A MOTHER'S Love--how sweet the name! What is a Mother's Love?-- A noble, pure, and tender flame Enkindled from above, To bless a heart of earthly mold; The warmest love that can grow cold: This is a Mother's Love. To bring a helpless babe to light, Then, while it lies forlorn, To gaze upon that dearest sight And feel herself new-born, In its existence lose her own, And live and breathe in it alone: This is a Mother's Love. To mark its growth from day to day, Its opening charms admire, Catch from its eye the earliest ray Of intellectual fire; To smile and listen while it talks And lend a finger when it walks: This is a Mother's Love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WIND AND WINDOW FLOWER by ROBERT FROST FRANCE: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE OLD MAN DREAMS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES REVELATION by ROBERT PENN WARREN SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 4. SHE REMEMBERS by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS |