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Subject: DAUGHTERS Matches Found: 906 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON MY OWN LITTLE DAUGHTER, FOUR YEARS OLD", by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "sweet lovely infant, innocently gay" Last Line: And teach her all she ought to hope or fear Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Daughters 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Last Line: The story of replacement Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women 8 HOPE ROAD, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is not my story Last Line: On its hinges, milk left to curdle %in the pitcher on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States A DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Arising slowly in his place Last Line: "'please, sir, to let you in'" Subject(s): Daughters;guests;household Employees;revolutions; Visiting;servants;domestics;maids A DAUGHTER RETURNS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like not that dainty-cut raiment, those earrings of pearl Last Line: Then, then shall I think, think of thee! Subject(s): Daughters; Homecoming A DAUGHTER'S FEVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark ivy draws a wave across the yard Last Line: Small fingers curl. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DAUGHTER'S MEMORY, by MARY L. LAWSON Poem Text First Line: My father, by the simple stone Last Line: That soar from earth beyond the sky. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A DESERTER, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their new landlord was a handsome man. On his rounds to collect rent she became friendly Subject(s): Desertion & Nonsupport; Jealousy; Fathers & Daughters; Suicide A DISCORD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buds were out on the lilac-trees Last Line: That sweet spring morning, was lying dead. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The A FATHER OF WOMEN: AD SOROREM E. B., by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father works in us Last Line: Now that your sons are dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Butler, Elizabeth Thompson (1844-1933); Fathers & Daughters; Women's Rights; Feminism A FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer A LESSON FOR MAMMA, by SYDNEY DAYRE Poem Text First Line: Dear mamma, if you just could be Last Line: Now, mamma, couldn't you? Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters A LITTLE TOOTH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Your baby grows a tooth, then two Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A MAN TAKES HIS DAUGHTER, AGE 5, TO A PUBLIC EXECUTION BY GUILLOTINE, PARIS, 1857, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a bad man. He says this in french Last Line: Daddy, I still can't see the puppets Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Guillotines; Paris, France A MAN'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old woman who looks each night Last Line: But years of dread. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A MASQUERADE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little old woman before me Last Line: "that I was ninety-nine." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Masquerades; Mothers & Daughters; Old Age A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses Last Line: The things they will do when they grow. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A POEM FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants A POEM FOR MY FATHER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad it must be / to love so many women Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A POET'S DAUGHTER, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks the minstrel's rhyme.' a lady asks? There was a time Last Line: All bard can give. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets A POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou's welcome wean, mishanter fa' me Last Line: An' think't weel war'd. Subject(s): Daughters; Parents; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A SENSE OF DIRECTION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was moonless the night I drove my son Last Line: Am shivering in its draft. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Maps; Mothers & Sons A SKATING LESSON, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother brought her halfway Last Line: Upright, devoted pupil Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Fathers & Daughters A VISITOR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, for example, / who was young once Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A WOMAN MOURNED BY DAUGHTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, not a tear begun Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters A WOMAN WAKING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wakens early remembering Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains ACCOUNTING OF STOCK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come here, little girl, come here! Last Line: They're so well adjusted for hugging your dad! Subject(s): Bodies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood AD NEPOTEM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nepos, twice my neighbour since at home Last Line: For fathers also may enjoy their nights. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Daughters; Neighbors ADDRESS TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, DORA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou then survived Last Line: And reason's godlike power be proud to own. Variant Title(s): Asked And Answered Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Last Line: Don't confuse hunger with greed; %and don't wait until you are dead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women AFTER DARK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTER DARK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you Last Line: At the last, your hand feels steady Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To lie in your child’s bed when she is gone Last Line: Who finds you here and lies down by your side Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter spreads her legs Last Line: And the pink's in us Subject(s): Daughters; Popular Culture - United States AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter spreads her legs Last Line: That we're in the pink %and the pink's in us Subject(s): Daughters; Popular Culture - United States AFTER THE SEPERATION, DAD TAKES ME TO THE DANCE FOR THE DEAD, by MIRA CHIEKO SHIMABUKURO Poem Source First Line: At eight, we strung rope across oregon Last Line: Each light longing, on its line Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Daughters AFTER THE WEDDING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought we never should be rid of them! Last Line: To find our own past in their future there! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Daughters; Love - Marital; Marriage; Parents; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood AFTERLIFE, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm older than my father when he turned Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Abortion ALICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! There's music here Last Line: To welcome thee I wait -- blest mother! Come to me. Subject(s): Deafness; Fathers & Daughters; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness ALL DAY, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning Last Line: Into the sea Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Thomas, Helen (1920-2013) ALL MY PRETTY ONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ALL MY PRETTY ONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Last Line: Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, %bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion ALL THE WOMEN POETS I LIKE DIDN'T HAVE THEIR FATHERS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thanking you, ben for letting me be one Last Line: And haunts Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets ALLEGHENY HILLS, by JESSIE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: These are the green / pillows of pan Last Line: And I am his wilding daughter. Subject(s): Daughters; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) ALMYRA WILMARTH; 3 YRS. 7 MOS. 4 DAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A suffering little child has come unto thee Last Line: And in your bosom of love have comfort and rest Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women ALONE WITH JANE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Jane, in a suit of cameron plaid Last Line: I wish I were n't alone with jane! Subject(s): Courtship; Daughters; Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Last Line: In the century of horror Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism AND / MOTHER WHY DID YOU TELL ME, by STEPHANIE MARKMAN Poem Source Last Line: From your unshed tears Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women AND NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I should never have done it,' she said Last Line: Of the wrong man Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers; Paternity ANDONIS, MY DAUGHTER, by THOMAS PEACOCK (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Andonis is the spring song like Last Line: Andonis is the spring song, me-na-wah -- Subject(s): Daughters ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Daughters; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Last Line: To dreaming then? I fight this thing. %all day we scrubbing scrubbing Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible ANNIE'S DAUGHTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering charm of a dream that has fled Last Line: And see the old smile to the young lips rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters ANNUNCIATION, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: In this photo %she is blonde, blanched almond Last Line: Exotic, holy, %an infinite abacus of bees Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Wishes ANODYNE, by HARRIET GRAY BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: When I was young I learned to minimize Last Line: Oh let her realize my soul is straight. Subject(s): Daughters ANTIQUE FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism APPLE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Father %watching you peel the fruit Last Line: Eating the white meat %with the serpent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APPLICATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest daughter, of two dearest friends Last Line: And bade me imitate the turtle's flame.' Subject(s): Daughters; Fate; Love; Destiny APRIL WALK WITH MY DAUGHTER, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: She asks, would you call this twilight or dusk? Last Line: Fresh and temperate, free of blemish Subject(s): April; Daughters; Dusk; Walking APSARA, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: To carry the dead Last Line: Each time you traverse the sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ARALUEN (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep Last Line: Other hands will come and tend them -- other friends in other hours. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies ARTIST IN INK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The octopus, artist in ink Last Line: His ocean floor abstracts %endlessly octaving Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged AS IF ENDING, by JAMES RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Because kate stood, face pushed to the screen Last Line: Took its long place on the water, %ending nothing, since nothing ends Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters AT A TOMB, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep-ah, ah, who dares to waken me Last Line: In the grey twilight falling. Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Graves; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT EAGLE POND, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In april the ice rots. Over the pocked glaze Subject(s): Daughters; Illness; Time AT PLAY WITH PURITY, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: A girl's lips rehearse with silent, silent puckers Last Line: Invented kisses. Visit. Visits unreturned Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients AT THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was / nearly six my Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %I help my dad Last Line: My dad %and I Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters AWAKENING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My mother is pinned to the clothesline Last Line: All these years they have lain silent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States AWFUL MOTHER, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whole weight of history bears down Last Line: Only the awful mother stirs stricken %with grief Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BABY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Baby, glide over rivers Last Line: To paint from memory, but couldn't Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BABY MAY, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheeks as soft as july peaches Last Line: That's may bennett; that's my baby Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Infants; Childhood BACK AND FORTH, by MAGGIE MORLEY Poem Source First Line: At creekside Last Line: And will know %what to say Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters BALLAD OF MU-LAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsk, tsk, and tsk, tsk Last Line: But when two hares run side by side, %who can tell if I'm a boy or girl? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fathers And Daughters; Soldiers BARBER WILLIE'S BONNIE DAUCHTER, by ROBERT FORD Poem Text First Line: There leeves a lass in oor toun-en' Last Line: Frae barber willie's bonnie dauchter! Subject(s): Daughters; Shaving BARE FEET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulnerable, bare feet of old men Last Line: Is bearable but filling it brings tears. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BATHING MY MOTHER, by AVERILL CURDY Poem Source First Line: I raise one light arm Last Line: So I opened my body %to see as much as I could Subject(s): Aging; Baths And Bathing; Mothers And Daughters; Sickness BEAUTY OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS, by JAY MACPHERSON Poem Source First Line: The old, the mad, the blind have fairest daughters Last Line: In all the land no women found so fair Subject(s): Bible; Daughters; Job (bible); Religion BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Last Line: Under the coronal of sugar roses %the queen bee marries the winter of your year Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers And Daughters; Insects BEFORE I SLEPT, I SAW THE NEBULA, by KATHERINE DOAK Poem Source Last Line: I am honored beyond song Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BELL, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: While the air is rejoicing in perfect stillness Last Line: Depths of the immense and muddy kiang Subject(s): Bells; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Legends BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BELOVED SISTER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Let me be %your daughter Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina BERGMAN'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: I made an effort to amuse, unrattled Last Line: Loving dampered nonsense on piano Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients BESS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When bess, the landlord's black-eyed Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Dreams; Nightmares BEWITCHED PLAYGROUND, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each could picture probably Subject(s): Daughters; Youth BEYOND HARM, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A week after my father died Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Death; Dead, The 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 BIRD, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother loomed all hips and breasts, Last Line: Coat of feathers grew over you, trying to save you Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters BIRD-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The famous bird-painter hobbles by Last Line: First take singing lessons %from the birds Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BITTERSWEET, SELS., by JOYCE CAROL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: She %somersaulted Last Line: Who gave me the gift of wings Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers & Daughters; Women BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Last Line: To define myself %through your denials Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters; Women BLIND MAN'S HOUSE, by PAUL KELLER Poem Source First Line: This was her father's couch in the house of her father Last Line: His daughter's footsteps pass down the hall, %loving her Subject(s): Blindness; Fathers And Daughters; Sex BLOWING KISSES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Nowadays her baby teeth rattle safely Last Line: By killing children in the shark-mouthed streets Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; India; Parting BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters BOSTON TEA, by DAVID WADSWORTH CANNON JR. Poem Source First Line: The ladies of the d.A.R Subject(s): Daughters Of The American Revolution BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 2. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER READING, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Happens just once, that fable, the taking of the mother's body Last Line: Later, made believe her shape was just another place Subject(s): Books; Mothers And Daughters BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the window, my girls are eating eggs and cereal Last Line: Except a hard one and want me to decide Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Dogs; Contests BREAKING AND ENTERING, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: She kept a stash of forbidden matches Last Line: That strikes on love, that can get past all human walls Subject(s): Adolescence; Love Affairs; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women BREEZE SWEPT THROUGH, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: The first born of dawn woman slid out amid Subject(s): Daughters BROKEN BED, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Who broke the bed? Some dream monster Last Line: Soon we'll need every bandage in europe, won't we Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BRUISES, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: My father's life is the sound of one hand Last Line: Hand, held out, makes the sound of one hand clapping. Listen Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Last Line: Behind bar blinds we were caged, %some motes of sunlight cathedrally beaming Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers And Daughters BUILDING A CITY FOR JAMIE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I am building jamie a city with plenty palaces Last Line: No city?' %no city. Of course not Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY MOTHER IS, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are barely able to walk Last Line: And it was good Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers And Daughters; Women CAESURA, by PATRICIA CUMMING Poem Source First Line: Here, my child with fever sleeps Last Line: Blame behind a black door, a blank wall Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CALLING THE CHILD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the third floor I beckon to the child Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CALLING THE CHILD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the third floor I beckon to the child Last Line: And wags her head at last and makes a start %and starts her humorous marching up the stairs Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CALYPSO, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Dese days, I doh even bada combing out mi locks Last Line: Well, dat the only romance I goin give de time a day Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CARTOONS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife rises every few hours to nurse our infant, so these Last Line: Robots with powerful beams of light Subject(s): Television; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Censorship; Cartoons & Cartoonists CATCH, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darted across the pond Last Line: Your life for the privilege %all your life Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CAVE PAINTING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: My week-old daughter's Last Line: Emptiness %and then my outline Subject(s): Babies; Daughters; Mothers; Mothers And Daughters CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happening now! It is happening Last Line: Can you sense, under the ground, the great melting Subject(s): Change; Daughters CHARLOTTE CORDAY; A MEMOIR OF A HAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child's small hand, lost in her father's - twined Last Line: When norman charlotte dared her noble crime. Subject(s): Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793); Fathers & Daughters; Hands CHARMIAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of the sun Last Line: Before thy dangerous beauty: I am free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Memory; Soul CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Last Line: Wringing of hands, this dark %ceiling without a star Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CHILD SUPPER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I am packing your things again Last Line: I have never been your child Subject(s): Daughters; Hospitals; Insanity; Mothers And Daughters CHINATOWN 4, by LAUREEN MAR Poem Source First Line: Each evening I watch my mother fight Last Line: They tilt upwards, cling to the air like leaves Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CHOICE MADE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At night I feel the ocean Last Line: Nothing but bad luck will follow %all the days of your life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: Don't even begin to try to understand this poem Last Line: Lord jesus, I am losing my mind Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fire CIRCLES, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the dusk, weeping Last Line: Around her mother's neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CIRCLING THE DAUGHTER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came / to be / in the month of malcolm Last Line: You break my eyes with your beauty: / ooo-uu-oo-baby-I love you Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CIRCLING THE DAUGHTER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came %to be %in the month of malcolm Last Line: You break my eyes with your beauty: %ooouu-oo-baby-I-love-you Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CLASP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds Last Line: Who loved her most, near the source of love %was this Subject(s): Love; Mothers And Daughters CLAYFELD'S DAUGHTER REVEALS HER PLANS, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: A feast of light!' clayfeld proclaimed Last Line: Receding in the unfamiliar dawn %of silken maryland Subject(s): Daughters CLEIS, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Daughters COME ONA MY HOUSE, by MEGAN SEXTON Poem Source First Line: My father looks at the house I live in, frowns Last Line: And I think we all got these wars and fire traps in our heads Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters 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 CONDOMS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She says the book she is reading is gross Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CONDOMS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She says the book she is reading is gross Last Line: She pulls her head under the blankets. %okay, she grimaces. That's gross Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CONVERSATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CONVERSATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CRISS CROSS APPLE SAUCE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As we drive from her mother's house to mine Subject(s): Daughters; Divorce; Halloween CROSS BROW, AMBLESIDE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My smallest daughter had wondered how Last Line: Can know of the brow that was crowned with thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Daughters; Home; Names CURTAIN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The curtain was tattered but ornate Last Line: In sweet grey gothic penryn, where the rain comes from Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged DADDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days have kept on coming Last Line: The days in the confident man Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mothers & Sons DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Last Line: They always knew it was you. %daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis DADDY WARBUCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Fathers & Daughters; Incest; Death DADDY'S HOME, SEE YOU TOMORROW, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always found my daughters' beaux Last Line: No boys from me but me from them Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DARING, by CAROL KONEK Poem Source First Line: Daddyboy %trickster hero Last Line: Bring you down %to me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DARKLING I LISTEN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: If I could write the truth Last Line: And moulting; the silence %of cannibal grass and trees Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAUGHTER, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Daughters; Nightmares DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl Last Line: And never let them know you remember Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Strength; Survival DAUGHTER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks about skeletons Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood DAUGHTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was awakened from a dream Last Line: My daughter is a lioness, taken as a cat Subject(s): Daughters DAUGHTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was awakened from a dream Last Line: My daughter is a lioness, taken as a cat Subject(s): Daughters DAUGHTER O' MINE, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: You came to me, dear, so welcome, so fair Last Line: Blest little daughter o' mine. Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Daughters; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight DAUGHTER WISH, by LORI SHPUNT Poem Source First Line: I wanted to eat less Last Line: I wanted to be able to get away Subject(s): Daughters; Wishes DAUGHTER WITH CAMERA, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: There used to be chickens scratching Last Line: Now. You'll always have it. The house.' Subject(s): Cameras; Daughters; Memory; Parents; Photography And Photographers DAUGHTER'S TANTRUMS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: What is the matter with mary jane? Last Line: What is the matter with mary jane? Subject(s): Anger; Daughters DAUGHTER, LEFT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In dreams my mother returns Last Line: Go down to the sea %and fish for your true face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay errors Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Subject(s): Life; Mothers & Daughters DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay agonies was the necessary terror Last Line: When you gather around me %newness comes into the world Subject(s): Life; Mothers And Daughters DAUGHTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman who shines at the head Last Line: Of georgia, daughter of / dazzling you Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Grandparents DAUGHTERS IN THE MORNING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When kiran and I left in the evening Last Line: The bright lake my darlings Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters DAUGHTERS OF BLUM, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gloves waiting for hands Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Daughters DAUGHTERS OF JEPHTHA, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dance! / dance the crumbling world's expanse Last Line: Dance! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Daughters DEBT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: All day she scrubs the house Last Line: This too is not enough Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DELICACY, by JANICE MOORE FULLER Poem Source First Line: It was our only father-daughter ritual Last Line: What the earth would not take back Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DEMETER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The first thing you know Last Line: Ignoring the dreams of wallpaper Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Escapes; Parents DESCENDENT, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Tell her now I heard her tell her now Last Line: Sleep I heard he covered me don't ask for more Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients DESERT, by DEL MARIE ROGERS Poem Source First Line: In winter my mother goes away Last Line: On the horizon she lifts her hand to warn me Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women DISAPPEARING ACT, by LAUREL BLOSSOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch: how he does it. Without a word Last Line: But a feeling so distant %no wonder you hang on for dear life Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DISAPPEARING WOMAN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Mission padres, only the sailors saw me rise Last Line: For the sake of decency, you said. %I had a language Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Native Americans; Women - Captives DISCOVERING MY DAUGHTER, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: Most of your life we have kept our separate places Last Line: Together, as we have, making a singular place Subject(s): Daughters DIVIDED TOUCH, DIVIDED COLOR, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: As soon as I walked out I felt the mistake in the weather Last Line: A jar of powder. My father is a black line eating snow Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DOING THE TWIST, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Felix has four daughters Last Line: Is a regular dervish Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Fathers And Daughters DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, she said at first / my daughter did not kill herself. I'm sure Last Line: And talk about the case. Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Life; Marriage; Suicide; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOUBLE AXE, by ANNE HAZLEWOOD-BRADY Poem Source First Line: With torches I have wandered the dark poppy world Last Line: The double axe will fall like boulders of thunder Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters DOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Imagine if you could have either cherry or stove Last Line: Of falling rain, a lover's hand grazing your neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DR. EGG: 6 I IMAGINE THE DEATH OF DR. EGG'S DAUGHTER, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Dr. Egg is walking her Last Line: They slip %right through his fingers Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers And Daughters; Psychology DREAM SONGS: 385, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Last Line: I wouldn't have to scold %my heavy daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One girl a full head taller Last Line: They cry, “it’s not my fault.” Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress EIGHT FROG DREAMS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: A more innocent creature than the tree-frog Last Line: By outdreaming them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Graveyards; Dead, The ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Last Line: It was my love that did us both to death Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Daughters ELEGY FOR A DAUGHTER, by MICHELLE PARKINSON Poem Source First Line: Child, you grew quickly Last Line: Now that you %are an abstract six? Subject(s): Daughters ELEGY FOR HER DAUGHTER, KO-SHIKIBU, WHO DIED IN 1025 (5), by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source First Line: Having left us, which of us does she care for? Last Line: I think more of my child, she, surely, of her children Variant Title(s): Looking At My Grandchildre Subject(s): Daughters ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Dead, The; Work; Workers ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Last Line: I, with no rights in this matter, %neither father nor lover Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Youth ELEMENTS OF NIGHT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold food, homework, and hair. Rooms with a radiator and no books Last Line: And light. Sprayed on a wall: leo dies alone. Also: 1981, where is %my beautiful daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Night ENOUGH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Every morning he brings coconut water Last Line: He coos, offering me the seeds %of his fettered fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ENTER INVISIBLE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: If possible, if nurses Last Line: By a winding scarf, rising to a crown Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients EVA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Eva, the first of the fair ones Last Line: Making men see and believe. Subject(s): Daughters; Paintings & Painters EVE (RACHEL), by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting to speak to you Last Line: In these bodies of soiled, broken, mending hands Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters EVE (RACHEL), by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting to speak to you Last Line: Where you will plant your own crafted shoes %in these bodies of soiled, broken, mending hands Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters EVENING, by BEATRICE HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: The inside of the shell Last Line: When our father comes home %the day will be over again Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Consider a hammer %striking a nail Last Line: Hanging at odd angles %like broken limbs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXCHANGE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first sound was his guitar Last Line: Than live in the vast, unbridled sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Subject(s): Bible; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Theology EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Last Line: Of their brilliance miracle %of Subject(s): Bible; Fathers And Daughters; Religion EXPLANATION OF THE EXHIBIT, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the challenger cracked and spread an immolating spider Last Line: I'm wondering if I should shake her gently now and wake %herup Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FACTS OF LIFE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter, dim those reverent eyes Last Line: What's that, my own? - I was afraid so Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FALLING BRICKS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter sings under a brick arch Last Line: Oh, my beautiful child, %do not trust me Subject(s): Bricks; Children; Daughters; Singing And Singers FATHER AND DAUGHTER, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: She was born in the midst of the black frock-coats Last Line: Which she tore with her teeth Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FATHER AND DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are holding my sister in your arms Last Line: A daughter to sing to you, %a small voice %emerging from the unlit room at dusk Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ever seen my father's grave Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ever seen my father's grave Last Line: Lest I go into dust %I have not ever seen my father's grave Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Graves FATHER'S DAY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter has lived overseas for a number Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FAWN BEFORE DOW SEASON, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day I went to work, Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When I woke, I could hear them bleating Last Line: To her voices still echoing %yu hear me? Hear me gal? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FEEL ME, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel me to do right,' our father said on his deathbed Last Line: Lie down with me, and hold me, tight. Touch me. Be %with me. Feel with me. Feel me to do right' Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FEVER, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Father was to her, and to me Last Line: A small plant set, by accident, close %to the window Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FINDING WHAT'S LOST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets FIRST MEMORY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, I was wounded. I lived Last Line: It meant I loved Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FIRST RITES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At the top of the mountain Last Line: Think it is the face of god Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIRST THANKSGIVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes back, from college, I will see Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Homecoming; Thanksgiving Day FIRST TIME, by JILL ROBIN SISSON Poem Source First Line: Aftewards he whispered do you like fishing and Last Line: Watching him measure and cut with strict thumbs a good %piece of the thin, invisible stuff Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Fishing And Fishermen FISH STORY, by SHARON OLDS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother watched her daughter kneeling Subject(s): Daughters FISH STORY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother watched her daughter kneeling Subject(s): Daughters FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Each day I will make you Last Line: Like salome's last veil come undone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States FLERIDA AND DON DUARDOS, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month of april Last Line: Against the might of death and love %in vain is all assay Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Flowers; Love; Spring FLOOD, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Water asleep %all across china Last Line: Downstream in their sleep Subject(s): Environment; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Last Line: My blueveined child Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer FOG TROPES, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sheet of water turned over Last Line: Unknowning all, whose pain has just begun Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fathers And Daughters; Sickness FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today there've been moments Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today there've been moments Last Line: Whatever's driving those flocks %and drove the b & m freights into air Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they shook the box, and poured out its chances Subject(s): Absence; Daughters FOR JESSICA, MY DAUGHTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I walked Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR JESSICA, MY DAUGHTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I walked Last Line: In the dark %when I am away Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MIRANDA, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter %walks in grace Last Line: To his visor'd mouth %there are white horses in manhattan Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die choose a star Subject(s): Daughters; Healing; Cures FOR MY DAUGHTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die choose a star Last Line: Me in darkness and silence %together Subject(s): Daughters; Healing FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: Don't be in a hurry, miranda Subject(s): Daughters; Women FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Last Line: These speculations sour in the sun. %I have no daughters. I desire none Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters 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 MY DAUGHTER IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We're not going to die Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're not going to die Last Line: We will not be forgotten and passed over %and buried under the births and deaths to come Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER WHEN SHE CAN READ, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The week waiting for you to be born I read Subject(s): Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER WHEN SHE CAN READ, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The week waiting for you to be born I read Last Line: I hope you have, in the other the rapture Subject(s): Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO LOVES ANIMALS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a week, whether the money is there Last Line: Even the slightest of their calls. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love; Mothers & Daughters FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares FOR MY FATHER LOOKING FOR MY UNCLE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clues are everywhere Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY FATHER LOOKING FOR MY UNCLE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clues are everywhere Last Line: Until we believed there was another indoors, %assiduous, free, a small community, a dream with shutt Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR SILVIA, MY DAUGHTER, CHICAGO READ MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: There is a plain cruelty of light Last Line: Her grief has turned hard as amber Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers And Daughters FOR YOU SWEETHEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I'll forget I have a name Last Line: Knowing you love %to watch flowers bloom Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FORGIVE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is easy to forgive a lot of trees Last Line: Call them a forest. Let rain fall on them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Last Line: Forgive myself %then as now Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday. We have come Last Line: And no accounting will open them up Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Forgiveness; Clemency FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday. We have come Last Line: You lie side by side in debtors' boxes %and no accounting will open them up Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Forgiveness FROM MY DAD IS A MAGICIAN 2, by LESLIE REESE Poem Source First Line: They say that all little girls adore their fathers/want to marry Last Line: That's why my birth certificate says that my dad was a 26 %year old alabama negro straightener for b Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FROM POEM TO HER DAUGHTER, by MWANA KUPONA MSHAM Poem Source First Line: Daughter, take this amulet Subject(s): Daughters; Women FROM SHORE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: For a week, we live Last Line: Just enough to have %earned this scene Subject(s): Evil; Mothers And Daughters; Seashore FROM THE FATHER OF MY COUNTRY, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If george washington Last Line: Father, %have you really come home Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FROM THE WINDOW, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: You know the poet who says Last Line: Vi desde...: from pablo neruda, 'caballos' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FROM THE WOMEN'S WRITING, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Mother I went down to the well this morning Last Line: I am glad you are free in your own dimension %and I no longer need to frighten you Subject(s): Fear; Growth; Mothers And Daughters; Sisters FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Last Line: My daddy chasing %after me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FRUIT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Spaghetti sliding %down our kitchen walls Last Line: To paint a smiling face upon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FURNACE, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: I see the small girl following her father down the basement steps every Last Line: I see the moment of flame when %he told her to turn her faceaway, and she didn't Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Furnaces FUTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going to leave a child in an empty room Last Line: Prepare to live without me %as I am prepared Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GARDEN COURT, by HANNAH ACKERMAN Poem Source First Line: Through the curtain hava sees Last Line: Squints against the clearness of the day %looks at pictures in a magazine Subject(s): Food And Eating; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers And Daughters GENERATIONS OF SWAN, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sex, the invisible treasure Last Line: That ancestrally curved neck, %and the legendary blue eyes? Subject(s): Birds; Daughters; Swans GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GIRL AT THE MIRROR, by LINDA RAMEY Poem Source First Line: Leaning over my scraped, blue-black knees Last Line: At the mirror pulling long points %from her empty sweater Subject(s): Breasts; Daughters; Mothers; Women GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade. Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth GODMOTHER'S WILL, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: At the family reunion, the academic Last Line: As he did, and he was sad Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients GOLD LILY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I perceive Last Line: Close enough to hear %your child's terror? Or %are you not my father, %you who raised me? Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was almost forty Last Line: Must now be postponed for fifteen years! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fathers & Daughters GOOD SPIRITUAL FATHER, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: Confess, my daughter. I'm ashamed to start Last Line: But when I get in bed, I think I might Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: HOME TO FARGO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals live by mutual interchange Last Line: Drive to the next time zone. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Fargo, North Dakota; Mothers & Daughters; Graveyards GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She always wanted to be dorothy gayle Last Line: Sailboats like dropped handkerchiefs below me. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Journeys; Trips GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small square with elms Last Line: "but she does. She has to." Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: THE ROAD TO BUFFALO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take all her belongings Last Line: And drove with her knuckles. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters GRANDMOTHER GRANT, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the rejected lies of the new york foundling Last Line: Here is my claim. I need to come into my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Mothers & Daughters; Nuns GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you Last Line: Reciting your unwritten novels to the children Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters; Women GRAVITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Carrying my daughter to bed Last Line: Once carried the weight of my life Subject(s): Growth; Life; Mothers And Daughters GUILTY FATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER, by JAMES SCHEVILL Poem Source First Line: Why are you always glad to see me? Last Line: Demon down the fatherly drain Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HAD I THE WYTE, HAD I THE WYTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Last Line: Then it was me flying, feet still %on the road. We're here, on top of the hill Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HAPPY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The house was perfectly silent Last Line: And called it anything else: %daughter, cool wind, open window, silence Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers And Daughters; Silence; Wind HARBINGER, SELS., by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: In the march winds my mother comes to me Last Line: Into my fingers, piercing my heart Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women HARD DADDY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to ma daddy Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks HARD DADDY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to ma daddy Last Line: Fly like the eagle flies %I'd fly on ma man an' %I'd scratch out both his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Daughters HAUNTING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all she remembered at the end Last Line: At my [or, your] daughter with her eyes? Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Daughters; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine HEART'S NEEDLE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my winter, born Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers And Daughters; Parents HEARTBEAT, SELS., by SANDY SHREVE Poem Source First Line: I am my father's daughter, no doubt about it Last Line: All I can do with this bisected vision %is imagine a heartbeat Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HEAVY DAUGHTER BLUES, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I love her for the same reasons Last Line: She is heavy in her grief Subject(s): Grief; Mothers And Daughters HELEN BIDS FAREWELL TO HER DAUGHTER HERMIONE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is time before I go Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; Coming Of Age; Parting HER BECKETT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to visit my mother is like starting in on a piece by beckett Last Line: And hides again Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters HER FATHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met her, as we had privily planned Last Line: Of time, and wrack, and foes.' Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HER SCARLET LETTERS, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Since the day on the scaffold I have refused Last Line: Disclosing nothing to the men in black Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Guilt HERE ARE OUR ALBUMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Take one of these photographs with you Subject(s): Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Photography And Photographers; Pictures HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen years, her breath in the house Subject(s): High School Students; Mothers & Daughters HILL DAUGHTER, by LOUISE MCNEILL Poem Source First Line: Land of my fathers and blood, oh my fathers, whatever Last Line: I have brought you a son Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HIPPOLYTE AT BREAKFAST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has forgotten Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives HIS GHOST, AGAIN, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of my father coming around Last Line: On the piano cover, an apple, %fingers finding the sweetest low notes Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Ghosts; Supernatural HIS STORY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born under a crooked star Last Line: And one female / gone Variant Title(s): His History Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HIS STORY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born under a crooked star Last Line: And one female, %gone Variant Title(s): His Histor Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOLDING BACK THE SUN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I step on the gas, my stomach riding Last Line: The known world, reading, reading, reading Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters HOME AFTER THREE MONTHS AWAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone now the baby's nurse Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Home After Three Months Away Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HOME AFTER THREE MONTHS AWAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone now the baby's nurse Last Line: I keep no rank nor station. %cured, I am frizzled, stale and small Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Home After Three Months Awa Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOMING PIDGIN, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Smoked-glass highrises Last Line: I t'ink dees mus' be heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOUSE WITH YELLOW SMOKE SONNET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two daughters who seemed to be listening Last Line: Of her spine. Subject(s): Boredom; Daughters; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep; Ennui HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 1. BRONWEN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should ever grow rich by chance Last Line: I shall give them all to my elder daughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 3. MYFANWY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I give my daughter the younger Last Line: That time without contentment brings Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOW MANY TIMES, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: No matter how many times I try I can't stop my father Last Line: It's our father, and still the door opens, and she %makes that small oh turning over Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fathers And Daughters HOW THE DAUGHTERS CAME DOWN AT DUNOON, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: How do the daughters Last Line: Come down at dunoon! Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Daughters; Love HOW THE PAST INHABITS, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: When she was twelve, my mother Last Line: Frets daily over what she should eat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Past HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.' Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass Last Line: Here on my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs I DOTE THE MORE, THE MORE I CONTEMPLATE, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath graven in thy tender father's breast Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Beauty I HEAR YOU, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The promises of mother Last Line: And I'm punished %anyhow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I LEAVE HER WEEPING, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave her weeping in her barred little bed, Subject(s): Daughters; Crying; Family Life; Relatives I OFTEN PAINT WHITE HORSES BLACK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I often paint white horses black Last Line: And don't forget to put some horses round the edges Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged I PROMISE YOU THIS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Water finds its own level Last Line: The hint of water %already filling their cribs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States I SING THIS SONG FOR OUR MOTHERS: RUISE, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A ship %a chain Last Line: Never lowered gra'ma's head Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I WANT TO BE YOUR DAUGHTER NOW, SELS., by KATIE MCBAIN Poem Source First Line: I wonder why I can't remember Last Line: Even if the hours of it are blurred Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I WAS BORN WITH TWELVE FINGERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My dead mother my live daughter and me %through our terrible shadowy hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters I WOULD BE A FOOL TO WANT MORE CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source Last Line: Approach me without fear Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women IF I COULD KEEP HER SO, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a little baby, lying in my arms Last Line: Safe among the angels, I would keep her so. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood IF MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Good girl %clean up your room Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters IMMACULATE VIEW, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love: the power of lust turned generous, the power of sleep Last Line: Prescient body: Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Lust 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 ALL COLOURS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: All day the beautiful painter he loves Last Line: See Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged IN HONOR OF DAVID ANDERSON BROOKS, MY FATHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dryness is upon the house Last Line: Old private charity Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters IN HONOR OF DAVID ANDERSON BROOKS, MY FATHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dryness is upon the house Last Line: Translates to public love %old private charity Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters IN MY OTHER LIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was born with a stone in my hand Last Line: I was a goat on a hillside %sure of the path Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN REPLY TO MY DAUGHTERS, YINYUAN AND YINQING, ON AN AUTUMN EVENING, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: In the frosty old crows and magpies huddle together on the southern branches Last Line: The sinking moon by the beam keeps my distant thoughts company Subject(s): Daughters IN THE CATHEDRAL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before me the sexton's daughter fair Last Line: From her bosom her kerchief had slipped. Subject(s): Churches; Daughters; Cathedrals IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth IN THE GARDEN OF BANANA AND COCONUT TREES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Before the woman's hips Last Line: Clapping hands, bells jingling %on her ankles Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my father lifted up his nightie, I Variant Title(s): The Lifting Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Dead, The IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my father lifted up his nightie, I Last Line: The veils would fall from our eyes, we would know everything Variant Title(s): The Liftin Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters IN THE VOICE OF JANE TO HER MOTHER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caught myself / putting away four dresses Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress INCANTO: 1, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: I sit waiting for one of the two kinds of miracle Last Line: Sunday - 8 october - 72 %michele now nothing but an emptying dress in the grave Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters INCANTO: 4, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: Enough is never enough - that voice comes back - suave shell Last Line: For a moment - %no more death Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters INK AND GREEN WASH: IN THE ONCOLOGIST'S WAITING ROOM, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Leather banquettes in Last Line: For me, wait for me Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients INSIDE THE MOUNTAIN, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father's hand smoothing my hair Last Line: So the horses could wear down their hooves %on ground, sharpen their teeth %on grass and thistles Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters INTERIOR WITH METAL INSTRUMENTS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Music - after the walls were washed with irritants Last Line: Wounds. We always soil each other Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS: AGAMEMNON TRIES TO AVERT SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENEIA, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O! Gods! How very wretched am I grown! Last Line: Here take it for it is your victory Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sacrifices IRONING, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: The pattern flows. Leaves and flowers blend, a river spinning over the Last Line: -gle pink and blue. Green. I am ironing her blouse. Only this motion is %left Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Blood; Hospitals; Mothers And Daughters JACK MANDOORA ME NO CHOOSE NONE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It begins when the mother Last Line: Chopping steadily %into the silent woods Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, 1978, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It was always about the coconut tree Last Line: Yu haffa aks yuself: is who this tree go a shade from sun? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, OCTOBER 18, 1972, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You tell me about the rickety truck Last Line: The water between us becoming a river Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JANUARY 20TH, 1993, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: What does it mean, I wonder, to wake up coming Last Line: In a world ravaged by war and tourism Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged JEALOUSY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Flatbush! Flatbush! Rah! Rah! Rah! Last Line: See the bobbed-head riding on the bob-tailed car. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jealousy JENNIE LUBELL IS IN A NURSING HOME IN PROVINCETOWN, SELS., by ADELINE NAIMAN Poem Source First Line: My mother has died, but I visit her weekly Last Line: For my own dark journey Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Nursing Homes; Women JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Already two months alone %twice no blood Last Line: My father will kill him and steal his land %I am a widow in a blood-stained shawl Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by BARBARA KEENER SHENK Poem Source First Line: My father promised, so there is no chance Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before her father's gorgeous tent Last Line: And she was dead -- but not by violence. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JESSIE MITCHELL€™S MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth JEZEBEL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song thy made for jezebel Last Line: By the wall of jezreel. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOURNEY: FOR JANET AT THIRTEEN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papers in order; your face Last Line: And wave you off as the bridge goes under Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women 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 KINGDOM OF TINY SHOES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: We are all dead, lucy, cush, kilroy and me Last Line: Shrugging at such foolishness Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful little children Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful little children Last Line: Wild babies %in the ferns and plums and weeds Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LA DULCE CULPA, SELS., by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: What kind of lover have you made me, mother Last Line: With what is left %unrequited Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women LALEH OF CARAVY STREET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way I dress, men think Last Line: Out, black dress, luggage for shoes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Youth LAMENT FOR MY DAUGHTER: 1, by WU WEI-YEH Poem Source First Line: You were born amid death and destruction Last Line: State's rise and fall affects all the world, %but when I think back, my distress is doubled Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Daughters LANA TURNER'S WERE THE BEST, by MARJORIE SIMON Poem Source First Line: Mother's were all wrong Last Line: You made us %want to break genetic codes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Turner, Lana (1920-1995) 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 DEATHS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few nights ago I was half-watching the news on television and half Last Line: But our little love days were just seeds it blew out on parachutes into the summer wind Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LAST POEM ABOUT THE DEAD, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Sounds like this: a long sweet silence Last Line: How to tell you what it's like Subject(s): Daughters; Death LEARNING TO SPEAK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was the quietest thing I'd ever seen Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Speech; Babies; Oratory; Orators; Infants LEAVING THE BEACH ON A SUNDAY IN A STREETCAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Daughters; Relationships LEGEND OF LIBUSE, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: When dad blacked out Last Line: More certain of her place Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women LESAGE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I had my boat but where was the river Last Line: Was nothing beyond his powers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LETTER TO MY MOTHER, by ANITA SKEEN Poem Source First Line: I remember when a sunday friend and I Last Line: Into the long night Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters LIES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Probably no one noticed the mornings I disappeared to sit Last Line: The little mothers and sisters. Subject(s): Lies; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Sisters LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out %to watch the christmas eve crowds Last Line: Abstractions of the rascals %hwo live by killing you and me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love; Stars LIKE A HENRY MOORE STATUE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And suspend it in my opening Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); Body, Human; Self; Mothers & Daughters LINE IS SLACK, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I know tonight what I've always known Last Line: The line is slack, and the dark waters ripple over Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Grief LINES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone Last Line: "it feel like burning, said the child trying to be Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters LISTEN, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: One in high school, a friend Last Line: Smiling a little %his own prayer after the songs Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LISTENING TO A WHITE MAN PLAY THE BLUES, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: Pushing the seed into the ground Last Line: You don't know what dirt is %until you bury your first daughter Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LITTLE AGLAE; TO HER FATHER ON HER STATUE BEING CALLED LIKE HER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! The little girl we see Last Line: She kiss'd you first and ran away. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LITTLE APRIL, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs Last Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients LITTLE GIRL, MY STRING BEAN, MY LOVELY WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter, at eleven (almost twelve), is like a garden Subject(s): Daughters LITTLE GIRL, MY STRING BEAN, MY LOVELY WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter, at eleven (almost twelve), is like a garden Last Line: You will strike fire, %that new thing Subject(s): Daughters; God; Religion LITTLE MINNIE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a painful story Last Line: Of that little girl so fine. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Daughters LITTLE NORA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off upon a western shore Last Line: Sweet words to make them glad? Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood; Dead, The LITTLE SLEEP'S-HEAD SPROUTING HAIR IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cry, waking from a nightmare Subject(s): Daughters; Mortality LITTLE SLEEP'S-HEAD SPROUTING HAIR IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cry, waking from a nightmare Last Line: The wages of dying is love Subject(s): Daughters; Mortality LITTLE TOOTH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your baby grows a tooth, then two Last Line: You did, you loved, your feet %are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LIVELIHOOD: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Audrey, these men and women I have known Last Line: In old incredible days before your birth. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LIVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bessie’s face lingers before me Last Line: And as if speaking for me Subject(s): Women; Music & Musicians; Fathers & Daughters; Perseverance LONG WALKS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: And tremendous orgasms Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it is! Come here, my daughter! Last Line: Thank god! Thank god! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Nature Of LOSING FOOTING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Did your father's breathing become the rasping Last Line: As you lifted your palms to the light? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LOUISE ON THE DOOR-STEP, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half-past three in the morning Last Line: With my little babe beside me, %and the daisies on my breast Subject(s): Daughters LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago I fell in love Last Line: And she'll be three weeks old on sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants LOVER OF CHILDREN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my little girl plays beethoven sonatas Last Line: I hear a great, rumbling beautiful roar of laughter. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Girls; Love; Childhood LULLABY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your hands resting %against my scalp Last Line: Wind blowing in %colder than your kiss Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LULLABY FOR 17, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so young Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth LULLABY FOR A DAUGHTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to sleep. Night is a coal pit Last Line: Her sweet subject, dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Sleep MAKEUP ON EMPTY SPACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am putting makeup on empty space Last Line: Singing & moaning in empty space Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MAKING THE JAM WITHOUT YOU, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old daughter, small traveler Last Line: As your two mouths open %for the sweet stain of purple Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Daughters MAMA AND DAUGHTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama, please brush off my coat Last Line: So I can brush your back, I say Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Daughters MANGOS Y LIMONES (1), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story is about swellings and slick slidings Last Line: Her mouth full of her own stories Subject(s): Hispanic Americans' Mothers Daughters; Women MAPS, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Don't doubt it, they remember Last Line: There was still a thin strip of sky %in the one eye closing Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Sea; Ocean MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Last Line: And woodthrush calling through the fog %my daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sea MAY QUEEN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're pretty said the sign Last Line: Take this turn to be loved Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters MAY-81, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was leaving my ninth year Last Line: With hair of coiling flames %each turned away his face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEETING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In school, I kept my papers neat Last Line: And I did %god help me, I did Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEMORY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me to tell how it feels Last Line: She smiles, ask me %how it feels Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories; Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Prejudice MERCY, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: When you came down the river to me in your rush basket Last Line: Yet, little white girl, my moses Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MESSENGER: 1. THE FATHER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange house %in the strange town Last Line: Her hair back from her eyes. His eyes %settle. On us Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 1. NIGHT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel of death flies Last Line: Even the spot on the lung %was always there Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 2. METAMORPHOSIS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father has forgotten me Last Line: Turned away from the contract Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 3 FOR MY FATHER, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to live without you Last Line: Against your cheek, my hand is warm %and full of tenderness Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MIDDLE MANAGER, by ANTHONY OAKSON Poem Source First Line: When he trudges in the front door Last Line: Before he takes off his winter coat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters MILENA WILETT; I YR. OLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thy mother strives in patient trust Last Line: Her baby's sleeping now Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents MIRRU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MIRRU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Last Line: While the snow swirled so prettily on the lawn %like a white queen in a beautiful dress Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MISSING MY DAUGHTER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wall-paper has lines that rise Last Line: Or on a white page, a white poem. %the roses raced around her name Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Travel MOLLY, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: If I could scratch figures Last Line: A people who do not remember: %rain which falls upon a rock Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MONARCH BIRTHMARK, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Eyelash kisses: 'moth goodnight.' her lashes tickle Last Line: A secret song Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients MONTH OF JUNE: 13 1/2, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As my daughter approaches graduation and Subject(s): Daughters MOSS OF HIS SKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only important Last Line: How I hold my daddy %like an old stone tree Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion MOTHER, by CATHARINE CARSTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Mother sits in the old armchair Last Line: Children and mother, a loyal pair. Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: If I thought I needed her - but some things happen Last Line: Soundless, moonlight, sewn Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients MOTHER, by SHARON MAYER LIBERA Poem Source First Line: Mother, I may do violence to you Last Line: You read and doze, too real for me, too deep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: What were the angels' demands? Last Line: One by one, pulled from sleeping hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER, by MARY MICHAEL WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Thousands of miles of phone lines slung between us I call before I Last Line: Rough my knees pull up into my chest and I'm sure that I can feel %my insides turning to sand Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The true friend is the same Last Line: Is ever prayer of mine! Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Mothers MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Shadows. A little wind in the elms Last Line: To other doors -- and other, and other, and other. Subject(s): Daughters; Funerals; Mothers; Silence; Soul; Burials MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by JOSEPH SEMENOVICH Poem Source First Line: And the mother Last Line: Toward the edge of the platform %as the train pulled in Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PHOTOS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and my sister Last Line: Up where something that %had got away had been Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Sisters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 1, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young laughters, and my music! Aye till now Last Line: Comes not again the young spring joy that went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 10, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not love, not love, that worn and footsore thrall Last Line: "or else when was the moment that love went?" Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 11. LOVE'S MOURN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis men who say that through all hurt and pain Last Line: And faith to love--faith to our dead at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters; Women MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 12, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has made me wayside posies: here they stand Last Line: A presence of my darling mingling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Posies MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 13, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling scarce thinks music sweet save mine Last Line: Thou echo to the self she knows not yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Voices MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 14, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To love her as to-day is so great bliss Last Line: Yet, ah! My child with the child's trustful eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 15, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That some day death who has us all for jest Last Line: But death and her! That's strangeness passing grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 16, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will not have it that my day wanes low Last Line: And I forget to age, through her sweet will. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 17, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And how could I grow old while she's so young? Last Line: Not burdening age, with her, could make me chilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Aging; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 18, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard that the full summer of our round Last Line: And we know then that some time since youth went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 19, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks Last Line: Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 2, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That she is beautiful is not delight Last Line: And oh the beauty of it, being thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 20, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one I miss. A little questioning maid Last Line: The eager baby voice outside my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 21, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardly in any common tender wise Last Line: So gives back such a meaning in her own. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Language; Mothers & Daughters; Words; Vocabulary MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 22, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brook leaps riotous with its life just found Last Line: These in their joyfulness feel the tarn's strong hush. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 23, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sing 'I love you, love' the whole day through Last Line: Possesses the dear trust that each gives each. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Trust MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 24, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You scarcely are a mother, at that rate Last Line: Yet I, I do not envy them indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 26, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of my one pearl so much more joy I gain Last Line: Has but one channel, therefore infinite deeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the sweet grave face in timorous thought Last Line: She hears a woe, 'tis simple tears she weeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 4, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a child. The quiet juno gaze Last Line: "two hyacinths in my garden almost out!" Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 5, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the broad blue lightnings flamed the sky Last Line: "mother,"" my darling breathed, and slept content." Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 6, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, as young things will, she vexes me Last Line: And, oh my penitent, how dear thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 7, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her father lessons me I at times am hard Last Line: I watch one treasured pearl for me and him. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Discipline; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 8, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child she, half defiant came Last Line: Is their love, love, or some remembered ghost? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 9, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back! Last Line: For yet some sparks to warm the livelong gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER LOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I know what she knew Last Line: Moon still in its place. The water on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER WAITS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And mother waits %as only mother can Last Line: And speaks and listens %and tries to understand Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women MOTHER'S DRESSER DRAWER, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: There was something hidden in it Last Line: Pouring brine, shining under the whole sky Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Relationships MOTHER, I AM MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Someone of it is answering to %your name Subject(s): Light; Mothers And Daughters MOTHER, SELS., by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write Last Line: This is a poem that cannot end Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Variant Title(s): Mourning Picture Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers & Daughters; Paintings & Painters MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Last Line: And leave this out? I am effie, you were my dream Variant Title(s): Mourning Pictur Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers And Daughters; Paintings And Painters MOUTH-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Me? He says. 'I paint Last Line: You choose,' he mouths, licking his lips Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged MOVING ON IN THE DARK LIKE LOADED BOATS AT NIGHT, THOUGH THE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: Master, then this -- I crossed my father's gate Last Line: How long how on how oft how long Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MUSEUM MAN!, by LORINE NIEDECKER Poem Source Last Line: It would come back Variant Title(s): The Museum Man!.. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY DAUGHTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy mother's eyes, my child Last Line: The delicate darling of a dream. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MY DAUGHTER, by HABIB JALIB Poem Source First Line: Thinking that it was a toy Last Line: A living hint of a free tomorrow %gave meaning to my night of sorrow Subject(s): Daughters; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Strength MY DAUGHTER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My daughter is a fantail carp Last Line: In darkness she turns Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters MY DAUGHTER, by CAMELIN WHITE Poem Text First Line: I tried too hard to give her wings Last Line: When all she wanted was just things. Subject(s): Daughters; Materialism MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Pies MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes Last Line: She says she loves him. No way %could it be worse Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Food And Eating; Pies MY DAUGHTER IS ILL IN SPRING AND SUMMER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Things have a lack of season Last Line: In the drowse of night Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sickness MY DAUGHTER IS SLEEPING, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source Last Line: In the lecherous deletions of sleep Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sleep MY DAUGHTER LOUISE, by HOMER GREENE Poem Text First Line: In the light of the moon, by the side of the water Last Line: "whose builder and maker is god." Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Homer Subject(s): Daughters; God MY DAUGHTER VERY ILL, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: My little darling looked so pale today Last Line: That alone stirs to courage and to walk %and to work Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY DAUGHTER VISITS ME AT HIGH CAMP, PLACER COUNTY, ON MY 52 BIRTHDAY, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Her blind friend lets the air out of her tires because she will not sleep Last Line: Forever if she didn't - even on introduction, not knowing she cared - tiptoe %around it to help it p Subject(s): Birthdays; Daughters MY DAUGHTER'S MATTRESS, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My daughter disappeared three years ago. She has been in Last Line: Shake out the scrap rugs on the floor. I keep putting things away Subject(s): Insanity; Mothers And Daughters MY DAUGHTER, LIKE EVE, REALIZES NAKEDNESS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: At graduation, every eighth-grade girl Last Line: Hidden in a row of perfect white bones Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Daughters; Mothers MY FATHER AND GOD, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain comes down on the desert and the next day Last Line: Making a huge %animal sound. It was just like a bear roaring, she said Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Greece MY FATHER IS A RETIRED MAGICIAN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: & you gonna love it/bein colored/all yr life/colored & love it %love it/bein colored Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY FATHER TAMED WILD HORSES, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: My father who is eighty shot white bears Last Line: He gave me bows, and arrow barbs, %my ride, his rein, my name Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Mormons MY FATHER'S DESK, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: The wrinkles in the taxi driver's face Last Line: He was afraid for me-afraid I would break. %something the world could never feel for me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY FATHER'S DIARY (1), by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get into bed with it, and spring Subject(s): Diaries; Fathers & Daughters MY FATHER'S DIARY (2), by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit on the bed, and spring the brass Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Diaries MY FATHER'S YAHRZEIT, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: The flame yearns upward through thick glass Last Line: Let me repeat this prayer every year Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MY LITTLE GIRL, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl is nested Last Line: Who has my love and prayers! Variant Title(s): My Drowsy Little Queen Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Mothers; Childhood MY MOTHER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The twilight falls on mother's life Last Line: I'd be distraught,—for mother. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The MY MOTHER AND I HAD A DISCUSSION ONE DAY, by DENISE SWEET Poem Source First Line: And she said I was quite fortunate Last Line: Of many women and I wept %with my mother Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER LEFT ME, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 24 pairs of unmatched white gloves Last Line: She left me. Subject(s): Death; Gloves; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Mittens; Muffs MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER'S CREATION, by LISA MCMONAGLE Poem Source First Line: With my mother's approval I chose the floral Last Line: Nudging me toward her ideal daughter Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sewing MY MOTHER'S DEATH, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It's still inside me Last Line: But who will help me Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips MY MOTHER, WHO CAME FROM CHINA, WHERE SHE NEVER SAW SNOW, by LAUREEN MAR Poem Source First Line: In the huge, retangular room, the ceiling Last Line: Dull thunder passes through their fingers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY SON-IN-LAW, by RUTH STEWART SCHENLEY Poem Text First Line: Somewhere, a little boy plays now Last Line: My prayer for her, I send some little boy a dream. Subject(s): Daughters MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MYCENAEAN REVENGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-kings of crete, phoenicia, and sicily Last Line: And vow to refrain from raping-quests. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Rape MYRRHA TO THE SOURCE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fluent one, o muscle full of hydrogen, Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Last Line: Be more than the man %who watches Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Parents; Women NAMING THE UNBORN, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marry late and the next question Last Line: And await what will come, %this vigil we keep for the nameless Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters NANI WORRIES ABOUT HER FATHER'S HAPPINESS IN THE AFTERLIFE, by ANA CASTILLO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He knew nothing about death Last Line: This is hell. %this is not the whole story Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: We catch only glimpses of you Last Line: Leftward, into what was and will be %your green world Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Daughters; Family Life NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was very little Last Line: April skies! Subject(s): Daughters NIGHT FEEDING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Last Line: Found in the leaves, in clouds and dark, in dream, %deep as this hour, ready again to sleep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sleep; Women NOMEN (TO FEMI SODIPO AND MY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ANCESTORS), by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sunlight came pre-packaged Last Line: And having no need to let myself be robbed %a second time Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fathers And Daughters NOT BAD, DAD, NOT BAD', by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you are most yourself when you are swimming Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Swimming And Swimmers NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood NUGGET AND DUST, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father clipped coupons at the kitchen table Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters NURSING MOTHER, SELS., by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranquilized, she speaks or does not speak Last Line: Against this fitful night Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women O MY MOTHER (1), by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We who dwell on an orphan star Last Line: I still hear something new %in your increasing love Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women O MY MOTHER (2), by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And borders everywhere of sea -- %you know Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OF YOUR FATHER'S INDISCRETIONS AND THE TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer he stole the jade buttons Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters OF YOUR FATHER'S INDISCRETIONS AND THE TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer he stole the jade buttons Last Line: In the dress %red as a house burning down Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters OLD CITY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Old city sailing by Last Line: Here in tempting old city Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OLD MOTHER TURNS BLUE AND FROM US, by LORINE NIEDECKER Poem Source Last Line: Wash clothes! Weed!' Variant Title(s): Hj; Old Mothe Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women ON A DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY, by MRS. H. T. GUDGEN Poem Text First Line: Twas thirty years ago today, my dear Last Line: Breeds courage to meet and stem life's tide. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters ON A NUN, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of two fair virgins, modest, though admired Last Line: And knock, and knock, and knock -- but none replies. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Variant Title(s): Sonnet On A Nun Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Nuns; Death - Babies ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies to each her parents' ruth Last Line: Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On My First Daughter Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Parents; Death - Babies; Parenthood ON THE BEACH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot help you' was the message Last Line: Away as a wing sewn by hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love - Nature Of; Seashore; Summer ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die—"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF MY FATHER'S DEATH, by CAROLYN LAU Poem Source First Line: Wandering into mother's bedroom Last Line: I want you to know, daddy, %I'm glad you're dead Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters ONE DAY MY DAUGHTER WILL LEARN ABOUT ANNE FRANK, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: She'll imagine snow falling Last Line: The world will have turned %so terribly bright Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters 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 OTHER GIRLS IN LETTUCE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: These are the reminiscent lettuces Last Line: Words are nipples still allowed Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients OUR LESSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, papa; -- that was all she said Last Line: Is but a training for their utterance! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters OUR LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our merry little daughter Last Line: To give my mother sorrow! Subject(s): Daughters;girls;grief;mothers & Daughters;parents; Sorrow;sadness;parenthood OUR STUNNING HARVEST, SELS., by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: She recognizes miner's lettuce Last Line: From nuclear holocaust? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OUTGROWN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is both sad and a relief to fold so carefully Last Line: She stops being a child Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Subject(s): Horses; Mothers & Daughters PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Last Line: And I saw her, at that moment, %in her own death and I knew that she knew Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Mothers And Daughters; Religion PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Like rainhorses running wild through the first three Last Line: Clanging and hissing, the rogues Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTER'S DAUGHTER, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: It's a kind of blindness Last Line: Just like any father and daughter %out watching the sun go down Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PAINTER'S WIFE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here's a glimpse of a famous cloud mountain Last Line: He is painting my portrait yet again, you see Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTING WHAT WE SEE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There is fear, I hug you tight Last Line: There are things we will not see, n'est-ce pas Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAPER ANNIVERSARY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Symphonies; Concerts PAPER ANNIVERSARY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Last Line: And see that startled face Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Symphonies PARENTS' DAY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I breathed shallow as I looked for her Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters PASSION, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The raflesia Subject(s): Passion; Flowers; Daughters PASTORAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight Last Line: The vigil of astonishment. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The PATIENCE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is she ran shouting from the house? What if she Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters PEACK COCKS POEMS, SELS., by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I never thought to see us Last Line: Sista -- sista -- been and is Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters; Women PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a Last Line: I was your murdered child. Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PERFECT HEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am alone in the garden, separated Last Line: I would have cut away the crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSEPHONE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stepped upon sicilian grass Last Line: "the daffodil, the daffodil!" Subject(s): Daffodils; Daughters; Demeter; Light; Mythology; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECOED STRAIGHT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are all the rage these days Last Line: Who wouldn't exchange %one hell for another? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSISTENCE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters PHASES OF GIRLHOOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fondest love and sweetest pleasure Last Line: He still preserves my virtuous girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Girls; Growth; Mothers & Daughters; Virtue; Infants PICASSO IS RIGHT, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On my bedroom wall Last Line: The colour that makes everyone weep...' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Women - Middle Aged PICTURES OF MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small thatched cottage, moss-grown, old Last Line: Crushed out beneath my careless feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters PLACE TO BEGIN, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: The place to begin is not your death Last Line: That you could almost feel %the child's head resting there; %solid, absolute Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women PLANNING THE FUTURE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed my daughter would be 16 Last Line: The job of waking into each morning, trusting. Subject(s): Future; Love; Mothers & Daughters PLEASANT HILL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is the house you don't want to remember Last Line: Of the child waiting to be hushed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POCKETS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The point of clothes was line Last Line: To find both hands and pockets empty. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Sewing 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 FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by HARRIET CHADWICK TURNER Poem Text First Line: She has a certain new england primness Last Line: Witches were hanged on salem hill. Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Southern States; South (u.s.) POEM FOR GRANDMOTHERS, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Your figures stamp across the paths of memory Last Line: The root and passion of us all Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You closed the door Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You closed the door Last Line: Old man whose sperm swims in my veins, %come back in love, come back in pain Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad it must be %to love so many women Last Line: Wife, I cross myself %with her confessionals Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Last Line: We are the ones we have been waiting for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR TWO DAUGHTERS, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody wants to know Last Line: The world would have run out of %bones Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM OF TWO, SELS., by MICHELE MURRY Poem Source First Line: My mother talked of breakfast or laundry Last Line: I shook my head. The heavy belly dragged me down Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall / I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall %I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers And Daughters POEM WHERE MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE ABSENT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My sisters and I %on the winding path Last Line: The empty porch swing %creaking in the wind Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POET FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Last Line: When you were who knows what and I was dead %which is I stood and loved you while you slept Variant Title(s): A Poem For Emil Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POLYHYMNIA: DEDICATION TO THE COUNTESS OF LINDSEY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This laureat nymph, one of the daughters nine Last Line: While fame has breath her ivory trump to sound. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Family Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives POMEGRANATES, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not finally just a woman's story Last Line: We'd take our childhoods back. We'd feed them fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Pomegranates POPPIES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a room Last Line: But expecting %snow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PORTRAIT HOUSE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Rivers climb back to the ceiling where they belong Last Line: That this house has always felt sad Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PORTRAIT OF THE FATHER, by LINDY HOUGH Poem Source First Line: Once I stood in a green bough Last Line: My invasive mind on quietest hilly nights in%moon-black verdure of summer Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PORTRAIT WITH NO SHORTAGE OF HISTORY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: For a while, it seemed like you could pull the birds back to your arms, the Last Line: I am the road block that makes wounds open. Not a daughter at all, just a %voice, a drug, the breath Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters; Women POSSESSIVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter - as if I Last Line: The watch fires of an enemy, a while before %the war starts Subject(s): Daughters POSTMAN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I open the door, it is the postman Last Line: Tomorrow he will stand guard by my gate Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged POTENTIAL POET, by DEBBIE RHODES POLECASTRO Poem Source First Line: Oh mother %nurture that little girl's dreams Last Line: The prelude to a rare gift %for poetry Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters PRAIRIE WIND, by DEBRA NYSTROM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pegeon wings shatter the sunlight Last Line: That wants to scatter us all, %warning it Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PRAYER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: She cannot tell my name / nor whence I came Last Line: When my child's call I hear, I catch her to my heart. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Last Line: Only she on her knees, peeking into %her own clasped hands Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Daughters PRENUPTIAL, by KATHLEEN LYNCH Poem Source First Line: My daughter calls to urge me Last Line: And there will be fruit, mom. %edible fruit Subject(s): Growth; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Plants PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years Last Line: "warding off despair." Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The PRESSING LEAVES, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughters bring me leaves Last Line: To help the others unfold outisde the windows Subject(s): Leaves; Daughters PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Last Line: Slow horses and fast women Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) PURPOSE OF NUNS, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: As a young girl attending sunday mass Last Line: I'd resume my flight back to the world Variant Title(s): The Changelin Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PUTTING ON MY FATHER'S SHADOW, by LINDA RAMEY Poem Source First Line: As a girl I'd dress in its lengthy shape Last Line: As a girl I'd dress in its lenghty shape Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Shadows QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Last Line: With two fiery arrows from her little red bow Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Knowledge QUESTION, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and listener she is, but she does not listen Last Line: I come with my word alive Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters QUIET MONEY, by ROBERT MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: The bootlegger opens his eyes and stares Last Line: How what we do to get them can make us sorry... %send the word, send the word to beware Subject(s): Alcock, John William (1892-1919); Ambition; Aviation And Aviators; Brown, Arthur Whitten (1886-1948); Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Last Line: All night %I watched him breathe Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Men READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the book haphazard Last Line: And let them pull it free Subject(s): Books & Reading; Fathers & Daughters; Mortality READING SNOW WHITE TO MY DAUGHTER, by MAUREEN RYAN GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: Here eyes widen. She actually gasps Last Line: Is choking me. I keep on %reading, feeding her %what she will need Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Mothers And Daughters; Snow White REALITY AND ITS DURATION, by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source First Line: At the end of the workshop, we're doing a meditation from shakti Last Line: Where and when Subject(s): Meditation; Mothers And Daughters; Reality REBECCA, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rebecca, sweet-one, little-one Last Line: Like a needle %through my life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women RECOGNITIONS, by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Having just been aroused by some gurgling, rising and falling Last Line: As the cold soaked in, I found myself thinking, yes, this isit, %I'm really travelling... Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters RED JOURNEYS, SELS., by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: I dream red dreams, an oasis of fire and light Last Line: Tell me: what threads memory, dream, myth, reality? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women REFLECTIONS LOST IN THE LADIES ROOM, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Distant flushings sing; run softly; flow Last Line: How well you look.' and flushings sing. 'I know.' Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients REMAINS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I left the knife in the sink Last Line: Dearest. All I left for you to find Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruined and ill, - a man of two score Last Line: Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Daughters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness RENEE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She still approaches %murmurs, whispers Last Line: Who could not gather seedlings Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Pictures RESCUING THE BUDDHA, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There are more than 50,000 rivers in china Last Line: As if related by blood, his brothers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged RESEMBLANCE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I have on mine no likeness Last Line: And stamped me as your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters RESURRECTION OF THE DAUGHTER, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The family had been ill for some time Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans; Daughters; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives RIMBAUD'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: The candy striper on her rounds Last Line: Approaching stress and stress that perishes Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients RIVER, by PAUL ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: A bridge over the low-flowing river Last Line: A tail drooped indolently in the sun, %a root branching into a continent Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters ROADSIDE POEMS: RECIPROCITY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother, elfie older grown Subject(s): God; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: RHAMPSENITUS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the king rhampsenitus Last Line: In his reign was quite surprising. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Laughter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE ASRA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daily went the wondrous lovely Last Line: "who, whene'er they love, must perish." Subject(s): Daughters; Love; Slavery; Serfs ROMANCERO: BOOK 3. HEBREW MELODIES: PRINCESS SABBATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In arabia's books of stories Last Line: Till it crackles and goes out. Subject(s): Arabia; Daughters; Love; Sabbath; Sunday RUBBING MY FATHER'S BACK, by SHARON KRAUS Poem Source First Line: That was when %I began to learn Last Line: The tenderness of them, holding their lives in %their skin, away from me, I learned then %how to lov Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers & Daughters; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers And Daughters; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SAND-QUARRY WITH MOVING FIGURES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the ruined Last Line: He caught my hand as I cried, %and smiling, entered the pit,ran laughing down its side Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is an end Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp. Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness SEA RETURNS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Mother, mother, I hear the sound at the door Last Line: Daughta? Daughta? Daughta? Og gawd. She caan swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the sun, balancing Last Line: The husk and the heart %of the fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SELECTED FOR THE MASS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Something other than what happened was remembered Last Line: To nothing: little miss fear. Miss flesh Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd have thought her diamond was set in my flesh Last Line: Wahpeton - mandan - medora - to vanishing point. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters SENT FROM THE CAPITAL TO HER ELDER DAUGHTER, by SAKANOE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than the gems Last Line: Not even an hour Alternate Author Name(s): Otomo Of Sakanoe; Sakanoye Subject(s): Daughters; Women SEPARATE PARTIES (FOR MY DAUGHTER), by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: While your great-grandmother and her sons Last Line: Child, though magician, elf, you're not %my imagination but my daughter Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SESTINA OF THE ALCOHOLIC DAUGHTER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I keep returning to that muttering woman Last Line: Her hands in mine -- to lead her home, trusting we'd find the way Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Daughters; Mothers; Nursing Homes SEX, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the bare feet on the warm boardwalk Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SHARKS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Once, out back, where Last Line: With a full set %of teeth and nothing to learn Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sharks SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, by JOHN B. COOK Poem Text First Line: My little daughter who is patient,being blind Last Line: For I have only eyes, and she has -- faith in god. Subject(s): Daughters SHORE LEAVE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wears the sailor suit - a blouse with anchors Last Line: All night long over the sleek, impossible cars Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SIGN LANGUAGE, by SARA WILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: It is the time just before Last Line: Turning and changing in the wind %like my daughter's hands Subject(s): Daughters; Language SIGNAL HILL, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: My father leaves us in the car Last Line: And sometimes %jesus Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SIREN ISLES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Stranger %this is not your home Last Line: I am a fish no desire %will allow you to reach Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIRENS' DEFENSE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When we sing Last Line: Steering them %into these rocks Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SITTING HERE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: We were as gone Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SITTING HERE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: And whatever %we were has gone Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SMALL DEFEATS: BATHING JESSICA, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Standing nude in warm water, distracted Last Line: Providing private myths for her own poems Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Daughters; Innocence SMALL DEFEATS: MY DAUGHTERS' LANGUAGE, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: My daughters' tongues breed rough metaphors Last Line: Hands clutching at the undefined %substance of sunlight Subject(s): Daughters; Language SMALL WINGS, SELS., by MAUDE MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: She has withdrawn from us Last Line: Calligraphy of small swift wings take flight Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You, once a belle in shreveport Subject(s): Daughters-in-law; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, once a belle in shreveport Last Line: But her cargo %no promise then: %delivered %palpable %ours Subject(s): Daughters-in-law; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights SO EARLY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I wake so early Last Line: Can you tell me, whoever you are, what this pain is for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME ANGELS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Every day I paint all day, riding Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You will be famous, your mouth Last Line: You will eat the world Subject(s): Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Nature SOME RIVERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Gave me some rivers some moons some rain, I forget when Last Line: Some hands take some things Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOMETHING LIKE FLYING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You point them out to me Last Line: Another coming up to take the lead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SONG FOR MY FATHER, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I arrive Last Line: Inherent %when we dance Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SONG UPON MISS HARRIET HANBURY, by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear doctor of st. Mary's Last Line: Will, if she's alive, %be a goddess at fifteen, sir Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SONG; SUNG BY FATHERS OF SIX-MONTHS-OLD FEMALE CHILDREN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold Last Line: Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and water %to marry somebody else's daughter Variant Title(s): Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Female Infant Children; Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Infant Female Childre Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 139, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the rose bush comes the rose Last Line: And he does not know for whom Subject(s): Children; Fathers And Daughters SPELL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A hag is riding my back Last Line: But the moon turns to stone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SPELLING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women; Language SPELLING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first naming, your first name, %your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women SPRING, by PATRICIA CUMMING Poem Source First Line: Sue asked, why is there a line Last Line: The shadows, hers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women ST. PEREGRINUS' CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: His miracles abbreviated, lives of saints Last Line: We were alike, at last Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients STAMINA, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: The bed, the laminated stand Last Line: The absences, no obstacle to calm Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients STATUE OF NEPTUNE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: He is a powerful-handsome man Last Line: It is,' I say, with a big smile Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STEALING A LINE WRITTEN BY HAFIZ AND TRANSLATED BY EMERSON, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters STEWARDESS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Breakfasting on the best Last Line: Every suday for my daddy %in my fine waving hair Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Flight; Labor And Laborers STILL LIFE: A GLASSFUL OF ZINNIAS ON MY DAUGHTER'S KITCHEN TABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the interminable quest for truth Last Line: A glassful of zinnias on the table Subject(s): Daughters; Flowers STILL LIFE: A GLASSFUL OF ZINNIAS ON MY DAUGHTER'S KITCHEN TABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the interminable quest for truth Last Line: A glassful of zinnias on the table Subject(s): Daughters; Flowers STORIES, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: Nights she counted coins from my father's vending machines Last Line: Five languages at once & every house was white with red shutters Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Life STORY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: When anyone comes from Last Line: Before I too fly out of the story Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Last Line: For the vanished mother %of a black girl Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women SUNLIGHT: A SEQUENCE FOR MY DAUGHTER, SELECTION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am proud of your soft, brown eyes Last Line: To see if I can rub your gentleness on me Subject(s): Daughters SUNLIGHT: A SEQUENCE FOR MY DAUGHTER, SELS., by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am proud of your soft, brown eyes Subject(s): Daughters SUNSET ON THE WHARF, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: John crows fill the red sky. Coming in Last Line: Grains disintegrating under the dying light of the sun Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SWEET DADDY, by PATRICIA M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: 62. You would have been 62 Last Line: But the moment is hollow. %it stinks. %it stinks sweet Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SWEET HEART, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here I am, sweet heart, my long white lizzie siddal skirts Last Line: Who is afraid Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TAKING IN WASH, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa called her pearl when he came home Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TAKING IN WASH, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa called her pearl when he came home Last Line: And I'll cut you down %just like the cedar of lebanon Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TALK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark square wooden room at noon Last Line: A deep pond - and she cannot swim, %the child cannot swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Swimming TALKING TO GRANDPA EASTMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What do you think, restless one? Last Line: I won't dig up this dirt again Subject(s): Anger; Daughters; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Mothers; Sex; Unfaithfulness TARPEIA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Lightly to part with one's soul as the sea with his foam! Last Line: Woe to tarpeia, tarpeia, daughter of rome! Subject(s): Daughters; Rome, Italy; Soul; Women TASTE OF APPLES, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All morning my daughter has been picking apples Last Line: The hard, shiny fruits %I will bite into, one by one, savoring each Subject(s): Apples; Children; Fruit; Mothers And Daughters TAXIDERMIST'S DAUGHTER, by NANCY SCHOENBERGER Poem Source First Line: Always long afternoon shadows Last Line: To put the last touch %to the beautiful wood duck Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Last Line: Promise corrupts %what it does not invent Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers And Daughters; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Women TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS OF RAGE, by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: We carried you in our arms Last Line: We're so low %and life is brief Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TEENAGE DAUGHTER OBSERVATIONS: 1, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Small-framed %teenage girl Last Line: Goes back %to her geometry Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TEENAGE DAUGHTER OBSERVATIONS: 3, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: She doodles %a snowflake Last Line: All pencil shadowed %she breathes Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TELL OUR DAUGHTERS, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: Each is beautiful Last Line: And let them make %their own growing time %big with tenderness Subject(s): Daughters TEMPLE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Let her sleep begin with folderol Last Line: Lights donated in the name of so-and-so Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TERMINAL RESEMBLANCE, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw my father for the last time, we both did the same Last Line: Like him, waved to disguise my hand's trembling Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THAT I WILL NOT BE A RESTLESS GHOST, SELS., by MARGARET MEAD Poem Source First Line: That I will not be a restless ghost Last Line: And all the future in your hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women THAT VALENTINE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once,I remember, years ago Last Line: I sent a tender valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Holidays; Valentine's Day THE AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America THE ARCHITECT (1), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The only places I can find you Last Line: Forms most faithfully the face of god. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Churches; Faith; Fathers & Daughters; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed THE ARCHITECT AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stride was two to my father's by the sea Last Line: Surge, master of the arch of element. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fathers & Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtful reader here may see Last Line: The fervent blessing of a father! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Life; Tears THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter dear, my darling child Last Line: While thus I clasp thee to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Tears THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: My father was a soldier, so Last Line: A battle all her own. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Soldiers; War THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs 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 BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER, by JAMES H. STODDART Poem Text First Line: Away, philosophy and creeds! Last Line: Thy dawn of love, fair musing maid! Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Knowledge THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion. Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE CATCH, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darted across the pond Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE CHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happening now! It is happening Last Line: Can you sense, under the ground, the great melting? Subject(s): Change; Daughters THE CLASP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters THE COUNTERPANE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Who were you, with the busy, patient hands Last Line: The simple pattern of your peerless days. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE DAUGHTER, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, mournful lute! Dear echo of my woe! Last Line: Pausing forgetful as he pass'd along. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE DAUGHTERS OF ASOPUS, by CORINNA (6TH CENTURY B.C.) Poem Text First Line: She shall attend the gods and be Last Line: So spake the prophet full of grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Korinna Subject(s): Daughters THE DAUGHTERS OF ATLAS, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And atlas' seven daughters, named from him Last Line: Their shapes are visitations of the night. Subject(s): Daughters THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Earth and horizons round Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies Last Line: The woman won Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like two lonely swans Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Dancing & Dancers THE DESPERANTO OF WILLYNULLY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her father's early portrait shows Subject(s): Time; Portraits; Fathers & Daughters THE DIZZY DAUGHTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary jane, you dizzy daisy, what a mess Last Line: She's with us you should aid her, not make work for her to do. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters THE DOE; A FRAGMENT, FR. WANDERING WILLIE, AN UNFINISHED EARLY POEM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And - 'yonder look! Yoho! Yoho! Last Line: The vital prop of human pride. Subject(s): Daughters; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE DREAM SONGS: 385, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE DUKE OF GORDON'S DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The duke of gordon had three daughters Last Line: My countess o' cumberland to be Subject(s): Daughters THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE ENTHUSIAST, SONGS OF ARLA: 3, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Impassioned strains my trembling lips rehearse Last Line: Her heart, resigned, to simple truth accords. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Passion THE FAMILY: 1. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High as my heart! The quip be mine Last Line: My solace and its ornament! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers & Daughters; Relatives THE FAMILY: 2. THE DAUGHTER, TEUILA, NATIVE NAME FOR ADORNER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, child, or woman, none from her Last Line: Matron and child, my friend and scribe! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Relatives THE FATHER'S THOUGHT OF HIS DAUGHTER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will jilt a lover Last Line: When I am dead. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIRST SNOW STORM, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The very first snow of the year, mama Last Line: Around in my underclothes. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Snow THE FUTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going to leave a child in an empty room Last Line: As I am prepared Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE GIFT; FOR MY DAUGHTER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scissors, glue, clumsy Last Line: Each beat a breath. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Gifts & Giving THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE INTERCEPTED SALUTE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden met me in the lane Last Line: It is an added glory on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Flirtation; Fathers & Daughters THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rich and costly gown Last Line: Are the garments of her soul. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Courts & Courtiers; Daughters THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were ten maidens in the green corn Last Line: The pains of hell for the king's daughter. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 LAST TRUMP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You led the trump, the old man said Last Line: The last -- the fourteenth trump. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dead, The THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out / to watch the christmas eve crowds Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Stars THE LOST KISS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put by the half-written poem Last Line: Cry up to me over it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daughters; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE LOST LAND, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have two daughters Subject(s): Daughters; Ireland; Absence; Irish; Separation; Isolation THE MAGICIAN (TO MY DAUGHTER, FAITH HARLOW), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No longer have I fear of falling leaves Last Line: Since you found my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE MARTYR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and seven daughters,' said g Last Line: Gravel carters, that girls may have a treat! Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE MEMORIAL PILLAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and child! Whose blending tears Last Line: Surely your hearts have met at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Mothers & Daughters; Women THE MESSENGER: 1. THE FATHER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange house / in the strange town Last Line: His eyes / settle on us Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen, o, the miller's daughter Last Line: A mose rare miller's daughter. Subject(s): Daughters; Mills And Millers THE MINUTE, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my daughter, open the gate! Last Line: "no thrill has shaken my breast." Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dead, The THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE MISSIONARY'S DAUGHTER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't sewed my children's clo'se Last Line: The things I'm always wanting to. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Childhood THE MONTH OF JUNE: 13 1/2, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As my daughter approaches graduation and Subject(s): Daughters THE MOSELLE BOATMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not high nor full enough to show things clear Last Line: Twas sad to think we ne'er might see them more! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOSS OF HIS SKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only important Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOURNING DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheels o'er the pavement roll'd, and a slight form Last Line: The chasten'd wisdom of attemper'd bliss. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Bereavement THE NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE NEW ARRIVAL, by GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came to port last sunday night Last Line: My daughter! O, my daughter! Variant Title(s): An Editor's First-born;the Last Arrival Subject(s): Daughters THE OGRE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet child, / little girl with well-shaped legs Last Line: These are my excuses. Subject(s): Daughters; Thought THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD PROFESSOR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard Last Line: Seeks the high lark in god's clear element. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Teaching & Teachers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ONLY DAUGHTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bid me strike the idle strings Last Line: May cost thee, too, a sigh. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE OUTLAW, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the fair aurora spread Last Line: "the foreign lord no more appear." Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Percy, William De (1030-1096) THE PEDIGREE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or if I will not rape Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Self THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE POSSESSIVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter - as if I Subject(s): Daughters THE PULL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the flu goes on, I get thinner and thinner Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Men THE RETURN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rested in your easy chair Last Line: I was quite sure I felt your smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Daughters; Death; Fathers; Legacies; Love; Dead, The THE RISK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Suicide THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The son my father never had Subject(s): Daughters THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father, let thy little child Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUBWAY ENTRANCE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was her guide. He lived in hell. Every day he thought Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Fathers & Daughters; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE TALK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark square wooden room at noon Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Swimming & Swimmers THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had not expected to be an ordinary woman Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Mothers & Daughters; Middle Age THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs THE WAYS OF DAUGHTERS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughters are getting on. Subject(s): Daughters; Coming Of Age THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another? Last Line: Mother, my mother. Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHEEL REVOLVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a girl of satin and gauze Last Line: All this will never be again Subject(s): Daughters; Love THE WHISTLING DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whistle, my dearest daughter, and I will give thee a cow" Last Line: And so the whistling soon began Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE WHITE RABBIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, mother / holding the banister with five-year-old fingers Last Line: Come back to climb the stairs. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters THE WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has been dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THEY ARE TIMES IN LIFE WHEN ONE DOES THE RIGHT THING, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source Last Line: You will never know, will never have to know Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women THINKING FOR BERKY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the late night listening from bed Last Line: Sirens will hunt down berky, you survivors in your beds %listening through the night, so far and goo Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THINKING OF MY MOTHER WHO FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, HAS GONE EAST ..., by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: How could my mother have known Last Line: Backward glances of the sun Subject(s): Leaves; Mothers And Daughters; Women THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had expected more than this. %I had not expected to be %anordinary woman Subject(s): Absence; African Americans - Women; Aging; Mothers And Daughters THOREAU IN CALIFORNIA, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: It's wrong for life to be so complicated Last Line: No use. I can't read the rock my father and I love %as dearly as a wounded hand in perfect dark Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOSE ALTERNATE SUNDAYS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my daughter's tugged %home-diminishing yellow skull Last Line: Breath, willing my daughter to return %to murmur her secret name Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Toys THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Last Line: May you not be long on the way! Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THRALL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is sparsely furnished Last Line: So you may write this poem. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TIGERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: My girl shivers beside me Last Line: I just hear them roar. And I shiver Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TO A DAUGHTER WITH ARTISTIC TALENT, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know why, getting up in the cold dawn Last Line: I tell you this with love and pride %and sorrow, my artist child %(while the birds change from green Subject(s): Daughters; Poetry And Poets TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 1. SIROCCO, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a place of ruined stone we brought you, and sea-reaches Last Line: And on the exposed approaches the last gold of gorse bloom, in the sorocco, shakes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 1. SIROCCO, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a place of ruined stone we brought you, and sea-reaches Last Line: And on the exposed approaches the last gold of gorse bloom, in the sirocco, shakes Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 2. GULL'S CRY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White goose by palm tree, palm ragged, among stones the white oleander Last Line: Hands and sing, redeem, redeem! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 2. GULL'S CRY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White goose by palm tree, palm ragged, among stones the white oleander Last Line: Hands and sing: redeem, redeem! Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 3. THE CHILD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door is defective because the mother Last Line: I smile stiff, say ciao, and think: this is the world Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 3. THE CHILD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door is defective because the mother Last Line: I smile stiff, saying ciao, saying ciao, and think: this is the world Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 4. THE FLOWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the beach, the vineyard Last Line: It will rustle all night, darling Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 4. THE FLOWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the beach, the vineyard Last Line: It will rustle all night, darling Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 5. COLDER FIRE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained toward day. The morning came sad & white Last Line: But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys shall rejoice Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand songs I might have made Last Line: Immortal—and forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Immortality; Mothers & Daughters; Smiles TO A SAD DAUGHTER, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the hockey pictures Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO ADA, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the smile and thine the bloom Last Line: Thou art not near a father's heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies TO AN ABSENT DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, bird of song? Last Line: Evermore might guide thee. Subject(s): Daughters TO COME WITH ACCESSORIES, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Inherited: the opals set in cuffs Last Line: I am a body in ash-blonde smoke, aroused alone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TO HER FATHER, by SOPHIE CABOT BLACK Poem Source First Line: He has gone away again Last Line: That comes just before clouds, %before the useless, inscrutable rain Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO HESTER ON THE STAIR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hester, creature of my love Last Line: Mind this only, only mind! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hearts; Love; Dead, The TO HIS DAUGHTER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bought you flowers on ludgate hill Last Line: A queen like you, my darling. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Socialism TO MY DAUGHTER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, are they proud, whose leafy pomp outshone Last Line: Strews flowers beneath us, holy stars above. Subject(s): Daughters; Love; Pride; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MY DAUGHTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By that dejected city arno runs Last Line: O could I sleep and wake again in may! Subject(s): Daughters; Florence, Italy TO MY DAUGHTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Learn to live, and live to learn Last Line: Reckless joys are fugitive! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Daughters; Learning; Nature TO MY DAUGHTER IN A RED COAT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late october. It is afternoon. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Autumn; Fall TO MY DAUGHTER OLIVE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snow lies on the lonely hearth Last Line: Together, - you and I Subject(s): Daughters; Kisses; Singing And Singers; Snow TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fanny! Nine long years ago Last Line: Was this -- I wept. Subject(s): Birthdays; Daughters TO MY DAUGHTER TERESA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast the colours of the spring Last Line: And gild the woodlands wet. Subject(s): Daughters TO MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW ZHU ROUZE, by CHAI JINGYI Poem Source First Line: Tranquil. The sunlight in your inner chambers Last Line: So, gentle and kind, you will not grieve Subject(s): Daughters-in-law TO MY FATHER - 2, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: Grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY FATHER - 2, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: On the rooftops / of yr mind, but things %grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO MY FATHER AT EIGHTY-TWO, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where has your neatness gone Last Line: You once lived %on the far side of ruin Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound upon the night Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2) Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2 Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO MY MOTHER, by HANNAH SENESH Poem Source First Line: From where have you learned to wipe the Last Line: From where have you learned strength? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters; Women TO TERESA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child of mine, the wealth of whose warm hair Last Line: O what a fragrant coronal were mine! Subject(s): Daughters TO THE CARTER'S DAUGHTER, by ROCCO SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: I don't know how I can live near you any longer Last Line: To chase away the stars with his whip Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TOUCHED RELICS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: A mother's amber necklaces and pearls Last Line: Cover where the scars follow hers Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful child that launchest out on the great sea of life Last Line: Closer even than now. Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters TRAGEDY OF THE MERMAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Is not that she must leave her home Last Line: She must not feel an ocean %falling from her eyes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turinna, famed for every grace Last Line: Revive from such distress again. Subject(s): Daughters; Epitaphs; Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood TRANSPLANTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs TRAVEL, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: With steady looks the young men are firing arrows Last Line: I think he is a frog Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TRINITY, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother listens to the dreams of the daughter Last Line: Rushing toward the dark love who is always beyond her Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters TSAR'S DAUGHTER IN A FORENSIC LAB, by JESSICA GRANT Poem Source First Line: He's made her ordinary, spread her slim Last Line: At once for any photograph Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Medicine TWO, by DON BARKIN Poem Source First Line: Maybe we could take a walk.' Last Line: And as cold as the galaxy Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Stars TWO SLIDES: 1. THE ASPARA ADDRESSES THE FISHERMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: There is no boat Last Line: This catch will be the one %to harvest your soul Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 2. THE FISHERMAN RESPONDS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the silver light Last Line: I am the water %filling your gills Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States UNDER THE MAUD MOON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters UNDER THE MAUD MOON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path Last Line: You shall open %this book, even if it is the book of nightmares Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters UNDER THE ZANZARIERE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She put the comb in one hand and with the left waved. With that Last Line: Persistent voices, like whispers in another room. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Daughters; Secrets UNE PETITE CHANSON DE LAMENTATION A MA MERE, by BELLE DE COEUR Poem Text First Line: Give me my youth, and let me play Last Line: To find a new day and you. Subject(s): Children; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Past; Childhood UNVEILING, by HILARY SAMETZ LLOYD Poem Source First Line: Mama, lying so far down Last Line: We are bursting %out of our womb, %your grave Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Last Line: Know that it has passed them by Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy VERNAL EQUINOX, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters, in the wind's boisterous roughing Subject(s): Daughters; Spring VICTORY, VICTORIA, MY BEAUTIFUL WHISPER, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: You are the daughter who is sleep's beauty Last Line: Make of them your heart's bed Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Hearts; Love; Relationships VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In london's fair city a merchant did dwell Last Line: And vilikins and his dinah lie buried in one grave. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage - Forced; Suicide; Marriage - Arranged VISIONS FROM MY OFFICE WINDOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the students between the buildings Last Line: Her eyes deep-set and dark as olives. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Students VISITOR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, for example, %who was young once Last Line: Had we loved in time Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations WARNING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am the shoal you cannot cross Last Line: To which your mother warned you %not to listen Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WAS IT, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Because of too much sun Last Line: How regressive these desires Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients WASTEFUL GESTURE ONLY NOT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruth visits her mother’s grave in the california hills Last Line: That’s what going to sleep is like Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters WATCHING FOR PAPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She always stood upon the steps Last Line: "will call with birdie voice, 'papa, / I's looten out for oo!'" Subject(s): Consolation;fathers & Daughters WATER SERPENTS (2), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found her daughter in the river Last Line: & everywhere inside her a gallery of faces clenched against her given name Subject(s): Animals; Daughters; Death; Snakes; Water WATERLILY TRADITION, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The women are singing in the patisserie Last Line: It is my waterlily tradition Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WAVING GOOD-BYE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know what it was like before we Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters WAVING GOOD-BYE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know what it was like before we Last Line: As they made their turn into the empty highway Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WAY OF KEEPING, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the meadow of the mind Last Line: The god in the forest of the heart Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WE MOTHERS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rock into the heart of the world %the melody of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women WHAT I SAVED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You %drinking milo Last Line: Your tongue unable to form an r as you called my name Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I'M TELLING YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My father played music. He played a guitar and sang. My father Last Line: Four or five as a recoed somewhere in a studio in jamaica started to spin Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT IS THERE FOR US?, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source Last Line: Today is our own Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Daughters WHAT LIES BENEATH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The woman inside turns flour to dumplings Last Line: Kept at bay by a few pieces of wood Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT MAKES ME INVISIBLE, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON Poem Source First Line: I sit on the hard chair at the mayflower coffee shop, my feet dangling Last Line: A madame alexandre doll,' my fifth Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Mothers And Daughters; Single Parents; Toys WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When god closes a door, there are no windows Last Line: Even careful chickens get caught by the hawk Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT SHE KNEW WHAT SHE SAW, by TANYA KERN Poem Source First Line: She can't breathe with him in the house Last Line: She wonders where he keeps the one he took Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WHAT THE ORACLE SAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You will leave your home Last Line: The sea will never take you back Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE STORIES TEACH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The man playing the flute Last Line: Beneath the caramel glaze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT WE FORGET, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: He died the same month Last Line: The tingling of her skin bein healed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEAT FIELD, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Standing in a field of wheat Last Line: And in the whole scene, my daughter's %dark hair was the only dark thing Subject(s): Fields; Mothers And Daughters; Wheat WHEEL REVOLVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a girl of satin and gauze Last Line: All this will never be again Subject(s): Daughters; Love WHEN I THINK OF YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are still diving into the sea Last Line: A stream of darkness in your wake Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T WANT ME, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was killed and I never knew why Last Line: When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me Subject(s): Adoption; Death; Fathers; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships WHEN MAMA CAME HERE AS A GOLD PANNER, by JANA HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: Spread so thin she felt like glass Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women WHEN SHE SHOWED ME HER PHOTOGRAPH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: That it seems as if she were alive? Subject(s): Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Love; Pictures WHITE IRIS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When my lord condemned her to death Last Line: Women are braver creatures now. Subject(s): Courage; Daughters; Pain; Women; Valor; Bravery; Suffering; Misery WHY I LOVE FOOTBALL, by DELORES BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It started with my father Last Line: Just %there Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Football WISH, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each time her mother %called her into the bedroom Last Line: Both of them smiling, neither %thinking of opening the door Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Physicians WOMAN MOURNED BY DAUGHTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, not a tear begun Last Line: Anywhere, save exactly %as you would wish it done Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Last Line: I am the stem that fed the fruit, %the link that joins you to the night Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WORK OF HER THAT WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By fires of the sun Variant Title(s): Poem: 1143; Poem: 115 Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women WORSE THINGS THAN DIVORCE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I was helping dancey lift his wife april by her ears into the sky Last Line: Just as if dancey were here, saying, 'lo, it is I...Everything is ok.' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WOULD YOU LIKE A TOMATO, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Would you like a tomato Last Line: Would you like a tomato Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Last Line: I wish %what I wished you before, but harder Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters YOU ARE LIKE AN EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP, by LAUREL O. HOYE Poem Source Last Line: You are like you and I love you Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women YOU NO SEND. ME NO COME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first night back and rain falls Last Line: What assures them they will come down? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has been dark Last Line: A thousand cranes curtain the window, %fly up in a sudden breeze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters YOUR DAUGHTER AT CHRISTMAS, by RON SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: It was a sense akin to revelation Last Line: Not the big clap of history. %there is no gift like my gift Subject(s): Christmas; Daughters; Peace YOUTH SPEAKS, by MABEL M. BURTON Poem Text First Line: I am just turned sixteen Last Line: And my hair is red gold. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth YULE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On the tall green tree we have hung Last Line: Here is your tree, here are your children, reine soleil, %give us your gifts Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged |
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