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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARENTS Matches Found: 395 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEHOLD, O LORD, THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "as free-will gifts, as bonds of love" Subject(s): Family Life;jews;love;parents;togetherness; Relatives;judaism;parenthood 20-JUN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be born in one week %to a frowned forehead of a woman Last Line: In one week I will emerge face first %into their temporary joy Subject(s): Children; Parents A BALLAD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return return, my hapless spouse Last Line: Let fancy paint the rest. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Parents; Trials; Childhood; Parenthood A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A DAUGHTER'S FEVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark ivy draws a wave across the yard Last Line: Small fingers curl. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DIFFERENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I can't go to sleep Last Line: While mother's in the hall! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Horses; Parents; Parenthood A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood A HYMN FOR A CHILD THAT HAS UNGODLY PARENTS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy are those little ones Last Line: And supplication heard. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A LEAF, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf falls softly at my feet Last Line: So much that was most dear to me. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A MOTHER, by ERNEST G. MOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were stained with the dust of the road Last Line: And summer's coming. Alternate Author Name(s): Moll, Gerry Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A PARENT REPRIMANDED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think 'at parunts does Last Line: Ist wite where ma she said it's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Punishment; Parenthood A POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou's welcome wean, mishanter fa' me Last Line: An' think't weel war'd. Subject(s): Daughters; Parents; Parenthood A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR 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 PROTEST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it's queer that boys should be Last Line: "yes, dear—some time—now run to bed!" Subject(s): Boys; Children; Contrariness; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A SONG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For having loved my parents Last Line: I am myself. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere. Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood 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' LANE, LANEY!, by JOHN TAYLOR (1837-) Poem Text First Line: I've had my share o' sorrows; they've been neither few nor sma' Last Line: He winna leave the bairnie his wee lea lane! Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood AD ASTRA: 112, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What man that hath a weak and ailing child Last Line: Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sympathy; Childhood; Parenthood; Empathy ADAM, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, my child, my son Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood ADAM, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, my child, my son Last Line: To circle the great globe, %it shall reach you yet Subject(s): Parents ADJUSTMENT OF FEVER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the images of saints hanged Last Line: And the visit begins, to help me to live right Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Parents; Travel ADVICE TO A WRITER IMAGINING CONCEPTION AND BIRTH, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love Last Line: Dispense with history, the transitory passions of people's wants %words are dropping fast Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Parents AFTER KUO CHU-PU'S POEMS, by TAO CHIEN Poem Source First Line: Trees thick and full gathering pure %midsummer shade out front, and wind Last Line: Endless skies. I watch. Why all that %reverent longing for ancient times? Subject(s): Children; Parents AFTER THE WEDDING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought we never should be rid of them! Last Line: To find our own past in their future there! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Daughters; Love - Marital; Marriage; Parents; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood AFTERNOON BLUES AND AN ACCIDENTAL LIFE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: An accidental life came through the window Last Line: That forgot where they'd been walking Subject(s): Escapes; Music And Musicians; Single Parents ALONE WITH JANE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Jane, in a suit of cameron plaid Last Line: I wish I were n't alone with jane! Subject(s): Courtship; Daughters; Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Last Line: In the century of horror Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States ANACREONTIC, ON PARTING WITH A LITTLE CHILD, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, farewell, a little while, / easy parting with a smile Last Line: Vainly mourns for them that play. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood APPARENT, by ALBERT ELLSWORTH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: When I questioned young smithson, a short time ago Last Line: "the reason's a parent!"" cried he." Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood APPLE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Holding your head Last Line: Somehow always remember this Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Parents AT THE LYING-IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spell your last name for me please %p a r k e r Last Line: What did you husband do %he moved rocks Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Parents; Pregnancy AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUTOMATIC PILOT, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The night of his death, I feared the body's stupid continuance Last Line: In which there are no parents, nor children Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Parents BEADS ON A MALA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...Tired maya going to my maker Last Line: Standing at the vanity %where I bleach me Subject(s): Children; Parents BEATING, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My father knows only that Last Line: And in a great solitude Subject(s): Children; Domestic Relations; Marriage; Parents; Violence BETWEEN YOUR PARENTS' SHEETS, by MIRANDA PEARSON Poem Source First Line: After the beach we rinse off sand Last Line: Take his shape %and no one stops you Subject(s): Beds; Parents; Relationships BIBLE STUDIES: 2, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Inside, the other shoppers stop their carts Last Line: She's more like god. The world needs repair, %and we rush to do her bidding Subject(s): God; Parents BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me, Last Line: Swim in my blood and distort my thought but the old man's welcome Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Parents; Parenthood BIRTHDAY POEM, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Our fathers' slow climb Last Line: And the love, just beginning Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Beginnings; Love Affairs; Marriage; Parents BITS OF INFORMATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While her minuscule fledglings, each slightly Last Line: Will cross the gulf of mexico, living on stored up fat. Subject(s): Single Parents; Parents Without Partners 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 BLUE SAILORS, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: No sense in fishing to throw back fish. Eat Last Line: Up for supper, my father's whistle ribboned the wind Variant Title(s): Chicor Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Parents BORN IN THE PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, by K. I. PRESS Poem Source First Line: I learned acting from the gallery. As speaker, father seldom Last Line: Walls are red, the ground is red, the swords are falling all over me Subject(s): Birth; Parents BORN INTO A WORLD KNOWING, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This will happen Last Line: In the fresh snow. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Survival; Childhood; Parenthood BOX OF ASHES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A box of ashes, which we scattered on Last Line: Ponder, father, why these green blades have grown: %a box of ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Parents BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ceremonial rose in the lapel Last Line: Her hand at total rest under his hand Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ceremonial rose in the lapel Last Line: I am the son of this man and this woman Subject(s): Parents BROTHERS (ADELPHI): MICIO ON BRINGING UP CHILDREN, by PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The elder boy is by adoption mine Last Line: Rather from choice, than terror or constraint Alternate Author Name(s): Terence Subject(s): Children; Parents BUCHINGER LIMBS, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: In the year I wrote small, everything Last Line: The smallest words will drive you blind Subject(s): Education; Parents; Writing And Writers CALL TO FLORIDA, by KEN GOOSENS Poem Source First Line: Dad must fear I am senile covering Last Line: Shooing away alligator frogs Subject(s): Florida; Parents CAUSE & EFFECT, by LLORI STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: A persons demise Last Line: &that they'll b assholes just like them Subject(s): Parents CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: We're watching you! Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex; Parenthood CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: And the plumbing would howl from hell, 'we're %watching you' Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex CHAPEL IN THE PINES, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It looks like an observatory: a white dome Last Line: My leg muscles - light as orpheus, I rise Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Parents CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism CIGARETTES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father burned us all. Ash Last Line: Smoldering halls. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fire; Parents; Smoking; Childhood; Parenthood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CIVILIZING THE CHILD, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't keep it, I say Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood CLEANING FISH, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Dad, a little drunk, every summer sunday Last Line: I'd keep every single vow I made Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Children; Parents; Social Problems 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 CURRICULUM VITAE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in a free city, near the north sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Parenthood DAUGHTER WITH CAMERA, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: There used to be chickens scratching Last Line: Now. You'll always have it. The house.' Subject(s): Cameras; Daughters; Memory; Parents; Photography And Photographers DEFICIT, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The boy's pencil corners the eight-point buck Last Line: First the pencil, then his pawprints %blackening the page Subject(s): Boys; Children; Parents DEMETER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The first thing you know Last Line: Ignoring the dreams of wallpaper Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Escapes; Parents DESK, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: My father is chopping up the desk he built me when I was a kid to get Last Line: Is getting him pissed off Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Fathers; Parents DESTINY, by EMMA E. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It seems but yesterday Last Line: Unto your chosen destiny. Subject(s): Children; Fate; Parents; Childhood; Destiny; Parenthood DID SOMEONE SAY 'BABIES?', by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have baby Last Line: Down with the kiddies! Subject(s): Parents DISTANT FOOTSTEPS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father sleeps. His august expression Last Line: Down them, my heart travels on foot Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Parents DOMESTIC POEMS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Parents DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's, mother's, brother's deaths I pardon Last Line: And beg of heaven to charge the bill on me. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Forgiveness; Murder; Parents; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Clemency; Parenthood 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 DOXOLOGY, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: Father and mother returned from the service Last Line: Lost in the laughter of children downstairs Subject(s): Children; Parents; Service DREAM OF DONEGAL, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD Poem Text First Line: I can see the little cottage by the sea, by the sea Last Line: Oh, father, be a boy again, and not so cold and still! Subject(s): Dreams; Parents; Sea; Nightmares; Parenthood; Ocean ELEGY, by MIHALY LADANYI Poem Source First Line: We sit among trashy still lives Last Line: At the signing of a peace treaty Subject(s): Mankind; Parents ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924); Childhood; Parenthood ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Last Line: Legs twinkle in the deep %meadow amongst flowers Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924) EMPTY CRADLE SONGS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think about the rooms Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood END OF THE URBAN EXPERIMENT, by AMY LEMMON Poem Source First Line: Discarding the last flakes of a chocolate croissant Last Line: And vote republican one more time Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Parents ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITHALAMIUM, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This body of my mother, pierced by me Last Line: My sister, heralded by no moan, no sound. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Marriage; Parents; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood EPITREPONTES (THE ARBITRATION): TWO SLAVES AND A FOUNDLING, by MENANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look, onesimus. %what do you say to this? The thought has just Last Line: By jove, she has initiative, that girl! Subject(s): Freedom; Orphans; Parents ETHELBERT'S 'COMING HOME IN THE DARK', by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did I tell you how we went to tea Last Line: At what we told him, willie and I. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood EXCUSES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I'm special naughty Last Line: Just how bad I was!) Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood FAMOUS MAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Fluttered across his face Last Line: Of his father. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Parents; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives; Parenthood FATHER, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: My children grow up Last Line: Toward my own maze Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents FATHER GOOSE, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mother goose became quite new Last Line: The tales of father goose. Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Books; Geese; Parents; Reading; Parenthood FATHER POEM, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have fathered / four sons, they surround Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood FATHER POEM, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have fathered %four sons, they surround Last Line: The fathers of daughters %cannot say this Subject(s): Parents FATHER'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, against admonishment Last Line: She tries to teach me risk. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Parents; Prudence; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood; Caution 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 FAUST BOOK: FAUST'S PARENTS QUESTION MEPHISTOPHELES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Where's miss gretchen Last Line: I wouldn't like to say Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Parents FAUST BOOK: PARENTS JOURNEY A GREAT DISTANCE TO SEE SON, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Dear me, your aged parents have arrived Last Line: Mephisto didn't mean to run a lodging house Subject(s): Faust; Parents FIERCE PARENTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If your parent should be dressed in Last Line: And laughs back as all fathers do in every kind of land. Subject(s): Children; January; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood FILIAL VISIT, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: She comes home feeling unfinished Last Line: I'm listening. She's got my attention Subject(s): Parents 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 FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood FOR A CHILD EXPECTED, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter Last Line: May she grow to her right powers %unperturbed by passion of ours Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Pregnancy FOR A CHILD: 2. NIGHT SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, our lord, and for thy peace Last Line: Be your great protection shed. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood FOR MY DAUGHTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: This is the summer storm Subject(s): Family Life; Parents FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If poets are evidence, let's begin with the fact Last Line: I hope I was never too much in your way Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood FOREST CREATURES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to walk with you in the woods Last Line: Waiting for me Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Parents FORGIVENESS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: One day after my father died Last Line: In our eyes, make every day blaze alive Subject(s): Desire; Family Life; Forgiveness; Marriage; Parents FORTIES PHOTOGRAPH, by LOUIS BRYAN Poem Source First Line: Standing against an iron fence somewhere in south jersey Last Line: A portrait of my mother and father %still life in black and white Subject(s): New Jersey; Parents; Photography And Photographers FORTY YEARS LATER, by SHARON OLDS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I suddenly sensed the rubber band which I had Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood FORTY YEARS LATER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I suddenly sensed the rubber band which I had Last Line: It could not be fit in them, they could not contain it Subject(s): Parents FROST AT MIDNIGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frost performs its secret ministry Last Line: Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Subject(s): Babies; Fantasy; Parents; Infants; Parenthood FRUIT OF THE FLOWER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a quiet man Last Line: That flushes this wild fruit? Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood FRUIT OF THE FLOWER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a quiet man Subject(s): Parents FULFILLMENT, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: My children have the things I wanted - college Last Line: God lets me give the things I never had. Subject(s): Parents; Universities & Colleges; Parenthood GENERATIONS, by JOSEPH AWAD Poem Source First Line: See how he loves me Subject(s): Parents GETTING READY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I'm the thousand-change girl, getting ready for school, standing in my Last Line: What you're wearing? Subject(s): Children; Parents; Youth GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Last Line: Sterile vision -- and a great %wind we ride Subject(s): Animals; Gifts And Giving; Horses; Parents GOODNIGHT IRENE, by CORRINNE CLEGG HALES Poem Source First Line: On my fourth birthdya, she's scooping coal gravel Last Line: All those years ago, by the way %my mother sang along Subject(s): Memory; Parents GRADUATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ex-wife comes over Subject(s): Graduation & Graduates; Divorce; Parents; Parenthood GRATITUDE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The arc of your eyebrows-so new!-draws a splendid dome Last Line: I'm grateful to you for guiding me safely through the throes of birth Subject(s): Birth; Children; Fathers; Gratitude; Parents GRAVE, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Graves; Parents; Tombs; Tombstones; Parenthood GREEN MOUNTAINS FATHER WHITE CLOUDS, by TUNG-SHAN LIANG-CHIEH Poem Source Last Line: Mostly the mountain doesn't mind Subject(s): Children; Parents; Zen Buddhism GROWN UPS, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aunties know all about fairies Last Line: Even the little ones. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood HEART'S NEEDLE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my winter, born Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers And Daughters; Parents HEAVEN, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a little child Last Line: To show true heaven is all above. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood HELL OF INSECTS, by COLIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: At first, his parents could not have been more pleased by his Last Line: His father must have heard something else, for he backed away Subject(s): Insects; Parents HER GIFT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes, her mouth, her chin, so strangely small Last Line: Take mighty hold upon two human hearts. Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood HER POET-BROTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What ef little childerns all Last Line: Wuz big as parunts is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Retail Trade; Childhood; Parenthood; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers HIS PA'S ROMANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All 'at I ever want to be Last Line: "I laugh' an' yell', ""hooray-hooraw!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Parents; Uncles; Parenthood HOLDING COLD, by BENJAMIN LERNER Poem Source First Line: Walking tracks in easter sands Last Line: Keep searching for a proper science? Subject(s): Children; Parents HOME, by DEREK WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: Father returned when it was dark Last Line: His eyes before mother arrived said %don't try me Subject(s): Home; Parents; Quarrels HONEY LAM, by MILDRED M. FORT Poem Text First Line: Hush dat noise, an' don' yo' weep Last Line: Honey lam'. Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood HOOLIGAN ZOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry and depressed I take my son to the zoo Last Line: He couldn't hear their yellow heads roaring Subject(s): Parents; Zoos HOW IT PASSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I'll begin to cook like mother Last Line: It won't go away. Subject(s): Aging; Creative Ability; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Parenthood; Feminism I AM UPSTAIRS, TRYING TO BE QUIET, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: When I think of her, I think of silence Last Line: They are tearing her limb from limb Subject(s): Affliction; Parents; Youth I DESCRIBE MY PARENTS BEFORE THEY KNOW THEY HAVE MADE ME COME TRUE, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: In the cloister of saint odilo Last Line: This pair does not know I will be born. %nothing I do will change them Subject(s): Birth; Parents I GO BACK TO MAY 1937, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges Subject(s): Parents; Marriage; Failure; Parenthood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I SHALL FORGET,' I SAID, by AKINOOSA OBITOMARO Poem Source Last Line: I can never forget Subject(s): Parents IL LATTE, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ye fair, for whom the hands of hymen weave Last Line: Unblam'd inebriate at that healthful spring. Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Nature; Parents; Infants; Parenthood 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 IN EACH OF MY CELLS DAD AND MOM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And feel deep sympathy for my children Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Contrariness; Family Life; Nature; Parents; Psychology IN THE DARK WOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dreaming, and as dusk falls Last Line: Me in that frighteningly %dark wood Subject(s): Dreams; Parents IN THE SCRAMBLE TO GET AWAY, by UDOBE USHIMARO Poem Source Last Line: And now I regret it Subject(s): Parents INFIDELITY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two-toned olds swinging sideways out of Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Quarrels; Parenthood; Arguments; Disagreements INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parunts knows lots more than us Last Line: "well, what is it, honey?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Wind; Wisdom; Parenthood INTERRUPTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say it's wrong to interrupt when someone talks / to you Last Line: Which proves he doesn't hear, nor even look at what I'm showing. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Talk; Childhood; Parenthood JACOB UNRECOGNIZED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I was lyin' in the grass Last Line: But my maw—why, you jes' can't int'rest her! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood JANUARAENEID, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, barely, %in the bird morning, puts Last Line: Of a sister of charity, o my father! Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Parents JOYFUL PROPHECY, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If he is held in love Last Line: Who can hold its heartiness %fermented to a man's delight, %if he is held in love Subject(s): Parents KING'S DAUGHTERS, HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, 1948, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there figures a man. In uniform. He's not white. He Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Daughters; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood KING'S DAUGHTERS, HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, 1948, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there figures a man. In uniform. He's not white. He Last Line: Whether he will do things they never dreamed Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Daughters; Parents LA JOLLA, 1943-1993, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Here in the cove at la jolla Last Line: Being carried over a threshold Subject(s): La Jolla, California; Love - Marital; Parents; Romance 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 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 LETTER TO MY YOUNG SON FROM SZIGLIGET, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: The yewtree is ailing with catarrh Last Line: Inside your chest? Subject(s): Letters; Messengers; Parents; Postal Service; Sons LIFE IS THUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never look behind Last Line: Behind. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Life; Parents; Poverty; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You might as well answer the door, my child, %the truth is furiously knocking.' Subject(s): Abandonment; Reality; Single Parents LIKE MOTHER, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Flesh of my flesh, life of my life Last Line: Picture slipped out of the frame, bread with its crust cut off Subject(s): Birth; Parents; Pregnancy LIQUID FLESH, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a light chocolatine room Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Relationships; Body, Human; Infants; Parenthood LONG-GONE SUN: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SOMBER HOURS, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source Last Line: What guardian angel was watching over them %what demon? Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents LONG-GONE SUN: 3, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: My siter bursts into tears over arithmetic problems Last Line: Where the serpent of life bites its own tail %through its seasonal moultings Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Nature; Parents; Schools LOOKING IN AT NIGHT, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep, alive, her shape makes me afraid Last Line: Drawing the night along her shoulder blade Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood LOST AND FOUND, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a southern city lived a wealthy family Last Line: My poor little wanderer far away from home. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I do zew, wi' nimble hand Last Line: Up here a-while. Do come. Subject(s): Autumn; Parents; Seasons; Solitude; Fall; Parenthood; Loneliness LYNCHING AND BURNING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lean toward the wood Last Line: People lived there. Now we live there... Subject(s): Children; Ku Klux Klan; Lynching; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs M. ON HER THIRTHIETH BIRTHDAY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I could be a yogi Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The MADAME LA MARQUISE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said hongray de la glaciere unto his proud papa Last Line: For I as well the truth may tell... Papa is not your father Subject(s): Lies; Parents MAGIC WORDS TO CURE A SICK CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O my tiny child Last Line: You'll live a long long time Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Healing; Magic; Native Americans; Parents MARVELOUS FATHER, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Slobodan milosovic is a marvelous father Last Line: We know they are such marvelous men Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents; Politics; Terror MATERNAL LEGACY, by UNKNOWN+294 Poem Source First Line: He had his father's eyes, %but like his mother, his body was burly Last Line: From her might be the reason %he had his father's eyes Subject(s): Children; Parents MENAPHON: SEPHESTIA'S [CRADLE] SONG TO HER CHILD, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee Last Line: When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Variant Title(s): Sephestia's Lullaby Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood MILKWEED AND MONARCH, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he knelt by the grave of his mother and father Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood MILKWEED AND MONARCH, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he knelt by the grave of his mother and father Last Line: He could barely tell one from the other Subject(s): Parents MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents MISSING THE DEAD, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I miss the old scrawl on the viaduct Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Parker, Charlie (bird) (1920-1955); Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The 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 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 MUNTU #003, by GEORGE GOTT Poem Source First Line: We must not stand alone Last Line: With things that have never been Subject(s): Forgiveness; Parents MY BODY, by MICHAEL HETTICH Poem Source First Line: The first time I met her she was swimming out and couldn't hear me Last Line: Boardwalk fo just one song. They asked if I would sing their song Subject(s): Bodies; Funerals; Parents; Soul MY CHILDHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS; TO MY PARENTS, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Many poets great and gifted whom the muse's touch had blessed Last Line: When at last our bark is anchored there to spend our happiest days. Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood MY PARENTS HAVE COME HOME LAUGHING, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: That seems not to be pain, and it comforts me Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood MY PARENTS HAVE THE FLU TODAY, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My parents have the flu Subject(s): Parents; Sickness MY PARENTS IN FRANCE, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's cracking above the hill behind the house Last Line: To say that now. Just between us, I whisper, though I know %the stones are listening Subject(s): France; Parents MY PARENTS, KNOW IT WELL, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source Last Line: And count as human-beings Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents MY PARENTS: FROM A PHOTO, by DEREK WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: They canoe away from me, mother's Last Line: But will reach the far shore together Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Parents; Photography And Photographers MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Last Line: Crying my name among blind fish, %wanting so much to come home Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Last Line: Be more than the man %who watches Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Parents; Women NAMES OF THINGS: 1., by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why? Asks the sears' security guard, but she won't Last Line: His shoulder, like you do with spilt salt, no bad luck Subject(s): Children; Parents NAMING HIM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name Last Line: Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed! Subject(s): Babies; Names; Parents; Infants; Parenthood NATURAL HISTORY, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Late afternoon, autumn equinox, %and my daughter and I Last Line: Gathering the stories of silence together, %preparing to greet the winter Subject(s): Children; Parents NATURALIST, by WILLIAM O'DALY Poem Source First Line: I've waited a long time, %little one, longer than a man Last Line: Of every dying life. %and we can only ask Subject(s): Children; Parents NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 2D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour thy parents to prolong thine end Last Line: Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. Subject(s): Parents; Truth; Parenthood NEGATIVE SPACE, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The mystics prattle on about its lucidity, train for its empty sport Last Line: The desperate witch feeds them sweets, sweeps up their bread crumbs Subject(s): Children; Parents NEW WAVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He listens to a punk rock group Last Line: Due to the effects of listening to agent orange. Subject(s): Adolescence; Music & Musicians; Parents; Teen Agers; Parenthood NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH AGING PARENTS, by G. W. CLIFT Poem Source First Line: This time of year my habit says that I Last Line: Claims our focus, this homely holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Parents NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you, o infant of my midnight thought! Last Line: Ah, well, some day you 'll be a married man. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Marriage; Parents; Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood NINETY, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Other people have parents Last Line: Pushed back empty to the other side Subject(s): Parents NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Death; Parents; Dead, The; Parenthood NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Death; Parents; Graveyards; Relatives; Dead, The; Parenthood NOT WANTING A CHILD, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: How hard is it to dam a river with your finger? Last Line: Lie down with me in this burning bed Subject(s): Parents NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism 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 NUMBER SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've multiplied, I'm 2 Last Line: Kind congruity. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood O HADA CIBERNETICA: 18, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: My parents, know it well Last Line: And count as human-beings Subject(s): Children; Mankind; Parents; Youth OATS OF WRATH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You want cash in a trust?' Last Line: Hair laid flat by the gust, %a boy waits out the storm Subject(s): Child Molesting; Farm Life; Homosexuality; Parents ON A CAPE MAY WARBLER WHO FLEW AGAINST MY WINDOW, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's stopped in her southern tracks Last Line: Ghosts come nest in my branches Subject(s): Birds; Death – Animals; Children; Burial; Parents ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies to each her parents' ruth Last Line: Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On My First Daughter Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Parents; Death - Babies; Parenthood ON NURSING, by JENNY FACTOR Poem Source First Line: Distance laid its static on us as mothers Last Line: Milk entered, life claimed all those empty spaces in us; between us Subject(s): Children; Parents ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Families, when a child is born Last Line: By becoming a cabinet minister. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Birth; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Parenthood ON THE CORNER OF CAMPBELL AND KENNEDY STREETS, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: The baby's droll, sweet face Last Line: Cross which the lovely vessel disappears Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Streets ONE FLESH, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Lying apart now, each in a separate bed Last Line: These two who are my father and my mother %whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold? Subject(s): Aging; Parents; Women ONE MUST COOK WELL FOR ONE'S HUSBAND AND PIGS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Where are you going, stars Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Parents OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Last Line: His bloody march across mexico Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1873, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas-days are still in store Last Line: News to men! To god old glory! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood ORIGINS: MY LIFE IN MOVING PICTURES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I'm a leaf I'm a leaf if you're a Last Line: Of the birds? Subject(s): Life; Single Parents; Parents Without Partners OUR CHILD DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING, OR THANK GOD!, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am now about to make a remark that ... Most parents will think me hateful for Last Line: I shudder to think what for entertainment they'd do %were they are bright as me or you Subject(s): Parents OUR HOMESTEAD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our old brown homestead reared its walls Last Line: They are in my heart to-night! Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia; Parents; Parenthood 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 PARENTS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our parents died atleast twice Last Line: We've been alive long enough Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Children; Memory; Parents OUR ROMANCE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is narrow which leads to that house Last Line: And saved the parents, being children. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Parents; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OUR SON SWEARS HE HAS 102 GALLONS OF WATER IN HIS BODY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum Last Line: That nobody could break. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Milk; Parents; Water; Wine; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Parenthood 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 PARENT, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So he took her - just like that Last Line: Rooted in the enormous loins %of the first parent Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Parents PARENT TEACHER NIGHT, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: My daughter's maps and diaries Last Line: Until the last dream, which is darkness Subject(s): Children; Parents; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PARENTAGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father didn't really belong in history Last Line: I'd just s soon be pushed by events to where I belong Subject(s): Parents PARENTAL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parunts don't git toys an' things Last Line: She know he ever saw! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Parents; Toys; Parenthood PARENTS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Their bodies change, sudden weathers Last Line: A spilled beautiful glass of water Subject(s): Parents PARENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What it must be like to be an angel Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood PARENTS, by TERRY SPOHN Poem Source First Line: Dogs raise their heads from sleep. The rabbit's paws are wet. In the first Last Line: Bread cooling in the sun. She doesn't intend to die Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age; Parents PARENTS, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: What was I thinking of as I brought children one by one Last Line: Thought in advance of the inexorable necessity of Subject(s): Parents PARENTS OF POETS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: You imagine them on pillows, wondering %about these children, unexpected Last Line: Figures maybe it's all about poetry, and wonder Subject(s): Children; Parents; Poetry And Poets; Teenagers PARENTS-WITHOUT-PARTNERS PICNIC, by TED SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: At cosmo %the sky is swarming with color Last Line: A sudden chill %most of us %have taken up smoking again %ourcigarettes so crazy in the dark Subject(s): Parents PERHAPS OUR PARENTS MADE LOVE AFTER ALL, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: He has grown lonely enough Last Line: Something %of use Subject(s): Love; Parents PERSONAL HISTORY: FOR MY SON, by RUTHVEN TODD Poem Source First Line: O my heart is the unlucky heir of the ages Subject(s): Parents PHANTOMS, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Because they couldn't find my father, a neighbor Last Line: That I'm only reaching out for anyone Subject(s): Birth; Parents PHOTO OF MYSELF AT THREE, by DICK JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: That kid's not tough. Too gentle, hoping Last Line: Fire,stone, oceans cannot starve or stay them Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents PHOTOGRAPHS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take what you want, we'll throw the rest away Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Memory; Parents; Parenthood PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PLANNED PARENTHOOD, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: How would you ever know Last Line: Snow from another world Subject(s): Parents POCKET BILLIARDS, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: After fifty years of vacations Last Line: Who has carpal tunnel syndrome. %on tuesdays Subject(s): Billiards; Old Age; Parents POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a heavy knocking Last Line: Is coming home Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood POEM FOR MY SON, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where water laps my hips Last Line: Now, boy, swim off for this Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Children; Parents; Seashore; Swimming; Water POLAND OF DEATH: 1, by ALLEN GROSSMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear my father underground scratching with a nail. And I say Last Line: "and mother says, ""this is the forest primeval."" poland of death!" Subject(s): Graves; Jews; Parents; Poland; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Parenthood POPULAR BALLAD: NEVER FORGET YOUR PARENTS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young man once was sitting Last Line: You would not have been born. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Gratitude; Grief; Parents; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY WITHOUT A FATHER, by KEN VICTOR Poem Source First Line: In memory of leah shapiro Last Line: Let the women practice constancy. We're always visitors Subject(s): Memory; Portraits; Single Parents PREPOSITIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction) Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood PUBLISHED MY OWN SOUL AUGUST MY FATHER'S MONTH, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was married in winter used an umbrella in the snow Subject(s): Parents PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these your eyes, isla Last Line: Pulse of my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood RACHEL MOURNETH, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Where are my babes, husband, where are my babes? Last Line: But—god—where are my babes? Subject(s): Children; Parents; Youth; Childhood; Parenthood RAHMEL ROAD, by CHITRA GAJADIN Poem Source First Line: My mother said %we must still go to rahmel road Last Line: Intuitively she avoided the question: %when are you getting married? Subject(s): Parents; Religion RASPBERRY APPARITIONS, by KEITH GEORGE ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: My mother met my father Last Line: For her, now Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Widows And Widowers READING A STORY TO MY CHILD, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a small boy Last Line: In a ragged coat. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs RED AZALEAS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: A wife I have never held in my arms Last Line: And know why I am happy. Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers; Single Parents; Widows & Widowers; Parents Without Partners ROCKO'S SUGAR, by PETER JACOBS Poem Source First Line: I'm going to see my baby - it's been Last Line: Mr. Undaunted, this waving maniac, %proud daddy in the beat-up pontiac Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Parents ROOKERY, by MARY BIDDINGER Poem Source First Line: Once I was stolen Last Line: My hair the third I rapped %with a stone and broke Subject(s): Birds; Children; Parents SAFE, WARM, AND SNUG, by STEPHEN R. SWINBURNE Poem Source First Line: Fish fry swimming tight Last Line: Mama bat soars tonight Subject(s): Animals; Parents SCALLOP SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a garland of the briar that put me now in awe Last Line: & leave all sorrow bye & bye. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SCOLDING MY SONS, by TAO CHIEN Poem Source First Line: My temples covered al in white, I'm Last Line: If this is heaven's way, I'll offer it %that stuff in the cup. It needs a drink Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sons SEED, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corn is universal, / so like a roman senator Last Line: Oh my daughters. Subject(s): Children; Corn; Indian Summer; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SHADOWS, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: Whatever the lord gave you Last Line: Out of our mistakes Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Parents SISTER, by JEAN ESTEVE Poem Source First Line: It could as well have not happened Last Line: So I won't. So I'll tell you just that marigolds %are lovelier than grass Subject(s): Parents; Sisters SIX LOVE POEMS: 1, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are seated at the kitchen table Last Line: The space we occupy together Subject(s): Parents; Male-female Relationships; Parenthood SIXTH DAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Straight to the rabbit's nest Last Line: But of the sixth day's veiled amenities. Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SKY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be buried beside my parents Last Line: Beside us, face up to the sky Subject(s): Parents; Graves; Parenthood SKY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be buried beside my parents Last Line: Beside us, face up to the sky Subject(s): Parents SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my father was a god Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood SMELT, by LEE COOPER Poem Source First Line: You can eat smelt fried up crisp Last Line: Crumbs falling from our greasy fingers Subject(s): Children; Food And Eating; Growth; Parents SNAPSHOT, by NACIA MILLER Poem Source First Line: This cold water flat kitchen in 1950 Last Line: With momma in the background at the sink %cleaning up Subject(s): Memory; Parents; Photography And Photographers SO THERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I would not let one four-year-old son Last Line: My my we are a stubborn personality Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SOMEWHERE, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a mother sobs Last Line: Somewhere a mother will rejoice Subject(s): Human Rights; Oppression; Single Parents 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: 2, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow Last Line: And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. Subject(s): Aging; Love; Parents; Parenthood SONNET: 55, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you see a child that shivers when it hears Subject(s): Children; Parents SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: What my mother said %of her desire to see me Last Line: Women, like herself, who had been %sentenced fertile Subject(s): Children; Parents SORRY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear parents, %I forgive you my life Last Line: Wounding itself %with questions you had not asked Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Parents SPIRIT LEVEL, by KEVIN BLACK Poem Source First Line: When illness whittled uncle james Last Line: Where my mother and father are Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Parents SPOILED CHILD, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: My child recedes inside me Last Line: Forever unsullied and unfulfilled Subject(s): Children; Parents STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STELLA BY STARLIGHT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My mother couldn't understand how my father, a man stuffed so full Last Line: Their dark faces reflected the light and were shining Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parents STOIC, by JAMES HATCH Poem Source First Line: The sight of bread's split crust on the oven sill Last Line: And say those simple prayers that children know' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Stoicism STRUNG, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: A light. A rose. Hub of the day Last Line: Points of star needle down Subject(s): Children; Life; Parents SUMMER SOLSTICE, SELS., by GEORGE BOWERING Poem Source First Line: I am slowly dying, water evaporating Last Line: Tyrant of light yanks their traces, demanding %they stride apart Subject(s): Parents TESTAMENT (TO MY CHILD), by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot will you much of wealth Last Line: All good shall flow to you. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Love; Parents; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Parenthood TETHERED COUPLETS (1), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Your mother walks oddly Last Line: Certain plainting fathom feared and not imagined Subject(s): Death; Parents THE AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America THE ANSWER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My johnny is left me and gone to the sea Last Line: We are all born to troubles, I must that endure. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Parents; Parenthood THE CABBAGE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have rented an apartment Last Line: You can live with this. Subject(s): Children; Paintings And Painters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children bear our froward mood Last Line: See, lord,—they bear with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood THE CONTINUOUS LIFE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of the neighborhood homes awash Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THE CORONA, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knife-edge / days and shimmering nights Last Line: Makes us pause and move on. Subject(s): Fire; Parents; Parenthood 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 DANGER OF DISCONTENT, by E.-G. BAYFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh, soon may that holiday period come Last Line: "than that which is caus'd by the man of your heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Cooper, Laura+(1) Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Parents; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood THE DOLL BELIEVERS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lifeless construction Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Parents; Toys; Childhood; Parenthood THE FAMILY GROUP, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sunday at the zoo I understood the child Last Line: The strange uncertain rumor of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood 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 FIRSTBORN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the night doth fall Last Line: In small appear. Subject(s): Children; Inheritance And Succession; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE GOODNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood still by her bed Subject(s): Children; Anxiety; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE HOOLIGAN ZOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry and depressed I take my son to the zoo Subject(s): Parents; Zoos; Parenthood 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 LAST THING I SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE MODEL KID, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet the child who says, 'I will' Last Line: Dies, no soul in town will mourn. Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Obedience; Parents; Parenthood THE MURMUR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor flicks on a light Last Line: Red and green and indigo. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Medicine; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription; Parenthood THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood THE NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE OLD-FASHIONED PARENTS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good old-fashioned mothers & the good old-fashioned dads Last Line: If we'd no old-fashioned mother and we'd no old-fashioned dad. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood 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 PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They renounce the very idea Last Line: Like the crazy birds, to their offspring. Subject(s): Children; Insanity; Parents; Childhood; Madness; Mental Illness; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 173, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise girls but not too many Last Line: You're big but no match for your mother Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Parents; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 241, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see people everywhere Last Line: End your attachment to form Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Parents; Buddha; Buddhists; Relatives; Parenthood THE PRIMITIAE TO PARENTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our household-gods our parents be Last Line: Us hands to get what here we have. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood 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 RED HAT, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It started before christmas. Now our son Subject(s): Parents; Anxiety; Parenthood THE SIX SORROWS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are six sorrows in my heart Last Line: Six sorrows all my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood THE THERMOS, by ARTHUR SZE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppy seeds from a north bennington garden Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion; Dead, The; Parenthood; Theology 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 VELVET HAND, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call that parent rash and wild Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THE VOICE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sunrise, swimming out to sea Last Line: And answer that sweet calling. Subject(s): Parents; Sea; Parenthood; Ocean THE WANDERER, by V. O. WALLINGFORD Poem Text First Line: I wonder, wayward child of mine Last Line: I'll clasp your hand, and share your joy! Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Parents; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Parting; Parenthood THE WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood THE WHITE CAP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day a baby wave was born Last Line: With sunbeams in her hair! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THEN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My parents and the parents Subject(s): Parents; Women; Parenthood THERMOS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppy seeds from a north bennington garden Last Line: Smell your hair and how we quicken each other Subject(s): Children; Parents THEY GROW UP TOO FAST, SHE SAID, by DIANA O'HEHIR Poem Source First Line: Out under the sprinkler, naked as toads Last Line: The children turn their golden backs, %they shed our pale voices, crying for time Subject(s): Parents THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions Last Line: That complete moment of surrender Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 2. GOOSEBERRIES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Gooseberry bushes snarl up the backlot Last Line: Onto a world that keeps changing before us Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 3. WOLVES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Today my father saw wolves on the french river Last Line: At each vista the moon hangs just for him Subject(s): Fathers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Parents; Parkinson's Disease THINK, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I will never understand what made our father think Last Line: In a spill of ink, bottle %numb migraine Subject(s): Children; Parents; Punishment THIS BE THE VERSE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fuck you up, your mum and dad Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THIS BE THE VERSE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fuck you up, your mum and dad Last Line: Get out as early as you can, %and don't have any kids yourself Subject(s): Parents THOMAS AND NANCY LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fit us for humblest service,' prayed Last Line: Will hallow their repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1784-1818); Lincoln, Thomas (1778-1851); Parents; Presidents, United States; Liberty; Parenthood THREE ON LUCK; LATE CHILD, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never minded having such old parents Last Line: His finger would be quicker on the trigger Subject(s): Parents; Middle Age TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Poem Text First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood TO EVAN, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to give him some gift Last Line: Farewell, fair spirit. Fare forward, voyager. %I pass away silently and see him no more Subject(s): Parents TO FOUR MOTHERS, by ETHEL LOVE DUNHAM Poem Text First Line: God bless you, parents of young lives gone Last Line: In god's great, wide infinity you all shall meet again. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD CORBET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I shall leave thee none can tell Last Line: As innocent as now thou art. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard Variant Title(s): A Father's Blessing Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN - ASLEEP, by ALAN SULLIVAN (1867-) Poem Text First Line: List to their gentle breathing in the night Last Line: Put out the light! The gloom cloaks best a worshiper. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrors are to come. The earth Last Line: Though the pain of them is on me Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrors are to come. The earth Last Line: Your eyes turning toward me, %can I wish your lives unmade %though the pain of them is on me Subject(s): Family Life; Parents TO NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Cooling, quieting night Last Line: And be at one with the silent three that brood and move in the shadow of god! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Night; Parents; Dead, The; Bedtime; Parenthood TO TRY AGAIN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble,' says the sword-grass, leaning over the water Last Line: "look,"" says the void. ""what meaning? Be thou me." Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood TO WHERE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing a tawny lion pelt upon Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood TOO LATE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel like writing Last Line: Long-stem roses. One %for each headstone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Parents TOURS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl on the stairs listens to her father Last Line: She presses stays down, makes no sound, %someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Children; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Parents; Pianos; Violence TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BABY SONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croonie croonie, baby baby, up and down Last Line: Baby baby, what art thou? Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turinna, famed for every grace Last Line: Revive from such distress again. Subject(s): Daughters; Epitaphs; Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Last Line: To be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood 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 UNIVERSE, by ROGER LADD MEMMOTT Poem Source First Line: The universe is like my mother's cabinet Last Line: Where poems are written & father's train goes to meet the stars Subject(s): Parents; Universe UNNOTICED, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: You drift from youth into manhood Last Line: Silent dust, for those in workshops who are bending their backs Subject(s): Children; Parents; Success; Writing And Writers UNTITLED, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: Huge purple flowers spring from black corollas Last Line: That I'd have buried you Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Houses; Parents UPON WEDLOCK, AND DEATH OF CHILDREN, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious knot god made in paradise Last Line: Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Parents; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Last Line: Know that it has passed them by Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy VERTUOSI, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People whose lives have been shaped Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood VIOLIN SONGS: A FATHER TO A MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's own child came down to earth Last Line: It's only till to-morrow! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Death; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Dead, The; Parenthood VISIT, by VIC COCCIMIGLIO Poem Source First Line: Here, in my parents' home Subject(s): Family Life; Parents VISITATION, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: At serenity gardens, winter Last Line: She for what I remember Subject(s): Memory; Parents VOW, by RACHEL BAGBY Poem Source First Line: Mothers Last Line: What you got %fathers. I shall not Subject(s): Children; Parents WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky Last Line: "she let me kiss each box Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents; Parting; Parenthood WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky Last Line: Nearly as strange as my insistence %she let me kiss each box good-bye Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents WATERLANGUAGE, by JOSE F. A. OLIVER Poem Source First Line: La mar made %-- child's mouths laught Last Line: To the man of the sea %-- the woman of the sea Subject(s): Parents WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Last Line: Too bright, unsparing, whole Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents WE HAVE KNOWN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have known such joy as a child knows Last Line: And will not survive, though you have them. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Love; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Parenthood WE HAVE NO TIME FOR CHILDREN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have no time for children, we have no hour / for these Last Line: By giving less of money and giving more of care. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood WE STARTED HOME, MY SON AND I, by JAAN KAPLINSKI Poem Source Last Line: A light shone. Beside our chimney, the shining moon, %and beside the moon, a single star Subject(s): Children; Parents WE WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, by JESSICA GREENBAUM Poem Source First Line: On a mild early evening Last Line: And the time of timelessness was over Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Winter WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT FATHER KNOWS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father knows the proper way Last Line: But look to ma for action. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were small Last Line: Ancient eyes. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT LITTLE SAUL GOT, CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us parents mostly thinks our own's Last Line: "I'm got the pleurisy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; Illness 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 NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once he comes to live on the outside of her, he will not sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once he comes to live on the outside of her, he will not sleep Last Line: The batting of the salt-bag quilt commencing its long mope unto death Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents WHEN MY PARENTS DANCED THE TANGO, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's just another latin american dance these days Last Line: Fires, lust and daring! My poor lost fools! Subject(s): Parents; Dancing & Dancers WHEN THE FOLKS COME ALONG, by FREDERICK L. ALLEN Poem Text First Line: I like to go driving alone in the flivver Last Line: -- oh, why must my folks come along. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Parents; Parenthood WHERE FAME IS SURE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow-sounding trump of fame Last Line: The parent you would like to be! Subject(s): Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood WHILE WE HAVE THEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no one like a mother, lad Last Line: Let's be our very best. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood WHITE BUTTONS, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Having been blown away Subject(s): Books; Parents; Reading; Parenthood WHITE SMOKE, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Our fathers twisted hay for fuel; their sons now twist their / lives Last Line: High dreams are dead and life will have its fire. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Parents; Optimism; Parenthood WHITE-HAIRED, I WALK IN ON MY PARENTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the past in our future Subject(s): Parents; Time; Past; Future WHITE-HAIRED, I WALK IN ON MY PARENTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the past in our future Subject(s): Parents WHY YOUR FATHER CRIED, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sister is telling the story. It was Last Line: "some of the best thoughts I had in my life." Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WILD ORPHAN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bladly mother/takes him strolling Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WISHES FOR MY SON; BORN ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1912, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, my son, is life for you Last Line: In your hand and heart and tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood 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 WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood YESTERDAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My friend says I was not a good son Last Line: And nothing I had to do Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Children; Men; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood YOU TAUGHT ME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All those years, alone Last Line: I didn't even know my name! Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood YOUNG WOMAN TO HER HUSBAND, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: They didn't make me sad, the hymns Last Line: To our parents' hot cars and their questions %about what it meant to believe Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Parents |
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