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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHILDREN - LOST Matches Found: 47 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER DROWNED SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "alas, alas thine empty seat, my son!" Last Line: They hold no love for me. I would go hence Subject(s): Children - Lost;death;drowning;lament;mothers & Sons; "dead, The; A TALE OF ELSINORE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease Last Line: And from that day the house of cronberg was cursed no more. Subject(s): Brothers; Children - Lost; Twins; Half-brothers AND THEIR LIPS BEGAN TO OPEN VERY SLOWLY AS IF THEY WERE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And my words %thousands of faces Subject(s): Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina ANNIE: MY CHILD LOVER, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me gently climb the stair Last Line: And god speak not a word to chide. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children - Lost; Girls; Rest; Silence; Sleep B&B, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's begin here: three years later Last Line: & one struck match arcs into the grill. Whoosh Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; News; Newspapers; Tragedy BAD SHEPARD, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Someone beat that boy a while. Someone burned that boy alive. Dear Last Line: This is how we kill our boys Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cruelty; Death; Murder BEYOND THE DAWN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the dawn %clothed in fog Last Line: Give me back my %daughter Subject(s): Children - Lost; Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina CASA WAPPY; THE CHILD'S PET-NAME, CHOSEN BY HIMSELF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And hast thou sought thy heavenly home Last Line: Casa wappy! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness CASUALTIES: 18. DIRGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Show me a house where nobody has died Last Line: But let us not cut down the clan Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bones; Children - Lost; Death; Funerals; Sons CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ocean's waves to the hollow caves murmur Last Line: A veil to be by eternity but ne'er by time with-drawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Churchyards; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise CONSOLATION, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, while the mourner stands beside the bier Last Line: And faith lies slumbering on the breast of love! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Sympathy; Dead, The; Bereavement; Empathy ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement FAMILY PROCESSION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seems no day passes now Last Line: Trembles to announce its latest dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Funerals GOD'S ANSWER TO A GRIEVING MOTHER, by HARRIET PARKER CAMDEN Poem Text First Line: Dear lonely mother - heart, - I heard your prayer Last Line: I have been lonely too. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Heaven; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise GOLDEN - OF THE SELKIRKS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trail upwinds from golden Last Line: On the trail that leads from golden. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Children - Lost; God; Roads; Paths; Trails HAPPY ENDING FOR THE LOST CHILDREN, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of their picture books would no doubt show Subject(s): Children - Lost IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem 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 LITTLE HENRY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Come listen to my story Last Line: Till a child some friend have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Far from town and road Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by AUGUST WILLIAM DERLETH Poem Source First Line: Lingers long as time Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered down the sunny glade Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by COREY MARKS Poem Source First Line: When morning comes as salt and fish, the dream Last Line: The boat, the want, to stitch against the tide Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Best of all, never to have been- Last Line: The changeless place you'd rather be Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by DANEKA OLSON Poem Source First Line: One bright and early fall morning Last Line: See a smile, not a cold, frightened stare Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by JAMES REANEY Poem Source First Line: Long have I looked for my lost child Last Line: And lo! Cities and gardens, shepherds and smiths Subject(s): Children - Lost LOST CHILD, by LEE UPTON Poem Source First Line: In the suburbs, the nativity scene Last Line: The mother lets the dog out %and shovels, at last, %the infinite child %into sight again Subject(s): Children - Lost MISSING NATALIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Most of my friends don't know I was born a twin. She was born sixty-three Last Line: Together. She left without me Subject(s): Absence; Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons; Sisters; Tragedy; Twins OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 19, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: It was a child that walked my dreams last night Last Line: That never was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Subject(s): Children - Lost SILENCE, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night on her couch of the mountains Last Line: For the love of a child that is dead. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cold; Death; Heaven; Rest; Wales; Dead, The; Paradise; Welshmen; Welshwomen TERENCE MACRAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Musha, mrs. Dinneen! How's yourself Last Line: An' there's maybe a sugarstick yit in me pocket, moorneen, if you thry. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Dead, The THE END, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The long search ended! Last Line: Let not this double price be paid in vain! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Disappeared Persons; Graves; Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (1932); Dead, The; Missing Persons; Tombs; Tombstones THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil? Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOST CHILD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'I'm losted! Could you find me, please?'" Last Line: What has you been a-doing? Subject(s): Children - Lost THE LOST HEIR, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, as I was going by Last Line: "bone in his skin!" Subject(s): Children - Lost THE LOST LAMB, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd laid upon his bed Last Line: He trode serene life's onward way. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SEARCH PARTY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wondered if the others felt Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Children - Lost THE SUPREME GIFT, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: A singer with eyes on the star lighted heavens Last Line: And giving herself, she gave all. Subject(s): Angels; Children - Lost; Heaven; Love; Paradise THE VOICE OF WIVES DREAMING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights I wake to the cry of the child Last Line: Dreaming the voice of a different child. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Drowning; Mothers; Tragedy THREE DREAMS, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: When my first dream was born Last Line: I wept) Subject(s): Children - Lost TO A DEAD BABE, by VERA ANDREW HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one! Last Line: For all eternity through sorrow saved! Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Mothers; Infants TO A LOST CHILD, by MARY NORTH Poem Source First Line: In the sea to which we are one, like larvea Subject(s): Children - Lost TO A LOST CHILD, by ZHANG XIAOJIAN Poem Source First Line: My child, please carve your name Last Line: To another, half his goods himself %half his undimming sorrows Subject(s): Children - Lost TO L, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hope, child, is a reed Last Line: Laves a soul. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Graves; Heaven; Hope; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Optimism TO THE BOY WHO EXPLODED TO THE BOY WHO DROWNED TO THE BOY WHO FELL..., by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Dead to me now, all dead to me Last Line: And please make a donation in your name? Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Drowning TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair image of our sainted boy Last Line: Farewell!dear boy, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Boys; Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Relatives; Parting; Paradise 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 WATCHING GATORS AT RAY BOONE'S REPTILE FARM, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we stand behind the concrete railing Last Line: The answer to all the animal inside us. Subject(s): Alligators; Children - Lost; Zoos |
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