman tipped his hat Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Memory; Mothers MY MOTHER, by EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me my old seat, mother Last Line: And for thy darling pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Fanny; Judson, Emily E. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made my mother on an april day Last Line: This poor bird-hearted singer of a day. Subject(s): April; Mothers MY MOTHER, by MABEL ROSE LEVY Poem Text First Line: Calm and serene, submissive to her fate Last Line: Guard well my little mother who is blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Mothers; Visually Handicapped MY MOTHER, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother! With thy calm and holy brow Last Line: And greet thy nature as the type of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: All shining crowns do not adorn the brows of kings Last Line: And through a full life's usefulness, keep sweet ... Be kind. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mothers MY MOTHER, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is o'er. Now brimming wine Last Line: "and gently said: ""my mother!" Variant Title(s): The Knight's Toast Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a gather'd stillness Last Line: Wait the dark sail returning yet once more. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: The sweetest face in all the world to me Last Line: I lose my mother's honest blame and praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who fed me from her gentle breast Last Line: My mother. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who fed me from her gentle breast Last Line: And tears of sweet affection shed, -- %my mother Subject(s): Children; Mothers MY MOTHER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The twilight falls on mother's life Last Line: I'd be distraught,—for mother. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The MY MOTHER, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Talking to strange men on the subway Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talking to strange men on the subway Last Line: Talking together between the wire grates of a cage Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mothers MY MOTHER (1), by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn departs, the morning is begun Last Line: Beneath its breast my mother lies asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER (2), by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reg wished me to go with him to the field Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Mothers MY MOTHER (2), by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reg wished me to go with him to the field Last Line: Could weep just once again Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Mothers MY MOTHER AND I HAD A DISCUSSION ONE DAY, by DENISE SWEET Poem Source First Line: And she said I was quite fortunate Last Line: Of many women and I wept %with my mother Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER CONTEMPLATING HER GUN, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One boyfriend said to keep the bullets Subject(s): Mothers; Guns MY MOTHER DIED ON SHAVUOT, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother died on shavuot when they finished counting the omer Last Line: Her oldest brother died in 1916; he fell in the war Subject(s): Death – Mothers MY MOTHER DIED ON SHAVUOT, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother died in shavuot, at the end of Last Line: The remembrance and the forgetting Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER DIED ON SHAVUOT, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother died on shavuot when they finished counting the omer Last Line: Forget-me-not, forget Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER DREAMS: IF HER HUSBAND DIES, WHO WILL CUT THE LAWN?, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother drags her money across the street Last Line: On my right knee, my father's on my left Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER ENTERS THE WORK FORCE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path to abc business school Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER GIVES ME HER RECIPE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take some flour. Oh, I don't know, Subject(s): Mothers; Bakeries & Bakers MY MOTHER GROWING OLD, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Shortly after she had to move into the nursing home Last Line: I said goodbye and we parted Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Travel MY MOTHER IN PROVINCETOWN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, now pushing ninety Last Line: The men are pretty and the women are strong! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY MOTHER LEFT ME, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 24 pairs of unmatched white gloves Last Line: She left me. Subject(s): Death; Gloves; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Mittens; Muffs MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sends me gold & silver earrings for valentine's Last Line: That I might love women too Subject(s): Mothers; Women; Familylife MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER ON AN EVENING IN LATE FALL, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon appears Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But my clutching hands remained / clutching Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But my hands, clinging, %remain %clinging Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Sleep MY MOTHER PIECED QUILTS, by TERESA PALOMO ACOSTA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were just meant as covers Subject(s): Mothers; Quilts MY MOTHER PIECED QUILTS, by TERESA PALOMO ACOSTA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were just meant as covers Last Line: Knotted with love %the quilts sing on Subject(s): Mothers; Quilts MY MOTHER SAYS I'M SICKENING, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood MY MOTHER WAS NO WHITE DOVE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No dove at all, coo-rooing through the dusk Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S BACK, by JIM PETERSON Poem Source First Line: I had failed for months to see my mother Last Line: In the shadows shuffling over the canyon wall Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S BIBLE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This book is all that's left me now Last Line: It taught me how to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Bible; Mothers; Youth MY MOTHER'S CREATION, by LISA MCMONAGLE Poem Source First Line: With my mother's approval I chose the floral Last Line: Nudging me toward her ideal daughter Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sewing MY MOTHER'S DEATH, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It's still inside me Last Line: But who will help me Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER'S FAITH, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire upon the hearth is low Last Line: "and ""now I lay me down to sleep!" Variant Title(s): In The Firelight;'now I Lay Me Down To Sleep' Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S FEET, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How no shoe fit them Subject(s): Mothers; Feet MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi doesn't say she was sly and peevish, Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MY MOTHER'S GRAVE, by LUCILE SLADE MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: I seldom went to see you %in the nursing home. I don't know why Last Line: I'd mourn some part of me that %died long years ago Subject(s): Aging; Death; Mothers; Nursing Homes MY MOTHER'S HAIR, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU Poem Source First Line: One of your hairs fell out last night Last Line: And sing of hair-clouds flying from night to day Subject(s): Hair; Mothers MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ANNA MIKESELL BYERS Poem Text First Line: Soft and gentle Last Line: Of my dear mother's hands. Subject(s): Aging; Hands; Mothers MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ALBERTINE O. HALL Poem Text First Line: Dear, sweet, tired hands that were my mother's Last Line: Dear, sweet, tired hands that were my mother's. Subject(s): Hands; Mothers MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yawning, she yanks the shuttle through the frame Last Line: Stuck motionlless and never moved Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Hands; Relatives MY MOTHER'S HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "like patient saint of oldentime, with lovely face almost" Last Line: "his loving kindness in the skies." Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S INFLUENCE, by ESTELLE HARTE Poem Source First Line: Soft, feathery flowers of blue Last Line: I surely should some grace have caught-- %I grew beside thee, - mignonette! Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S KISS, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss Last Line: At our redeemer's feet. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S LIFE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman neither young or old, she moves Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S PANSIES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all that time, in back of the house, Subject(s): Pansies; Mothers MY MOTHER'S PICTURE, by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times, as through the room I hasten Last Line: To your high place I shall have leave to come. Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S PICTURE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I here her placid picture paint Last Line: So shall I see her, if we meet in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mothers; Paintings And Painters; Portraits MY MOTHER'S POEM, by MICERE GITHAE MUGO Poem Source First Line: The day after %my father Last Line: My father %was buried Subject(s): Africa - Neocolonialism; Fathers; Funerals; Mothers MY MOTHER'S POEM, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Redwing blackbird, sitting on a stalk Last Line: Already knowing the end and the answer Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry & Poets MY MOTHER'S PRAYER, by T. C. O'KANE Poem Text First Line: As I wandered round the homestead Last Line: Even from my trundle bed. Subject(s): Prayer; Mothers MY MOTHER'S PRESENCE, by CAROLE WOOD HARDY Poem Source First Line: Unrepentant as a clock Last Line: Before the long beam of the lighthouse %that protects me as I push away Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S QUILT, by MARGARET RUSHMER Poem Text First Line: My mother cut the pieces Last Line: That handiwork of love-time. Subject(s): Mothers; Quilts MY MOTHER'S ROCKING CHAIR, by MARCELLA DRENNAN MALARKY Poem Text First Line: I loved my mother's rocking chair Last Line: The little rocking chair. Subject(s): Chairs; Mothers MY MOTHER'S SPEECH, by ETHAN GILSDORF Poem Source First Line: My mother, alive only Last Line: Now I must move over to cbs, where %murphy brown awaits Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S TRUNK, by JANE HICKS Poem Source First Line: Plagues me, squats Last Line: Black in the corner, %embracing our lives Subject(s): Mothers; Writing And Writers MY MOTHER'S VOICE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh never on my youthful ear Last Line: On whom a mother never smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips MY MOTHER, HEMMING NAPKINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She sits there in her high-backed rocking-chair Last Line: Remembering all the lovely things she knows. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age MY MOTHER, HER MEMORY BE BLESSED, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: My mother, her memory be blessed, was a perfect saint Last Line: And may her saintliness shine for us and all of israel Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER, WHO CAME FROM CHINA, WHERE SHE NEVER SAW SNOW, by LAUREEN MAR Poem Source First Line: In the huge, retangular room, the ceiling Last Line: Dull thunder passes through their fingers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY NAME, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: I wrote my name on the sidewalk Last Line: Anything %of mine away! Subject(s): Mothers MY OTHER MOTHER, by EVA JOOR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: When did I know you first? I cannot say Last Line: "mah lil w'ite chilluns of mah earthly home?" Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Care; Mothers; Baby Sitters; Governesses MY SIX LITTLE BOYS, by KATHLEEN MOODY NOLEN Poem Text First Line: Oh my little ones around me Last Line: My life has not been lived in vain. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War MY SONG, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This song of mine will wind its music around you Subject(s): Mothers MY TRUST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A picture memory brings to me Last Line: And never cross is borne in vain. Subject(s): Mothers MY VISION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever my feet may wander Last Line: Thinking and praying for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY YOUNG MOTHER, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What she couldn't give me Subject(s): Mothers MYTH, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the Last Line: Too. Everyone knows that.' - she said, 'that's what you think Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Oedipus MYTH, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was asleep while you were dying. Subject(s): Mothers - Death NAMES, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Your mother gave you little names, as if the tide brought them Last Line: That's how your were loved. Sometimes by me Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Names NAPTIME, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: I never want to take my nap Last Line: I've drifted off to sleep Subject(s): Mothers NATURAL HISTORY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are little boys made of, made of? Last Line: That's what young women are made of. Variant Title(s): What Are Folks Made Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NAZI MOTHER, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: I saw a nazi mother hauling hay Last Line: If blood-red poppies tell her why they bloom. Subject(s): Mothers; Nazis; National Socialism NE'ER SHALL I FORGET, by WILLIAM GOLDSMITH BROWN Poem Text First Line: Dear mother! Ne'er shall I forget Last Line: In that blest home, to part no more. Subject(s): Mothers NEEDLE, by JOSEPH+(2) GREEN Poem Source First Line: My mother had a black singer %sewing maching when I was young Last Line: Without thinking of that thread %still connecting us Subject(s): Mothers; Sewing NEGRO MOTHER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children, I come back today Last Line: For I will be with you till no white brother %dares to keep down the children of the negro mother Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Mothers NEW ENGLAND MOTHER-IN-LAW, by FRANCES FUERST QUICK Poem Text First Line: Upon the windows of her caged-in life Last Line: That put it off until this hour -- articulate, too late. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law NEW MOTHER, by ANITA LAURIE CUSHING Poem Source First Line: I need not seek or pray, my newly born Subject(s): Mothers NEW MOTHER, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: She came to take %my mother's %place Last Line: I'm sort of getting used to- %mother Subject(s): Mothers NEW VISION, by PEARLE R. CASEY Poem Text First Line: When laughter lived at home with me Last Line: My hungry, unused mothering! Subject(s): Childlessness; Mothers NEW-MOWN HAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, oh sweet, from the fields to-day Last Line: Of hours in grateful trusting spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age NEWBORN, by SUSAN SUNTREE Poem Source First Line: Whose soul are you? Subject(s): Mothers NEWBORN INFANT, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whether beneath sweet beds of roses Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Children; Mothers NEWS FOR HER MOTHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One mile more is Last Line: Mine from thy heart, make thy nearness seem afar? Subject(s): Mothers NEWS OF MY MOTHER, by JEAN-BAPTISTE TATI-LOUTARD Poem Source First Line: I am now very high upon the tree of the seasons Last Line: Even as if you lived in me again Subject(s): Mothers NEXT TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gingko trees live 1,000 years Last Line: The flesh, the stem, the central vein. Subject(s): Gingko Trees; Mothers NICE BABY, by JUDITH STAHL VIORST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I talked about black humor and the impact of Last Line: That motherhood is very maturing Subject(s): Children; Mothers NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some dusk mother shields from all alarms Last Line: How beautiful the holy hours of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Truth; Wind; Bedtime NIGHT BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, by HOLLY HIRSCH Poem Source First Line: My son plummets on the bed where I sit Subject(s): Mothers NIGHT FEEDING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Last Line: Found in the leaves, in clouds and dark, in dream, %deep as this hour, ready again to sleep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sleep; Women NIGHT FLIGHT, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: My mother, a sorceress, demonstrated Last Line: My daughter is crying again Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Mothers NIGHT PRINCESS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I discover your lace glove Last Line: As you struggle with sleep Subject(s): Mothers; Night NINE STONES: 1. JENNIFER TINNING (12-26-71 TO 1-3-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were the first to feel the soft pillow Last Line: Gone from the planet, synapses, ligaments freed Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 2. JOSEPH TINNING (1-10-70 TO 1-20-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were a cap of bells, a fold at the end Last Line: You were saturday night after calamity Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 3. BARBARA TINNING (5-31-67 TO 3-2-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I aided nurses, drove the school bus. Now Last Line: A flea market tip for her sneaking suspicion Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 4. TIMOTHY TINNING (11-21-73 TO 12-10-73), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Suspicion is not a mysterious disease Last Line: His head. Every funeral is a party Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 5. NATHAN TINNING (3-30-75 TO 9-2-75), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Two minutes of force while your father sleeps Last Line: Even my hair casts its shadow Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 6. MICHAEL TINNING ADOPTED (8-3-78 TO 3-2-81), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Not even your mixed skin could keep you Last Line: Gaze at your open casket, overstuffed with toys Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 7. MARY FRANCIS TINNING (10-29-78 TO 2-22-79), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The apnea monitor, left in the armchair Last Line: On platters of baked cookies, in ham casseroles Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 8. JONATHAN TINNING (11-19-79 TO 3-24-80), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were the proof of someone's backseat Last Line: That's what we need. Duct tape Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder; Pregnancy NINE STONES: 9. TAMI LYNNE TINNING (8-22-85 TO 12-20-85), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: No root to a spring frost. No proof Last Line: From elysium has left her dower of resin Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NIOBE, SELECTION, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too, remember, in the after years Last Line: "she shriek'd, ""strike, god, thou canst not harm me more!" Subject(s): Mothers NO ONE LIKE MOTHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no earthly friend nor kin Last Line: Blest mother-love, it never wanes! Subject(s): Mothers NO OTHER WORD, by E. B. GRIMES Poem Text First Line: There's no other word that's spoken 'neath the starry Last Line: And of all we fondly cherish, none can ever fill her place. Subject(s): Mothers NO WORDS COULD EVER EXPRESS MY LOVE FOR YOU, by DEANNA LAURA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Looking back, %I can see so many sacrifices Last Line: I love you, too Subject(s): Mothers NOBODY KNOWS - BUT MOTHER, by H. C. DODGE Poem Text First Line: Nobody knows of the work it makes Last Line: Nobody can--but mother. Subject(s): Mothers NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER, by MARY MORRISON Poem Text First Line: How many buttons are missing today? Last Line: Nobody knows but mother. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood NOON, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: What adolescent can bear her mother? Last Line: Hold quiet, cupping the reins %as she's been taught Subject(s): Mothers NOT ONE TO SPARE, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which shall it be? Which shall it be? Last Line: Trusting the rest to one in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Variant Title(s): Which Shall It Be? Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood NOTES FOR THE EARLY JOURNEY, by EVELYN E. SHOCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere along the way you will need to lean Last Line: Lullaby I know she meant you to sleep sweet Subject(s): Babies; Mothers NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood NOTICE TO MY COLLEGE CHILDREN, by MADELIN TIGER BASS Poem Source First Line: Home is not the place where your heart is Subject(s): Mothers NOVEMBER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: How long did I overlook november Last Line: Everything dead and forgivable Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; November NOW SHE DESCENDS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now she descends into the earth Last Line: Into real heavens Subject(s): Death – Mothers NOW SHE DESCENDS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now she descends into the earth Last Line: Turns the earth %into real heavens Subject(s): Mothers NUMBER THY LAMPS OF LOVE, AND TELL ME, NOW, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers NURSING MOTHER, SELS., by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranquilized, she speaks or does not speak Last Line: Against this fitful night Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women NUSAIB, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They said last night - to-morrow at first of dawning Subject(s): Mothers O MOTHER I AM NOT REGRETTING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Mothers; Bereavement O MOTHER, MOTHER DEAR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since you were tired and went away Last Line: Without you, mother dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Variant Title(s): The Dead Mother Subject(s): Mothers; Socialism O MY MOTHER (1), by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We who dwell on an orphan star Last Line: I still hear something new %in your increasing love Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women O MY MOTHER (2), by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And borders everywhere of sea -- %you know Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women O SLEEP, MY BABE!, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave Last Line: O'er autumn's latest bloom. Subject(s): Mothers OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Last Line: It's beautiful she thinks- %snow nobody has walked on Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth OCULAR OCCLUSION, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: A certain kind of person %takes in what he sees, filling his eye Last Line: Opens to the sifting flow, %as skin receives the knife Subject(s): Mothers ODD MOMENT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live your values said a voice Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The ODE TO FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the pond, and these are my feet Last Line: Can you see? I have candy in my mouth Subject(s): Mothers ODYSSEY: THE SHADE OF HIS MOTHER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sae she spak an I thocht lang in ma hairt Last Line: Haud in yir mind tae tell thaim tae yir wife Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses OF A SMALL DAUGHTER WALKING OUTDOORS, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Easy wind! %go softly here Last Line: Easy, wind...%she'll tumble over Subject(s): Children; Mothers OFTEN REPEATED SCENE, by NANCY J. NOWAK Poem Source First Line: We tuck %the children Subject(s): Mothers OH, WONDROUS POWER! HOW LITTLE UNDERSTOOD, by MARY W. HALE Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers OLD CITY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Old city sailing by Last Line: Here in tempting old city Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OLD FOLKS AT HOME, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way down upon de swanee ribber [the swanee river] Last Line: Far from de old folks at home! Variant Title(s): Swanee River Subject(s): Absence; Home; Mothers; Separation; Isolation OLD MOTHER CHUNG, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source Last Line: More than flies! Subject(s): Mothers OLD MOTHER TURNS BLUE AND FROM US, by LORINE NIEDECKER Poem Source Last Line: Wash clothes! Weed!' Variant Title(s): Hj; Old Mothe Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OLD MOTHERS, by CHARLES SARSFIELD ROSS Poem Text First Line: I love old mothers - mothers with white hair Last Line: Old garden walks, old roses, and old loves. Variant Title(s): Dear Old Mothers Subject(s): Mothers OLD SONG, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The past hurts, george, but sing and be merry Last Line: Mother, look - he has your eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Kidnapping; Mothers OLD TRICK, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Spring wants me back, %and I should know better than to heed Last Line: A whine. Your own girl will vanish %under that yellowing wing Subject(s): Mothers OLD WOMAN NATURE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't be shocked, %she's heating you some soup Subject(s): Kabuki; Men; Mothers ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Katherine woodcock died; so did her son Last Line: Milton never saw either. He lived on Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mothers And Sons ON A CHILD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of a day, thou knowest not Last Line: Thou wilt not ever see her weep. Variant Title(s): To A Dead Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ON A DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY, by MRS. H. T. GUDGEN Poem Text First Line: Twas thirty years ago today, my dear Last Line: Breeds courage to meet and stem life's tide. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters ON A SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY, by ANNE P. L. FIELD Poem Text First Line: Today my tall broad-shouldered lad Last Line: The little boy that used to be! Subject(s): Mothers ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw where in the shroud did lurk Last Line: A more harmless vanity? Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Mothers; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Text First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross! Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary ON MOTHER'S DAY, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: On mother's day we got up first Last Line: And she was smiling to her ears! Subject(s): Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES O. HARTMAN Poem Source First Line: It's easy to remember Last Line: The horses in their fields %kneel down in terror Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clad in all their brightest green Last Line: Combine to bless thy natal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: The thunderstorm is over Last Line: Because you cannot lie Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY; IN AFFLICTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Withering sorrow wilt thou come Last Line: "though thorns its dewy leaves enclose." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Sickness; Illness ON MY MOTHER'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Yes, mother, fifty years have fled Last Line: This tribute of a daughter's pen. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON THE DAY BEFORE MY MOTHER DIED, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: In the morning %on a street Last Line: Even a pile of bones Subject(s): Death; Mothers ON THE DAY OF THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX, MISSING MY SON, YONGJI, by CHAI JINGYI Poem Source First Line: A day of festivities - I miss my son Last Line: Don't wait for snowfall, whirling white Subject(s): Absence; Mothers And Sons ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World ON THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye fabled muses, I your aid disclaim Last Line: The poor man's portion, and the orphan's stay. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY: THE HYMN, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the winter wild Last Line: Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. Variant Title(s): Christmas Hymn;hymn On Morning Of Christ's Nativity Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers; Nativity, The ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NEIDHART VON REUENTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain, in the valley Last Line: All the young ones into the bushes. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sacrifices; Women ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE [OUT OF NORFOLK], by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that those lips had language! Life has passed Last Line: Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Variant Title(s): Lines To My Mother's Picture;mother's Portrait;my Mother's Picture;lines On Receiving His Mother's Picture Subject(s): Mothers ON THE TREATMENT OF COLIC, by BEVERLY SLAPIN Poem Source First Line: There's no such thing as %maternal instinct Subject(s): Mothers ON VIEWING HER SLEEPING INFANT CHARLES COWPER, by MARIA FRANCES CECILIA (MADAN) COWPER Poem Text First Line: I have seen the rosebud blow Last Line: Till crowned with endless joys above! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ONCE, by ENID L. BARON Poem Source First Line: Hungry mouths %bit and pulled me Subject(s): Mothers ONE DAY MY DAUGHTER WILL LEARN ABOUT ANNE FRANK, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: She'll imagine snow falling Last Line: The world will have turned %so terribly bright Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs. Subject(s): Birth; Babies; Mothers & Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery; Infants ONE MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky Last Line: But only one mother the wide world over Subject(s): Mothers ONE THING WANTING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Your life was hard with mangling clothes Last Line: "there's nothing else I want on earth." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mothers ONION, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Mother is like an onion Last Line: With your words Subject(s): Mothers ONLY ONE MOTHER, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky Last Line: But only one mother the wide world over. Variant Title(s): Mother;only One Subject(s): Mothers ORGAN SONGS: O DO NOT LEAVE ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O do not leave me, mother, lest I weep Last Line: Leaving is left behind. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; God; Mothers; Desertion; Dead, The ORIFLAMME, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her sitting bowed and black Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers ORIFLAMME, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her sitting bowed and black Last Line: Clutching our birthright, fight with faces set %still visioning the stars! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers ORPHEUS PLAYS THE BRONX, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten (no longer Subject(s): Mothers; Substance Abuse; Childhood Memories OTHER GIRLS IN LETTUCE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: These are the reminiscent lettuces Last Line: Words are nipples still allowed Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients OUR LADY'S LULLABY, by RICHARD ROWLANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my lap my sovereign sits Last Line: Sing, lullaby, my life's joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Verstegen, Richard Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our merry little daughter Last Line: To give my mother sorrow! Subject(s): Daughters;girls;grief;mothers & Daughters;parents; Sorrow;sadness;parenthood OUR MADONNA AT HOME, by RAFAEL POMBO Poem Source First Line: Couldst thou portray that face whose Last Line: Nor either mother could my soul %resign Subject(s): Mothers; Portraits OUR MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How oft some passing word will tend Last Line: Unchanged still art thou Subject(s): Mothers OUR MOTHER, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our mother bade us keep the trodden ways Last Line: A deep-toned chant from life unknown to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Mothers OUR MOTHERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o magical word, may it never die from the lips that love to speak it" Last Line: The angels have reared in heaven a shrine to the holy name of mother Subject(s): Mothers OUR MOTHERS, LOVELY WOMEN PITIFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whether or not you bear to look on me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters OUR STUNNING HARVEST, SELS., by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: She recognizes miner's lettuce Last Line: From nuclear holocaust? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OUT DRAWS BEAUTY BY THE MIDWIFE, by JEANNINE ANN O'BRIEN PARVATI BAKER Poem Source Subject(s): Mothers OUTGROWN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is both sad and a relief to fold so carefully Last Line: She stops being a child Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OVER THE WAY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the way, over the way Last Line: "please won't you be my mother-in-law?" Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Women OVERHEARD IN ARCADY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years you've kept the door ajar Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Mothers OWL, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: How far did she fly to find Last Line: Sadness, the one who watches %from the other side Subject(s): Mothers OZARK ODES: SOMEBODY'S MOTHER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flour rose from her shoulders Last Line: Afternoon sky pinking up Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Mothers PACKING HER THINGS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Subject(s): Horses; Mothers & Daughters PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Last Line: And I saw her, at that moment, %in her own death and I knew that she knew Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Mothers And Daughters; Religion PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Like rainhorses running wild through the first three Last Line: Clanging and hissing, the rogues Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTER'S WIFE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here's a glimpse of a famous cloud mountain Last Line: He is painting my portrait yet again, you see Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTING WHAT WE SEE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There is fear, I hug you tight Last Line: There are things we will not see, n'est-ce pas Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PARENT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore Last Line: And that's what parents were created for Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Mothers; Parents PARENTS' DAY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I breathed shallow as I looked for her Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation PARTING OF A MOTHER WITH HER CHILD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew her not, that fair, young boy Last Line: And know thy mother there. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The PATRIOT MOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come tell us the name of the rebelly crew Subject(s): Mothers PAULA'S MOTHER'S GARDEN, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Why is it a violation? -- paula Last Line: Of an individual, those lies, %those tired promises. Subject(s): Death; Gardens And Gardening; Loss; Mothers PEACK COCKS POEMS, SELS., by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I never thought to see us Last Line: Sista -- sista -- been and is Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters; Women PEAR TREE, BARTLETT, QUOTATIONS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unswim the sky, clouds row across Subject(s): Mothers; Despair PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a Last Line: I was your murdered child. Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PEELING POTATOES, by LENORA STEELE Poem Source First Line: I do not think that I Last Line: My clothes line is a perfect %gospel of deceit Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Potatoes PERFECT HEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am alone in the garden, separated Last Line: I would have cut away the crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECOED STRAIGHT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are all the rage these days Last Line: Who wouldn't exchange %one hell for another? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSEPHONE, ANSWERING, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: The girl in me died Last Line: What art is that, always holding on? Subject(s): Mothers PERSISTENCE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters PHASES OF GIRLHOOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fondest love and sweetest pleasure Last Line: He still preserves my virtuous girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Girls; Growth; Mothers & Daughters; Virtue; Infants PHOTOGRAPH OF MY MOTHER SITTING ON THE STEPS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother who isn't anyone's Last Line: The sun of love Subject(s): Mothers PICASSO IS RIGHT, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On my bedroom wall Last Line: The colour that makes everyone weep...' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Women - Middle Aged PICTURES OF MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small thatched cottage, moss-grown, old Last Line: Crushed out beneath my careless feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters PICTURES OF MOTHER, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH Poem Text First Line: My mother's picture as a girl Last Line: The smile of mother mine. Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers; Pictures PILGRIM MOTHERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now thank god for the women Last Line: Through sacrifice and tears? Subject(s): Mothers; Pilgrim Fathers; Women - Heroes PILOT, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: My mother works Last Line: I'll find my way back tomorrow Subject(s): Mothers PLACE TO BEGIN, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: The place to begin is not your death Last Line: That you could almost feel %the child's head resting there; %solid, absolute Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women PLANNING THE FUTURE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed my daughter would be 16 Last Line: The job of waking into each morning, trusting. Subject(s): Future; Love; Mothers & Daughters PLAY OF REAL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From down here, oops, balcon. She walks erect Last Line: Cosmic bad casting but it's too late to start over Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Life; Mothers; Plays And Playwrights; Women PLAYING LADY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to p'ay lady, dear mamma Last Line: "it b'longs on the bare headed one." Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Play; Childhood PLEASANT HILL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is the house you don't want to remember Last Line: Of the child waiting to be hushed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PLEASURES OF FEAR, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Our mothers were talking in the house Last Line: Could ever be washed off with plain soap and water Subject(s): Fear; Mothers POCKETS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The point of clothes was line Last Line: To find both hands and pockets empty. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Sewing POEM FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm going to have it Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Birth; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 MOTHER, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: Remember when I draped Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers POEM FOR MY SONS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Last Line: Like a woman on foot, in a long stepping out Subject(s): Mothers & Sons POEM FOR MY SONS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Women; Conduct Of Life POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Last Line: We are the ones we have been waiting for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM OF TWO, SELS., by MICHELE MURRY Poem Source First Line: My mother talked of breakfast or laundry Last Line: I shook my head. The heavy belly dragged me down Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall / I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall %I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers And Daughters POEM WHERE MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE ABSENT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My sisters and I %on the winding path Last Line: The empty porch swing %creaking in the wind Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POLLIKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Dear little pollikins;--what a strange name Last Line: As pollikins will be a man. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants POLLY, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown eyes / straight nose Last Line: My girl for me ! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood POMEGRANATES, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not finally just a woman's story Last Line: We'd take our childhoods back. We'd feed them fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Pomegranates POOR MOTHER, by WILLIAM WALLACE WHITELOCK Poem Text First Line: When mother was a little girl Last Line: Except upon command. Subject(s): Mothers POPPIES, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poppies blooming all around Last Line: At midnight's darksome hour. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Poppies; Sleep POPPIES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a room Last Line: But expecting %snow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PORTRAIT HOUSE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Rivers climb back to the ceiling where they belong Last Line: That this house has always felt sad Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I can still remember Last Line: Cover the couch with plastic? %return to cuba? %I can still remember you. %sitting there Subject(s): Cuba; Memory; Mothers; Portraits; Retrospection PORTRAIT WITH NO SHORTAGE OF HISTORY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: For a while, it seemed like you could pull the birds back to your arms, the Last Line: I am the road block that makes wounds open. Not a daughter at all, just a %voice, a drug, the breath Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters; Women POSTMAN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I open the door, it is the postman Last Line: Tomorrow he will stand guard by my gate Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged POTATO, by PAM BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Mother prepared them every night Last Line: Down to me, a wedge, raw %and beaded with milk Subject(s): Mothers; Potatoes POTATO SOUP, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: In the early years she helped her mother plant peels Last Line: Down to this, bringing the bottle up slow to meet her lips Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Mothers; Potatoes; Soup POTENTIAL POET, by DEBBIE RHODES POLECASTRO Poem Source First Line: Oh mother %nurture that little girl's dreams Last Line: The prelude to a rare gift %for poetry Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters PRAYER OF A MOTHER-TO-BE, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: Dear god of life and every new born thing Last Line: "of such the kingdom is; let us be led." Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; God; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Child Birth; Midwifery; Roman Catholics; Catholicism PRAYER OF AN OVULATING FEMALE, by DILYS BENNETT LAING Poem Source First Line: I bring no throat-slit kid Last Line: Except according %to the calendar Subject(s): Mothers PRAYER THAT AN INFANT MAY NOT DIE, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, spare to them this very little child Last Line: You live forever at your mother's side. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER TO MY MOTHER, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: It's so hard to say in a son's words Last Line: I'm here, alone, in a future april Subject(s): Mothers PRAYER TO THE MOTHER, by LUCIUS APULEIUS Poem Source First Line: Blessed queen of heaven, whether you are pleased to be known Last Line: Return me to my family, make me lucius once more Alternate Author Name(s): Apuleius Of Madaura Subject(s): Mothers PRECEDENCE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: First to the feet of pain she bore Last Line: Your little tearless children bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood PREGNANCY, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: It is the best thing Last Line: Trapped, stone-mad...And three %beings' lives gel in my womb Subject(s): Children; Mothers PRELUDE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: All day long it has snowed and rained and snowed Last Line: Of whatever all this day hs been listening Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy PRENATAL CARE, by DEBORAH W. DOOLITTLE Poem Source First Line: Walking is a rhythm my fect make Last Line: It's a rhythm my heart makes Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy PRENUPTIAL, by KATHLEEN LYNCH Poem Source First Line: My daughter calls to urge me Last Line: And there will be fruit, mom. %edible fruit Subject(s): Growth; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Plants PREPARING FOR A VISIT, by CLAUDIA GARY ANNIS Poem Source First Line: I know you're not too fond of books, mother, so I've arranged Last Line: Reflection, grap the doorknob, swallow hard, and open wide Subject(s): Change; Mothers PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years Last Line: "warding off despair." Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The PRESENTIMENT, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Tides, current, wind- %I'm as unfaithful as they are Last Line: The water buoyed her body up, %a small flag on the surface Subject(s): Mothers PRETTY NEARLY EVERYBODY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Pretty nearly everybody has some fun each day Last Line: Yet I've never heard of mothers going out to play Subject(s): Mothers; Play PRINCE LUCIFER, SELS., by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers PRINCE ROBERT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Prince robert has wedded a gay ladye Last Line: They were taw lovers dear Subject(s): Mothers-in-law PRIVATE SCHOOL, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: The mothers' wait Last Line: A mother needs to be a powerful player, o child. Endure. Beware. No one %plays fair Subject(s): Mothers; Privacy; Schools PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism PROCESSION, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS Poem Text First Line: Where thou, immortal mother, trod the way Last Line: The fullness of celestial victory. Subject(s): Mothers PROVERBS 31:25-29. THE MOTHER OF THE HOUSE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Strength and dignity are her clothing Last Line: But thou excelleth them all. Subject(s): Mothers PUT TO SLEEP, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back and forth in a rocker Last Line: Had crowed his mother to sleep. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep PUTTING DOLLY TO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother has so many cares Last Line: And rock our babes to sleep. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Dolls; Mothers; Toys; Infants; Childhood PUTTING IN THE SEED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come to fetch me from my work tonight Last Line: Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters PUTTING MY MOTHER TO BED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's shaking, shivering Last Line: You as they escape %in space Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Aging; Beds; Mothers QUEEN MAYADEVI, MOTHER OF BUDDHA & MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS TALK ABOUT..., by JULIE MOULDS Poem Source First Line: The women agree. When mortals draw a cloud, most depict the cumulus Last Line: The open mouths of blasphemers, and baptizing the virgins without umbrellas Subject(s): Clouds; Mary (name); Mothers; Talk QUEEN'S BREAST, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: She was a queen of spain. Her name beside Last Line: With which spain to a whole world gave her breast! Subject(s): Caregivers; Courts And Courtiers; Mothers QUESTION, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and listener she is, but she does not listen Last Line: I come with my word alive Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters QUESTION AND ANSWER (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is that, mother?" Last Line: That he is swell enough to play at golf? Subject(s): Games;golf;mothers;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements QUESTIONS FOR RACHEL'S SURGEON, by TOVAH S. YAVIN Poem Source First Line: Who will make a shiddoch for this frog lady, my spider woman? Last Line: Who will make this shiddoch? %this is what a mother asks Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Surgery RAG, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Runny nose? Last Line: Mother the rag saves the day Subject(s): Mothers RAINBOW HAND, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Look %how the mother loves her baby Last Line: Like a rainbow Subject(s): Mothers RAPHAEL'S MASTERPIECE, by JOSEPH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Come, raphael, I would have you paint me a picture Last Line: Good day to you, sir! Subject(s): Mothers RAPTURE: DOG DAY CICADAS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: A solitary ticking like a reel Last Line: Unfolds four wings to flee to paradise Subject(s): Mothers RATAPLAN, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY Poem Text First Line: O rataplan! It is a merry note Last Line: "and that's the end of glory. ""rataplan!" Subject(s): Mothers READ THIS CAREFULLY, by BOB RAINS Poem Source First Line: When friends I'm trying to amuse Last Line: Best leave this for another day. %okay? Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Mothers READING SNOW WHITE TO MY DAUGHTER, by MAUREEN RYAN GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: Here eyes widen. She actually gasps Last Line: Is choking me. I keep on %reading, feeding her %what she will need Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Mothers And Daughters; Snow White REALITY AND ITS DURATION, by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source First Line: At the end of the workshop, we're doing a meditation from shakti Last Line: Where and when Subject(s): Meditation; Mothers And Daughters; Reality REBECCA, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rebecca, sweet-one, little-one Last Line: Like a needle %through my life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women RECIPROCAL, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You come in your nightgown, clutching Subject(s): Mothers RECOMPENSE, by LAURA D. JEFFERSON Poem Text First Line: You ask me what this day my hands have wrought Last Line: "and what in life surpasses sympathy?" Subject(s): Mothers RECONCILED, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Spectators on the field, we saw Last Line: Nothing explains why he turned back to her, %stunned and waiting Subject(s): Mothers RECONCILIATION, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are standing at your hero's grave Last Line: The mothers of the men who killed your son. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War RED JOURNEYS, SELS., by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: I dream red dreams, an oasis of fire and light Last Line: Tell me: what threads memory, dream, myth, reality? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women RED KIMONO, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: He was never away that long Last Line: We could see the skin %between the edges of the red gown Subject(s): Kimonos; Mothers REFLECTIONS LOST IN THE LADIES ROOM, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Distant flushings sing; run softly; flow Last Line: How well you look.' and flushings sing. 'I know.' Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients REFURBISHING A BOAT FOR MY SON, CAN, TO USE AS A STUDY, by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: I was always conscience-stricken Last Line: I've fixed it up with old coverlets woven of blue silk Subject(s): Mothers REFUSAL, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: When she heard her daughter fall, %the mother's world closed Last Line: But no-the day turns %its black cloak, a gaping hole Subject(s): Mothers RELIEF CASE, by ANNE MOTT-SMITH Poem Text First Line: In all that dusty hall Last Line: That he should share her fate. Subject(s): Mothers; Poverty REMAINS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I left the knife in the sink Last Line: Dearest. All I left for you to find Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States REMEMBRANCE, by JOHN HENRY BONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that we retain of our dead friends Last Line: Remember only when her babe first smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies REMEMBRANCE, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: This memory of my mother stays with me Last Line: She waits, from earthly cares forever free. Subject(s): Mothers REMEMBRANCES, by JAMES ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would, mother, thou couldst hear me tell Last Line: Mid sweet remembrances of thee. Subject(s): Mothers RENEE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She still approaches %murmurs, whispers Last Line: Who could not gather seedlings Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Pictures REPRIEVE, by MARY THACHER HIGGINSON Poem Text First Line: Tempests and clouds made dark the day Last Line: Denied me one more chance? Alternate Author Name(s): Potter, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers REPRISE, by KATHY FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: I saw my mother on the road today Last Line: That only I could tell %only to her Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Mothers RESCUING THE BUDDHA, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There are more than 50,000 rivers in china Last Line: As if related by blood, his brothers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged RESEMBLANCE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I have on mine no likeness Last Line: And stamped me as your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters RESPITE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowsing, the other afternoon, I lay Last Line: That now again beneath their lids are hot. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Mothers; Dead, The; Nightmares RESPONSE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little one, sleep for me Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood RESPONSE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little one, sleep for me Last Line: As stars appear %in the dark %skies Subject(s): Children; Mothers RETURN, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: You magic thing, you brother Last Line: Gleaming in the light, %she rows herself out Subject(s): Mothers REVELATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he had spoken harshly to his mother Last Line: Something important about love, and about love's grace. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons RICHES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Glad heart, clear brain, clean hands Last Line: That's happiness enough for you and me. Subject(s): Children; March (month); Mothers; Childhood RIGHT MEANING, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, you know there is a place somewhere called Last Line: Eating her lunch, and her eyes that will die descend gently %along my arms Subject(s): Men; Mothers RIMBAUD'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: The candy striper on her rounds Last Line: Approaching stress and stress that perishes Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients RIZPAH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the desolate rizpah said Last Line: The beasts of the desert, and fowls of air. Subject(s): Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sons, how many generations Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar. Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English ROADSIDE POEMS: A DREAM OF WAKING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child was born in sin and shame Last Line: And melt the earthly dream. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ROADSIDE POEMS: RECIPROCITY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother, elfie older grown Subject(s): God; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep ROADSIDE POEMS: THE CHILD-MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily slumbered noonday bright Last Line: "I did not let him go!" Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood ROADSIDE POEMS: THE WAKEFUL SLEEPER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When things are holding wonted pace Last Line: The child is with the father. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth ROCKING MY CHILD, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The sea its millions of waves Last Line: I'm rocking my child Subject(s): Children; Mothers ROMEO AND JULIET, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mothers; Supernatural 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 MEDALLION, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: My mother collected rose medallion china; stately court scenes Last Line: An effort to order chaos, a triumph of grace Subject(s): Death; Mothers ROSES, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: I can barely imagine my mother Last Line: The promiscuous roses %of her disappointment Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Roses ROZSA IN THE PARLOR, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: The pedal of the sewing machine Last Line: Up a stairway of tilting and rolling steps Subject(s): Babies; Budapest, Hungary; Mothers RUIN, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: When I was young, it was enough Last Line: All of it a locked tomb, and me %in my iron boat Subject(s): Mothers RUTH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby girl not two years old Last Line: "safe in the arms of love divine." Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love; Mothers; Infants S.E., by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She passes up and down life's various ways Last Line: Makes her more precious and more wise and dear. Subject(s): Baseball; Mothers; Sports SABINA, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stair was steep; the tower was tall Last Line: And let her boy run on. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Widows & Widowers SAFEWAY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after an hour in her room Last Line: From what couldn't be saved Subject(s): Sickness; Mothers; Illness SAIL EAST, SAIL WEST, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail east, sail west, o wanderer Last Line: To stay with children round her knee. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Mothers SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SAINT BERNARD'S HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin mother, daughter of your son Last Line: All the good of all created things Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Saint Bernard's Hymn Of Praise To Virgin Mary (paradiso -- Canto 33 Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible SAINT-LIEUX: THE TEACHER'S DAUGHTER, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: From the ecole maternelle Last Line: The still-born infant of imagination Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Mothers; Teaching And Teachers SATISFACTION OF PIE, by SUSAN MEYERS Poem Source First Line: This week I have been lonely; it worries my mother Last Line: My mother nodes how sweet it sounds, %how difficult to clean Subject(s): Food And Eating; Mothers SAVING HIMSELF, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Because my daughter loves the dog Last Line: Bounding in and out of sight, a flash %in the continuing black weave Variant Title(s): Saving Hersel Subject(s): Mothers SAWING, by SUSAN SUNTREE Poem Source First Line: Mothers swaying %though infants Subject(s): Mothers SCEPTICS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When your old dad was as little as you Last Line: We used to spank children for mischief like that. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood SCOTIA: A VISION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight's solemn peal had rung Last Line: Seemed wrapt in sadder, deeper gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCOTLAND, MY MOTHER AND THE CORDON BLEU, by SHANNON M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The blue cookbooks arrived in graceful brown envelopes Last Line: Boiler-top in which the chocolate, so gently, begins to melt Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Mothers SCRAPS, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Source First Line: Now my mother's house is filling up Last Line: So you won't have to, her voice %like parchment in the flames Subject(s): Conversation; Memory; Mothers SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is an end Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp. Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness SEA CHANTY, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother hates the sea Last Line: - thy mother's feet - was its answer Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Mothers; Sea SEA RETURNS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Mother, mother, I hear the sound at the door Last Line: Daughta? Daughta? Daughta? Og gawd. She caan swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEA SLUMBER-SONG, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea birds are asleep Last Line: "good-night!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean SEARCH, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: An itch I couldn't get to Last Line: Listening to the god of the backwards clock Subject(s): Mothers SECOND LIFE OF MY MOTHER, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: I hear your familiar footsteps all about me Last Line: In vast simple chorus, surround and sustain me! Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Presence SEED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the sun, balancing Last Line: The husk and the heart %of the fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEEING OAKS: 1., by FRANCES PRESLEY Poem Source First Line: Her love of her mother. Her mother's gift of language. We were Last Line: Some twigs. They could clear this away Subject(s): Mothers; Oak Trees SEEING OFF THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could have sworn by the veil Last Line: For four men to carry her to the altar Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The SELECTED FOR THE MASS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Something other than what happened was remembered Last Line: To nothing: little miss fear. Miss flesh Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients SELF-PORTRAIT WITH HORSE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Her room emptied of everything Last Line: Into a heart, wall-eyed, %still beating Subject(s): Mothers SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name. Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd have thought her diamond was set in my flesh Last Line: Wahpeton - mandan - medora - to vanishing point. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters SEMBLANCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over your mother's grave Last Line: Its meaning. You pray %to the air Subject(s): Graves; Mothers; Prayer SEND THEM TO BED WITH A KISS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o mothers, so weary, discouraged" Last Line: Send the children to bed with a kiss! Subject(s): Mothers SENSING DUNCAN, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know this poem by emily dickinson? Asked Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers SEPARATION, by BESSE PATTERSON GEPHART Poem Text First Line: My son is gone Last Line: I would not mind. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Sons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SERVITUDE, by TINA CHANG Poem Source First Line: She takes one breast out of her silken undershirt Last Line: My mouth is a bowl that holds no words Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Mothers SESTINA OF THE ALCOHOLIC DAUGHTER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I keep returning to that muttering woman Last Line: Her hands in mine -- to lead her home, trusting we'd find the way Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Daughters; Mothers; Nursing Homes SEVEN TIMES FOUR [ - MATERNITY], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! Daisies and buttercups Last Line: God that is over us all! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood SEVEN TIMES SIX [ - GIVING IN MARRIAGE], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bear, to nurse, to rear Last Line: To love -- and then to lose. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SEWIN' BUTTONS ON, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every time my mother sews Last Line: But she says it is the nicest plan she ever, ever heard! Subject(s): Buttons; Children; Mothers; Sewing; Childhood SEX, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the bare feet on the warm boardwalk Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SHADOW LIMB, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It was a dr. Murphy %who cut my mother's leg off Last Line: And the shadows were mine Subject(s): Amputees; Mothers; Physicians SHADOWS, by ALVERDA VAN TUYLL Poem Text First Line: All day they frisk about the tree, quick darting as if shy Last Line: It's good to know of one place where there's always light instead. Subject(s): Mothers SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHARING WITH GOD, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love,' she said, with her faint, sweet smile Last Line: "to share with god in a human soul?" Variant Title(s): A Woman Subject(s): Mothers SHARKS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Once, out back, where Last Line: With a full set %of teeth and nothing to learn Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sharks SHE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Works, rears children, is never paid Last Line: Like you or me? Subject(s): Mothers SHE COULD NOT LIVE UPON THE PAST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mother that has not a knell %for either duke or robin Variant Title(s): Poem: 1505; Poem: 153 Subject(s): Mothers SHE MADE HOME HAPPY, by HENRY COYLE Poem Text First Line: She made home happy!' these few words I read Last Line: Was grander than the soldier's, to my mind. Subject(s): Mothers SHE WAS TELLING IT THIS WAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Shima shil hoolne %my mother, she was telling it this way Last Line: A basket securely at my breast Subject(s): Mothers SHE WENT TO STAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to chop mother down is like Last Line: I couldn't Subject(s): Loyalty; Mothers SHE WENT TO STAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to chop mother down is like Last Line: With phalangists for hat-pins. %I couldn't Subject(s): Loyalty; Mothers SHE WIPES OUT TIME, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Alzheimer's Disease SHINGLING THE NEW ROOF, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the roof of the garage my father was Last Line: A sharp impression deepening to a bruise. Subject(s): Accidents; Labor & Laborers; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Work; Workers SICK DAYS, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: On days when I am sick in bed Last Line: And everything is perfect- %except that I am sick! Subject(s): Mothers SIMILE, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As when her friend, the crack austrian skier, in the story Subject(s): Skiing; Fear; Mothers; Death; Dead, The SINGLE MOTHER, 1966, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No money Last Line: -and god making %words %words Subject(s): Mothers SINGLE MOTHER, ANOINTING 133RD AND LENNOX, by LINWOOD M. ROSS Poem Source First Line: You just know Last Line: Shoes, manless, and wearing those invisible jewels of self-determination, %she reigns Subject(s): African Americans; Mothers SIREN ISLES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Stranger %this is not your home Last Line: I am a fish no desire %will allow you to reach Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIRENS' DEFENSE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When we sing Last Line: Steering them %into these rocks Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SISTER MOTHER EARTH, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Summer in umbria; the light demanding Last Line: Blue night-light in the darkness of her room Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry And Poets SLAVE TRADE: NEW ORLEANS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To begin with, the slaves had to wash themselves well Subject(s): Slavery; Mothers; Grief; Serfs; Sorrow; Sadness SLEEP SONG OF MOTHERHOOD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Little one - little one - child of my breast Last Line: My crooning sleep song to thee, rapturous thing! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When day is over, mother sings songs Last Line: And he doesn't even hear mother putting out the light. Subject(s): April; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Infants SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP!, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It must not wake my little child. %sleep, baby, sleep Subject(s): Mothers SMALL DEFEATS: THE HEAD START MOTHERS OF HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: We are here, all of us, despite public, unreal Last Line: Brings us here - we, ourselves, all our learning, our school Subject(s): Mississippi; Mothers SMALL WINGS, SELS., by MAUDE MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: She has withdrawn from us Last Line: Calligraphy of small swift wings take flight Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women SMART GIRL, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Turning fourteen, the oldest, you learn Last Line: Then back to school, a sophomore Subject(s): Girls; Health; Mothers; Nome, Alaska SMOTHER LOVE, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: The boy asks his mother Last Line: Shouting, 'you trying to kill me? Subject(s): Mothers SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence Subject(s): Mothers; Grandparents; Snow; Childhood Memories SO EARLY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I wake so early Last Line: Can you tell me, whoever you are, what this pain is for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOFT WINGS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a beggar woman bare Last Line: Would warm a world for everyone! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Mothers SOLACE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I found a nest this morning, in the grass Last Line: Someone was near. I think she found only silence Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Death; Mothers SOLICITUDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No mother minds so tenderly Last Line: About a slumbering isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mothers SOLIDARIETA ALL'ORA DI CENA, by DANUTA VIDALI Poem Source First Line: A quest'ora le zie polacche Last Line: Che in alto bolle Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Death; Dinners And Dining; Italy; Mothers SOLIDARITY AT DINNER TIME, by DANUTA VIDALI Poem Source First Line: My polish aunts Last Line: Above Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Death; Dinners And Dining; Italy; Mothers SOLSTICE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: The child, thirteen, pushing away Last Line: That's what failure sounds like: %explaining and explaining Subject(s): Mothers SOME ANGELS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Every day I paint all day, riding Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME MOTHER, by JOSEPH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Some mother loves them no matter how far Last Line: Some mother somewhere loves them all. Subject(s): Mothers SOME MOTHER'S CHILD, by FRANCIS L. KEELER Poem Text First Line: No matter how far from the right she hath strayed Last Line: For her sake deal gently with--some mother's child. Subject(s): Mothers SOME MOTHERS & SOME OTHERS, by ELEONORE F. HAHN Poem Full Text First Line: Within her home a woman dwelled Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Mothers; Women SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You will be famous, your mouth Last Line: You will eat the world Subject(s): Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Nature SOME RIVERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Gave me some rivers some moons some rain, I forget when Last Line: Some hands take some things Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME TIME, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, my darling, as you slept Last Line: But some time you shall know. Subject(s): Mothers SOMEBODY'S DARLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Into a ward of the whitewashed halls Last Line: Somebody's darling slumbers here. Subject(s): Mothers SOMETHING BETTER, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: Ten little heads have found their sweetest rest Last Line: Is something better and more noble still. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Mothers SOMETHING LIKE FLYING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You point them out to me Last Line: Another coming up to take the lead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SOMETHING TO SAVE, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Circling, the leaves above me Last Line: Wasted on the ground Subject(s): Mothers SON, by RON SMITH Poem Source First Line: O, she says, o, but doesn't Last Line: Contrivance - it's disgusting. %words can't do this Subject(s): Mothers And Sons SON AND MOTHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what you are fighting against, fatuous mother Last Line: Go -- and wait. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Mothers; Passion; Sons SON MOURNS HIS ADOPTIVE MOTHER (AUGUST 1, 1994), by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG Poem Source First Line: So tonight I am truly Last Line: Hold them close as that last hand extended I press Subject(s): Death; Mothers SONG, by DOROTHEA (ANNESLEY) DUBOIS Poem Text First Line: A scholar first my love implored Last Line: Without referring to my mother. Subject(s): Courtship; Mothers SONG, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The house is a cote for doves Last Line: The rhythms of the sea resound Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Mothers And Sons SONG, by CHARLOTTE MANDEL Poem Source First Line: I am skimming the rising gray foam Subject(s): Mothers SONG (2), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby, baby, baby dear Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood SONG (2), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby, baby, baby dear Last Line: Only content and we are here, %my baby dear Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Mothers SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart / when you break thru Last Line: To break your heart forever Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart %when you break thru Last Line: To break your heart %forever Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There in the flower garden Last Line: There in the rosary %they'll kill me Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Mothers SONG OF SOLOMON: THE SONG OF SONGS: 8, 5, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who is this coming out of the desert Last Line: There your mother laboured for you, %laboured and gave you life Subject(s): Love; Mothers SONG OF THE DOVE, by FREDRIKA BREMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sitteth a dove, so white and fair Last Line: That sits on the lily-spray. Variant Title(s): Swedish Mother's Lullany [or, Hymn] Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers; Nativity, The SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight SONG OF THE LARK, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: As in a quiet landscape of millet Last Line: Is their marvelous mother really part bird? Subject(s): Birds; Mothers SONG OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILD, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, my mouth is dimpled, Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood SONG OF THE YOUNG MOTHER, by CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: M'-m'-m'-m'n! N'-n'-n'-n'-m! Last Line: A woman watches thee ! Subject(s): Mothers SONG OF TWILIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, to come home once more, when the dusk is falling Subject(s): Dusk; Mothers SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man" Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG: EARLY DEATH OF THE MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last tear turns Last Line: Kingdom is born. Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement SONGS FOR MY MOTHER, by ANTHONY F. KLINKNER Poem Text First Line: The incensed song of morning breaks Last Line: And all the dreams of things to be are dreams of things that are. Subject(s): Mothers SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 1. HER CLOTHES, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was small, my mother's clothes Last Line: So comfortable are they. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mothers SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 2. HER HANDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's hands are cool and fair Last Line: Hollow and beautiful. Variant Title(s): Her Hands Subject(s): Hands; Mothers SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 3. HER WORDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother has the prettiest tricks Last Line: How beautiful they are. Variant Title(s): Her Words Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 4. HER STORIES, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I always liked to go to bed Last Line: And dim as lavender. Subject(s): Mothers SONGS OF LOVE AND YOUTH: PROLOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Even as one who finds his face Last Line: But ever battling upwards,—battling towards the light. Subject(s): Family Life; Hearts; Love; Mothers; Youth; Relatives SONNET ADDRESSED TO MY MOTHER, by MARY TIGHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou! Whose tender smile most partially Last Line: The soul which loves to own whate'er it has is thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Mothers SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charles, my slow heart was only sad, when first Last Line: And dearer was the mother for the child. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To A Friend Who Asked How I Felt;mother And Child;to A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When The Nurse First Presented Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Parenthood SONNET TO MY MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, maternal guardian of my youth Last Line: Their pleasing care affliction shall beguile. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers SONNET TO MY MOTHER, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the angels in the heavens above Last Line: Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life Subject(s): Mothers-in-law SONNET TO MY MOTHER, B. HEINE, NEE VON GELDERN: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been wont to bear my head right high Last Line: Which loved me, more than all things else, the best. Variant Title(s): Submission Subject(s): Mothers SONNET TO MY MOTHER, B. HEINE, NEE VON GELDERN: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With foolish fancy I deserted thee Last Line: That was the sweet love I so long had sought. Subject(s): Mothers SONNET TO MY SON, by ANNEMARIE EWING Poem Text First Line: Let us walk together again, my little son Last Line: Will bring you to my side, my son, again. Alternate Author Name(s): Towner, John H., Mrs.; Towner, Annemarie Ewing Subject(s): Mothers & Sons SONNET TO THAT GREAT MOTHER SCHUMANN-HEINK, by MARIAN LELAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your brow the shining star of hope Subject(s): Mothers SONNET WRITTEN BY FRA. GORGIA WHO WAS BORN AS ... MOTHER TO HER GRAVE, by FRA. GORGIA Poem Text First Line: Unhappy I came from my mother's womb Last Line: For I, in death's cold arms, receiv'd my birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death - Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The SONNET, WRITTEN AT THE COUCH OF A DYING PARENT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight! And pale melancholy stands Last Line: And let sweet slumber lull my weeping woe. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The SONNET: 11, by MARION J. HELZ PERRY Poem Source First Line: The baby's face shatters like a vase Subject(s): Mothers SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 16. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men Last Line: Clothed round with song forever as with fire. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Sorrow; Sadness SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tar of my heart, the melancholia Last Line: What's been said. %you may read it Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Dreams; Faith; Freedom; Mexican American Families; Mothers; Silence; Women - Secluding; Women's Rights SORCERY, by ANNE WARD JAMIESON Poem Source First Line: I stood, my eyes level with the knob Last Line: Clouding its flat yolk of yellow blood Subject(s): Eggs; Magic; Mothers SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 2, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pressed my baby to my throbbing breast Last Line: Some wish, the bitter grief he caused me, to console! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Grief; Mothers - Unwed; Seduction SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 3, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On, on -- through many a dark and mounrful day Last Line: And, shrinking back, it turned to that kind one, and smiled Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Mothers - Unwed SPACE STATION, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and I and the dog were floating Subject(s): Mothers; Dogs; Weightlessness SPAN, by JEAN MCCAMY Poem Source First Line: It's not been long Subject(s): Mothers SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 16, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, mother, they have broken Last Line: I mind the village gossip Subject(s): Mothers SPEAKING, SHE SAID, by STELLA LUCIA MANN Poem Text First Line: As you grow older Last Line: Your face is a beautiful map of the world! Subject(s): Aging; Mothers SPECIAL WORDS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she has special words Last Line: Don't really mean so awful much. Subject(s): Children; Language; Mothers; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary SPECIALIST FROM CHICAGO', by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source Last Line: Breast? Suppose he had never been called? %who makes history? Subject(s): History; Mothers; Physicians SPELL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A hag is riding my back Last Line: But the moon turns to stone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SPHERES OF INFLUENCE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Under a full moon, mother Last Line: Crescent, quarter, gibbous, full Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Mothers SPIRITUAL: THE LONELY MOTHER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my mother's moaning by the river Last Line: Swaying for her son who walks in sorrow. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Black Songs; Despair; Mothers; Negro Spirituals SPONSA DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb of god! Yea, mary, and thy lamb! Last Line: For a sick child, his own and mary's son? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELSA WERTMAN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant girl from germany Last Line: That's my son! That's my son! Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LUCINDA MATLOCK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the dances at chandlerville Last Line: It takes life to love life. Variant Title(s): Lucinda Matlock Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The SPOONFEEDING MY BABY, by PEGGY O'MARA MCMAHON Poem Source First Line: Silver and glass Subject(s): Mothers SPRING, by PATRICIA CUMMING Poem Source First Line: Sue asked, why is there a line Last Line: The shadows, hers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women SPRING AND MOTHER, by CAROLINE DARR FITZSIMMONS Poem Text First Line: Far away in wooded fields Last Line: Dear the precepts that you taught. Subject(s): Mothers; Spring ST. AUGUSTINE AND MONICA, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When monica's young son had felt her kiss Last Line: Rose like a star upon his mother's tears! Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Monica, Saint (333-387); Mothers; Saints; Augustine Of Hippo ST. PEREGRINUS' CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: His miracles abbreviated, lives of saints Last Line: We were alike, at last Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients STABAT MATER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O thou mournful mother, standing by the cross with / eyes uplift Last Line: How a mother's pain may be a soul's sublime beatitude. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Pain; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery STAMINA, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: The bed, the laminated stand Last Line: The absences, no obstacle to calm Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients STANZAS (1), by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast left us long, my mother dear Last Line: And hath only purified! Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The STATION (3), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching my little sister how to fly when she broke Last Line: "the snow is disappearing toward Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters STATUE OF NEPTUNE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: He is a powerful-handsome man Last Line: It is,' I say, with a big smile Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STEALING A LINE WRITTEN BY HAFIZ AND TRANSLATED BY EMERSON, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters STEPPING DOWN FOR SUNDAY, by MARY KATHERINE KUBITZ Poem Source First Line: On saturday nights she would test Last Line: Built by her father Subject(s): Mothers STILL LIFE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At moments almost thinking of her, I was Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness STILLBIRTH, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: She said, 'your daughters' Subject(s): Mothers STORY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: When anyone comes from Last Line: Before I too fly out of the story Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STORY BEHIND BLACKBERRY SOUR CREAM PIE, by LESLIE PATTEN Poem Source First Line: When I was a baby, my mother Subject(s): Food And Eating; Mothers; Pies STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Last Line: For the vanished mother %of a black girl Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women STREAMSIDE EXCHANGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Child: river bird, river bird Last Line: And so has your mother Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Mothers STREET NAMES, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: I read all the names of the streets as we drove to visit him Last Line: And see them populated with no one I now love Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mothers; Sickness SUCKING CIDER THROUGH A STRAW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The prettiest girl / that I ever saw Last Line: Through a straw Subject(s): Cider;love;mothers-in-law SUITE FOR KOKODICHOLAI, SRI LANKA: 1. DAUGHTER, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's name was mamangam maheswary Last Line: Her full name was mamangam maheswary Subject(s): Mothers SUN AND MOON, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Between my aged mother's hands gleam bright Last Line: The moon in my dear mother's silver hair! Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age SUNBATHING, by INGRID SWANBERG Poem Source First Line: The bright sun bringing out Subject(s): Mothers SUNDAY DINNER, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always my grandparents arrived Last Line: Prick it and prick it and prick it Subject(s): Absence; Dinners And Dining; Mothers; Poetry And Poets SUNDAY DRIVE WITH MOM, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE Poem Source First Line: It's another sunday drive Last Line: A curious turn- %yes. We're lost. %again Subject(s): Mothers SUNDAY NIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two grave brown eyes, severely bent Last Line: And smile again at her accounts! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Mothers SUNNY MORNING, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The sails that quiver in the morning breeze Last Line: They scatter in the stillness of the day? Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Seashore SUNSET ON THE WHARF, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: John crows fill the red sky. Coming in Last Line: Grains disintegrating under the dying light of the sun Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SUPREME MOTHER-LOVE, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was a poor Subject(s): Mothers SWEAT IN THE MOONLIGHT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Which way is the water going Last Line: And see my sweat in the moonlight Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Mothers SWEDISH MOTHER (NEBRASKA), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You shall hear the tale again Last Line: In the sunset grazing Subject(s): Mothers; Nebraska SWEET, by LISA GLATT Poem Source First Line: On sundays my step-father made his baked spaghetti. It Last Line: I lived there too, that I understood the sweetness she %needed was necessary Subject(s): Mothers; Stepfathers SWEET HEART, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here I am, sweet heart, my long white lizzie siddal skirts Last Line: Who is afraid Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SWEET KISS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was little and had Last Line: Been crying as she punished me Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Punishment SWEETLY SLEEP, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, my baby; sleep, my boy Subject(s): Mothers TALE: 8. THE MOTHER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a worthy, but a simple pair Last Line: And, gazing, slowly from the glass retired. Subject(s): Mothers TALISMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All heaven in my arm Last Line: With all heaven in my arm? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood TALK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark square wooden room at noon Last Line: A deep pond - and she cannot swim, %the child cannot swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Swimming 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 TANKA, by ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU Poem Source First Line: Carrying mother on my back Last Line: She's so light Subject(s): Mothers TASTE OF APPLES, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All morning my daughter has been picking apples Last Line: The hard, shiny fruits %I will bite into, one by one, savoring each Subject(s): Apples; Children; Fruit; Mothers And Daughters TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Last Line: Promise corrupts %what it does not invent Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers And Daughters; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Women TEACHINGS, by STEPHANIE LEVIN Poem Source First Line: While I was still inside her Last Line: I knew that here, too, was a story Subject(s): Mothers TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness TELL ME FAIREST MAIDEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once a little angel Last Line: Through the gates above? Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants TELLING THE GOSPEL TRUTH, by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who placed this here, bible Last Line: Whither. %whither Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Women - Bible; Women And Religion; Writing And Writers TEMPLE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Let her sleep begin with folderol Last Line: Lights donated in the name of so-and-so Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TEN O'CLOCK NO MORE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has thrown Last Line: And looked again. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Sleep; Trees; Dead, The TERESA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I too happy? Have I lost Last Line: Bertrand and I and angelo! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mothers; Religion; Paradise; Theology THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE TAUGHT ME, by SHARON MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: Mother, you have sacrificed Last Line: I love you Subject(s): Mothers THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME ABOUT LIFE, by EDMUND O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Mother, whenever I set aside Last Line: And those lessons have stayed %with me all my life Subject(s): Mothers THANK YOU, MOTHER, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: I want to apologize Subject(s): Mothers THAT I WILL NOT BE A RESTLESS GHOST, SELS., by MARGARET MEAD Poem Source First Line: That I will not be a restless ghost Last Line: And all the future in your hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women THAT STRENGTH, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That strength. Mother, dug out. Hammered, chained Last Line: Mother / broke Subject(s): Mothers THAT YEAR, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Winter nailed itself to the ground Last Line: Everything in my rich dirt was sure to rise Subject(s): Mothers THAT-AIR YOUNG-UN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That-air young-un ust to set Last Line: "now what's it a-talkin' of?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Rain; Childhood THE ADVERSARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's hardest to forgive Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers THE AFFLICTION OF MARGARET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, my beloved son Last Line: I have no other earthly friend! Variant Title(s): A Mother's Lament Subject(s): Mothers THE ALCHEMIST, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Who soothed me after my boyish fight Last Line: My mother. Subject(s): Mothers THE ALL-KIND MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, whatever is at hand Last Line: "at her merciful ""arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mothers; Nature THE ALTRUIST ORDER, SELECTION, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: He will not sleep, my child Last Line: May shine the radiant sun: mankind's first god! Subject(s): Babies; Home; Life; Mothers; Silence; Infants THE ARGIVE MOTHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the terse heroic pages Last Line: Have no patience in our prayer! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Juno (goddess); Mothers; Women - Heroes THE AULD HOUSE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the auld house, the auld house! Last Line: Now hid 'mang weeds and grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cruel manger, how bleak, how bleak! Last Line: Break, o heart, for thy god! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mothers & Sons; Worship THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did you come from, baby dear? Last Line: God thought of you, and so I am here. Variant Title(s): "where Did You Come From, Baby Dear?""; Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE BEST THING I DID, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE. A LAMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Last Line: Why was I made for love and love denied to me? Subject(s): Date Trees; Love - Complaints; Mothers THE BODY OF THE DREAM, by SUSAN WOOD Poet's Biography First Line: It was evening and gold light fell Subject(s): Dreams; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Mothers; Nightmares THE BOOK OF BOOKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We search the world for truth Last Line: Is in the book our mothers read. Variant Title(s): Knowledge;the Bible;the Book Our Mothers Read Subject(s): Bible; Knowledge; Mothers THE BOUNTY: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the vision of the tourist board and the true Subject(s): Mothers THE BOUNTY: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There on the beach, in the desert, lies the dark well Subject(s): Mothers THE BOUNTY: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bounty! / in the bells of tree-frogs with their steady clamour Subject(s): Mothers THE BOUNTY: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But can she or can she not read this? Can you read this Subject(s): Mothers THE BOY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it that mother Last Line: Dear, sleepless heart of my mother! Subject(s): Mothers THE BOY PAINTER, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little heart where slept the germ, as yet in night concealed Last Line: And a world's tears the fruit embalm in many a classic bower Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Mothers; West, Benjamin (1738-1820) THE BREAD ITSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, in my unwanted suffering, I turn to you Variant Title(s): Threnody Subject(s): Mothers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BROKEN HEART, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lock my chamber-door, father Last Line: And the dear home beyond them! Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Despair; Mothers-in-law THE BUILDING OF THE NEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They'll come again to the apple-tree Last Line: Your fairy building grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Mothers; Weavers And Weaving THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion. Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE CALL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lunged out of sleep toward the ringin Last Line: For a moment like still more rain Subject(s): Sickness; Mothers; Rain THE CALLING MOTHERLAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the lone height of some untrodden hill Last Line: Across the world dear voices calling still. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Loss; Mothers; Childhood THE CEDAR CHEST, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mind is like her cedar chest Last Line: Her small and sweet maternal words. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Mothers THE CHANGELING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the changeling enter in? Last Line: Came back, and I did not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Child Custody; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHIEF WITNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her that hath hid a babe beneath her breast Last Line: "through me the race aspires from man to man!" Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sons; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHILD, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See yon blithe child that dances in our sight! Last Line: Such solace to his care. Subject(s): Mothers THE CHILD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard her crying in the night Last Line: A child -- and sent her back to him! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little feet running upon the floor Last Line: And even the sweets the heart thought past recover. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Feet; Kisses; Mothers; Youth; Childhood THE CHILD ALONE: 7. THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening when the lamp is lit Last Line: At my dear land of story-books. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Play; Reading; Childhood THE CHILD IN BLACK, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Out in the street the children play Last Line: For sending her away? Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE CHILD'S MOTHER, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who was with her all the time, a child Last Line: But then I never knew that she was young. Subject(s): Mothers THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: When I was but a little tot Last Line: Within the nurseries of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women; Childhood THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children she had missed Last Line: Was a dream, but a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Heaven; Mothers; Women; Childhood; Paradise THE CHILDREN, by MARY K. BUCK Poem Text First Line: Through the day, when the children are round me Last Line: Mother's smile and the tender caress. Subject(s): Mothers THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir nameless, once of athelhall, declared Last Line: "who was this old stone man beneath our toes?" Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE CHINESE SON, by ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: I come to thee, my mother! The black sky Last Line: It was a smile of thine, to bless me with its beam. Subject(s): Mothers THE CITY OF SALT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sun-drenched Last Line: And sweet to taste. Subject(s): Cities; Mothers; Salt; Urban Life THE CLASP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters THE COFFEE MY MOTHER USED TO MAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in indiany,' says a stranger, lank and slim Last Line: "but,"" wipin' of his eyes, says he, ""yet coffee's mighty hot!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Like His Mother Used To Make Subject(s): Coffee; Mothers THE COMRADE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger by the tavern board Last Line: Winnowed by the wave and sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ships & Shipping; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE COTTAGER TO HER INFANT, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The days are cold, the nights are long Last Line: And wake when it is day. Variant Title(s): The Cottager's Lullaby;to My Niece Dorothy, A Sleepless Baby Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Wordsworth, Dorothy (dora) (1804-1847); Infants THE COUNTERPANE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Who were you, with the busy, patient hands Last Line: The simple pattern of your peerless days. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE COUNTRY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country child has fragrances Last Line: And in his cheeks old roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Innocence; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE COWSLIP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It brings my mother back to me Last Line: The mother and the boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers & Sons THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne. Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies THE CROSS; TO THE MOTHERS OF THE MARTYRED DEAD UPON FIELD OF BATTLE, by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER Poem Text First Line: My flesh cries out for its own flesh! Last Line: And share with thee the tortures of the cross. Subject(s): Martyrs; Mothers & Sons; Religion; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Theology THE CROWN OF WOMANHOOD, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: I am a mother! - that, and no other Last Line: Here is the crown of my womanhood won! Subject(s): Mothers THE CRUEL MOTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She lean'd her back unto a thorn Subject(s): Cruelty;mothers;murder;sons THE CRUEL MOTHER (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She sat down below a thorn Last Line: And the green leaves they grow rarely Subject(s): Mothers;murder THE CRY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the trampled gardens once so fair Last Line: "mother!" Subject(s): Death - Mothers; War; Dead, The THE CRY ETERNAL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last eve and through the night I heard a cry Last Line: What woman's heart can bear it through the night? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DAGUERREOTYPE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, then, is she Last Line: Inexorable to save! Subject(s): Mothers; Photography & Photographers THE DARK, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Agitated, rolling in her barred bed Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Hospitals; Illness THE DAWN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: He shook his head as he turned away Last Line: "are dancing and singing. ""thank god— the dawn!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Mothers; Death - Babies THE DAY MY MOTHER DIED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seldom have premonitions of death Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE DAY OF FLOWERS; A MOTHER'S WALK WITH HER CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the woods, my boy! Last Line: O'er one rich day of flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Mothers & Sons; Woods THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little son was dead Last Line: The mother is in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Death; Innocence; Lambs; Mothers; Sons; Childhood; Dead, The THE DEAD MOTHER, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord roland on his roan horse Last Line: About a dead man's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE DEAR OLD TOILING ONE, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, many a leaf will fall tonight Last Line: In shadow or in sun. Subject(s): Mothers THE DEMON DRINK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do well to be angry, even unto death,' Last Line: Leaving want, woe, and shame, desolation and gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Mothers; Sabbath; Sin; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sunday; Prohibition THE DESERT IS MY MOTHER, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say feed me Variant Title(s): Mi Madre Subject(s): Deserts; Mothers THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE DEVONSHIRE MOTHER, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: The king have called the devon lads and they be answering fine Last Line: With his tanned face, his eyes of blue, and he so strappin' tall. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women And War; World War I; Childhood; First World War THE DIVAN: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These verses, these rough records of my youth Last Line: Which she has praised have not been sung in vain. Subject(s): Mothers THE DIZZY DAUGHTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary jane, you dizzy daisy, what a mess Last Line: She's with us you should aid her, not make work for her to do. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters THE DREAM, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Death; Selfishness; Nightmares; Dead, The THE DREAM, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, mother o' mine, did you dream a dream Last Line: When the west wind haunts the hill. Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Nightmares THE DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it out - thirsty - put my teeth in my mouth Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sickness; Women; Illness THE DREAM OF A LACQUER BOX, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contents Subject(s): Mothers; Heritage; Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM'S WISDOM, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed / mama came back Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DUTCH-CUT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! If I could only have Last Line: Curls aren't stylish any more! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Childhood THE EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday." Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE ENCHANTMENT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I say, to my mother, what was a good Subject(s): Mothers THE EXILE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above him in the city street Last Line: The sound of one girl's laughter came from half a world away. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mothers THE EXILE'S LAMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not happy here, mother! Last Line: Where you and lizzie are. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Exiles; Lament; Love; Mothers THE EYES OF THE EAST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I sing the east at sunset, the low east Last Line: With awe are holden and with strange surmise. Subject(s): Evening; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunset; Twilight; Songs THE FAMILY BIBLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What household thoughts around thee as their shrine Last Line: Heart blessings on the holy dead and thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): To A Family Bible Subject(s): Bible; Mothers THE FAMILY: 1. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High as my heart! The quip be mine Last Line: My solace and its ornament! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers & Daughters; Relatives THE FATAL ERRAND, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bade me go. I went Last Line: Nor wept to think I ever had. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE FIRST SNOW STORM, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The very first snow of the year, mama Last Line: Around in my underclothes. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Snow THE FIRST YEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The year is nearly gone, my child Last Line: We couldn't do without you! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE FIRST-FOOT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright the firelight touch'd his portrait hanging on our humble wall Last Line: My darling's blood with that round light upon the ghastly snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Sons; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains THE FLAX-BEATER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now give me your burden, if burden you bear Last Line: "that demon was thee!" Subject(s): Death – Children; Mothers; Evil THE FLOWER-GATHERERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where a brook with lisping tongue Last Line: Forgets he had a course to run. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Mothers; Destiny THE FOOTFARER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that spring is in the land Last Line: Now that spring is in the land. Subject(s): Mothers; Spring THE FORSAKEN MERMAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear children, let us away Last Line: "the kings of the sea." Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Mothers; Sea; Elves; Ocean THE FOSTER MOTHER'S TALE (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw the man whom you describe Last Line: He liv'd and died among the savage men. Subject(s): Mothers THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coffin, as I past across the lane Last Line: For it pleased god to take her to his mercy. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Faith; Mothers; Selflessness; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE GAMBOLS OF CHILDREN, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the dimpled green-sward dancing Last Line: At love's self, and do not fear it. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE GIFT OF JUNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already 'neath the morning star Last Line: The best was given them, -- dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GLASSES AND THE BIBLE, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Where are my glasses?' she would call Last Line: Looks larger through my mother's glasses. Subject(s): Mothers THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE GOLD STAR, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine's job on the geriatric ward included encouraging Subject(s): Mothers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE GOLD STAR MOTHER PASSES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Text First Line: A gold star gleaming on her breast Last Line: Who had no son to die. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE GOOD LORD GAVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The good lord gave, the lord has taken from me Last Line: Oh, 'tis lonely, lonely, by the little grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE GOOD OLD DAYS AT HOME SWEET HOME, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On monday my mother washed. Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Relatives THE GOOD SON, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god had come to me and said, Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mothers & Sons; Death; Clemency; Dead, The THE GOODEST MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "evening was falling, cold and dark" Last Line: You're the goodest mother that ever was. Subject(s): Mothers THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 3. THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt, she bore a bold request Last Line: God hath prepared it. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 4. THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant, lord, her prayer, and let her go Last Line: In fulness of her will! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 5. THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the city, with the load Last Line: And life is yet our fate! Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness THE GREAT BLUE HERON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered on the beach Last Line: My mother would drift away. Subject(s): Death; Herons; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism THE GREATEST GIFT, by ANNIE J. TEEM Poem Text First Line: The woman of this age, the present hour Last Line: "accept my gift -- ""a human life." Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE HAMMOCK, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lay my head in my mother's lap Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE HAPPY HOUR, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The busy day is over Last Line: With a baby on her breast. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE HAPPY MOTHER, by ALEXANDER LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An' o! Nay I never live single again Last Line: Ye'll wish ye may never live single again. Alternate Author Name(s): Laing Of Brechin, Alexander Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE HEBREW MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose was in rich bloom on sharon's plain Last Line: "the rock of strength. -- farewell!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jews; Mothers; Judaism THE HERO, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said Last Line: Except that lonely woman with white hair. Subject(s): Mothers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE HOME, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Within your portals she has dwelt Last Line: Her soul is like a shining star. Subject(s): Home; Mothers; Soul THE HOME KEEPER, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About her household moving glad each day Last Line: And love that comes to claim the love of her! Subject(s): Mothers THE HOUSE, by GENEVIEVE BUCKLEY STARR Poem Text First Line: When mother looks at me and says Last Line: And not mom's little son. Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Relatives THE HUMAN TRINITY, by GRANVILLE LOWTHER Poem Text First Line: The sunshine reached across the space Last Line: In father, childhood, motherhood. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers; Love; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE IMMORTALITY OF LOVE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! When a mother meets on high Last Line: An over-payment of delight? Subject(s): Mothers THE IRISH MOTHER IN THE PENAL DAYS, by JOHN BANIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now welcome, welcome, baby-boy, unto a mother's fears Last Line: Whose mother still must weep o'er him the tears I weep o'er thee! Subject(s): Mothers; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE IRISH MOTHER'S LAMENT, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half the long night, my children, I lie waking Last Line: In the next glad spring time? Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Absent Ones Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE IRON BRIDGE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am standing on a disused iron bridge Last Line: With no end or name, some boundless province of water Subject(s): Cormorants; Bridges; Mothers; Water; Death THE ISLAND OF DREAMS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis a close-shelter'd island-the island of dreams! Last Line: Where hearts that are broken, again are made blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE JEWELS AND THE GRACCHI, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelia with an air Last Line: The boys were quite enthralled Subject(s): Mothers & Sons THE JEWISH MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A star of guidance o'er life's troubled ocean Last Line: Keeps evermore the day of holy rest Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women;mothers; Judaism THE JEWISH MOTHER AND HER SONS BEFORE ANTIOCHUS, by R. MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: The sun shone bright upon a kingly throne Last Line: "thou gavest one, I seven to god!"" and so she died." Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Judaism THE JILTED LOVER TO HIS MOTHER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You needn't pray for me, old lady, I don't want no one's prayer Last Line: For if I catch them two together, by hell! I'll swing for the pair of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mothers THE JOY OF COOKING, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men don't generally learn it from their mothers Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Mothers; Cooking & Cooks THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil? Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAND OF NOD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From breakfast on through all the day Last Line: The curious music that I hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 17 Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE LAST MERMOTHER, by ANNIE FINCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to fish in san francisco bay Subject(s): Mothers; San Francisco Bay, California THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full 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 LEAF PILE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now here is a typical children's story Last Line: The mark of my hand a blush on my son's cheek Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sons; Relatives THE LEARNER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother tells me she has found her late husband's Last Line: Bathing itself, and singing Subject(s): Mothers THE LETTER SHE DID NOT WRITE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was never set down in black and white Last Line: Had come to the letter she could not write? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants THE LIGHT IN MOTHER'S EYES, by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Dear beacon of my childhood's day Last Line: The light in mothers' eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Ewan, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers THE LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women; Infants THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE LITTLE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars began to peep Last Line: And knows that it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Supernatural; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary THE LITTLE GIRL THAT MOTHER USED TO BE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we travel back in summer to the old house by the sea Last Line: I'd rather have her, anyway, than the girl she used to be. Subject(s): Mothers THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a little house Last Line: For the children lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women THE LITTLE ONE THE WATER-SPIRIT LOVED, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: So young he could not go alone on earth Last Line: Before whom I must smile dry-eyed? Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Mothers; Water; Death - Babies THE LITTLE TINY KICKSHAW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the little tiny kickshaw that Last Line: O' the little tiny kickshaw that mither sent tae me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love; Mothers THE LITTLE WOMAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little woman, to her I bow Last Line: For the little woman whose strength was great. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers THE LOCKED WARD: O.T., by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poster paints, big brushes Last Line: Sir … none Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers THE LONG VACATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time the boys come home from school Last Line: The roads of the world run heavenward every one. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Classmates; Homecoming; Mothers; Sons; War; World War I; Schoolmates; First World War THE LOST CHILD, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Twas on the balmy day Last Line: "I'm here, ma."" it was willie." Subject(s): Mothers THE LOVE OF GOD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a cradle, rocking, rocking Last Line: Then it is god's greatest patience holds us closest, loves us best. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Mothers THE LULLABY OF DANAE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, thy mother's weeping Last Line: Rest thee, rest thee, little one! Subject(s): Danae; Mothers; Mythology - Classical THE MAD WOMAN'S SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My downy head, dream head, sleep my son Last Line: I sing him safe, my pale chestnut bloom. Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers & Sons THE MADONNA OF THE EARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown wise with littleness Last Line: If an apple's dropped from the apple tree. Subject(s): Mothers THE MAGICIAN (TO MY DAUGHTER, FAITH HARLOW), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No longer have I fear of falling leaves Last Line: Since you found my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE MALINGERER, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exempt! She 'does not have to work' Last Line: Both fail to serve the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Mothers; Women's Rights; Feminism THE MAN WHO LOVES, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: George washington wore buckle and rosette Last Line: "the man who loves his mother loves his wife." Subject(s): Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 11. THE RIVER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sluiced with the city's detritus Last Line: I hear you, I will come Subject(s): Mothers THE MEAL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama, I never stop seeing you there Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Family Life; Relatives THE MEETING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went up and he came down, my little six-year boy Last Line: And I went up and he went down comforted wonderfully. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Love; Mothers; Sons; Childhood THE MEMORIAL PILLAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and child! Whose blending tears Last Line: Surely your hearts have met at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Mothers & Daughters; Women THE MERRY MATRON, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: James james / morrison morrison Last Line: And since it's the rage not to be your age, well, what can any son do? Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Youth THE MESSAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From side to side the sufferer tossed Last Line: Fell back, sir, and was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers; Homecoming; Dreams; Family Life; Longing; Death; Nightmares; Relatives; Dead, The THE MESSENGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose up in the early dawn Last Line: "the fight itself was not so hard." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE METHOD OF ACTUALITY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The/mother (mother) unbent to give Subject(s): Mothers & Sons THE MICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion Last Line: Send a good coat, that's all; good-by, sir. Subject(s): Fables; France; Mice; Mothers; Allegories THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say a tempest is abroad to-night Last Line: "and say to her, "" arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness THE MIRACLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Close-hung with silence was the darkened room Last Line: And mortals knew--the miracle of birth Subject(s): Mothers THE MODERN MOTHER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what a kiss Last Line: Natural, true, keen in this dusk of days. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From out the south the genial breezes sigh Last Line: The fair report of seven good children's deeds Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, an' I'm waitin' to hear Last Line: Thinkin' how glad I'll be whin he comes home! Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abortions will not let you forget Last Line: All. Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans; African Americans - Women; Mothers; Negroes; American Blacks THE MOTHER, by LOUISE BEECHER CHANCELLOR Poem Text First Line: I am the faith of little lives Last Line: For else my little ones may sink beneath life's stormy wave. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark! / did you not hear a sound from out the dark Last Line: Save me alone? The people there are dead! Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Fear; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: I feel within myself a life Last Line: Thou too wilt rise with adams's dust. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy THE MOTHER, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a noon of freedom Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will remember when they forget Last Line: Hides her face on the grave of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE MOTHER, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes? What! It's you! And you love him more than yourself Last Line: Are my poor kisses he has not returned. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER, by LYDIA GIBSON Poem Text First Line: Never again to feel that little kiss Last Line: Oh — little hands . . . That in the dust have lain! Subject(s): Children; Death; Faith; God; Grief; Mothers; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOTHER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, they did not need her any more Last Line: "thou only, over all the world, must know!" Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the nurse gone now? And are we alone at last? Last Line: The father (joyously): no, no; good-morning, mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MOTHER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother soothes her mantled child Last Line: The wordless measure of her woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night he lay within my arm Last Line: To keep him safe from fear and harm! Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Mothers; Infants THE MOTHER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas! Christmas! Merry christmas! Rang the / bells. / o god of grace! Last Line: While twain spirits, joy and sorrow, hovered o'er my plundered nest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE MOTHER, by COSETTE FAUST NEWTON Poem Text First Line: She loved children that grow straight and tall! Last Line: "hear her croon: ""grow straight and tall for me!" Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does the woman sing to the love-seed Last Line: Who sings? ... What mother? Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be a singing in your heart Last Line: You, with god's own glory in your eyes. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an aged woman bow Last Line: Except a mother's love. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by BENJAMIN SLEDD Poem Text First Line: Will they not leave me in peace Last Line: For, though we still are mothers, we may not claim our own. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the rooms are dryly still Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The THE MOTHER (1), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great passions I awake that must Last Line: Lord, make me worthy, keep them blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Love; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER (2), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her boys are not shut out. They come Last Line: And not go out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers; Women And War; World War I; First World War THE MOTHER AT HOME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice deep and solemn is sounding abroad! Last Line: Best help, truest cure, from the mother at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Housewives; Mothers; Women; English THE MOTHER IN THE HOUSE, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For such as you, I do believe Last Line: You are lovelier than ever, I do believe. Variant Title(s): Mother Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER LOVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This master-stroke that deals with the divine Last Line: Back to the mother-lap, the mother-love. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Future; Jesus Christ; Love; Mothers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE MOTHER MOURNS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time Last Line: Is heard not again!' Subject(s): Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long hast thou slept unnoted. Nature stole Last Line: Led by your teachings, and your prayers to god. Subject(s): Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE MOTHER ON THE SIDEWALK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by Last Line: Is a lasting holy tribute to all mothers' love of right. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers; Patriotism; World War I; First World War THE MOTHER SAINTED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair girl, fond wife, and dear Last Line: And -- wait the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; God; Mothers; Saints; Dead, The THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me thou art come from a far world Last Line: To lead her steps unto thee! Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER WATCH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never closed her eyes in sleep till we were all in bed Last Line: Us safe from harm throughout the years, and then she went to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER WHO DIED TOO, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so little - little in her grave Last Line: For her who knew no word nor her own name. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER WHO HAS A CHILD AT SEA, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's an eye that looks on the swelling cloud Last Line: To a mother who has a child at sea! Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S BLESSING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There in her high-backed chair she sits Last Line: Has brought her prodigal home again Subject(s): Mothers 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 MOTHER'S CHARGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She raised her head. With hot and glittering eye Last Line: Her daughter died in turn, and made one more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Housekeeping; Mothers; Women THE MOTHER'S HEART, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first thou camest, gentle, shy, and fond Last Line: But in the mother's heart found room for all! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S HOPE, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, when the winds are singing Last Line: For she listens -- with her heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER'S HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who ordainest for mankind Last Line: In ways of love and truth and right. Variant Title(s): The Mother's Charge Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S LAMENT, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Off to the college my only son went Last Line: He'll nevermore be the same. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S LAMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale and cold is the cheek that my kisses oft press'd Last Line: And only to wake when ascended to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that piercing shriek -- the throe Last Line: Outgushing tears, and gasping sobs. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Errors; Fear; Grief; Kisses; Mothers; Tears; Mistakes; Fallacies; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOTHER'S PLEA, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand not here in judgment, haughty priest Last Line: "leaves life its worth. That lost I welcome death." Subject(s): Death - Children; Faith; Mothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed THE MOTHER'S PRAYER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, dear lord / thou who didst not erst deny the mother-joy to mary mild Last Line: From all the world to him. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S QUESTION, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy, and it chanced to rain Last Line: "tell me, my boy, if your feet are wet." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S RETURN, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A month, sweet little ones, is past Last Line: And closed the sparkling eye. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I render thee, father supreme Last Line: Like abraham's faith, was counted righteousness. Variant Title(s): The Cheerful Giver Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by SEBA SMITH Poem Text First Line: The cold winds swept the mountain's height Last Line: The babe looked up and sweetly smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Downing, Major Jack Variant Title(s): The Mother In The Snow-storm Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sacrifices; Storms; Childhood THE MOTHER'S SECRET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet the sacred legend - if unblamed Last Line: "a few grave thoughts may work you off to sleep." Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER'S SLEEP, by CHARLES ALEXIS KELLOGG JR. Poem Text First Line: Soft-borne and drowsy, muffled in the dark Last Line: Grow radiant, and drink deep the silver flood. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep; Yale University THE MOTHER'S VISITS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Long years ago she visited my chamber Last Line: "mother, mother, art thou come for me?" Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER-FAITH, by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Poem Text First Line: Yours were the hands that held me first of all Last Line: But goes serenely on, year after year! Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER-HUNGER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If I could only find her - for the mother-hunger's on me Last Line: And I would give my soul to-night to kiss your hair again Subject(s): Mothers THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's I have conquered you Last Line: Curtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE MOUND BY THE LAKE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass shall never forget this grave Last Line: Who like a mother comforted. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Mothers; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOURNING MOTHER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou weep, mourning mother Last Line: Wait on, thou mourning mother. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE MOURNING MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What woe is thine, pale mother? - say Last Line: To moloch offered up. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Temperance; Temptation; Youth; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sorrow; Sadness; Prohibition THE NAME OF MOTHER, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The light, the spell-word of the heart Last Line: Awakened by the name of mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Mothers THE NOON ORGAN CONCERT, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Text First Line: Ave maria, he started to play Last Line: In the babble of voices and patter of feet. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Mary (name); Mothers; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NURSERY SAGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know a quaint philosopher Last Line: That fond expression—dad! Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Language; Mothers; Infants; Words; Vocabulary THE ODE OF PERFECT YEARS: 2. MOTHERHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But here is one who over all the earth Last Line: Best dream of early youth, best memory of age! Subject(s): Mothers THE OFFERING, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they cleaned you and gave you to me Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE OLD ARM-CHAIR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I love it! I love it! And who shall dare Last Line: My soul from a mother's old arm-chair. Subject(s): Chairs; Children; Mothers; Childhood THE OLD MAMMY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, lil baby, en go ter sleep Last Line: Er heap sight mo' dan his mudder do! Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants THE OLD MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "poor old lady, set her aside" Last Line: "she must not meet with your guests tonight, / for her children are grown and her work is done" Subject(s): Mothers THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set on a rounding hill-top Last Line: Till the grand hills fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE OLD WOMAN, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a white candle / in a holy place Last Line: Under a ruined mill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Mothers THE OUTCAST MOTHER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen this dell in july's shine Last Line: I cannot bear to watch thee die! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): A Farewell To Alexandria Subject(s): Mothers THE PAIDLIN' WEAN, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come in the hoose this moment, paidlin' out there in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Mothers THE PARENT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE PATRIOT MOTHER, by JOHN SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: When o'er the land the battle brand Last Line: "but never come a coward." Subject(s): American Civil War; Mothers; Patriotism; U.s. - History THE POET AND THE BABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell Last Line: That I wonder what 's the use of writing mine. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE MOTHER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Paler, and yet a thousand times more fair Last Line: The mother in her child is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Mothers THE PRINCESS: LULLABY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and low, sweet and low Last Line: Sleep my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Princess: Song Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir walter vivian all a summer's day Last Line: From those rich silks, and home well-pleased we went. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Echoes; Mothers; Religion; Sea; Supernatural; Women's Rights; Theology; Ocean; Feminism THE PUREST THING I KNOW IN ALL EARTH'S HOLDING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: As sweet the child love then which round her floweth Subject(s): Mothers THE QUEENLIEST WOMAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The queenliest woman, bravest, best of all sweet things Last Line: Nestling, rocks again. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Mothers THE QUEST OF MOTHERHOOD, by WILNA WINTRINGHAM Poem Text First Line: I am going down in the valley Last Line: Bringing my gift to him. Subject(s): Mothers THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Last Line: And mid'st the stars inscribe belinda's name! Subject(s): Hair; Mothers THE RARE BOOK, by EDNA SCRUGGS WILLIAMSON Poem Text First Line: Twas just a little while ago - or so, to me, it seems Last Line: Long upon the cherished pages marked by baby fingers. Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Reading; Childhood THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE READING MOTHER, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a mother who read to me Last Line: I had a mother who read to me. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE RECRUIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mother bids him go without a tear Last Line: To look upon itself and live—or die! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE REFLECTION, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the eve my mother died Last Line: With lines of sorrow drawn! Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE RESCUE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: There's a sudden, fierce clang of the knocker, then the sound of a voice in the Last Line: Fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Mothers & Sons THE REST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rests at last, as on the motherbreast Last Line: We'll not believe that till he tells us so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Life; Mothers; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery THE RIGHT MEANING, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, you know there is a place somewhere called Subject(s): Men; Mothers THE RISK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Suicide THE ROAD IS SO LONESOME BETWEEN, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: When the crickets chirp in the evening Last Line: My child will come with the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Mothers THE ROAD TO SLUMBERLAND, by MARY DOW BRINE Poem Text First Line: What is the road to slumberland? And when does the baby go Last Line: To the beautiful city of slumberland when the sun is sinking low. Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE SAD MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O when the half-light weaves Last Line: And I am ever alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers THE SADNESS OF PARENTS, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sadness of fruit is like the sadness Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SECOND MOTHERHOOD, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Text First Line: A child was born to me today Last Line: Through births without a throe. Subject(s): Mothers THE SERVICE STAR, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: She saw in the window a single star Last Line: "he is in fort leavenworth." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Pride; Soldiers; Sons; War; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young Last Line: The night darkens on them—and there's god at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven Last Line: Wish I was there with you Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SLAVE-MOTHER, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her new-born child she holdeth, but feels within her heart Last Line: "god grant my little helpless one in helplessness may die!" Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Slavery; Infants; Serfs THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an old farm-wife Last Line: "but the harvest early." Subject(s): Farm Life; Mothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SONG MY MOTHER SANG, by C. W. GLOVER Poem Text First Line: The melodies of many lands erewhile have charmed Last Line: It was the song my mother song when I was but a child. Subject(s): Mothers THE SONG MY MOTHER SINGS, by THOMAS O'HAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet unto my heart is the song my mother sings Last Line: As I list in joy and rapture to the song my mother sings. Subject(s): Mothers THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Last Line: And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE SONGS MY MOTHER SANG, by LALIA MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: I hear them in the whispering winds Last Line: The songs she sang to me. Subject(s): Mothers THE SONNET-BALLAD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers; Joy; Delight THE SPARROW, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sparrows; Food & Eating; Mothers; Miami Beach THE SPARTAN MOTHER AND HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son, let virtue animate thy breast Last Line: "conquer or die -- ""as my brave father died !" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers & Sons THE SPY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mother she spanked me so hard Last Line: I'll find where you live, an' I'll tell my old cat. Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Mothers; Childhood THE STAPLER, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother died Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The THE STARRED MOTHER, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Is there a madness underneath the sun Last Line: For tinselled star, their flesh and blood to hell! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Sons; War THE STEPMOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First she come to our house Last Line: She's purt' nigh good as mother was! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Love; Mothers; Stepmothers; Dead, The; Relatives THE STICK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crumpled paper, little stick Last Line: Mother's love? Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Sons THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever heard of the sugar-plum tree? Last Line: In the garden of shut-eye town. Subject(s): Mothers THE SUTTEE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the pile by her dead lord Last Line: That burning mother's scream. Subject(s): Mothers; Nature; Soul; War THE TALK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark square wooden room at noon Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Swimming & Swimmers THE THINGS IN THE BOTTOM DRAWER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There are whips and tops and pieces of strings Last Line: For the things in the bottom drawer Subject(s): Mothers THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had not expected to be an ordinary woman Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Mothers & Daughters; Middle Age THE THUD OF THE CLODS, by JULIA E. BRUMFIELD Poem Text First Line: It was a most solemn occasion Last Line: For, today, mother was put away. Subject(s): Clouds; Funerals; Graves; Mothers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE TWINGE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was fifty when mother died Last Line: Now I shall never know! Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ugliness; Dead, The THE TWO MOTHERS, by VIRGINIA BULLOCK-WILLIS Poem Text First Line: They brought him home on his birthday Last Line: While the last bears him to death's long rest. Subject(s): Funerals; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Burials; Parenthood THE TWO PARENTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my little son, and yet when he was ill Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Parenthood THE UNBORN, by JULIA NEELY FINCH Poem Text First Line: Thou art my very own Last Line: Our little child! Our little child! Subject(s): Mothers THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the hand of god man was created Last Line: "come, child of mine, and slumber in my bosom." Subject(s): Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Virgin Mary THE UNRETURNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, knowing not eld, in thy youth all / divine Last Line: But not from the dark come my darlings to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Mothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE VALENTINE REGAINED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up in the attic-room where me and billy Last Line: "why, mother's name was jane, you know, oh long and long and long ago!" Subject(s): Children; Love; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE VEILS OF MAYA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, with whom our lives should be Last Line: And through the pilgrimage of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mothers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE VIRGIN MARTYR, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every wild she-bird has nest and mate in the warm april weather Last Line: And possess the common heritage to which all flesh is heir. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little love, my darling Last Line: Beside your bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Mothers THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see? Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary THE VISIT, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only mother, who lost sixty pounds, tried to stand up in the bathroom Subject(s): Mothers; Illness THE VOICE OF WIVES DREAMING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights I wake to the cry of the child Last Line: Dreaming the voice of a different child. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Drowning; Mothers; Tragedy THE VOYAGE WITH THE NAUTILUS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made myself a little boat Last Line: "but I'll sail with thee no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mothers & Sons; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE WARM CRADLE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, baby, hush Last Line: Dream, baby, dream. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WATCHER - MOTHER, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She always leaned to watch for us Last Line: Leaning from heaven's gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Mothers THE WAYS OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I hold that this is true Last Line: Is every inch a man! Subject(s): Mothers THE WEARY MOTHER, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fold her hands upon her breast Last Line: To let her rest a little now. Subject(s): Mothers THE WEATHER MAN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, tell us of the day Last Line: "less I put my rubbers on." Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Weather; Childhood THE WEEDS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn, beside the red house Last Line: In the dusk of late summer. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers & Sons; Plants; Weeds; Planting; Planters THE WELSH POET, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE WHISTLING DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whistle, my dearest daughter, and I will give thee a cow" Last Line: And so the whistling soon began Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE WHITE RABBIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, mother / holding the banister with five-year-old fingers Last Line: Come back to climb the stairs. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters THE WIDOW AT THE BED OF HER SON, by FRANZ WERFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holding my flickering candle Last Line: My child, my existence, my death. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Widows & Widowers THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice Last Line: Weep for his mother! -- weep, young bride, for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers-in-law; Death - Babies THE WIDOW'S MITE, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow - she had only one! Last Line: The little crutch. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE WITCH-MOTHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep Last Line: And twae mair sauls in hell. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE YOUNG MOTHER, by KAY CAMMACK Poem Text First Line: From what strange journey am I safe returned Last Line: Knowing love conquereth. Subject(s): Mothers THE YOUNG MOTHER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The host lifts high the candlelight Last Line: The son for whom she died! Subject(s): Mothers; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth THE YOUNG MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreadful times of death and war Last Line: With frankincense and myrrh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Mothers; War; World War I; First World War THE YOUNG OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma is a widow: there's only Last Line: "good morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Nativity, The; Relatives THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has been dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE YOUTH BEWITCHED, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fair-haired boy is sore bewitched Last Line: A mother's heart from fearing. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Mothers THEATER OF TABLEAUX VIVANTS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A man stopped to see the tableaux vivants Last Line: And outside all the roofs were covered with snow Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a child went forth every day, Last Line: And who now goes, and will always go forth every day. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THERE'S A PART OF YOU IN EVERYTHING I DO, by MARCELLE M. SOVIERO Poem Source First Line: I have grown %to understand you Last Line: More than I love you Subject(s): Mothers THESE CHANGES ARE PHYSIOLOGICAL, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: Because the train was held over Last Line: Into the long, yellow toes %of a jackal Subject(s): Death; Mothers THESE LADIES, by LACEY SAWYER Poem Source Last Line: These ladies %they know Subject(s): Mothers; Women THEY ARE TIMES IN LIFE WHEN ONE DOES THE RIGHT THING, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source Last Line: You will never know, will never have to know Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women THEY SAW HER GRASP HER OWN WAIST, AND THE FRICTION FROM HER HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Rocked dead in her dreams-a memory-in her land of smoke Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers; Solitude; Sons THIEF, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: Having myself been scared silly when I was young Last Line: Is a giantess, ready and able to grind his bones to %bake her bread Subject(s): Men; Mothers THINGS THAT NEVER DIE, by E. O. JEWELL Poem Text First Line: It never dies, a mother's love Last Line: A mother's tender love can never die. Subject(s): Mothers THINKING OF MY MOTHER WHO FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, HAS GONE EAST ..., by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: How could my mother have known Last Line: Backward glances of the sun Subject(s): Leaves; Mothers And Daughters; Women THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had expected more than this. %I had not expected to be %anordinary woman Subject(s): Absence; African Americans - Women; Aging; Mothers And Daughters THIS BEAUTIFUL BOY, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: So pure is my child, that I dare to say Last Line: When he gave this beautiful boy to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Mothers THIS CONTRACT STUFF, by MRS. L. M. DONELSON Poem Text First Line: Things round our house have changed, by gum Last Line: I'd like to wring his neck. Subject(s): Mothers THIS IS A FAT-LIBERATION POEM, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Whaddaya mean, only six weeks Subject(s): Mothers THIS IS THE BOOK OF PSALMS THAT MADE MY MOTHER DANCE, by JOSE KOZER Poem Source Last Line: And my feet are like a loud bellowing of four generations of the dead Subject(s): Mothers; Religion THIS LITTLE BOY GOES TO MARKET, by HELEN W. FOWLER Poem Text First Line: Patriot mothers, come and bear Last Line: Fill the future's bloody stew. Subject(s): Boys; Butchers; Mothers THIS POEM IS FOR MY MOTHER, by ANDRENA ZAWINSKI Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for my mother. She gave it to me in ball point Last Line: Eyes like she will never forget her own mother's long brown hair Subject(s): Mothers; Poetry And Poets THOU MUST BE PATIENT; WE CAME CRYING HITHER-KING LEAR, by BEN PASSIKOFF Poem Source First Line: The single sperm %swimming in minion Last Line: With overlapping %atonalities %ending in origin Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Pregnancy THOUGH THE MILES DIVIDE US, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And though the miles divide us, we'll still walk hand Last Line: My heart shall yet be loyal--thou art my mother still. Subject(s): Mothers THOUGHTS ABOUT MY DAUGHTER BEFORE SLEEP, by SANDRA HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Ariel, one true Last Line: In the vines of childhood Subject(s): Children; Mothers THREE LULLABIES, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by, when a baby I Last Line: Angels are watching and mother is near! Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THREE POEMS FOR WOMEN (1), by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a poem for a woman doing dishes Last Line: Has trouble hearing %has trouble hearing Subject(s): Children; Mothers THREE POEMS FOR WOMEN (2), by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And this is another poem for a woman Last Line: Let us have a moment of silence %for the woman who clans the floor Subject(s): Children; Mothers THREE POEMS FOR WOMEN (3), by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And here is one more poem Last Line: To what you think %she might say Subject(s): Children; Mothers THREE SONGS, by MARY GRACE SNYDER Poem Text First Line: Of all the songs my mother sang Last Line: When mother sang to me. Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers THREE THINGS, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: Three things there be that nearly break my heart Last Line: Here waiting, waiting--and my mother gone! Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good soul, my mother holds my daughter Last Line: Leaving the trail of its going wet on the world Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good soul, my mother holds my daughter Last Line: Leaving the trail of its going wet on the world Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her in the garden, loam-knuckled in spring Last Line: But she can be sure there is time for one more garden? Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her in the garden, loam-knuckled in spring Last Line: But can she be sure there is time for one more garden? Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three rainy days and the fourth one sunny Last Line: But oh, if you could have seen it in that tree! Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three rainy days and the fourth one sunny Last Line: But oh, if you could have seen it in that tree! Subject(s): Mothers THREE WOMEN NAMED REBECCA, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: I. I followed him across unicoi's long trail Last Line: Or two was better than no child at all Subject(s): Mothers THUMBPRINT ON ESTATE PAPERS, by KIM DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A colabrown whorl I had to taste Last Line: A perfect thumbprint from three miles up Subject(s): Mothers TIGERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: My girl shivers beside me Last Line: I just hear them roar. And I shiver Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TIME, by LILLIE EDSON HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: In the black sky tonight, down by the dune Last Line: To go my way as leaf and grass, and shed no tear. Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Time TIRED MOTHERS, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: A little elbow leans upon your knee Last Line: The little boy I used to kiss is dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Variant Title(s): To A Tired Mother Subject(s): Home; Mothers TITUS ANDRONICUS, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious titus, rue the tears I shed Subject(s): Mothers TO - . UPON THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST-BORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a shipwrecked sailor tost Last Line: Conscious nursling, to thy breast! Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery TO A BEREAVED MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, say not that your little son is dead Last Line: Is your ambassador. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TO A BEREAVED MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER TWO LITTLE BOYS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother bereaved! From thy desolate hearth Last Line: Tis well with thy children, with thee it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO A CHILD EMBRACING HIS MOTHER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love thy mother, little one! Last Line: Pray for her at eve and morn! Variant Title(s): Child And Mother Subject(s): Mothers TO A CHILD WHO INQUIRES, by OLGA PETROVA Poem Text First Line: How did you come to me, my sweet Last Line: And I snuggled you tight in my arms. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you / at eight to ride Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you %at eight to ride Last Line: Handkerchief waving %goodbye Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A DEAD BABE, by VERA ANDREW HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one! Last Line: For all eternity through sorrow saved! Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Mothers; Infants TO A LITTLE INVISIBLE BEING WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Germ of new life, whose powers expanded slow Last Line: Till thy wished smile thy mother's pangs o'erpay. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood TO A MAIDEN; WINNER IN THE THOUSAND-METER RACE, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me look at you in silence, until I lower my head Last Line: The old, virgin surprise of the savage beholding a maid. Subject(s): Athletes; Health; Mothers; Sports; Victory TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER Poem Text First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A MOTHER, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robbed mother of the stricken motherland Last Line: Eden phillpotts Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; World War I; First World War TO A MOTHER, by JEAN REBOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel with a radiant face Last Line: Poor mother--thy sweet son is dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Reboul De Nimes, Jean Subject(s): Mothers TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand songs I might have made Last Line: Immortal—and forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Immortality; Mothers & Daughters; Smiles TO A NEW BABY, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little kicking, cuddling thing Subject(s): Children; Mothers TO A SCHOOL-BOY AT EATON, YES AND NO, by MARY SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: My dearest boy, / since time begun Last Line: And never blush at proper no. Subject(s): Eton College; Mothers & Sons; Savage, George (1750-1816) TO A SMALL CITY SLICKER, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: Dear little human dynamo Last Line: And let me rest on my caboose Subject(s): Children; Mothers TO A YOUNG CHILD, by ELIZA SCUDDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As doth his heart who travels far from home Last Line: Return unto thy native land again. Subject(s): Mothers TO A YOUNG LADY, WHOSE MOTHER WAS INSANE FROM HER BIRTH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And thou hast never, never known Last Line: Than thus to see them languish. Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers; Madness; Mental Illness TO ALPHA DRYDEN EBERHART; NOVEMBER 26, 1977, ON BEING 75, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were in high school, in the old red brick Last Line: Salt him, and in a while have a number of such trophies Subject(s): Mothers TO AMANDA, by KAREN SHAFER Poem Source First Line: I love you as though each day were our last Subject(s): Mothers TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO AN UNSUNG MOTHERHOOD, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Mothers there are who never mothers were Last Line: But one reward, love's labor to fulfil. Subject(s): Childlessness; Mothers TO BE BORN AGAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist Last Line: "you've been forgiven" Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that the golden lyre divine Last Line: Still unredeemed? Subject(s): Compassion; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism TO CHARLES LAMB, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thine to tread the midmost marl of hell Last Line: These were thy gift, and these outlast the skies. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Hell; Love; Mothers; Muses TO CHLOE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, regard my song sententious Last Line: Votes for women, chloë! And remember, you're of age. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons TO CLOE, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: Cloe, blooming sweet as may, / we must tempt mama away Last Line: Trust me, cloe, this will do. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love Affairs; Mothers; Temperance; Prohibition TO COME WITH ACCESSORIES, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Inherited: the opals set in cuffs Last Line: I am a body in ash-blonde smoke, aroused alone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TO HER THREE DAYS' CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I only, its mother, have known Last Line: Two in one, and in god one in three. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants TO HIS MOTHER, C. L. M., by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark womb where I began Last Line: O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Variant Title(s): C. L. M Subject(s): Courage; Mothers TO IRIS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I might build a palace, fair Last Line: The impotent wings of mother-love. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Mothers TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Last Line: But nothing promised that is not performed Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO LADIES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sign in a pub in mullingar Last Line: Ladies must not have children in the bar Subject(s): Children; Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Mothers TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: —and some years hence he'll send the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology TO MAMMA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Thy love inspires the story teller's tongue Last Line: And what's not true, let fruitful fancy dream. Subject(s): Mothers TO MARION - IN ANSWER TO YOUR REQUEST, by KAY KAISER-COOK Poem Source First Line: You want a poem Subject(s): Mothers TO MARY SHELLEY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest mary, wherefore hast thou gone Last Line: For thine own sake I cannot follow thee. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness TO MIRA, ON THE CARE OF HER INFANT, SELS., by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Source First Line: Mira, as thy dear edward's senses grow Last Line: When it would pleasure in a rosebud find Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Children; Mothers TO MISS F.A.L. ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not 'tis fruitless, nature's holy tear Last Line: The all it wanted -- immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The TO MISS RIGBY, ON HER ATTENDANCE UPON HER MOTHER AT BUXTON, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When blooming beauty in the noon of power Last Line: Thy memory honour'd, and thy dust belov'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Mothers TO MITHERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, mithers, o mithers! Last Line: That hauds a drucken wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MOTHER, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hope that soon, dear mother Subject(s): Mothers TO MOTHER, by ANNE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: You are the golden link between the days Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers TO MOTHER, by GERALDINE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Oh soul so sweet! Around thy tomb Last Line: "remember, my dear, I'm watching o'er you." Subject(s): Mothers TO MOTHER, by NORA DEL SMITH Poem Text First Line: Mother! Last Line: Mother's there. Alternate Author Name(s): Gumble, Henry T., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers TO MOTHER - IN HEAVEN, by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Now there shall be a new song and a new star Last Line: Because in heaven she is my advocate. Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Paradise TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 24. THE WORLD'S NEED, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The whole round world is but a woman's child Last Line: Enjoy and bless her for eternally. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Earth; Mothers; Infants; Childhood; World TO MRS. J. CLELAND ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED SON AND ONLY CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My olive plant, so green and fair Last Line: "and thou wilt join him ne'er to sever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO MY CHILDREN: 3, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dear, so fast asleep Last Line: Should love or life grow cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY DAUGHTER IN A RED COAT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late october. It is afternoon. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Autumn; Fall TO MY DAUGHTER IN HER FATHER'S HOUSE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: You call at bedtime Subject(s): Mothers TO MY DEAR MOTHER IN SICKNESS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Hang not thy harp upon the willow Last Line: There's calm and peace beyond the grave. Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Sickness; Paradise; Illness TO MY FIRST LOVE, MY MOTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome Last Line: Of time and change and mortal life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sonnets Are Full Of Love Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most near, most dear, most loved and most far, Last Line: That she will move from mourning into morning. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To My Mother Subject(s): Love; Mothers; World War Ii; Second World War TO MY MOTHER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was your rebellious son Subject(s): Mothers & Sons TO MY MOTHER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: O thou whose care sustained my infant years Last Line: Whose life is spent in toil and care for me. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is my all, how little when 'tis told Last Line: Twixt thee and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): Envoy: To My Mother Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by FLORANZ HILDRUP EMTAGE Poem Text First Line: She walked a high road, I could see her there Last Line: But this I know, that she still walks -- and sings. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Roads; Singing & Singers; Walking; Paths; Trails; Songs TO MY MOTHER, by EDWARD SALISBURY FIELD Poem Source First Line: I've gone about for years I find Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fair you are, my mother Last Line: My guardian angel, mother. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When barren doubt, like a late coming snow Last Line: And mingle prayers for what we both may be. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like streamlets to a silent sea Last Line: Lo! Now, I bring -- my latest! Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've kept a haughty heart thro' grief and mirth Last Line: That gentle heart, loving me still so blindly. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise TO MY MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If e'er for human bliss or woe Last Line: The frail mimosa-buds of hope and joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentlest of critics, does your memory hold Last Line: Your heart will change it to authentic song. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Variant Title(s): To Mrs. Kilburn Kilmer Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your form is dim Last Line: In memory of you! Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wrinkles of your brow and the silver of your hair Last Line: To you I owe these lives, and the gain I'd glad give %in thankfulness Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell us of an indian tree Last Line: With love's true instinct, back to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by JAN NERUDA Poem Text First Line: Know'st thou, dear mother, of the golden sun Last Line: My need is e'en as grievous as the sun's. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love unfailing, kindly counsel, all the pleasure Last Line: Life will feel it every weary mile. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh witness !N to be sure Last Line: Or someone's accidentally died Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Mother, who, months before my birth Last Line: In life, those first few, fair years ... Your son forgives the rest! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mothers & Sons; Clemency TO MY MOTHER, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I feel that, in the heavens above Last Line: Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law TO MY MOTHER, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see your face as on that calmer day Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: When you have a mother Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by HANNAH SENESH Poem Source First Line: From where have you learned to wipe the Last Line: From where have you learned strength? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters; Women TO MY MOTHER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother heard our infant cries Last Line: Its gentle bonds about the soul. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And canst thou, mother, for a moment think Last Line: And smooth the pillow of thy sinking age. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To My Mother Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, by JOHN ALLEN WYETH Poem Text First Line: Deal gently with her, time; these many years Last Line: As one who, resting, sleeps and knows it not. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER FROM THE APENNINES, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight the lone mountains on Last Line: I'm dark without thy constant love. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mothers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO MY MOTHER ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER BIRTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's your natal day Last Line: Great happiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): To My Mother On Her Birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers TO MY MOTHER SLEEPING, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, my mother! Sweet and innocent dreams Last Line: O model most beloved of good and wise. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER'S MEMORY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the summit, wild and lone Last Line: She gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Mothers TO MY MOTHER, OCTOBER, 1915, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There fell a flood of devastating flame Last Line: Stars in your eyes, and in your heart a song. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Mothers TO MY SON, FOUR DAYS OLD, by LEILA SPRAGUE LEARNED Poem Source First Line: My little son! I hold you to my heart Subject(s): Mothers TO MY UNBORN SON, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son!' what simple, beautiful words Last Line: And we're lonely for you -- my son Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Children; Mothers TO PROVE THAT WE EXISTED BEFORE WE WERE BORN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We'll tell you how your mom worked at the hospital Last Line: (since we're both eldest children) -- kissed as if %we didn't need you, one last time Variant Title(s): To Prove That We Existed Before You Were Bor Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Mothers TO SALLY, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we/ve been sitting up all night Subject(s): Mothers TO SAMUEL COLERIDGE UPON HEARING HIS 'SOME I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS..', by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange to a sensing motherhood Last Line: Seeking the breast of an unknown face. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Mothers; Poetry & Poets TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO SOME POETS WE KNOW, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Whaddaya mean, it's time to stop writing Subject(s): Mothers TO THE ANXIOUS MOTHER, by VALENTE NGWENYA MALANGATANA Poem Source First Line: Into your arms I came Last Line: God who also watched over me %was my old grannys' friend Subject(s): Mothers TO THE DAUGHTER OF A NYMPH, by AGNES COCHRAN BUAMBLETT Poem Text First Line: Your mother? You would know of her? Last Line: And hush your lips to song! Subject(s): Mothers TO THE HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LADY, THE LADY TASBURGH, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That when encrease of age and learning sets Last Line: William bas. Subject(s): Basse, William (1583-1653); Gratitude; Honor; Mothers TO THE MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother-hands no further toil Last Line: The mother-love abides eternally. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Mothers TO THE MOTHER FROM SCARSDALE WHO ASKED ABOUT PUBLISHING, by MADELIN TIGER BASS Poem Source First Line: If I had had a girl child I would tell her Subject(s): Mothers TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL LADY HER MOST DEARE MOTHER, by UNKNOWN+231 Poem Source First Line: As first your paines in bearing me was such Last Line: This is the worst disgrace that can be had. %a ladies daughter worm'd a dog that's mad Subject(s): Mothers TO WILLIAM LOGAN, ON THE DEATH OF HIS AGED MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my christian friend: - thy late removed Last Line: And blest re-union in the home above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise TO-NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What can I find in the city shops Last Line: To piddle in his mother's lap? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cupid; Mothers; Eros TONIC, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the mother of three, and I'm thirty Last Line: "there's life in the old lady yet!" Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOUCHED RELICS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: A mother's amber necklaces and pearls Last Line: Cover where the scars follow hers Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful child that launchest out on the great sea of life Last Line: Closer even than now. Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE TRYSTING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the hills, ten miles, in the cloudless summer morning Last Line: And gains her presence at the feet of god. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRAGEDY OF THE MERMAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Is not that she must leave her home Last Line: She must not feel an ocean %falling from her eyes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TRANSFIGURATION, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious death! Who in a single hour Last Line: And make death proud to take a royal soul. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The TRANSLATING MY POLISH MOTHER, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: I know her by now Last Line: Get back, she'll quit %when her box is full Subject(s): Aging; Mothers TRANSPLANTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs TRAVEL, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: With steady looks the young men are firing arrows Last Line: I think he is a frog Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TRAVEL WITH THE MISSING, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: Your car drives up the tall building Last Line: You accept and stand still. This is your work Subject(s): Mothers; Travel TRAVELERS, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Text First Line: I like to meet a gray ulysses Last Line: And every mother has walked through hell. Subject(s): Mothers TRIBUTE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's face is fair Last Line: So she would understand! Subject(s): Absence; Children; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood TRIBUTE TO MOTHER, by DAPHNE TINGLIN Poem Source First Line: Mother dear, you are the best Last Line: I love you always Subject(s): Mothers TRIDUUM, by MARY ANNE REESE Poem Source First Line: No image graced the cloth that wiped Last Line: She stood and walked out of the room Subject(s): Memory; Mothers TRINITY, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother listens to the dreams of the daughter Last Line: Rushing toward the dark love who is always beyond her Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters TRIUMPH, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, sure, everything I know Subject(s): Mothers TRUST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old baffling questions! O my friend Last Line: Who moves to his great end unthwarted by the ill. Subject(s): Mothers; Worship TRYING-TO-CONCEIVE POEM #4, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Anything. I'll do anything Subject(s): Mothers TUCKING THE BABY IN, by CURTIS MAY Poem Source First Line: The dark-fringed eyelids slowly close Subject(s): Mothers TUCKING-IN SONG, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: Down the narrow hall she came Last Line: When mama came to tuck me in Subject(s): Mothers TUNNEL, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: After the shrink with his overstuffed chair Last Line: Passage of concrete halls, one word %echoing dead, dead, dead Subject(s): Mothers TWO GIRLS, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: They play a kind of house, with animals Last Line: We think we know what lives inside those heads Subject(s): Mothers TWO MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman walking the street adown Last Line: "he bides in my heart a child for aye." Subject(s): Mothers TWO MOTHERS, by RHONDA SAMUEL NAPURRURLA Poem Source First Line: The two mothers both sit down near the fire at evening Last Line: You listen to the radio so aloud, you will go deaf. 'that's %what I said to my daughter nangala.' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Mothers TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two lonely women met Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!" Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean TWO PARENTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my little son, and yet when he was ill Last Line: Women may pretend, yet they always dismiss %everything but mere being just like this Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Mothers; Parents TWO PRESENTATIONS, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We send youj word of the mother Subject(s): Mothers TWO SLIDES: 1. THE ASPARA ADDRESSES THE FISHERMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: There is no boat Last Line: This catch will be the one %to harvest your soul Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 2. THE FISHERMAN RESPONDS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the silver light Last Line: I am the water %filling your gills Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SONS, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have two sons, wife Last Line: We cannot lose the darling son who sits upon your knee! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Mothers; Sons TWO WOMEN: MOTHER, by E. DORSET Poem Text First Line: Mother, my mother, if I break the law Last Line: I shall expire like you, without a groan. Subject(s): Mothers UNBUTTONING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buttons lie jumbled in a tin Last Line: Left by vanished flesh Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Clothing & Dress; Body, Human UNDER MOOSE MOUNTAIN, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: I spoke to the house: I am leaving you Last Line: Part of me leaving, %walking out, locking the door? Subject(s): Mothers UNDER THE ZANZARIERE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She put the comb in one hand and with the left waved. With that Last Line: Persistent voices, like whispers in another room. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Daughters; Secrets UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 25. MOTHER AND SON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not yours, o mother, to complain Last Line: So sits the while at home the mother well content. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Courage; Mothers; Valor; Bravery UNE PETITE CHANSON DE LAMENTATION A MA MERE, by BELLE DE COEUR Poem Text First Line: Give me my youth, and let me play Last Line: To find a new day and you. Subject(s): Children; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Past; Childhood UNION, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: When she combs her hair morning and evening Last Line: The dark walk back Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Mothers; Women UNTIDY ENDINGS, by STEVE FELLNER Poem Source First Line: Because mom failed to leave a honey-cake Last Line: An itch and a scratch is only the beginning Subject(s): Mothers UNVEILING, by HILARY SAMETZ LLOYD Poem Source First Line: Mama, lying so far down Last Line: We are bursting %out of our womb, %your grave Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women UNWED MOTHER, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Could not say no -- I am in trouble now Last Line: Get big without a husband -- that's a feat Subject(s): Mothers - Unwed UPON A YOUNG MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let all chaste matrons, when they chance to see Last Line: Pity me too, who found so soone a tomb. Subject(s): Mothers UPON HER SOOTHING BREAST, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mothers; Despair UPON THE GALLOWS HUNG A WRETCH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, what a livid boon! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mothers & Sons UPPER CHAMBERS, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: I have heard my mother, as long as I remember Last Line: In the upper chambers. I grope on the stair. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The VALE ATQUE AVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall return to thee Last Line: I shall return to thee earth, my mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Love; Mothers; World VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Own mother dear Last Line: Because the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1878, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed dear and heart's delight Last Line: Bless your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1879, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother mine / whom every year Last Line: Gives you a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Spring VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1880, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More shower than shine Last Line: Thro' summer's flush, thro' autumn's fading hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1881, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too cold almost for hope of spring Last Line: Is all in all? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world of change and loss, a world of death Last Line: Your valentine rejoices having you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day; Dead, The VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of joy and grief Last Line: You guide, & I your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1885, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the robin redbreasts Last Line: And I'm your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1886, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's latest snowflake is the snowdrop flower Last Line: My pleasure and my treasure o blessed mother mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Life; Mothers; Valentine's Day VENUS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I stand waist-deep in the grass, holding my infant son in my arms Last Line: As an offering, as something to shine %and give back Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children - Lost; Heaven; Mothers; Pregnancy; Women VIETNAM, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, what's your name?' 'I don't know.' Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Childhood VIGIL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flower/then the flower Subject(s): Mothers; Illness; Flowers VIOLETS FOR MOTHER, by IRMA BIDDLE IMHOFF Poem Text First Line: The flowers I bring you grew not under glass Last Line: It's of your virtues that these flowers sing. Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Violets VIOLIN SONGS: GOING TO SLEEP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, you must not fret Last Line: Saith the little brother. Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Death; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIRGINITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she had children five and four are dead and gone Last Line: Please come to breakfast, mother dear; your coffee will be cold, I fear Subject(s): Mothers; Sons; Virginity VISIONS FROM MY OFFICE WINDOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the students between the buildings Last Line: Her eyes deep-set and dark as olives. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Students VISIT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: We lay in your mother's bed Last Line: I kept you from danger a few minutes longer Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sex VISIT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do you go to norton, mamma, this next week? Subject(s): Mothers VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations VOICE OF THE ROTTEN MOTHER, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sound of the rotten mother %screams Subject(s): Mothers VOYAGER, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the moon, beyond planet blue Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The WAITING, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: The one who waits is always the mother Last Line: Until in the end %no one sees her Subject(s): Human Rights; Mothers; Patience; Waiting WAITING, by LOUISE RACHEL Poem Source First Line: Here is a miracle: my ancient cat Subject(s): Mothers WAITING FOR MOMMY TO WAKE UP, by JANE MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I stand in the dark, %right here Last Line: Flies back %to my lonely bed Subject(s): Mothers WAITING FOR MY SON ON THE JR. HIGH SCHOOL STEPS, by KATHY EVANS Poem Source First Line: A book should learn to fly into a flower Subject(s): Mothers WANT TO BE WHUT MOTHER IS!, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Want to be whut mother is! Want to be whur mother is! Last Line: Want to be whur mother is? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Prayer; Bedtime WAR, by SARAH SMALL Poem Source First Line: Our mother is beautiful Last Line: Or wear lipstick %with such certainty Subject(s): Mothers WARNING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am the shoal you cannot cross Last Line: To which your mother warned you %not to listen Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WARRIOR MOTHERS, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: You wait as I for the fatal word Last Line: Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Subject(s): Fear; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War WAS IT, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Because of too much sun Last Line: How regressive these desires Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients WASHERWOMAN'S FIRE, by HERBERT WOODWARD MARTIN Poem Source First Line: My immigrant mother cooked her white clothes alive Last Line: I think what a sudden, sudden ordering that fire made of thesouthtown, %celebrating my seventh birth Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Mothers; Washerwomen WASHING-DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While mother is tending baby Last Line: But dolly'll have to wait Subject(s): Babies;laundry & Laundering;mothers; Infants WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rockets flamed in sudden fire Last Line: The grandest name that stars the state. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Infants WASTEFUL GESTURE ONLY NOT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruth visits her mother’s grave in the california hills Last Line: That’s what going to sleep is like Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters WATCHING MARY DANCE, by MARTHA POPSON Poem Source First Line: What happy accident Subject(s): Mothers WATCHING TELEVISION, by TSAURAH LITZKY Poem Source First Line: My mother is dying and all I can do is watch television Last Line: Like my mother's hand, it is cool, thin, dry Subject(s): Death; Mothers WATER AND WORDS; WITH THANKS TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARTIN GALVIN Poem Source First Line: The only thing my mother feared of death Last Line: And guess that it and all things else were right Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age WATERLILY TRADITION, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The women are singing in the patisserie Last Line: It is my waterlily tradition Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WE MOTHERS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rock into the heart of the world %the melody of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women WE MOTHERS KNOW, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace,' they have said Last Line: It shall be so. Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War WE'LL MOTHER THE TOWN WITH MOTHER, by ADA CORA PARK Poem Text First Line: Our little ones demand us Last Line: "at the ""come to order!"" call." Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Mothers WEEP LINE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Under the trees we paced Last Line: The spikes, now unseen, %feeding the tree Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Children; Love; Mothers And Sons WEEP NOT FOR HIM THAT DIETH, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Bless'd are they for whom, 'mid all their pains Last Line: As I, my mother, claim'd my place in thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Mothers WEIGHING THE BABY, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many pounds does the baby weigh Last Line: That claims a home in eden yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood WELSH LUCY, OR THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S MOTHER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor lucy walters! Who remembers thee? Last Line: To view each morn, the headsman's world below. Subject(s): Mothers; Scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85); Walters, Lucy (1630-1658) WHA ME MUDDER DO, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Mek me tell you wha me mudder do Last Line: Mek me tell you Subject(s): Children; Mothers WHAT DID SHE KNOW, WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings / what it was the soft tap tap Last Line: When did she know it Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Sex WHAT DID SHE KNOW, WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evenings %what it was the soft tap tap Last Line: When did she know it Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Sex WHAT DISAPPEARS, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: In louisiana: start with a name Last Line: I'm out on the porch, I'm watching Subject(s): Mothers WHAT I HEARD AT THE DISCOUNT DEPARTMENT STORE, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Don't touch that. And stop your whining too Last Line: You know you can't do that with me. %you're with your mother now Subject(s): Child Molesting; Men; Mothers WHAT I SAVED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You %drinking milo Last Line: Your tongue unable to form an r as you called my name Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I'M TELLING YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My father played music. He played a guitar and sang. My father Last Line: Four or five as a recoed somewhere in a studio in jamaica started to spin Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT IF GOD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what if god had been watching when my mother Subject(s): God; Mothers WHAT IS GOOD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the water call Subject(s): Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Mothers WHAT IT TAKES, by OLGA ABELLA Poem Source First Line: Tiger lillies stand erect by my mother's house Last Line: And hear her soft accent in my own voice Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Tiger Lilies WHAT LIES BENEATH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The woman inside turns flour to dumplings Last Line: Kept at bay by a few pieces of wood Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT MAKES ME INVISIBLE, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON Poem Source First Line: I sit on the hard chair at the mayflower coffee shop, my feet dangling Last Line: A madame alexandre doll,' my fifth Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Mothers And Daughters; Single Parents; Toys WHAT MOTHER SAID, by MABEL STANDLEY MARSTON Poem Text First Line: Close your eyes,' our mother said Last Line: We say to our children now. Subject(s): Mothers WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When god closes a door, there are no windows Last Line: Even careful chickens get caught by the hawk Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT PUZZLES ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something I'm awfully anxious to know Last Line: That you is you, an' me is me. Subject(s): Children; Curiosities & Wonders; Fate; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Enigmas; Oddities; Destiny WHAT RULES THE WORLD, by WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE Poem Text First Line: They say that man is mighty Last Line: Is the hand that rules the world. Subject(s): Mothers WHAT SHALL I DO? WHAT SHALL I DO?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The same often happened to me when I was young Subject(s): Mothers-in-law WHAT SHE CRAVED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother sugared grapefruit; / my father salted it Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers; Sugar WHAT SHE CRAVED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother sugared grapefruit; %my father salted it Last Line: Ticking through running down days Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers; Sugar WHAT SHE WAS DOING AT HOME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was there -- unfair Last Line: Wearing a cool rag pressed between her eyes. Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Schools; Childhood; Students WHAT THE MOTHERS DO, by MARY L. C. ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Praying for the little people Last Line: This is what the mothers do. Subject(s): Mothers WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SEE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby with his heavy head keeps tipping over Subject(s): Old Age; Youth; Mothers WHAT THE ORACLE SAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You will leave your home Last Line: The sea will never take you back Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE STORIES TEACH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The man playing the flute Last Line: Beneath the caramel glaze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT TO TIP THE BOATMAN?, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Delicate-the way at three she touched Last Line: Her hands precise before her, an offering Variant Title(s): What To Tip The Boatma Subject(s): Mothers WHAT WE FORGET, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: He died the same month Last Line: The tingling of her skin bein healed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT WE NEED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does our country need? Not armies standing Last Line: These are our country's pride, our country's need. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Sin; Soul; Truth; Youth WHAT'S NEXT?, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby carriage was old, one wheel lopsided Last Line: As she stood still. What next? Subject(s): Mothers; Life Choices WHEAT FIELD, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Standing in a field of wheat Last Line: And in the whole scene, my daughter's %dark hair was the only dark thing Subject(s): Fields; Mothers And Daughters; Wheat WHEN I THINK OF YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are still diving into the sea Last Line: A stream of darkness in your wake Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T WANT ME, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was killed and I never knew why Last Line: When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me Subject(s): Adoption; Death; Fathers; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships WHEN I WAS SMALL, A WOMAN DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In yonder maryland Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Death – Children; American Civil War WHEN MAMA CAME HERE AS A GOLD PANNER, by JANA HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: Spread so thin she felt like glass Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women WHEN MARY SINGS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When mary sings it seems a faint Last Line: When mary sings. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood WHEN MOTHER COMBED MY HAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When memory, with gentle hand Last Line: For I've a wife that combs it now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hair; Mothers WHEN MOTHER COOKED WITH WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not quarrel with the gas Last Line: When mother cooked with wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Cookery WHEN MOTHER READS ALOUD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "oh, thick and fast the visions crowd / my eyes, when mother reads aloud" Subject(s): Books;mothers; Reading WHEN MOTHER SLEEPS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mother sleeps, a slamming door Last Line: The moment baby cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mothers WHEN MOTHER STARTS THE APPLE SASS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some fellah says that thoughts are things Last Line: When mother starts the apple sass. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Mothers WHEN MY MOTHER SPEAKS OF LONELINESS, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: I offer to bring her some books Last Line: The ones I've read %before and loved Subject(s): Books; Mothers WHEN SUMMER EVEN SOFTLY DIES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How babe and mother clasp and kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Sea; Love; Mothers; Children WHERE DO ALL THE DAISIES GO?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That is where they go! Subject(s): Babies;birds;daisies;flowers;mothers;winter; Infants WHERE'S MAMMA?', by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comes in flying from the street Last Line: That he'll always want to know %'where's mamma?' Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Mothers WHICH LOVED HER BEST?, by MARY A. CRAGIN Poem Text First Line: I love you, mother,' said little john Last Line: Which of them really loved her best? Alternate Author Name(s): Allison, Joy Subject(s): Mothers WHILE WATCHING 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT' I THINK OF MY MOTHER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pull down the shades. Those waifs Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Absence; Abandonment; Separation; Isolation; Desertion WHITE HAIRS, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: I %love my mother's white hairs Last Line: So far - %she loves me Subject(s): Mothers WHITE MIST WINGS THE PINK-DRAPED SKY, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poet's Biography Last Line: Mother whispers with tulip-lips, pearl-tears filling her eyes Subject(s): Mothers WHITE PRIMER, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: Even the clock is a liar Last Line: But the hopeless tangle of her hair Subject(s): Mothers WHY I STILL BREASTFEED BITTIES - THOUGH HE TURNED TWO, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Because of the rhythm of his munches Subject(s): Mothers WIDOW-MOTHER, by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Soldier boy, soldier boy Last Line: Presently I'll know. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Mothers & Sons; War; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War WIDOWS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's playing cards with my aunt Last Line: The one who has nothing wins Subject(s): Aunts; Mothers; Widows And Widowers WILLIE WINKIE, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wee willie winkie rins through the town Last Line: To me. Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants WILLOW WHISTLE, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only a boy %can set free Last Line: From a little %willow whistle Subject(s): Children; Mothers WINDOW, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Women; Dead, The WINDOW, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Last Line: To let the darkness pour in Subject(s): Death; Mothers; Women WINGS IN THE NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the soft spring midnight Last Line: Over the wild grey water. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Mothers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War WINTER DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the great clear twilight Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): War; Mothers WISH, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each time her mother %called her into the bedroom Last Line: Both of them smiling, neither %thinking of opening the door Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Physicians WISHING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose Last Line: Than any other thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Mothers; Wishes WITCH, by SANTAL Poem Source First Line: I have cut the plaintain grove Last Line: Kill the girls, kill the boys Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Mothers WITH A TREMBLING, by DORIS FERLEGER Poem Source First Line: To embrace this infant being Subject(s): Mothers WITH MY MOTHER AND AUNTS IN THE KITCHEN, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: While the rest of us watch a football game Last Line: No on tells me to go, %so I sit in the empty chair and listen Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Mothers WITHOUT WINGS, MOTHER, HOW CAN I FLY?, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source Last Line: Here, right here, safe in the curve of my arm Subject(s): Animals; Mothers WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WOMAN AND ARTIST, by ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to win me a name Last Line: With its lips against my breast. Subject(s): Mothers WOMAN IN THE PETER PAN COLLAR, by BROOKE HORVATH Poem Source First Line: It is 1953, and my mother stands, so young, slim, in a calf-length woolen Last Line: Never be again Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers And Sons WOMAN MOURNED BY DAUGHTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, not a tear begun Last Line: Anywhere, save exactly %as you would wish it done Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Last Line: I am the stem that fed the fruit, %the link that joins you to the night Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN WITH A SON, by GRACE MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: That was the front door I heard gently closing Last Line: And I have not forgotten. Let that suffice. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons WOMAN'S HEART, SELS., by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maids must be wives and mother to fulfil Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Mothers WOMAN, GALLUP, N.M., by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of her profile lay stringent Last Line: She shattered on the pavement. Subject(s): Loss; Mothers; Silence WOMAN, SONG AND SEASON, by WALTER L. ROOSA Poem Text First Line: No more songs of summer to me! Last Line: And run its way. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Mothers; Women; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WOMEN'S WAR THOUGHTS, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, o woman! Last Line: Made this war, I wonder! Subject(s): Mothers; War; Women WORDS TO MY MOTHER, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: I don't ask you to tell me the great truths Last Line: If the sea unlocks its strong perfumes - %to watch the great birds that pass without destination Subject(s): Mothers WORK OF HER THAT WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By fires of the sun Variant Title(s): Poem: 1143; Poem: 115 Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women WORLD IS WITH ME JUST ENOUGH, by SAMUEL ABRAMS Poem Source First Line: My seven year old friend Last Line: The greatest is the last %by far Subject(s): Children; Mothers WORSE THINGS THAN DIVORCE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I was helping dancey lift his wife april by her ears into the sky Last Line: Just as if dancey were here, saying, 'lo, it is I...Everything is ok.' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WOULD YOU LIKE A TOMATO, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Would you like a tomato Last Line: Would you like a tomato Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WRITTEN FOR A PERSONAL EPITAPH, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeding the worm Subject(s): Mothers WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM AT HIS FIRST PUTTING ON BREECHES, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it our mammas bewitches Last Line: The only monarch all obey. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wynken, blynken, and nod one night Last Line: And nod. Variant Title(s): A Dutch Lullaby;wynken, Blynken, And Nod Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares YOU, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From beyond the borders of memory you seemed to Subject(s): Mothers YOU ALWAYS WERE SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO, by SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: Since I had a mother %whose many interests Last Line: For me to develop into %an independent woman Subject(s): Mothers YOU ARE LIKE AN EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP, by LAUREL O. HOYE Poem Source Last Line: You are like you and I love you Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women YOU ARE THE BEST MOTHER OF ALL, by SUSAN M. PAVLIS Poem Source First Line: If I had to pick one thing Last Line: And I love you very much Subject(s): Mothers YOU COME HOME, by JUDITH KIRKWOOD Poem Source First Line: In the new year of winter Subject(s): Mothers YOU NO SEND. ME NO COME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first night back and rain falls Last Line: What assures them they will come down? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE PERSON I TURN TO, by LAURA MEDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mother, there are times Last Line: You truly are my very best friend Subject(s): Mothers YOU, WHO HAVE SONS TO SPARE!, by L. ALLEN BECK Poem Text First Line: You casual mothers, who no longer care Last Line: You, who have sons to spare! Subject(s): Mothers; War YOUNG MOTHER, by MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: When you have only the grave Last Line: Each smaller than a baby's tooth Subject(s): Mothers YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has been dark Last Line: A thousand cranes curtain the window, %fly up in a sudden breeze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters YOUR MOTHER, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: Your mother %in the market Last Line: Even in the winter %live here Subject(s): African Americans; Mothers YOUR MOTHER, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Nobody else may ever care because you have a broken heart Last Line: Days on earth. Subject(s): Mothers YOUR MOTHER'S HARMONICA, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: An anthem is only as tin as your ear Last Line: The song you learned when you were born Subject(s): Mothers; Music And Musicians YOUR TEARS STILL BURN AT MY HANDCUFFS, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After that millet beer you brewed, mother Last Line: Glare at your tears burning at my handcuffs Subject(s): Mothers; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions YOUTH SPEAKS, by MABEL M. BURTON Poem Text First Line: I am just turned sixteen Last Line: And my hair is red gold. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth YULE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On the tall green tree we have hung Last Line: Here is your tree, here are your children, reine soleil, %give us your gifts Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged [IF MAMA / COULD SEE], by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Relatives |
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