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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SONS Matches Found: 500 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 BALLAD OF LANCELOT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By coasts where scalding deserts reek Last Line: The look, the soul of guinevere. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Despair; Fathers & Sons; Grail; Lancelot Du Lac; Love; Loyalty; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Holy Grail; Graal 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 FAMILY RECORD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to myself this breath of vesper song Last Line: Take my last offering ere I cross to thee! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers & Sons; Heritage; Heredity A FATHER'S DILEMMA, by E. PEARL DANCEY Poem Text First Line: He did not know that I was in the woodshed Last Line: You shouldn't disillusion little folks . . . About their dad! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A FATHER'S PRAYER, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, you have given me a son Last Line: A fit example for a son. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A GOLD STAR MOTHER SPEAKS, by VIRGINIA ARMISTEAD NELSON Poem Text First Line: My little lad of other days sleeps there Last Line: They'll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Lilies; Sons; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 MAN WITH SONS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come back with a heaped-shopping basket Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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'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 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 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 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 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 POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I have an appointment to see the assistant Last Line: To be terrified by that thought and its possibilites Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A PRAYER FOR BILL, by M. REES Poem Text First Line: When me and bill wuz ridin Last Line: Wouldn't do to foller me. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Growth; Pine Trees; Trees A PRESENTATION OF TWO BIRDS TO MY SON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chicken. How shall I tell you what it is Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Birds 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 SON WITH A FUTURE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was four years old, he stood at the window during a Subject(s): Sons; Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The A SON'S LETTER TO HIS DEAD FATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am writing this to you Last Line: "up there somewhere in the silence, hear me, dad, and believe me / sincerely" Subject(s): Fathers & 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 SYMPATHY, A WELCOME, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A VARIATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son who is stranger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A WEEK IN A BOY'S LIFE, by JACQUES BOE Poem Text First Line: Chill was our sky: the swallows all had fled Last Line: Beside his darling's grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Jasmin, Jacques Subject(s): Abel; Boys; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Prayer; Dead, The 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 OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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 ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want." Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 ADIRONDACK SOUNDS, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I put the words in his mouth Last Line: I say to him paradise %and hear the pure word Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Youth ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE, by MARY BARBER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you gain her affection, take care to preserve it Subject(s): Marriage; Sons; Advice; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADVICE TO MY SON, by PETER MEINKE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trick is, to live your days Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sons ADVICE TO MY SON, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The trick is, to live your days Last Line: And always serve bread with your wine %but son, %always serve wine Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sons AFTER THE WHITEFELLAS CAME, by WILLIAM STONEKING Poem Source First Line: The son chases lizards Last Line: Moves inside %the humpy Subject(s): Fathers And Sons AFTERNOON OF A MCGRATH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning there was one mcgrath in aitken county Last Line: Dark holes in space I must recognize as home Subject(s): Fathers; Names; Sons; Towns AJAX: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair salamis, the billow's roar Last Line: The deepest, bitterest curse thine ancient house hath borne! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pregnancy; Sons; Truth AN AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the wood I knocked on Subject(s): Fathers & Sons AN ONLY SON, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my poor son, o anticles, and poor me, who beheld Last Line: Come quickly and take me out of life: let this long day be done! Subject(s): Sons 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 ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships ANY MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have lost the radio beam, then guide yourself by the sun or the stars Last Line: And because there is no other person, anywhere on earth, who remembers these things as clearly as I Subject(s): Advice; Sons ANY MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have lost the radio beam, then guide yourself by the sun or the stars Last Line: And because there is no other person, anywhere on earth, who remembers these things as clearly as I Subject(s): Advice; Sons 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 ARRHYTHMIA, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't exercise my heart but watched Last Line: A beat every blessed second of my life Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Life; Track Athletics 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 BALDWIN, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lie in bed listening Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 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 WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Usually I stay up late, my time Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sleep 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 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 BEST WAY TO READ A BOOK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best way to read a book I know Last Line: For him who reads them to his boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Fathers & Sons; Reading BIG THINGS, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: There's no need to court Last Line: Whether it is with us or without us Subject(s): Fathers And Sons BLAMING SONS (AN APOLOGY FOR HIS OWN DRUNKENNESS), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White hair covers my temples Last Line: What can I do but fill my cup? Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Sons 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 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 BOY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is in his room sulked shut. The small Last Line: May sons forgive the fathers they obey Subject(s): Fathers & Sons BOY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is in his room sulked shut. The small Last Line: May sons forgive the fathers they obey Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 AT THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It is heavy as a stone he tells himself like any rock in the field Last Line: Of the mind Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Fathers And Sons; Prairies BOY AT THE WINDOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Snowmen BURDEN BEARERS, by MARY FARRIES Poem Text First Line: He is your son, the child of gracious love Last Line: Of the burden-bearers ... They who dig the earth. Subject(s): Sons CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this is what it means Last Line: My brother is. Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land of nod Last Line: Don't rise up Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons 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 CASUALTIES: 18. DIRGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Show me a house where nobody has died Last Line: But let us not cut down the clan Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bones; Children - Lost; Death; Funerals; Sons CERTAIN PEOPLE, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father lives by the ocean Last Line: I'd known him all my life. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Old Age; Strangers CHARLES JAMES; ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cam'st -- what pleasures new and bright Last Line: My charles, my cherub boy! Subject(s): Birthdays; Sons 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 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 CLOSE TO HOME, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Last wednesday our son Last Line: I imagine where bullet %might have hit him Subject(s): Bullets; Sons CLOUDS: SON LEARNS HOW TO BEAT HIS FATHER, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old man it much concerns you to confute Last Line: Why should I suffer stripes, and you have none? Subject(s): Fathers And Sons COCK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month before his dinner with the visiting spanish lawyer, Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Religion; Fathers & Sons; Lesbians; Theology 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 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 COUNTRY FELLOWS AND THE ASS; ABSURDITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PLEASE ALL MEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A country fellow and his son, they tell Last Line: To think of pleasing all is but a jest. Variant Title(s): The Countrymen And The Ass Subject(s): Fables; Fathers & Sons; Men; Allegories COUSIN ALEX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cousin alex, tall and sinewy Last Line: At alex's absence Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Cousins CROSSING OVER, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: (march 13-19) %(march 19-24) %the doctor's name: zohar Last Line: We don't know who the book of who are was %was for %such the letters are Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Death; Disappeared Persons; Faith; Farewell; Memory; Sons 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 DAD (1), by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Big hands hoisting me -- plunk Last Line: Blessing, and forget it Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Masculinity (psychology) DAD (2), by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Big hands hoisting him -- plunk Last Line: Scarlet white and pure as bone Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 DADDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days have kept on coming Last Line: I comfort my son with the hope %the life in the confident man Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 DEBATE: QUESTION, QUARRY, DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asking what, asking what? - all a boy's afternoon Subject(s): Youth; Childhood Memories; Sons; Hunting; Hunters DEEPER, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: It seems this wanting more Last Line: Take your breath away Subject(s): Fathers And Sons DEFENDER OF MY SON'S ASSAILANT, by SHOASHAUNA SHY Poem Source First Line: His voice is chamois-soft and slopes Last Line: For those who are seasick, ache for shoreline Subject(s): Judges; Sons; Trials 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 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 DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: An instant longer, in the summer dawn %left henry to live on Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Suicide DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During the second world war, I was going home one night Subject(s): World War Ii; Sons; Survival; Thanksgiving; Second World War DUSK, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It is the hour when the son comes in Last Line: Who sees only a void in the depths of the heavens Subject(s): Dusk; Fathers And Sons; Heaven ECONOMISIN', by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dad was tickled when I went Last Line: At my 'conomisin' so. Subject(s): Children; Economics; Fathers & Sons; Gifts & Giving; Childhood ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism 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: 21. THE POET'S FATHER, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are who wander near Last Line: They will not cast their friends away. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 EPITAPH ON HIS ELDEST SON, THOMAS, 1682, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art, that look'st upon Last Line: And set'st thy soul upon, is soonest lost. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sons 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 FALL RIVER, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball; Family Life; Anger; Relatives FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few Last Line: —look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.' Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution FATHER AND SON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: While we enjoy this meat, my son Last Line: A tongue that told no lie?' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Trust FATHER AND SON, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set against each other, ready to butt Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FATHER AND SON, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: Only last week, walking the hushed fields Last Line: With whom now he is one, under yew braches, %yes, one in a graven silence no bird breaks Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Last Line: Among the turtles and the lilies he turned to me %the white ignorant hollow of his face Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Reunions; World War Ii FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FATHER FATHER SON AND SON, by JON SWAN Poem Source First Line: Sweet father, I have shrunk a bit Last Line: I must not falter on my wall Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FATHER TO SON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Crooked? He was so crooked, son Last Line: He'd shit a corkscrew Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Fathers And Sons; Ireland FATHER'S GOOD SON, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The wheat hangs heavy to the further hill Last Line: Runs around the spit where turns the fatted calf. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Relationships FATHERS AND SONS, by JOSEPH T. COX Poem Source First Line: My boy lives a half a world away, a man Last Line: Will always and never again be my little boy Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Fathers And Sons; Soldiers FATHERS AND SONS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abraham laboring for dominion and increase Last Line: The road of shards, hands joined Subject(s): Abraham; Sons FATHERS AND SONS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His boys are so embarrassed they can hardly stand it Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball FATHERS AND SONS (6), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They leaped like soap squirted in the first tub bath Last Line: A simple man with boots and a rifle of his own Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Fathers; Sons FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I have this notion of you: irish Last Line: I fear of my first son Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons 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 FOR A FATHERLESS SON, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be aware of an absence, presently, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sons; Fathers FOR AN OPEN MIND, by VERA WHITE Poem Text First Line: I must grant you, my son, the right to think Last Line: My son, seek your own answers; you are youth! Subject(s): Sons FOR HIS FATHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I looked high and low for a father Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR MY FATHER, DEAD AT FIFTY-SIX, ON MY FIFTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you humble a man in a fight once Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers, Subject(s): Sons; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity FOR MY SON JOHN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonnel, this is for you -- my river-saint-named Last Line: The first life and the first and still the first Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR MY SON JOHN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonnel, this is for you -- my river-saint-named Last Line: The first life and the first and still the first Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FORGET-ME-NOT, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: You forget yourself at times Last Line: And everything you can't recall Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 FOUR POEMS FOR A CHILD SON / DECEMBER 18, 1972: IT WAS THE THIRD DAY, JULY 12 , 1971, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hitchhiking on the way to colorado Last Line: Look, the stones with voices Subject(s): Native Americans; Hitchhikers; Fathers & Sons FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: TO JOHN MOUNSON, SON AND HEIR TO SIR THOMAS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On you th' affections of your fathers friends Last Line: On each side placing you as near my heart! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Friendship FREEDOM, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Observe the son stampede Last Line: Until he dies. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Revolutions FRISBEE PRACTICE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Smooth limbs flung skyward as the frisbee sails Last Line: Grinning as from his body rises %the sweet odor of spring Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons FROM FATHER TO SON, by OPAL PALMER ADISA Poem Source First Line: It's no surprise Last Line: Just like your grandfather Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Sons FROM FATHER TO SON, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reject the complicated life Last Line: From father to son and from son to father Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FROM JOSEF IN THE REST HOME, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I'm still alive Last Line: By the t.V. Tray Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Immigrants; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Poland; United States FROM THE CADAVER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arm you hold up Last Line: Cold in a stranger's hand Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fathers And Sons FROM THE JAPANESE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O chaser of the dragon-flies at play Last Line: Have run! Subject(s): Dragons;japan;sons; Japanese FUNDAMENTALISM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the eye has a short shadow or Last Line: He would not follow his father into war Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FUNERAL OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All in the centre of the choir bernardo's knees are bent Last Line: Still, father, thirsts that burning lance, and still thy son can wield it Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Fathers And Sons; Funerals; Grief; Revenge GARDENER, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whom I knew well for forty years Last Line: This kiss, father, from his who was your son Subject(s): Fathers And Sons GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the rooms of the house Last Line: That arches toward the other shore. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters GIFT, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: If my birds don't fly Last Line: What I cannot even %tell myself Subject(s): Fathers And Sons GIRL FROM ANDROS: FATHER-SON CONFRONTATION, by PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pese anger not thyself so I thee pray Last Line: What woldyst thou say Alternate Author Name(s): Terence Subject(s): Fathers And Sons GOD AND MY COUNTRY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War GOD LOVES YOU, AND SO DO I, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it is what he says always, to anyone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 GOLD, by HELEN M. SHUSTER Poem Text First Line: A bit of sun in my window-nook Last Line: No wealth I need -- for these are gold! Subject(s): Gold; Sons 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 HALF-LIGHT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: My son and I sat on the bed of a late half-light Last Line: Nourished within this half-light Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Secrets; Sons 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 HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: She continued to ask Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Sons HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There! You shed a ray Last Line: Your father's autograph. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; History; Historians HEAVY AIR, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Your adolescent fury is spending itself on mozart Last Line: Tapping on the snare of your bedroom door Subject(s): Adolescence; Sons; Youth 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 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 HIS EXAMPLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are little eyes upon you, and they're watching Last Line: For the little boy who's waiting to grow up to be like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 SON, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But twelve short years you lived, my son Last Line: (g. B. Grundy) Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death; Sons; Dead, The 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 HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 2. MERFYN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were to own this countryside Last Line: Should be his till the cart tracks had no ruts Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers And Sons HUNTING FOR A '55 CHEVY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son wants a car with dents, rusted Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers And Sons; Repairing HUSH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way a tired chippewa woman Subject(s): Fathers & Sons I WILL GO WITH MY FATHER A-PLOUGHING, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Plowing & Plowen; Fathers & Sons IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it." Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy 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 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 DEDICATION OF 'THE CERTAIN HOUR', by JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over Last Line: Love for his son. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN DREAM TIME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tomasito Last Line: Just had a last fall Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The 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 THE BLOOD, by DAVID WELCH Poem Source First Line: Even before his father died Last Line: And the autumnal new moon %relaxing of shoulders Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Sons IN THE HIGH COUNTRY, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days I am happy to be no one Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN THE MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reggalerly every day, / when my papa's gotten up Last Line: Puttin' prickers in my chin. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Shaving IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING, NONCHALANCE IS GOOD AND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really, it is not the Last Line: Of manner, best bespeak that weapon, self protectiveness. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons (turgenev) INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the voice of orpheus, o my sire Last Line: Life is more precious than the noblest death! Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Fathers & Sons; Murder 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 ISHTMIAN ODES: 5. THE SONS OF AEACUS, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since her warrior sons abroad did wend Last Line: And crave the joyous triumph-ode. Subject(s): Sons JAMIE THINKS HE'S ALWAYS RIGHT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: This is a found poem, a verbatim quotation Last Line: So he's always wrong Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons 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 JOHNSON BROTHERS LTD, by R. H. VAN DEN HOOFDAKKER Poem Source First Line: In those days when my father was still big Last Line: From the little copper tap marked 'cold' Subject(s): Fathers And Sons JOSEPH KALLINGER, by JACK K. ISRAEL Poem Source First Line: I was his endless father, endless Last Line: My pale beard framed his face of seeds Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Murder JOSEPH'S LAMENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boy, my boy, and art thou dead? Last Line: My murdered boy! ... Woe, woe is me! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Murder; Trees; Dead, The KATALIN'S CHILDREN, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: I'd have gladly given birth Last Line: Had I met the right one Subject(s): Children; Fathers And Sons; Marriage 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 LAST, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians LEADING THE LONELY, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: From the beginning we have moved, Last Line: Taking us deeper and %deeper into ourselves Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 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 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 LETTER TO A FATHER, LETTER FROM A SON, by LYNN SHOEMAKER Poem Source First Line: Cincinnati. Aprill 11th Last Line: And my anger shakes in the lilies Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Fathers And Sons; Letters 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 LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS FATHER ON ... PRESENT OF A KNIFE, by JAMES EDWARD AUSTEN-LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Though superstitious folks may say Last Line: And me, your duteous son beleive Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Gifts And Giving; Knives LINES ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON CHARLES, by DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, thou wast my heart's delight Last Line: My son! My father! Guide me there. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My Son Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Sons; Death - Babies LISTEN SON', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am saying this to you as you lie asleep Last Line: A temple where one may come / nearer to seeing and feeling god Subject(s): Sons 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 POPEET: THE LOST CHILD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near by the silent waters of the mediterranean Last Line: And lived happy with his father for many a day. Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Fathers & Sons; Missing Persons 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 LORD ROBERTS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: He came, he saw, he conquered; though his heart Last Line: The idol of his country and his queen. Subject(s): England; Fathers & Sons; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; English LOST - A BOY, by KATE BRINGHURST JOOR Poem Text First Line: I lost him - I, who should have been his friend and guide Last Line: I lost him, -- I was his father. Subject(s): Sons LOST CHILDHOOD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was it possible, I a father Last Line: My own lost childhood Subject(s): Fathers & Sons LOST SON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At woodlawn I heard the dead cry Last Line: Be still. %wait Subject(s): Fathers And Sons LOVE'S PHOTOGRAPH (OR FATHER AND SON), by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detected little things: a peach-pit Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Photography & Photographs LOVER BOYS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the movie where indiana jones Last Line: We couldn't even share the la-z-boy without fighting Subject(s): Courtship; Fathers And Sons; Love Affairs; Women 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 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 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 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 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 MEN WITH SECRETS, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Our faults like san andreas Last Line: Well enough to start us telling Subject(s): Fathers And Sons MEN WITHOUT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a coward, and I have grown Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Fathers & Sons; Love; Estrangement; Outcasts MESSAGE TO CALIBAN, by ERIC HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Our one fall sign Last Line: His words cathedral-sized %and in those hands leaves Subject(s): Autumn; Fathers And Sons; Labor And Laborers; Leaves; Seasons METAMORPHOSES, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: My son recites the names of birds Last Line: Upward, contemplating %the hard blue sky Subject(s): Birds; Change; Children; Fathers And Sons; Growth 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 MINUS ONE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of seven sparrows on a country wire Last Line: Hawk in this now? Unchosen? Come to choose? Subject(s): Sparrows; Hawks; Fathers & Sons MISCHIEF, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: In round blue eyes that shine and dance Last Line: Of mischief! Subject(s): Sons MOIRA'S KEENING, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mountains of erin Last Line: O boy of mine! Dead. Subject(s): Sons; World War I - Ireland 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 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 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 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'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, 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 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 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 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 MOVING AGAIN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the mountains look like huge Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Divorce MY ACHILLES SON, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons MY BOY, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of many other mothers Last Line: But none can with my boy compare! Subject(s): Sons MY BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You smile and you smoke your Last Line: A trouble like yours, my boy! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fathers; Sons MY FATHER, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: You are far away, my father, there in your realm of shadows Last Line: Cast down upon immense arms that horribly mimic you Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Orphans MY FATHER AND I, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father prayed as he drew a bead on the graycoats Last Line: What is the matter? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Murder; Prayer; War MY FATHER AND MYSELF FACING THE SUN, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: We are both strong, dark, bright men Last Line: Night, night, night, before the following morning Subject(s): Fathers And Sons MY FATHER AT HIS HEIGHT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I grew to his exact same size Last Line: All right! That's it! Everyone out of the water!' Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Sons MY FATHER'S CORPSE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He lay stone still, pretended to be dead Last Line: To have the resurrected bastard back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MY FATHER'S SHOES, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: I am the son who polished his shoes Last Line: But never could fill them Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Shoes 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 SON, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a son, a little son Last Line: You'll find that I'm not here Subject(s): Fathers And Sons MY ONLY SON, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And if I talk nicely to my son -- what good does it do? Last Line: To hel vit it -- dats right Subject(s): Sons MY SON, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son / my only son Subject(s): Sons 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 SON PHILIP, by ETHEL BLYTHE PENNINGROTH Poem Text First Line: My son, my son, you are to me Last Line: So many things I want to be! Subject(s): Sons MY SON THE MAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider Subject(s): Sons MY SON, MY EXECUTIONER, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Observe enduring life in you %and start to die together Subject(s): Sons NAMING OUR BOY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jokes come first Last Line: For us, %touched my arm, and whispered, your shot, son. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Fathers And Sons; Names; Poetry And Poets NO ANSWER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It's not all been said Last Line: From fathers' tongues and goes out? Subject(s): Fathers And Sons NO MAP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How close the clouds press this october first Last Line: Showing the dark places and how to escape them? Subject(s): Surgery; Fathers & Sons; Birthdays NOUREDDIN, THE SON OF THE SHAH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a shah had a second son Last Line: Noureddin, the son of the shah. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sons ODYSSEUS TO TELEMACHUS, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My dear telemachus, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: These sons %become me Last Line: Become me they %become me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons OHNE ABA: SABRA, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: Missing: rolf (david) hollander left his apartment on friday, march Last Line: Die %of gold %in %der %keller Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Sons OIL & STEEL, by HENRI COLE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons OLYMPIAN ODES: 4. JASON'S FATHER SEES HIS RETURNING SON, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And tears burst forth from those aged eyelids; for, with all his heart, Last Line: He rejoiced when he saw his son, the choicest and fairest of men Subject(s): Homecoming; Sons 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 WINTER'S DAY, MY SON JUN TRAVELS NORTH TO TAKE THE EXAMINATIONS, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Young and unused to going to other places Last Line: Nods the jade pendants on his cap Subject(s): Examinations; Sons ON SENDING MY SON AS A PRESENT TO DR. SWIFT, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A curious statue, we are told Last Line: A meaner were unworthy swift Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Gifts & Giving; Birthdays; Sons 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 ALLEN'S SON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man had seven sons Last Line: And it never again %can be pronounced the same Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers And Sons; Heaven ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For that my son hath lost his mortal shrine Last Line: Sons of the ruffians who did murder thee. Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Sons; Sorrow; Sadness ONLY A DAY AGO, by IRENE SHIRLEY MORAN Poem Text First Line: My son is growing tall Last Line: He was a little thing. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Sons; Childhood ONLY TIME, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Something in me knew that the sky Last Line: Could make silence an answer Subject(s): Fathers And Sons ORPHAN, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: My father's thinking out loud Last Line: But we won't notice that Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Old Age OUR SON'S PROFESSION, by HA THI THAO Poem Source First Line: You ask what our son's profession should be Last Line: And watch our young boy as he sleeps Subject(s): Hope; Sons P. H. T., by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I may come near loving you Last Line: Can I love you at all Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers And Sons PANTOUM: AT MOUNT HEBRON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This cemetery is no haven Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Sons; Grief; Jews; Mourning PASSAGES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come in in tiny boats Last Line: We must not look back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stones; Granite; Rocks PATERNITY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only women dream the future's child Last Line: And all my being yearned: my son! My son! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was insolent to me Last Line: I hit him: libery is to defend Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers & Sons PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was insolent to me Last Line: I hit him: liberty is to defend Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers And Sons PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the front yard, my father and his son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Baseball PLEASING DAD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was but a little lad, not more than two or three Last Line: That he may claim the old-time joy of being proud of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 - UNFINISHED POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a way to spend the golden years, tomasito Last Line: To hell with that word, tomasito! Let's go out in the sun! Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Sons; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I have an appointment to see the assistant Last Line: To be terrified by that thought and its possibilities Subject(s): Fathers And Sons POEM FOR MY FATHER, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout Last Line: Father, a harbinger, of shock waves, soon come Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR MY SON (II), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sexually I'm zero Last Line: Would have no imagination. %I would have a son Subject(s): Fathers And 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 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: 2, by KIM HAEGYONG Poem Source First Line: When my father dozes off beside me I become my father Last Line: And my father's father's father's roles must live? Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally I just lean on the door-frame, a Subject(s): Sons; Sickness; Prayer; Illness 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 PRODIGAL SON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except for the flies, except that there is not water Last Line: For little, takes the first step toward home Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Prodigal Son PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Last Line: Slow horses and fast women Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) PSALM: MAGNOLIAS IN THE APRIL SNOW, by UROS ZUPAN Poem Source First Line: Let us bite through the chains of enchanted words, father, let us melt Last Line: Of my dreams, magnolias opening in the april snow Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Winter QUARANTINE, SELS, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: My father woke before dawn to work Last Line: I am the only one here who is falling Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Fathers And Sons QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Last Line: With two fiery arrows from her little red bow Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Knowledge RABBI BEN HISSAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben hissar rode one day Last Line: "'I thank thee, lord,' was all he said" Subject(s): Clergy;death;fathers & Sons;jews; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;judaism; RAIN, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: As fluent as rain is in the desert Last Line: Ready for the seasons to change us Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 REJOICING THAT MY SECOND SON STUDIES IN THE PURPLE FUNGUS STUDIO, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: Lotus flowers once laughed at the sun Last Line: And on the empty staircase the light of his moon never recedes Subject(s): Schools; Sons RELIEF PITCHING, by TED FLOREA Poem Source First Line: Because his dad was coach Last Line: My dreams too wild %to say out loud Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers And Sons; Sports RETURN OF THE LOST SON, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: It is color that carries our lives Last Line: The golden grip of sunflowers Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Weariness 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 RISING LATE AND PLAYING WITH A-TS'UI, AGED TWO, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the morning I have lain perversely in bed Last Line: I have added the fourth of playing with my baby-boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sons RIVERLIGHT, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I lie down together. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Dead, The ROOM - TO LET, by RAE ANGELO OCKERMAN Poem Text First Line: I've had a vacancy for years Last Line: And fill this vacancy. Subject(s): Sons RUNDOWN CHURCH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had a son and his name was john Last Line: His son! His son! His son! Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; World War I 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 SARAH'S PROMISE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who understands better than I Last Line: Spare me my one good boy. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Faith; Sons; Belief; Creed 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 SCOTCH AND SUN, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home from night shift, my father Last Line: Though I held him in my arms Variant Title(s): The Art Of Tragedy; Scotch And Su Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life; Fathers And Sons; Seashore SEASON FOR FATHERS, by JEFFREY LAMAR COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Days before my thirty-fourth year Last Line: Of newfound absence, %should a good son do? Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Prayer SECONDS OUT, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: After humpty dumpty fell apart Last Line: And at the speed of light %sons are older than their space-men fathers Subject(s): Cambodia; Fathers And Sons; Men SECRET HOME, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: It was in cornfields Last Line: I will not use words Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SECRET LAUGHTER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a secret laughter Last Line: By god, I have a son! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight 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 SENT TO MY SON TING, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: I think of you, away in the capital Last Line: For pure and clean are your family's ancient ways Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Sons SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when we were eight, or nine, Last Line: Down into the belly of the world Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Disappointment 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 SEVEN HEADS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who bears such heart of baseness, a king I'll never call Last Line: To keep his children company beneath the moorish sod Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Death; Fathers And Sons; Moors (people); Murder SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Beringer, whose son / fell at the canal that strangers dug Last Line: That drift away Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Fathers & Sons; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers 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 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 SHORE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We speak of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Waves; Boats & Boating; Fathers & Sons SHOULDERS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man crosses the street in rain Last Line: The rain will never stop falling. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Fathers & Sons; Peace; Nuclear Freeze SILENCE, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: I've heard it once or twice Last Line: Stop tempering it with thunder Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SILENCE A POEM MAKES, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Not that I haven't heard from you lately Last Line: But the silence a poem makes Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SKY IS FULL, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: The sky is full of tricks Last Line: I guess at the beginning Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth Last Line: The son! Before the weather changes. Subject(s): Cold; Fathers & Sons; Relationships; Snow; Weather SOME PLACES OUT WEST, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: They celebrate the testicle Last Line: And the heavy weight of their delight Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; Tradition; West (u.s.) 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, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was your mother wanted you Last Line: Were those of a blind creature %trodden upon; pain not yet become grief Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Sons SON AND FATHER, by MARK PIETRZYKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Sure, the sun's an ugly beast Last Line: More among the living than the living %can ever know Subject(s): Fathers 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 OF JESSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father had eight sons Last Line: For my lord my brothers fathers sons Subject(s): Fathers; Sons SON TO HIS FATHER, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I thought, since I have grown and grayed Last Line: In godly ways my father taught to me Subject(s): Fathers And Sons 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 FOR THREE SONS, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL Poem Text First Line: Here lie the kingdoms of the world, my sons Last Line: One rose, one dream, one woman and one star. Subject(s): Sons SONG TO MY SON, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: About my father's house, - the gale Last Line: Beats— Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 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 SONS, by ISABELLA BRYANS LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: She did not love one son the more Last Line: In whom her love was satisfied. Subject(s): Sons SONS AND FATHERS, by RABINDRA K. SWAIN Poem Source First Line: Mahajanpur Last Line: The shore they are forgetting Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Life; Money SONS OF ADAM, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Text First Line: Adam, wrestler with storms Last Line: But the sons of adam crawl. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Sons SONS THAT FAILED TO RISE, by BRUCE D. HERMAN Poem Source First Line: The pimpernel's son was no achiever Last Line: And bottoms had an insatiable fondness Subject(s): Sons STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STRANGER, by HARRIET GRAY BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: I held him first when he was six weeks old Last Line: I shall have borne triumphantly a son. Subject(s): Adoption; Sons STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SUSTAIN MY SON, YONGJI, by CHAI JINGYI Poem Source First Line: Have you not seen Last Line: Since times of old, thinkers wise endured in poverty Subject(s): Sons SWIMMING POOL, by RALPH BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We dropped rubber bricks to the bottom Last Line: To his scalp but finned at top Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Fathers & Sons SYMPATHY, A WELCOME, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Last Line: Deep in a forsaken wood, poor paul, %whose wild bad father loves you well Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons TAKE IT FROM FATHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son, I haven't much to tell you; I have Last Line: Don't you ever try to argue with a cop! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE ALIEN BOY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a mountain, near the western main Last Line: By the wide world forgotten! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Solitude; Loneliness THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War 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 BEAR AND THE MAN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there were a bear and a man. The bear Last Line: Coming from far up there, near the north pole. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE COMETH FORTH INTO THE DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am here, I have traversed the tomb, I behold thee" Last Line: "in the beautiful world by the bright lake of horus, / riseth the day" Subject(s): Death;fathers & Sons;heaven; "dead, The;paradise; THE BOY SOLDIER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each evening on my lap there climbs Last Line: Just as he captured me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CARPENTER LAD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joseph's son was a carpenter lad Last Line: That led to calvary. Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ; Love; Sons THE CAST, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the doctor cut off my son's cast the Subject(s): Sons; Plaster Casts 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 CHRISTMAS RIFLE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the spine of the ridge Last Line: The weight of his hand comes down on my shoulder. Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Rifles; Hunters THE COLLIER LAD, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lad he is a collier lad Last Line: Chorus — there's not his match, etc. Subject(s): Mines And Miners; Sons 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 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 CRUEL MOTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She lean'd her back unto a thorn Subject(s): Cruelty;mothers;murder;sons 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 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 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 DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DESK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders Last Line: To own my father's name. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fathers & Sons; Schools; Students THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Veterans; Homecoming; Marriage; Fathers & Sons THE DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: Trying to make yourself forgive someone for something so unforgiveable Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Suicide THE ESSENTIAL STORY, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We each wanted our own story, my father and I Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stories THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE FATHER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find among my notes Last Line: Where to, mistress quickly? Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHER OF THE MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't help thinkin' o' the lad! Last Line: My boy has made a man o' me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOSTS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not always Last Line: We both use it. / precisely. Often. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FINEST FELLOWSHIP, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There may be finer pleasures than just tramping with your boy Last Line: I spend it in the open with that little lad o' mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains 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 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 HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish 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 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 KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives 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 LATEST INJURY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my son comes home from the weekend trip where he Subject(s): Accidents; Injuries; Sons 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 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 SON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At woodlawn I heard the dead cry Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 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 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 MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America 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 OLD BARK HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In an old bark hut on the mountainside Last Line: And broken a woman's heart Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;family Life;fathers & Sons;hunting;waiting; "dead, The;relatives;hunters; THE OLD MAN DREW THE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Old Age; Fathers & Sons THE ORPHAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has been along time Last Line: -- no one with whom he could cry Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 108, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mister shih had two sons Last Line: Like buckteeth that never meet Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fathers & Sons; Success THE PRODIGAL SON, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went back for redress Last Line: In setting him adrift Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood a damsel very early Subject(s): Jews; Marriage; Sons-in-law; Love - Complaints; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 REMAINS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking out of the new cemetery, my father Last Line: My eighty-year-old father nodding off into sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Ancestry & Ancestors; Cemeteries 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 RETURN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy came home from a foreign land Last Line: "my son, my son, my wandering boy." Subject(s): Home; Old Age; Sons; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE RIGHTFUL ONE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my son burst out of his room Last Line: Was gone and left a power to feel free Subject(s): Sons; Sickness; Forgiveness 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 SMALLISH SON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small voice is fretting my house in the night Last Line: And if you do not find them, turn away Subject(s): Books; Sons; Reading THE SON, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish no more to walk the night. My heart Last Line: And to the paradise thou namest love' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Kisses; Love; Sons 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 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 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 TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years we've circled round this date Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk THE TIME COMES WHEN YOU ARE FACING HIM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it is like the moment before going into battle Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 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 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 WHIP-POOR-WILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, father Last Line: "a passing thrill, -- ""whippoorwill!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Fathers & Sons; Whipporwills 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 WISH, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a tuesday I learned I'd never sit Last Line: This man was Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in! Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches THEN & NOW, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: I travelled to cities Last Line: Will be everywhere and welcomed Subject(s): Fathers And Sons THEOLOGY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A YOUNGER SON, by DAVID KIRBY Poem Source First Line: My younger son, still in kindergarten Subject(s): Kindergarten; Sons 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 THINKING OF MY THREE SONS, IN THE CAPITAL, MATCHING YOUR RHYMES, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Ill, in temporary lodgings, I hesitate, wavering Last Line: As I lean against the door, how to find relief for my worried heart? Subject(s): Sons THIS IS A POEM TO MY SON PETER, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So I write this for life, for love, for %you, my oldest son peter, age 10, %going on 11 Subject(s): Sons THREE SONS, by JOHN MOULTRIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a son, a little son, a boy just five years old Last Line: Oh! We'd rather lose our other two, than have him here again Subject(s): Sons 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 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 AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing Last Line: It means you are a boy. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 HIS SON, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three things there be that prosper up apace Last Line: It frets the halter, and it chokes the child Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Wood, The Wool, The Wag;the Wood, The Weed, The Wag;sir Walter Ralegh To His Son Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Dead, The 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 M. LE VAYER ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep on le vayer, make thine eyes an urn Last Line: And for these things we must for ever weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Loss; Dead, The 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 FATHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the first fruits, father, of thy care Last Line: Revealed man's glory, god's great human heart. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Fathers & Sons; God; Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO MY FATHER'S BUSINESS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leo bends over his desk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Careers 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 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 SON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue Last Line: Will ne'er desert its pledge, my boy! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sons TO MY SON, by MARGARET JOHNSTONE GRAFLIN Poem Text First Line: Do you know that your soul is of my soul such part Last Line: "she reaped as she sowed. Lo! This is her son." Variant Title(s): Like Mother, Like Son Subject(s): Sons TO MY SON, by ANNETTE HEARD Poem Text First Line: A bit of colored glass you laid within my hand Last Line: To make your visions rosy -- like the bit of colored glass. Subject(s): Sons TO MY SON, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou happy, happy elf! Last Line: I cannot write unless he's sent above.) Variant Title(s): To My Infant Son;a Parental Ode To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months;to My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months;parental Ode To My [infant] Son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TO MY SON, by MINA SHAFER Poem Text First Line: You play on the strings of my heart Last Line: Just sings and sings. Subject(s): Sons 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 THE BOY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wish, my little lad Last Line: Twas all worth while to be your dad. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TO TONY - AGED THREE (IN MEMORY T.P.C.W.), by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Gemmed with white daisies was the great green world Last Line: To win that heritage of peace you have. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Wilson, T.p. Cameron (1889-1918); Women And War; World War I - Casualties TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement 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 TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TREETOPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so. Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters TWO LIVES, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I remember him Last Line: Cannot be determined Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Murder TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son smells of peace when I lean over him Last Line: We suddenly realize as we grow the smell of peace vanishes out fo our lives Subject(s): Peace; Smells; Sons 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 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 UPON THE THREE SONNES OF THE LORD SHEFFIELD, DROWNED IN HUMBER, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light sonnets hence, and to loose lovers flie Last Line: Their fatall losse, in their sad aniverse. Subject(s): Drowning; Sons 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 VISITATION RITES, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle son is performing tricks for me on his bicycle Last Line: Just in a flash in the sun he's suddenly perfected, and I'm gone. Subject(s): Bicycles; Divorce; Farewell; Sons; Youth; Cycling; Parting WAREHOUSE WORK, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I turned fourteen, my father said Last Line: Work means will carry me through, us, them Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Labor & Laborers 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 WAX FATHER, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb Last Line: His entire body hung there Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness 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 WHAT BECOMES OF US, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Memory is a garden of statues Last Line: My paper god on fire somewhere up there Subject(s): Fathers And Sons WHAT BRINGS US OUT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about pumpkins caused Last Line: How fast you had to turn to make it move. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Fear; Pumpkins 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 MY FATHER BELIEVED, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of his age, he believed in the things Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Teaching & Teachers; Patriotism; Educators; Professors 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 WHEN FATHER PLAYED BASEBALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of arnica is strong Last Line: The day he played baseball. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports WHEN SONS AND FATHERS PART, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're going, son, the world to face Last Line: And, oh, remember us! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons 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 WILL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face, my boy, when six months old Last Line: And more than father, will! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons WINTER, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Neighbors; Sons; Friendship; Suicide; Divorce WINTER NIGHT ON THE YENTNA RIVER, by ARLITIA JONES Poem Text First Line: If the lives we live depend on the stories we tell Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Winter WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness WISHES FOR SONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish them cramps Subject(s): Sons WISHES TO MY SON, JOHN; FOR THIS NEW, AND ALL SUCCEEDING YEARS, 1630, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wishes may enrich my boy Last Line: My wishes crowned, in crowning thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sons 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 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 WOMEN OF TRACHIS: HERACLES' LAST WORSD TO HIS SON, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen first, and show what you're made of Last Line: Come at it that way, my boy, what %splendour, it all coheres Subject(s): Fathers And Sons WORKING LATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light is on in my father's study Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Law & Lawyers WORKING LATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light is on in my father's study Last Line: At night in my father's study %now shines as late as mine Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Law And Lawyers WRIST-WRESTLING FATHER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: On the maple wood we placed our elbows Last Line: Than when I snapped my father's arm down to the table Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Poetry And Poets WRITTEN ON SEEING HER TWO SONS AT PLAY, by HENRIETTA O'NEILL Poem Text First Line: Sweet age of blest illusion! Blooming boys Last Line: Where grief is sure, but happiness deceit! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyle, Henrietta Subject(s): Play; Sons 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 YOU WOULD KNOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you, father, are 'in my mind' Last Line: What I was, happy, maybe am, you would know. Subject(s): Escapes; Fathers & Sons; Happiness; Past; Fugitives; Joy; Delight |
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