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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BIRTH Matches Found: 385 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIRTH, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately having escaped three-kinded death Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery A BIRTH-SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark sweet sleep Last Line: Guard and be gracious to the fair-named flower. Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Sleep; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nightmares A CHILD IS BORN, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Now the appointed time has come Last Line: But on for those we bring to birth! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery A FRIEND OF MINE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, lizzie anderson! Seventeen men and Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards A MERRY RHYME SENT TO THE LADY WROTH .. BIRTH OF LORD PEMBROKE'S CHILD, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, though I am one of those Last Line: All I care is, if the child grows. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Birth; Wroth, Mary Sidney (1586-1652); Child Birth; Midwifery A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: William carlos williams had finished Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over... Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight A PROSPECTIVE FATHER STANDS BEFORE THE DOOR OF A DELIVERY ROOM ..., by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Now she has gone on this dark pilgrimage Last Line: Oh armor her with the strong shield of my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spared by a car or airplane crash or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Birth; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery ADVICE TO A WRITER IMAGINING CONCEPTION AND BIRTH, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love Last Line: Dispense with history, the transitory passions of people's wants %words are dropping fast Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Parents AFTER GIVING BIRTH I RECALL THE MADONNA AND CHILD, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: Who could ever believe it Last Line: I can see the head. %it's glowing Subject(s): Birth; Religion AFTER MIDNIGHT, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is at morning, twilight they expire Last Line: Who has been born this evening in the house. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery AFTERBIRTH, by MARISA P. CLARK Poem Source First Line: My mother never could forgive herself Last Line: Work: I love you, mother. Take care. Goodbye Subject(s): Birth; Children; Memory; Mothers AFTERNOON ALONG THE FIREHOLE RIVER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Lying face up in the grass Last Line: Among the various husks Subject(s): Birth; Death; Old Age ALL COMERS, by JON C. TRIBBLE Poem Text First Line: Each child fighting through delivery's challenge Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ALMOND TREE, by JON STALLWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the way to the hospital Last Line: Unkindly in a kind season %by love shattered and set free Subject(s): Birth Defects; Down's Syndrome ALMOST NAMED HORACE, by JORDAN DAVIS Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Names; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery AMISH MIDWIFE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: When she comes home to the farm after a birth Last Line: Found him with a strong white rope around his neck Subject(s): Birth AMNION, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: I paid no mind %for a week, to steady pains Last Line: How the baby stretches still %for the torn, tilting water Subject(s): Babies; Birth AN APOLOGY FOR HIS FALSE PREDICTION THAT HIS AUNT LANE ... A SON, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the sybils dead? What is become Last Line: I meant the right by mental reservation. Subject(s): Birth; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery ANNIVERS: BAPTISMI, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How much worse than in vain Last Line: When thou, not I, sole owner art of me. Subject(s): Baptism; Birth; Christianity; Christenings; Child Birth; Midwifery ANNUNCIATION, by JENNIFER RICHTER Poem Source First Line: I can believe anything today Last Line: You, all bright light and good news Subject(s): Birth ANTICIPATION, by LEONA BOLT MARTIN Poem Text First Line: With singing heart and lightened step Last Line: For she is coming home. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ARRIVAL, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: She really loved these two smooth youths Last Line: In the rubble of dichotomies. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers ARRIVED AT LAST: AN HEIR TO THE THRONE OF ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells do merrily sing Last Line: A sweet little heir to the throne Subject(s): Birth; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) AT LAST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in Last Line: "eureka is his name -- I've found ""a boy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth; Faces; Night; Child Birth; Midwifery; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: One night I heard a small, weak voice Last Line: Her sparrow with his common flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BABY SHOWER, by SCOTT C. WITHIAM Poem Source First Line: It's quite possible I was born Last Line: Landing without a glitch no accidents %on the other hand I'd like his know-how Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Truth BABY SONG, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the private ease of mother's womb Last Line: But all time roars outside this room Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Variant Title(s): Three Songs: Baby Son Subject(s): Birth BASTARD, by MERLE LEMBECK Poem Text First Line: Afar to the luring west Last Line: A man-made sun of fire.— Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BASTARDS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those bastards in their mansion Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BASTARDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bastard-children are but like to plate Last Line: Made by the coyners illegitimate. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BATTERED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He sits in his battered ford in the dark Last Line: And blinding hours of work Subject(s): Birth; Night; Paternity BEFORE I KNOCKED AND FLESH LET ME ENTER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who took my flesh and bone for armour %and doublecrossed my mother's womb Subject(s): Birth BEING BORN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tanker slips behind a distant ridge Last Line: To feed the open currents of the air Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Birth BELLY DANCER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: An etruscan priestess %through whom the earth speaks Last Line: Moon of earth, great mother Subject(s): Birth; Dancing And Dancers; Pregnancy BENHAM'S DISK: 1. MUTATION, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Beside a rolling tire, a child skips Last Line: Evolution: a child born the color of mourning Subject(s): Birth; Evolution; Science BENHAM'S DISK: 2. ABOUT LIGHT, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: To make a purple dye, crush purpura Last Line: Her father said, only niggers wear red Subject(s): Birth; Light BEST TIME FOR CONCEPTION, by CLAUDE QUILLET Poem Source First Line: Hold, furious youth - better thy heat assuage Subject(s): Birth; Mnemonics BIRDS SMALL ENOUGH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds small enough to nest in our young cypress Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by MARY CATHERINE BRENNAN Poem Text First Line: At last the dread-awaited hour has come Last Line: She'd gladly brave that scorching path again. Subject(s): Birth; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When they were wild Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they were wild Last Line: And their father, too, each name a net in his hands Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Birth BIRTH, by SULAMITH ISH-KISHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god who built this body round my heart Last Line: And shook me forth, a grain of mortal sand! Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Where the shannon meets the sea Last Line: Pity is born Subject(s): Birth; Islands; Piety; Pity; Shannon (river), Ireland BIRTH, by LOIS PALCHES Poem Text First Line: Todays are mothers bound to being pregnant Last Line: And build a world and men secure from terror? Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Just when each bud was big with bloom Last Line: Peace laid upon her breast a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Raymond, Grace Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood BIRTH, by TAKAHASHI SHINKICHI Poem Source First Line: Did my hand ever touch your hair? Last Line: I do not know Subject(s): Birth BIRTH, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Oh little child I hold Last Line: And seek their visions in the face of hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH AND DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother Last Line: Birth and death. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the soul within the body held Last Line: And all that in its prison-house befell. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in another's pangs I hither came Last Line: How like to death thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH CONTROL, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: To the daughters and sons Last Line: The only hope left of a name Subject(s): Birth Control BIRTH IN A NARROW ROOM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeps out of western country something new Last Line: And where the bugs buzz by in private cars %across old peach cans and old jelly jars Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birth BIRTH OF A GREAT MAN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eighth child of an eighth child, your wilful advent Last Line: But evade the sesquipedalian school inspector %with his muzzle and his bag! Subject(s): Birth BIRTH OF A MOTHER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: I'm talking to myself, trouble lover Last Line: For me to step off, %a mother was born Subject(s): Birth; Mothers BIRTH OF DAY, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud of agony thy face Last Line: The sun will set soon, Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood BIRTH OF HENRI QUATRE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is so brisk, so fine a day Last Line: My memories turn to jeanne d'albret. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH OF JUNE, by OLIVE WALDRON WARNER Poem Text First Line: What means this sudden burst of melodies Last Line: In ecstasy of nature -- june is born! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH OF MADAME DELUXE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: It didn't start with pains Last Line: All eyes. Ass first and eager %with rip-roaring hair Subject(s): Birth; Eyeglasses; Fashion; Vision; Women BIRTH STONE, by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: The older women wise and tell anna Last Line: Go home. When you walk, the stone %and not you yet, will bear down Subject(s): Birth BIRTHDAY PARTY, by KUSANO SHINPEI Poem Source First Line: Between sandbanks marsh reflecting twilight clouds Last Line: Goldfish-weed only catching vainly at the big full moon Subject(s): Birth BIRTHDAY POEM FOR A CHILDLESS MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the birthday of your death Last Line: You make a birthday of my death. Subject(s): Birth; Childlessness; Death; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Feminism BIRTHDREAM, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: This time I had given birth Last Line: The last I saw of her Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children; Dreams BIRTHDREAM (2), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: It is the afterbirth I am after, the afterbirth's Last Line: Like a pea-green crone skin washed %out of the sea Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy BIRTHDREAM (3), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: They lead me by the hand to a room over the barn Last Line: On a dark quilt, breathing %prairie Subject(s): Birth; Dreams BIRTHDREAM (4), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Clear night and the river sounds closer Last Line: Intent on passing swiftly Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy BIRTHDREAM (5), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Just before dawn my father came to say goodbye Last Line: A golden song from stone Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Farewell; Fathers BIRTHMARK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: It has seventy-two hours since he last slept I have been Last Line: The wideness of my hips Subject(s): Birth; Comfort; Man-woman Relationships BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthda Subject(s): Birth; Holidays; Home BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BLUE HORSES RUSH IN, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: Before the birth, she moved and pushed inside her mother Last Line: You will grow strong like the horses of your birth Subject(s): Birth BORN IN THE PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, by K. I. PRESS Poem Source First Line: I learned acting from the gallery. As speaker, father seldom Last Line: Walls are red, the ground is red, the swords are falling all over me Subject(s): Birth; Parents BORN TODAY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is to be one to the one Last Line: Hold that frame Subject(s): Birth; Music & Musicians; Child Birth; Midwifery BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, / I have wished you something Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events; Child Birth; Midwifery BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, %I have wished you something Last Line: If that is what a skilled, %vigilant, flexible, %unemphasised, enthralled %catching of happiness is Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events BRITANNIA REDIVIVA; A POEM ON BIRTH OF JAMES PRINCE OF WALES, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vows are heard betimes! And heaven take care Last Line: Nor hopes nor fears your steady hand beguile; your self our balance hold, the world's our isle Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) BUYING STOCK, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you won't mind if I ask you to put this on. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Birth Control; Contraception CAESAREAN, by SCOTT FERRY Poem Source First Line: Just finished reading 'indian camp' Last Line: And when I get home %I wash Subject(s): Birth; Story-telling CAESARIAN BIRTH, by PAULINE SOROKA CHADWELL Poem Text First Line: Subdued and clipped, a hollow voice cleaves through Last Line: With just a little pity in her eyes. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery CALLIOPE IN THE LABOUR WARD, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: She who has no love for women Last Line: Give birth %bleak as a goddess Subject(s): Birth; Calliope (goddess) CALLIPAEDIA, SELS., by CLAUDE QUILLET Subject(s): Birth; Mnemonics CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well to see these accidental great Last Line: This all-unworthy wreath on such a poet's bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birth; Funerals; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery; Burials CHILD IS BORN, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A child is born %to smile at the world and me Last Line: Puling, eternal, vain, %a child is born Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Birth CHOOSING MY CONCEPTION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother at a party in a blue dress Last Line: Of a blue dress falling, and soon, %and randomly I will exist Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Conception; Creation CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love to think of bethlehem Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS AND COMMON BIRTH, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas declares the glory of the flesh Last Line: Is all at christmas time and wholly blest Subject(s): Birth COLD WAR: MY PARENTS AS NEWLYWEDS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: If the russians pushed the red button Last Line: She never intended to make it past the corner store %she would wait forever till the sky turned to r Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Crime And Criminals COME TO HIM, by ORVILLE LAWRENCE KUHN Poem Text First Line: From out the syrian sky an angel host Last Line: To come to him. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean COMING AND GOING, by GRACE STEELE HYDE TRINE Poem Text First Line: They stood rejoicing at his birth Last Line: The tired old man smiled. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Old Age; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The CONCEPTION, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: I will collapse beneath this tender task Last Line: Within their thick green tongues Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Memory; Nature CONCEPTION, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: I am not barren though I shall conceive Last Line: Since we conceive within a stranger's womb. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery COUPLING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever he looks, standing still in the city, Last Line: But prepared for them Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery CRACK IN THE WORLD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see the crack in the world Last Line: Walking on the periphery of the world. Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Mothers; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery CRACKING THE SHELL, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: At evening %a green star burns Last Line: To be born again %as the universe Subject(s): Birth; Death, Return From CRAWLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The spider crawls into the bible Last Line: Deep in the book of genesis Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Insects; Rest; Spiders CRY OF BIRTH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An echo of childhood stalks before me Last Line: Precedes me like a shade to the horizon Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Birth CURRICULUM VITAE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in a free city, near the north sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Parenthood DAR A LUZ, by PAULA C. BRANCATO Poem Source First Line: For hours, for months, for years. He's on top Last Line: Gave suckle by the light of her womb Subject(s): Birth; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships DAWN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trailing night's sand-sifted stars Last Line: Bathe humanity—new-born! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Birth; Dawn; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sunrise DAWN MAGIC, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I stand in the dim, fragrant dawning Last Line: Looks down on the slumbering world. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Magic; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery DAWNSONG, by BILL SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: Like razor-wire uncoiling, I am pulled out of you Last Line: Its warm swell is a milky gag Subject(s): Babies; Birth DE PROFUNDIS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep Last Line: Hallowed be thy name -- halleluiah! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birth; Fathers; Child Birth; Midwifery DEATH AND BIRTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death and birth should dwell not near together Last Line: Death and birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The DEFORMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched at the corner of the Last Line: Leaves crimson trails of bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth Defects; Faces; Streets; Vision; Avenues DOMESDAY BOOK: THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the mortal facts / with which we deal? The man is thirty years Last Line: This the beginning of the mystery: -- Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight DOVECOTT MILL: 12. THE BABY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the millers' cottage the seasons glide Last Line: Of the happy miller of dovecote mill. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery DUE TO BEING OPPOSITE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seemed a litter was a family Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Birth; Life; Dead, The; Graveyards; Child Birth; Midwifery EARLY LABOR, by ELIZABETH HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Down the hospital hall a minutes-old baby Last Line: A clap of thunder rattles the monitor Subject(s): Birth; Children; Hospitals ECCE PUER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Of the dark past Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 27. THANKSGIVING CHILDBIRTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! The power who left his throne on high Last Line: Of thee thus kneeling, safety he may find. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vase was made of clay Last Line: Out of the sky into montana... Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America EMBRYO, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still mermaid / inside her Last Line: To the real life Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery EMBRYO, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still mermaid %inside her Last Line: Listening listening %to the real life Subject(s): Birth ENDANGERED SPECIES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the living-room window Subject(s): Children; Birth; Childhood; Child Birth; Midwifery ESTHER: 19, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the story of my birth, the name Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Fthers; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Dead, The EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 3, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: A squatting woman grins, or Last Line: Bones brushing, wings enfold me Subject(s): Angels; Birth; Women EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 6, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: Jane heaves Last Line: And howls. The child %flies into this world Subject(s): Birth FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Last Line: Wobbling to his feet, the dumb bull, copernicus Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life FIRST CHILD - SECOND CHILD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be it a girl, or one of the boys Last Line: You can call in the morning and ask the nurse Subject(s): Birth FOR A CHRISTENING, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In june the early sings Last Line: In his terrible mercy, world without end Subject(s): Babies; Birth FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: John he comes to my house Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs FOR MARGARET HAWTREE, AN EMINENT MIDWIFE, D. 1734, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She was an indulgent mother, and the best of wives Last Line: She brought into this world more than three thousand lives Subject(s): Birth FOR MY DAUGHTER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was lingering summer Last Line: I thank your star, and you. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Feminism FOR YELLOW VIOLETS, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: How like a very miracle it seems Last Line: Weep for the sterile power that is I! Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Violets; Child Birth; Midwifery FOUND IN THE CABBAGE PATCH, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shiny head is round Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SACRIFICE SELF-COMPENSATED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True I have had much comfort gazing on thee Last Line: That greater happiness will thence arise. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Hope; Love; Sacrifices; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Optimism FULFILLMENT, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS Poem Text First Line: She never felt new life, of her a part Last Line: And motherhood's sweet immortality. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Mothers; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards FUTILITY, by CLAUDE GEORGE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Man is a dying lonely ghost crying Last Line: His breast. Subject(s): Birth; Men; Child Birth; Midwifery GARDEN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sound. Then the hiss and whir Last Line: Laid like weights on the table Subject(s): Birth; Death; Fear; Gardens And Gardening; Love GIFT OF A KNIFE, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: When I was very young Last Line: A message in an ancient language %I had yet to decipher Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Surgery GRANGER'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the day I was gone to town / to get my birth approved Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery GRATITUDE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The arc of your eyebrows-so new!-draws a splendid dome Last Line: I'm grateful to you for guiding me safely through the throes of birth Subject(s): Birth; Children; Fathers; Gratitude; Parents GREETINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A solitary condom, sad and crinkled Last Line: Greets the bells greeting %sunday morning air. Subject(s): Birth Control; Sabbath; Streets HAPPINESS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Search the budding flower Last Line: Happiness is born. Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Rebirth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight HAWK WING, by LUCILE BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: Dawn slips past the blinds to touch Last Line: To lighted room, unwilling to be born Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Hawks HE'LL COME OUT LIKE NOTHING, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out, out, push harder, woman Last Line: Bellowing like a bull, %good, already Subject(s): Birth HEALTH, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cut the stem of the amaryllis, and water poured out so suddenly, I didn't Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Flowers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HEAVEN, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a little child Last Line: To show true heaven is all above. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER Poem Text First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child! Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war! Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The HISTORIES: BIRTH, WITHOUT THE THEME OF BURNING: US, BORN OF A THICKET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then all the forests divided & them oceans & Last Line: Lobsters? Sweetmeats? Subject(s): Birth; History; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Historians; Human Race HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET (17-39), by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winters close, springs open, no child stirs Last Line: Under a frenzy of who love me & who shine Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 17, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winters close, springs open, no child stirs Last Line: I revolt from, I am like, these savage foresters Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 18, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose passionless dicker in the shade, whose glance Last Line: And merciful, ingrown months, blessing a swelling trance Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 19, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So squeezed, wince you I scream? I love you & hate Last Line: Shame I am voiding oh behind it is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 19, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So squeezed, wince you I scream? I love you & hate Last Line: Shame I am voiding oh behind it is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 20, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hide me forever I work thrust I must free Last Line: And it passes the wretched trap whelming and I am me Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 20, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hide me forever I work thrust I must free Last Line: And it passes the wrteched trap whelming and I am me Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 21, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drencht & powerful, I did it with my body Last Line: Blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 21, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drencht & powerful, I did it with my body Last Line: Blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOME BIRTH, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN Poem Source First Line: When you were born, all Last Line: Snarl of chain saw, song of cat Subject(s): Birth; Home HONEYMOON CONCEPTION (1952), by BRAD LEITHAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night, though not a flake fell, the snow deepened... Last Line: Smooth and rich-bellied, as if big with child.) Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Honeymoons HOSPITAL NURSERY, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: Purity - whiteness - spotlessness! Through glass Last Line: Past -- present -- future -- in the hand of fate! Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hospitals; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HOW CAN A BODY CARRY, by MARGARET AHO Poem Source First Line: Such light? I remember how we read Last Line: Nail with its small moon %the only light we read by Subject(s): Birth; Books; Reproductive System HOW I CAME TO HAVE A MAN'S NAME, by EMMA LEE WARRIOR Poem Source First Line: It's a good thind dad deserted mon Subject(s): Birth; Names; Native Americans - Children HOW YOU WERE BORN, by SHARON MAYER LIBERA Poem Source First Line: For six years, having no child Subject(s): Birth HUITZILOPOCHTLI, by MARY HOPE WHITEHEAD LEE Poem Source First Line: I was born %with his mark %upon my forehead Last Line: That you will eat %my %ashes Subject(s): Birth; Children I DESCRIBE MY PARENTS BEFORE THEY KNOW THEY HAVE MADE ME COME TRUE, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: In the cloister of saint odilo Last Line: This pair does not know I will be born. %nothing I do will change them Subject(s): Birth; Parents I REMEMBER, by BEATRICE HERFORD Poem Text First Line: I remember, I remember the place where I was born Last Line: "and says, ""was that the doorbell or did I hear the phone?" Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery I WAS BORN IN A HOTEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A woman jar Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Birth I WAS BORN IN APRIL, by ERNESTINE GAROFALO First Line: I was born in april / the week the lilies came Subject(s): April; Birth; Marriage; Death ICON, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene they play Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: She was leased out like pasture Last Line: Swift and sterile justice Subject(s): Birth; Conception IMMORTALITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: So I have sunk my roots in earth Last Line: I that make many souls for heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birth; Children; Immortality; Love; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood IMPRINTED, by ELIZABETH MAXINE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: An hour after she is born-alone Last Line: I could do otherwise %she seems to say Subject(s): Birth; Mothers And Daughters IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hung between pinetops Last Line: From loss. Subject(s): Birth; Children - Lost; Fields; Loss; Child Birth; Midwifery; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A TIME OF FLOWERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Do you know the spring is here Last Line: To welcome the new-born year? Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Subject(s): Women; Body, Human; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery IN NATALEM AUGUSTISSIMI PRINCIPIS CARLOLI, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first birth, mary, was unto a tomb Last Line: That canst give saints as well as kings a birth. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast. Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery JOTTINGS: NEW-BORN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death and birth dog us Last Line: The world and I are so unstudied fresh... Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery JUBILATE!, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: We do not need, dear friend, to seek Last Line: And jubilance of christmas day! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The JUNE 20TH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be born in one week Last Line: Into their temporary joy Subject(s): Birth; Family Life JUPITER, by BARRY BALLARD Poem Source First Line: I want a perfect body, an orbit Last Line: Watching like assigned mid-wives standing guard Subject(s): Birth; Life KING'S DAUGHTERS, HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, 1948, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there figures a man. In uniform. He's not white. He Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Daughters; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood KING'S DAUGHTERS, HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, 1948, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there figures a man. In uniform. He's not white. He Last Line: Whether he will do things they never dreamed Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Daughters; Parents LAST BIRTHDAY AT HOME, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last night before you were born, you were Last Line: Walked across them and stood at the moment of your appearing Variant Title(s): January, Daughte Subject(s): Birth; Daughters LAST SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning at the door Last Line: Of hope and spring! Subject(s): Birth; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In some misty eon past Last Line: War, and pestilence! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the infinite sea of eternity Last Line: Through one short hour of fretfulness. Subject(s): Birth; Light; Waking; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE AND YOU, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Ask much of life Last Line: Her golden key. Subject(s): Birth; Future Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S PAST AND FUTURE, by WILLIAM HANKINS CHITWOOD Poem Text First Line: Did I exist before my birth?' Last Line: I'll do again. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mystery; Child Birth; Midwifery LIKE MOTHER, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Flesh of my flesh, life of my life Last Line: Picture slipped out of the frame, bread with its crust cut off Subject(s): Birth; Parents; Pregnancy LINES, INSCRIBED TO MRS. WYNNE, ON THE BIRTH OF HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let me wake the carol gay Last Line: Enriched with every blessing. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery LOVE LETTER TO A NEWBORN, by MARILYN MARX Poem Source First Line: Here you are - part of us Last Line: Look what god has done by making you! %you are perfecting us Subject(s): Birth; Love; Perfection LOVE'S PERSONALITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never seen Last Line: Not greatest, but apart. Subject(s): Birth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery LUPINE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Girlhood blue Last Line: Deep blue %almost violent Subject(s): Birth; Children; Girls MANTALK, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I was born when you were 29 Last Line: Of the language of men Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Fathers; Men MARE AND NEWBORN FOAL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you die Subject(s): Horses; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The MARIA MINOR, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I conceived. And sorrow Last Line: To mash my head. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness MARKINGS, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Each birth notches a woman's pelvis like a belt Last Line: Still, his fingers found the trigger %and aimed for the scar Subject(s): Birth; Scars; Surgery; Women MATANZA TO WELCOME SPRING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread eagle sheep legs wide Subject(s): Spring; Sheep; Death; Birth; Dead, The; Child Birth; Midwifery MIDWIFE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though I seem to wait Last Line: I walk out across the fields of the planets %into the spaces between the furthest stars Subject(s): Birth; Nurses MILK, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Given your birth, I am the glue of the cosmos. Last Line: Never forget me Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Love; Milk; Pregnancy MIRIAM'S SONG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death to the first-born sons, always Last Line: For the breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): It's A Boy Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery MOON CHILD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever slid into my mother's room that Last Line: I always blame the moon Subject(s): Birth; Moon MORNING IN THE BOILING RIVER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: At daybreak we strip and enter it Last Line: Dropping their necks to take long drinks Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy MOTHER AND CHILD, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Hell of a place to start a family Last Line: The baby at her breast will save the world Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Family Life MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the awful full-orb'd moon Last Line: Around the world, and link these three again. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birth; Love; Mothers; Silence; Sin; Child Birth; Midwifery MULTIPARA GRAVIDA 5, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to term the started child shocks Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery MULTIPARA GRAVIDA 5, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to term the started child shocks Last Line: Exultant and wise. The born child cries Subject(s): Birth MY BIRTH-CHAMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I wakened from the night Last Line: With memories apart from me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1645, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tire'd with my psyche, (for ye song Last Line: Then, whilst in ease I live, of these soft poisons die. Subject(s): Birth; Prayer; Child Birth; Midwifery NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today from the aurora's bosom Last Line: That flower had fallen, - that crimson blossom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birth; Catholic Church - Clergy; Christmas; Jesus Christ NATIVITY: FOR TWO SALVADORAN WOMEN, 1986-1987, by DEMETRIA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Your eyes, large as canada, welcome %this stranger Last Line: Summoned to belen to be born Subject(s): Birth; Children; Women NATURAL BIRTH, SELS., by TOI DERRICOTTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birth NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON'S SONNET, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No clear appear'd upon the azur'd sky Last Line: Ah, blest be she! Subject(s): Birth; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Child Birth; Midwifery NEWBORN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in sleep her face changes Last Line: That old thirst in the genes Subject(s): Birth NEWBORN, by ANDREA POTOS Poem Source First Line: For three days in december %we were cradled Last Line: In the arms of those women %who had no fear of you Subject(s): Birth NINE MONTHS MAKING, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Pregnancy; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery NO FEAR OF BLOOD, by KIRSTEN EMMOTT Poem Source First Line: I have to be careful about suede or canvas shoes Last Line: I love the smell of labouring women, the amniotic fluid that soaks the bed, their earthy beauty Subject(s): Birth; Women NOT LEAVING THE HOUSE, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When kai is born Subject(s): Family Life; Birth; Relatives; Child Birth; Midwifery NOTES FROM THE DELIVERY ROOM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped down, / victim in an old comic book, Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery NOVEMBER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: How long did I overlook november Last Line: Everything dead and forgivable Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; November NOW THAT I AM FOREVER WITH CHILD, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the days went Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery NOW THAT I AM FOREVER WITH CHILD, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the days went Last Line: I can only distinguish %one thread within running hours %you...Flowing through selves %toward you Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy O BROTHER CHICKEN! SISTER CHICK!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Egg-nostics for to be? Subject(s): Birth; Chickens; Creation; Eggs OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Last Line: It's beautiful she thinks- %snow nobody has walked on Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth OBSERVATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who to the north, or south, doth set Last Line: His bed, male children shall beget. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mnemonics; Child Birth; Midwifery OBSTETRICS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea's skin is smooth Last Line: Upon love with only a memory %of the under-water grottos Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Birth ODE TO THE SETTING SUN: ODE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alpha and omega, sadness and mirth Last Line: For they are twain yet one, and death is birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The OF BEING NUMEROUS, 21, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There can be a brick Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON APPROACHING MY BIRTHDAY, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me in the heat of summer Last Line: Of her disgust and left me her disease %when I grew up to wither into truth Subject(s): Birth ON DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Means death so much? Is it so great an ill Last Line: He that escapes desire, at last is free. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Desire; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ON HERMOCRATIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hermocratia named - save only one Last Line: Thy boast against latona shamed by me! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth;midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo - to the battle-ground of life Last Line: And into its tumult and pain you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood ON THE BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark the day white, on which the fates have smiled Last Line: Eugenio's learning and eugenio's wit. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S ELDEST SON, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome little helpless stranger Last Line: And their fondest hopes fulfill. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF A POSTHUMOUS CHILD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love Last Line: Arise to deck our land! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Families, when a child is born Last Line: By becoming a cabinet minister. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Birth; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Parenthood ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs. Subject(s): Birth; Babies; Mothers & Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery; Infants OPEN LIKE A ROSE, by ANN FISHER-WIRTH Poem Text First Line: Open like a rose, he told me Last Line: 2000). Subject(s): Bigamy; Birth; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Roses; Child Birth; Midwifery ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR 1862, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are pale, the trees are stiff Last Line: Will soon be driven out. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Despair; Hope; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: AN OLD STORY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient house of ages Last Line: And a child for king! Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS DAY AND EVERY DAY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star high, / baby low Last Line: Near and far! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1873, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas-days are still in store Last Line: News to men! To god old glory! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood ORIGINAL FACE, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: There is a clear %and simple glory Last Line: Opening %vulnerable %as a drifting boat Subject(s): Birth; Faces ORPHAN BORN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lone, unfathered chick Last Line: My incubator. Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Orphans; Child Birth; Midwifery; Foundlings OUR FRIEND THE EGG, by CLARENCE DAY Poem Source First Line: Oh who that ever lived and loved Subject(s): Birth; Eggs OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OVER DARK ARCHES, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked and thin and wet as if with rain Last Line: Till we turn and are full Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery PARTCH STATIONS: 2. HE FAILETH TO BE BORN IN CHINA, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Forgive him in his wishes and delusions: he is beset Last Line: Occupant is a heathen chinee, the note on his last door sang Subject(s): Birth; China PAST-LIVES THERAPY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They explained to me the bloody bandages Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; War; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery PERMEABLE MEMBRANE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We move through life laid bare Last Line: A peculiar sort of oneness Subject(s): Birth; Life PHANTOMS, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Because they couldn't find my father, a neighbor Last Line: That I'm only reaching out for anyone Subject(s): Birth; Parents PLACE OF BIRTH, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I was baptized by Last Line: Down home, %sanctified jazz Subject(s): Babies; Baptism; Birth PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women PLANKS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While we are all together under burning bulbs we would do well Last Line: And hold on. Never mind learning to draw. The giant hibiscus Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy PLAY OF REAL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From down here, oops, balcon. She walks erect Last Line: Cosmic bad casting but it's too late to start over Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Life; Mothers; Plays And Playwrights; Women PLAYING CATCH, by BILL SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: A hospital in a river city Last Line: And that the baby's first cry %is surely one of joy and return Subject(s): Birth; Play POEM FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm going to have it Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Birth; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery POEM TO EASE BIRTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the house with the tortoise chair Last Line: Come here child - come be pearl %be beautiful feather Subject(s): Birth POLYGAMY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an official goes upcountry Last Line: His name green as unreaped fantasy. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Polygamy; Thailand; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards PORPHYROGENITUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the purple! Born in the purple! Last Line: Crown me with regal acclaim! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery PRAYER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: White heart of snowlight Last Line: Sluggish with pregnancy and winter %yessing the sun Subject(s): Birth; God; Prayer; Religion PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii; Child Birth; Midwifery; Second World War PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Last Line: Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me. %otherwise kill me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii PRAYER OF A MOTHER-TO-BE, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: Dear god of life and every new born thing Last Line: "of such the kingdom is; let us be led." Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; God; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Child Birth; Midwifery; Roman Catholics; Catholicism PRELUDE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: All day long it has snowed and rained and snowed Last Line: Of whatever all this day hs been listening Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy PROCESS OF CONCEPTION, by CLAUDE QUILLET Poem Source First Line: Beneath those parts, where stretching to its bound Subject(s): Birth; Mnemonics PROCLAMATION AT A BIRTH, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let every tree Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery PRPHECY, by RITA KIEFER Poem Source First Line: It's split all the way Last Line: It's %a girl Subject(s): Birth QUEEN VICTORIA'S BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart" Last Line: Queen victoria's baby Subject(s): "babies;birth;courts & Courtiers;victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901);" Infants;child Birth;midwifery QUID PRO QUO, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just after my wife's miscarriage (her second Subject(s): Miscarriage; God; Birth; Faith; Child Birth; Midwifery; Belief; Creed REBUILDING THE TINMAN, by JOSHUA KEEN Poem Source First Line: First he gave me new ears melted down Last Line: I'm learning to move more softly than planets Subject(s): Birth; Creation RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECOVERY ROOM: LYING-IN, by HELEN CHASIN Poem Source First Line: Diapered in hospital linen Last Line: This ordeal has almost nothing to do with love Subject(s): Birth RESCUE, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Gentle, warm, dark, the sea Last Line: The labour of your birth %into final stillness Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Love RING OF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the west wind caught her up, as Last Line: Are born of like %elements Subject(s): Birth RINO'S SONG, by LYNNE LAWNER Poem Source First Line: I was born conscious, I can't remember Last Line: Pain is only being born, awake Subject(s): Birth SANDHILL CRANE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: My feet wet in the dew Last Line: Not even by my simple cry Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Pregnancy SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCENARIO, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restricted clubs were sticky with ardor. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SECOND BIRTH, by ELIZABETH HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Surely no worse to be that pioneer Last Line: A couple of good-sized steaks, well done Subject(s): Birth SECOND PORTRAIT (FOR A MAD BEGGAR WOMAN OUTSIDE QUEEN MARY'S SCHOOL), by SARMAD SEHBAI Poem Source First Line: You bring a vague dream Last Line: Looking for the murderer? Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Birth; Muslims SECRET LAUGHTER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a secret laughter Last Line: By god, I have a son! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight SHELTER, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Her hooves Last Line: Side, his small hooves denting the wet prairie Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Cows SHILOH'S SEED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shiloh's seed shall not be sewn Subject(s): Birth; Lambs; God; Child Birth; Midwifery SIGNING THE ADOPTION PAPERS, by CARRIE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I stare into the overhead bulb Last Line: Of the social worker's pen, wherein %the lifelong dirge begins Subject(s): Adoption; Birth SIMPLY HUGE, by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: Though they remain in the uterus Last Line: A syringe stands stud in the dells Subject(s): Birth; Calves; Explorers; Reproduction; Science SOCIOLOGY OF MULTIPLE BIRTH, by MARK JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Here we float and turn Last Line: Dropped to disunity %by being born Subject(s): Birth SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF EXISTENCE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: In the shrift, she says, 'it is always moving, even in slumber Last Line: Terror now in the hangar: the little door slides back Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Birthdays; Family Life; Ontology; Time SONG FOR THE NEWBORN, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newborn, on the naked sand Last Line: Nakedly lay it. Subject(s): Birth; Holidays; Child Birth; Midwifery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 14, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch the lyre, on every string Last Line: Has no relation to this earth. Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET (ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH OF A SON), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they did greet me father, sudden awe Last Line: And he be born again, a child of god! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Last Line: While we wept idly o'er thy little bier! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET WRITTEN BY FRA. GORGIA WHO WAS BORN AS ... MOTHER TO HER GRAVE, by FRA. GORGIA Poem Text First Line: Unhappy I came from my mother's womb Last Line: For I, in death's cold arms, receiv'd my birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death - Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beauteous spring I see Last Line: Making all our passion vain. Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World ST. URSULA'S ORIGIN, by BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: If I %could tell %the truth Last Line: Just how %I was %conceived Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Truth ST. VINCENT'S, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: A smell in the air Last Line: Doors wide open to the air Subject(s): Birth; Childhood Memories; Memory SUE'S GOT A BABY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sue's got a baby now, an' she Last Line: My lost joys since her baby came. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SUPREMACY, by LENORA GILLISON Poem Source First Line: Pain - %sharp, gnawing, comes Subject(s): Birth TAKING THE WIFE TO GIVE BIRTH, by TRAN VANG SAO Poem Source First Line: A morning in may I took you to give birth Last Line: I said out loud to myself %it won't be sunny for a while yet Subject(s): Birth TAURUS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: In the last weeks that boundary is effaced, useless Last Line: The calving hut, out of the wind to warm up, cook breakfast Subject(s): Birth THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battle and fog and dream Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet! Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BALLAD OF A DAFT GIRL, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old lay's son Last Line: Eyes and died. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Girls; Pregnancy; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE BIRTH IN A NARROW ROOM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeps out of western country something new Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF A SONG, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: It strove all day for right of birth Last Line: I sang into life my song of june. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF SAINT PATRICK, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the eighth day of march it was, some people say Last Line: And we keep up the practice from that day to this. Subject(s): Birth; Saints; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice three moons had waxed in heaven Last Line: "god is god; there is none other; I his chosen prophet am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World; Paradise THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely we knew our darkling shore Last Line: Your powers, one will be carruth Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, it was a night Last Line: Thou, lovely thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birth; Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHANGELING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the changeling enter in? Last Line: Came back, and I did not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Child Custody; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale Last Line: Our country, and our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star Last Line: In every little baby's birth. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE COMING OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring! I cannot run to greet Last Line: Forgive me, o my comrade spring! Subject(s): Birth; Leaves; Life; Nature; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery THE FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Agriculture; Farmers THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coffin, as I past across the lane Last Line: For it pleased god to take her to his mercy. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Faith; Mothers; Selflessness; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE GREATEST GIFT, by ANNIE J. TEEM Poem Text First Line: The woman of this age, the present hour Last Line: "accept my gift -- ""a human life." Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE GUARDS KNEELED, THEY RAISED THEIR WEAPONS, THEY FIRED', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Finally is liberated, then they pull the body out Subject(s): Birth; Sedation THE HUSBAND'S VIEW, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can anything avail Last Line: To maids, is a useful thing!' Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery THE ILLEGITIMATE, by JOHN A. STOVER Poem Text First Line: A tainted thing it came into the world Last Line: As though it were an angel undefiled. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dewdrop of the darkness born Last Line: Wherewith was veiled divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary THE INQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the rose of keenest thorn Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Under The Rose; %'the Iniquity Of The Fathers Upon The Children' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Flowers; Roses; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE INSATIABLE PRIEST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean Last Line: He can be content with two thousand a year. Subject(s): Birth; Clergy; Death; Marriage; Child Birth; Midwifery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LAST BIRTHDAY AT HOME, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last night before you were born, you were Variant Title(s): January, Daughter Subject(s): Birth; Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery THE LATEST-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world had waited till thy soul Last Line: Of life the context clear. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE MURMUR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor flicks on a light Last Line: Red and green and indigo. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Medicine; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription; Parenthood THE NAKED STRANGER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is five months' off Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE NATURAL CHILD, by HELEN LEIGH Poem Text First Line: Let not the title of my verse offen Last Line: Who, in such depths of misery, plunge the fair? Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE NEWBORN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in sleep her face changes Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE OFFERING, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they cleaned you and gave you to me Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE PILL VERSUS THE SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you take your pill Subject(s): Birth Control; Contraception THE PLANNED CHILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always hated the way they planned me, she Subject(s): Birth Control; Disappointment; Contraception THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 148, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once we're born we're confused Last Line: This is why I grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chaos; Chinese Literature; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 221, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death are decreed Last Line: And brilliant scholars are broke Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chinese Literature; Death; Fame; Wealth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Reputation; Riches; Fortunes THE RING OF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the west wind caught her up, as Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE SEVEN HOUSES OF JEAN RACINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Homer was born in cities seven. Seven houses saw thy birth, racine Last Line: Away at crepy, that small town nearby, in which racine was born, they say. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SPIRIT IS TOO BLUNT AN INSTRUMENT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Body, Human; Nature; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE STORK HAS BROUGHT A LITTLE PEACH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He didn't bring a pair Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth;midwifery THE TRAP, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The baited trap that does not kill Last Line: It was, to bait the trap with breath. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery THE TRIUMVIRATE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Wondrous force of sympathy Last Line: May cry at sight, ''tis very he!' Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE VICTORY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought you were my victory Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE WARNING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List, the winds of march are blowing Last Line: Oppose, or bear with a submissive will. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WAY THE BABY CAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this is the way the baby came Last Line: O this is the way the baby came! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WEDDING MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!" Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THEY HOIST IT, SHINING, THEY SUPPORT IT, UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS,, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A boy to the ring of killers. They bring him, crying,. Her throat leaps Subject(s): Birth TO - . UPON THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST-BORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a shipwrecked sailor tost Last Line: Conscious nursling, to thy breast! Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery TO A LITTLE INVISIBLE BEING WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Germ of new life, whose powers expanded slow Last Line: Till thy wished smile thy mother's pangs o'erpay. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood TO BE BORN AGAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist Last Line: "you've been forgiven" Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TO HER FIRST-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long I waited, wondering Last Line: We clasp the living form again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TO MRS. D.S., ON THE BIRTH OF SIDNEY, HER SECOND SON, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May rest drown all thy pains; but never sleep Last Line: Them fully act the praise I faintly told! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TO THE CHILD, by JONAS BROWN Poem Source First Line: Certainly, I was not born Last Line: A child who I must have been Subject(s): Birth; Children TO THE COUNTLESS OF CHESTERFIELD, ON THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST SON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, let an humble stranger Last Line: And double 'em after when you will. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TOUCH, by TREVOR WEST KNAPP Poem Text First Line: We speak of the pain of childbirth, referring Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TOWARD A CONCEPTION, by CAMERON K. GEAREN Poem Source First Line: Steve's chickens did nothing Last Line: Don't say child. Say: the wing is broken Subject(s): Birth; Conception TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TWENTY-FOUR WEEK PREEMIE, CHANGE OF SHIFT, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: We're running out of o2 Last Line: How can people abandon each other? Subject(s): Birth; Labor And Laborers; Nurses TWO DREAMERS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: In the few places in this meadow Last Line: Will be come back Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Love - Marital; Pregnancy UNALEQ'S SONG OF THE BEGINNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Everything broke Last Line: Because my baby's coming through it right %now Subject(s): Birth; Eskimos; Native Americans UNKNOWN VOICE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: An unknown voice told me Last Line: I was not flung from the highest peak Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Voices UPON YE SIGHT OF MY ABORTIVE BIRTH YE 31TH: OF DECEMBER 1657, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What birth is this; a poore despissed creature? Last Line: Amend it lord; & keepe it still with thee: Subject(s): Birth; Death; God; Life; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The VASTER PLACE, by CINDY DAY ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Out of darkness into darkness into light Last Line: The body of the woman who bore me out Subject(s): Birth VENUS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I stand waist-deep in the grass, holding my infant son in my arms Last Line: As an offering, as something to shine %and give back Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children - Lost; Heaven; Mothers; Pregnancy; Women VIOLIN SONGS: A FATHER TO A MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's own child came down to earth Last Line: It's only till to-morrow! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Death; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Dead, The; Parenthood VULCAN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harbors into harbor sand Subject(s): Birth; Subways; Child Birth; Midwifery W 40, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source First Line: Even in the womb these leaves Last Line: Held out for rain and burial Subject(s): Autumn; Birth; Death; Seasons WAITING FOR THE DOCTOR, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: I hear the doctor's loud success Last Line: A 9-lb. Load to cart in and out of next year's bed Subject(s): Birth WASP, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapt in aurelian filth and slime Last Line: So stunned, so bruised, he scarce can crawl Subject(s): Birth; Life WATER STORY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I love the living sound of my plant when I water it Last Line: I carry this story on my white shoes Subject(s): Birth; Life; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Water WAY TO HAVE HANDSOME CHILDREN, SELS., by CLAUDE QUILLET Poem Source First Line: You now, who are dispos'd to learn our arts Subject(s): Birth; Physicians WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE UNBORN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awake: / midnight, star-shouldered, is leaning over me Last Line: I am thy unborn, mother, moving toward the morn of my nativity. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery WHEN FIRST I ASKED TO BE BORN', by EVERETT LITTLEMORE Poem Source Last Line: Corn on the cob, and creamed corn Subject(s): Birth WHEN I WAS BORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I was born, then others laughed. I cried." Last Line: At death if love of life did not deceive them so. Subject(s): Birth;death;grief;happiness; "child Birth;midwifery;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;joy;delight; WHEN I WAS CONCEIVED, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was 1945, and it was may Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery WHEN I WAS CONCEIVED, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was 1945, and it was may Subject(s): Birth; Conception WHEN TIME WAS YOUNG, by SARITA HOLT BROWNLEE Poem Text First Line: When time was young, man had his birth Last Line: His spirit dwelling with his god. Subject(s): Birth; Mankind; Soul; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race WHENEVER A LITTLE CHILD IS BORN, by AGNES LOUISA CARTER MASON Poem Text Last Line: Somewhere, somewhere Alternate Author Name(s): Carter, Agnes L. Subject(s): Birth WHY DO WE LIVE?, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my body, my eyes, my mouth Last Line: Save to expand the widening realms of death! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery WHY HAVE THEY MOVED ME, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source Last Line: In water air or fire? Subject(s): Birth WHY I AM AFRAID OF TURNING THE PAGE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spokes, spooks: your tinsel hair weaves the wheel Subject(s): Relationships; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The WINTER LAMBS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night snow came upon us Last Line: Agree or disagree Subject(s): Winter; Lambs; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery WOMAN PLANTING SWEET POTATOES, by BETHANY REID Poem Source First Line: At eleven, I worried Last Line: And over her shoulder, the new moon %rocking the ghost of the old in her arms Subject(s): Birth; Children; Memory; Women WORLD (2), by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: Some are born Last Line: Some are born %--who can use this %--use this Subject(s): Birth; Earth WRITTEN A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE BIRTH OF A CHILD, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, prepare me for that hour Last Line: Haply expire with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery YOU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three times as many of you Last Line: As when I was born Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery YULETIDE, by EMMA F. COFFIN Poem Text First Line: O glowing east! O wondrous sparkling star Last Line: Our coming bridegroom, glorious king. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas Carols; Salvation; Child Birth; Midwifery |
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