SINCE you were tired and went away We've brought you flowers every day; Now through your grass live daisies peer, O mother, mother dear! They say you are not very far, But since we cry we know you are; We should not cry if you were near, O mother, mother dear! Mother, you know we sometimes cry In the dark night, we don't know why; You would not let us cry for fear, O mother, mother dear! We think perhaps you did not know Your little children loved you so, Or you would not have left them here, O mother, mother dear! If we are good we think that then Perhaps you will come back again; Come in a week--a month--a year, O mother, mother dear! O mother, mother, come to-day! Why did you ever go away? We are so tired of being here Without you, mother dear! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE OUTGOING OF SABBATH by ALTER ABELSON THE SULTANA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH LILIES: 29 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE POET AND THE BIRD; A FABLE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |