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| Search results for: mother | Found 84 Poems |
| 11. | Godmother by Dorothy Parker | | The day that I was christened-
It's a hundred years, and more!-
A hag came and listened
At the white church door,
A-hearing her that bore me
And ... |
| 12. | Prayer For a New Mother by Dorothy Parker | | The things she knew, let her forget again-
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men
Piling their clum... |
| 13. | Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | I.
Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
Dead ! both my boys ! When you sit at the feast
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| 14. | My Mother by Claude McKay | | I
Reg wished me to go with him to the field,
I paused because I did not want to go;
But in her quiet way she made me yield
Reluctantly, for ... |
| 15. | The Last Words Of My English Grandmother by William Carlos Williams | | There were some dirty plates
and a glass of milk
beside her on a small table
near the rank, disheveled bed—
Wrinkled and nearly blind
she lay... |
| 16. | The Song Of The Old Mother by William Butler Yeats | | I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till stars are beginn... |
| 17. | The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats | | The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare
Through the hollow of an ear;
Wings beating about the room;
The terror of all terrors that I bore
The... |
| 18. | The Mother Mourns by Thomas Hardy | | When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green wonderwork faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I far... |
| 20. | 7. Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear by Robert Burns | | AH, woe is me, my mother dear!
A man of strife ye’ve born me:
For sair contention I maun bear;
They hate, revile, and scorn me.
I ne’... |
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