Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILD AND MOTHER, by EUGENE FIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand Last Line: The dreamland that's waiting out yonder! Variant Title(s): Mother And I Subject(s): Mothers | ||||||||
O MOTHER-MY-LOVE, if you'll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a beautiful land-- The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder. We'll walk in a sweet-posie garden out there Where moonlight and starlight are streaming And the flowers and birds are filling the air With fragrance and music of dreaming. There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress, No questions or cares to perplex you; There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress, Nor patching of stockings to vex you. For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream, And sing you asleep when you're weary. And no one shall know of our beautiful dream But you and your own little dearie. And when I am tired I'll nestle my head In the bosom that's soothed me so often, And the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead A song which our dreaming shall soften. So Mother-my-Love, let me take your dear hand, And away through the starlight we'll wander-- Away through the mist to the beautiful land-- The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY MOTHER'S HANDS by ANDREW HUDGINS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH by JUDY JORDAN THE PAIDLIN' WEAN by ALEXANDER ANDERSON BLASTING FROM HEAVEN by PHILIP LEVINE DIBDIN'S GHOST by EUGENE FIELD |
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