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Subject: CHILDREN - LOST
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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