Today we wear the white carnation In praise of you, Mother dear, We sons and daughters of all the nation Return our love to you so near. In anxious pain you bore us And in patience you reared us with care, All through childhood you have watched o'er us, Our happiness and sorrows did share. Yours as no other human passion In all the world doth so endure, Your Mother love and patience And all so infinitely pure. The light of heaven by beauty Shines in your tender face, And has pointed us the path of duty, The way from sin to grace. Today, to you, my loving Mother, In cabin, mansion, palace, or hall, Where'er you are, I send my praises To let you know you are all in all. God grant that I, your loving child, May heed your call of love, And prove to you there is no other Like you in all the world, my loving Mother. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN) by JAMES ELROY FLECKER WHERE SHALL THE BABY'S DIMPLE BE? by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE by EZRA POUND DREAM-LOVE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS by WALT WHITMAN GOD EVERYWHERE by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: INTRODUCTION by WILLIAM BASSE |