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| Search results for: mother | Found 84 Poems |
| 41. | A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday by Henry Van Dyke | | Lord Jesus, Thou hast known
A mother's love and tender care:
And Thou wilt hear, while for my own
Mother most dear I make this birthday prayer.
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| 42. | Mother Earth by Henry Van Dyke | | Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed,
Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field,
Mother of al... |
| 43. | In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh | | I do not think of you lying in the wet clay
Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see
You walking down a lane among the poplars
On your way to the station, or... |
| 44. | Our Mother Pocahontas by Vachel Lindsay | | (Note: — Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.)
"Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May â€... |
| 45. | Fawn's Foster-Mother by Robinson Jeffers | | The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels
With her meagre pale demoralized daughter.
Once when I passed I found her alone, laughing... |
| 46. | The Sad Mother by Gabriela Mistral | | Sleep, sleep, my beloved,
without worry, without fear,
although my soul does not sleep,
although I do not rest.
Sleep, sleep, and in the night
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| 47. | The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me by Eavan Boland | | It was the first gift he ever gave her,
buying it for five five francs in the Galeries
in pre-war Paris. It was stifling.
A starless drought made t... |
| 48. | Sonnet XVII: His Mother Dear Cupid by Sir Philip Sidney | | His mother dear Cupid offended late,
Because that Mars grown slacker in her love,
With pricking shot he did not throughly more
To keep the pace ... |
| 49. | O Germany, Pale Mother! by Bertolt Brecht | | Let others speak of her shame,
I speak of my own.
O Germany, pale mother!
How soiled you are
As you sit among the peoples.
You flaunt yourself
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