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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEATH - CHILDREN Matches Found: 832 ...THE LIGHT THAT CANNOT FADE...', by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suzie, you picked a hell of a time Last Line: And every time I think of you, %you're young Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A BIT OF HEAVEN, by GERTRUDE D. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Child of the slums, how happy Last Line: Is a childor a trampor a beast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, G. Gertrude Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise A BOTANICAL TROPE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elliptical regrets figure the nights Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o hades, death's inexorable king" Last Line: When sorrow broods above the home he left? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S GRACE AT FLORENCE; A.A.E.C., by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of english blood, of tuscan birth Last Line: For death's annunciation.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S GRAVE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I linger by this grass-grown mound Last Line: And love this plot shall keep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A CHRYSALIS, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little madchen found one day Last Line: Was but the radiant creature's flight! Subject(s): Butterflies; Death - Children; Death - Babies A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old. Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A DEAD BABY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little soul, for such brief space Last Line: So, our first dream, our first hope -- is over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A DEAD CHILD, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five years alone had vanished since my birth Last Line: I learnt but little of life's sins and grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A GHOST STORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her life was plain, her death Subject(s): Death - Children; Roses; Death - Babies A GRAVE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A HUSBAND'S VOICE, by FRANK WILLIAM HOLSLAG Poem Text First Line: My heart-and your heart Last Line: Since baby's gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies A HYMN OF SLEEP, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Another day is dying Last Line: And are asleep on jesu's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Religion; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nought loves another as itself Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore? Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies A MOTHER'S LAMENT [FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON], by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate gave the word, the arrow sped Last Line: With him I love, at rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell? Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR A VERY NEW ANGEL, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, god, be lenient her first night there Last Line: When she wakes up, do things for her my way! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where enormous shadows creep Last Line: He was john jones, son of john jones. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Graveyards; Death - Babies A SUPERSTITION REVISITED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While on the lavender by the door Last Line: Defied eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing Last Line: But the face and breathes oh %breathes into the mouth which does not breathe back Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams ABER STATIONS: STATIO PRIMA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I make so much of aber fall? Last Line: That's all, that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just listen to the blackbird -- what a note Last Line: I hope he won't go mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ABER STATIONS: STATIO TERTIA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream is very sweet Last Line: That sent a shiver to my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ABORTION, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: The names they picked for you Subject(s): Death - Children ABORTION POEM, by MARGARET HONTON Poem Source First Line: Now I'll read my abortion poem Subject(s): Death - Children ABSENCE, by HARRY TRAVIS RHODES Poem Text First Line: Little brown eyes, little clown eyes Last Line: In the land god made like thee! Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Death - Babies ACCOMODATION, by NICOLE MONTAGUE Poem Source First Line: I remember Last Line: When the winter wind took priority %over one last hug %with tony Subject(s): Death - Children AD ASTRA: 158, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Except like little children ye believe Last Line: Faith that shall open wide the gates of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; God; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise ADDRESS TO MRS. WM. ANDERSON, ON THE DEATH OF HER ONLY SON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We weep with those who weep:' I sympathize Last Line: Shall blossom in the paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Sons; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by GINA BERGAMINO Poem Source First Line: For 3 days Last Line: I left one light %on so you could %see Subject(s): Death - Children AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the front door close Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement AFTER FIFTY YEARS, by NAOMI MYLES Poem Source First Line: I stood on a crowded pier high above the hudson Last Line: Sometimes the look of you leaps %from an idle page: a certain cast of eye, %a tenderness of mouth Subject(s): Death - Children AFTER THE BABY DIED, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: The first week it was Last Line: Eventually I've got to get a routine going %living in this hell Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) AFTER THE FALL, by MEGAN LAUBER Poem Source First Line: They found the people who Last Line: We stroke the sod-- %sprouting its first scalpels of grass--%as if it were your hair Subject(s): Death - Children AFTER THE LAST LESSON, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful he seems to me Last Line: Stands clear before our eyes. Subject(s): Death - Children; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies AFTER WORDS, by BARRI ARMITAGE Poem Source First Line: All these days of our daughter's burying Last Line: A brambled path, chattering like schoolgirls, %knowing we had a lead Subject(s): Death - Children AGING FATHER LOSES HIS CHILDREN, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: A hitherto placid river stirred Last Line: Off sohre, near the beach, %where he breathed Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Fathers; Survival ALAS, FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Mother and I have spoken the word Subject(s): Death - Children; Igede (african People) ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness 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 AMY'S GARDEN, by JO CARNEY Poem Source First Line: A stone Last Line: Pulsing with the ceaseless thrum %until the next visitation Subject(s): Death - Children AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ELEGY: PRINCESS KATHERINE BORN, CHRISTENED, BURIED IN ONE DAY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that can aptly mix your joys with cries Last Line: Resign our office to the hierarchy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgins promis'd when I dy'd Last Line: Maids, and here strew violets. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ANCIENT PERU, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: With huarango branches Last Line: Their children's bones Subject(s): Death - Children; Peru ANGEL JEWELL, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Was it the fatal perfection of her name Last Line: With wailing or a plea? Subject(s): Death - Children ANNA, by C. B. FOLLETT Poem Source First Line: When she died Last Line: And though they knew %they'd lost a daughter, %they were forever wrong %about which one Subject(s): Death - Children APPARITION, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts; Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives APRIL THE TWENTIETH, 1948, by DAHLIA KAVEH Poem Source First Line: My mother in the morning Last Line: In the paper the death %of her son Subject(s): Death - Children; Middle East - Conflicts 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 ARCHEDIKE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child of hippias, foremost captain once / in hellas' land, lies here Last Line: She lifted not her heart to vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each day, when the glow of sunset Last Line: "yes, dear! They are all at home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies AREN'T YOU OVER THAT YET?, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Snap out of it! Last Line: And never be able to %snap out of it! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) ARTIFICE, by EDWARD BUTSCHER Poem Source First Line: The house curtains silence Last Line: Began their slow descent, %the little girl %like butter %in their mouths Subject(s): Death - Children AS WE APPROACH SEPTEMBER, by MEGAN LAUBER Poem Source First Line: Almost a year ago Last Line: If only we could have told you %how much we would miss you Subject(s): Death - Children ASHES, by JEAN KEMPER HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Two days Last Line: Ashes %if you hug them %spill through your fingers Subject(s): Death - Children AT DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon? Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AT HOME TONIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lessons are done and the prizes won Last Line: "yes, ""home to-night!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Death - Babies AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She stood at the beautiful gate of heaven Last Line: But never to be divided more. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AT THE FUNERAL OF A CHILD, by SONDRA UPHAM Poem Source First Line: I think of his mother Last Line: Her head swans down upon her chest, %her dark hair shining Subject(s): Death - Children ATTESTATION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, enrique xavier villaruta, marques d'orizaba Last Line: Regarding this miraculous event Subject(s): Death - Children; Miracles AUTUMN, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly we go with the old dog close behind us Last Line: Of dead illusions as of children that have died. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AUTUMN, 1984, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: In one picture, sam, age 5, your hair was convict Last Line: This year, my son, your vote might have helped Subject(s): Death - Children AWKWARD, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: It's been awkward being Last Line: Pretend that I never %had my second child Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) B, by CAROL FOWLER Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children BABE BURIED AT SEA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deep sea took the dead. It was a babe Last Line: Never to fade, nor die. -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean BABY BELL, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not heard the poets tell Last Line: Out of this world of ours. Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Babie Bell Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies BABY GIRL T, by KIRSTEN EMMOTT Poem Source First Line: The infant who dies at birth Subject(s): Death - Children BABY'S DYING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby's dying, / do not stir Last Line: Kiss and miss her after while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BAD MEMORIES, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes my mind Last Line: The memory lingers %heavy all day Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) BARGAINING, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: God %I wish Last Line: I promise not %to tell...Honest Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) BASKETBALL PLAYER'S FINGERS, by JOHN WESSELLS ATTHOWE Poem Source First Line: Fingers Last Line: There is %no numbness %in the relaxed fingertips %of these spindles Subject(s): Death - Children BEATEN TO DEATH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: At depth of night, this thought on home had shone Last Line: Was dying through two hours -- beaten to death. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies; Educators; Professors BECAUSE IT HAPPENED, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A death-cry ripens, and rises - a boy's Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BED ROOM DOOR, by MAXINE SILVERMAN Poem Source First Line: When I woke I opened the door Subject(s): Death - Children BEFORE PENICILLIN, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: The doctor steps into the room Last Line: On her fragrant, inculpable neck Subject(s): Death - Children; Labor And Laborers; Physicians BEGIN WITH FRIDAY, by REGINA REIBSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Take saturday away Subject(s): Death - Children BEING HOME, by ? TRIMMER Poem Source First Line: I am home now Last Line: And knows no travelers %no departures %nor even homecomings Subject(s): Death - Children 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 BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BEREAVED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me come in where you sit weeping Last Line: Who have no child to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, weep not, dearest, though the child be dead Last Line: That where our treasure is, our hearts may be. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BEREFT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though heaven has gained one angel more Last Line: Gaze through the gates of paradise. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Sons; Death - Babies BEST LAID, by JOHN HENRY MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Bright white mice Last Line: But you laugh and tell him %you're a well-adjusted sot Subject(s): Death - Children BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND NOON, by WANDA PRAISNER Poem Source First Line: It's not only Last Line: We film the white %lotus blossom %the guide tells us %closeseach night, %reopens in day Subject(s): Death - Children BETWEEN THE QUAY OF SAN NICOLAS AND THE SEA, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: There's a little sun still, the cables creak Last Line: Forgive me, forgive her Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life BEYOND THE SUNSET, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Beside the cripple's casement Last Line: Beyond the sunset veil. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones BIOLOGIST PLANS HIS FUNERAL, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: The organism ages and expires Last Line: Lay me naked in a hole. %I wrote a paper once on worms Subject(s): Death - Children BIRTH, by MADELIN TIGER BASS Poem Source First Line: The instant of birth is equisitie Subject(s): Death - Children BLIND CAT BLACK, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: An absent-minded tightrope walker comes. From the sea Last Line: Too big. The old hawker cries. A pirate ship. Has entered the port Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Children BLUE FLOWER, RED MOON, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We are the children who never grow up Last Line: We learn to stitch the word forgiven %onto our tattered bodies Subject(s): Death - Children BONES OF JOAN WEBSTER, by CAROL DINE Poem Source First Line: Near chebacco lake Last Line: Her parents will say: %at least it is settled Subject(s): Death - Children BOY AT THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It is heavy as a stone he tells himself like any rock in the field Last Line: Of the mind Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Fathers And Sons; Prairies BRIDGE, by CYNTHIA SUE PEDERSON Poem Source First Line: Connects distance Last Line: No wonder you found each other %in the mist of that cold morning Subject(s): Death - Children BRIEF SONG, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: There will come a day Last Line: Moving those pines, moving %even the stone. %and then, then I can let go Subject(s): Death - Children BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials BROKEN HEART, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My heart is broken Last Line: Span has shortened considerably %am I dying too? Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) BURIAL OF AN EMIGRANT'S CHILD IN THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The desolation and the agony Last Line: Kneel, and bow submitted hearts to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Forests; Funerals; Death - Babies; Woods; Burials BURIAL OF TWO YOUNG SISTERS; ONLY CHILDREN OF THEIR PARENTS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're here, in this turf-bed - those tender forms Last Line: Blend in a full eternity of bliss. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Children; Death - Babies BURIED CHILD, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: After the shots, one in each arm Last Line: Only in the body's warmth, your light Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory BURNED GARAGE, by ALICE CONNELLY NAGLE Poem Source First Line: What he didn't intend was the explosion, the car Last Line: The roof, repaired. There also, %not intended, %ash, dark holes Subject(s): Death - Children BURYING THE TWINS, by RONDALYN VARNEY WHITNEY Poem Source First Line: My father looked for days Last Line: It would have broke your heart %to see jim varney bury his boys Subject(s): Death - Children 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 BY THE GASLIGHT CITIES OF THE PLANETS, by ? TRIMMER Poem Source Last Line: Move in my tears; %tiny pears %traveling %in evening clothes Subject(s): Death - Children CANSO: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe at dark solstice in the white moon sailing new Last Line: To sleep in the turning garden for as long as the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Heaven; Prayer; Sailors And Sailing; Seashore CASIDA OF THE ONE WOUNDED BY WATER, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I want to go down to the well, Last Line: That I may see the one wounded by water Subject(s): Death - Children; Water CATHARINE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We children every morn would wait Last Line: "and tell the master catharine's dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CEREMONY, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: I take you from the church Last Line: To dazzle empires %when you ran laughing %beside the frosty lake, %mortal, lovely, mine Subject(s): Death - Children CHALKBOARD, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: She wrote a note on the chalkboard, underneath phil Last Line: And I wonder why you stopped leaving messages on the %chalkboard Subject(s): Death - Children CHANCE MEETING, by AMY ROTHHOLTZ Poem Source First Line: The name has no basis Last Line: Eye in his chest, the %quilted light--balancing %precariously-- %behind the door Subject(s): Death - Children CHILD, by LEON LEIVA GALLARDO Poem Source First Line: It's the smile of a child Last Line: Little white cradle %subterranean Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Death - Children; Heaven CHILD AND A MAN, by SAMUEL RAY Poem Source First Line: Today wild animals deep inside Last Line: Cries of love for you, %but I did not reply %I love you! Subject(s): Death - Children CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, %I pack your stars into my purse Last Line: I did not know death was so strange Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii CHILDLESS COUPLE, by PHYLLIS CAPELLO Poem Source First Line: They have many plants Subject(s): Death - Children CHILDREN DISINTERRED, by MARION ALBINA BIGELOW Subject(s): Death - Children CHIMES, by WALTER EDWARDS HOUGHTON JR. Poem Text First Line: It was a silly night Last Line: But I still live to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by NICHOLAS SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: Slowly as feathers, the snow Last Line: Dance for only you %(as does the falling snow) %to the sound of a calliope Subject(s): Death - Children CHRISTOPHER ON THE ULTRASOUND, by FAITH WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You lie in that secret home Subject(s): Death - Children CLEVEDON VERSES: 2. DORA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt upon her brother's grave Last Line: My god, I leave it unto thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies CLEVEDON VERSES: 3. SECUTURUS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each night when I behold my bed Last Line: And I would gladly die. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies CLIPPING, by WANDA PRAISNER Poem Source First Line: Vacuuming a chair Last Line: How as we swam away, a garua mist %swallowed them--the gray place %where we learn to live with less Subject(s): Death - Children; Vacuum Cleaners COME AWAY, DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come away, death, make no mistake Last Line: A dead-born child destroy its mother.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies COMFORT, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Even though it is uncomfortable Last Line: To be comfortable %with letting her baby go Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) CONCERNING THE INFANTICIDE, MARIE FARRAR, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Marie farrar, born in april Last Line: Therefore, I beg you, check your wrath and scorn %for man needs help from every creature born Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder CONSOLATIN TO M. DU PERIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must thy grief, du perier, knowe no end? Last Line: Can lead us unto peace. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness CONSOLATION TO M. DU PERRIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Du perrier, must thy grief eternal be Last Line: This only gives us rest. Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies CONSOLATION; TO M. DUPERRIER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will then, duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal? Last Line: That gives us any rest. Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies CONTINUOUS SURFACE, by MARITA GARIN Poem Source First Line: A tentative curve describing Subject(s): Death - Children CORIDON ON THE DEATH OF HIS DEAR ALEXIS, OB. JAN. 28, 1682/3, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis! Dear alexis! Lovely boy! Last Line: For what my sighs and pray'rs can ne'er retrieve? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CORNELIA II, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I can hardly lift her, the third and only child Last Line: What should I name her? Subject(s): Death - Children COULD YOU HAVE BLINKED AND NOT SEEN IT AND BEEN SAVED?, by LARRY HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Six years old I stared unblinking Last Line: Curled around time's trigger %frames life surely %as a shot in an album Subject(s): Death - Children COUSINS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: I wake up first, watch the roses Last Line: We didn't know what we were waiting for then Subject(s): Death - Children CRADLE SONG, by ALICE CONNELLY NAGLE Poem Source First Line: The grave next to yours belongs Last Line: Small gifts of a baseball, a cluster of sourgrass, %that will keep you my son, %understood Subject(s): Death - Children CRAUSHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay so, a wee house, / an' three acres av green Last Line: "from broadwaymaureen!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Love; Thought; Death - Babies; Thinking CRIB, by MAUDE MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: It is too silent here Subject(s): Death - Children CUTHBERT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful mother / of a beautiful boy Last Line: Welcomed by christ who has conquered the grave! Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Mothers & Sons; Death - Babies; Paradise DAHN THE PLUG 'OLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A muvver was barfin' 'er biby one night Last Line: "your biby 'as fell dahn the plug 'ole / not lorst, but gorn before!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DAUGHTERS OF TROY: ANDROMACHIE LEARNS OF HER SON'S FATE, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O wife of hector, phrygia's mightiest once Last Line: Have I attained - I, who have lost my son! Subject(s): Death - Children; Troy DAVID, by CYNTHIA SUE PEDERSON Poem Source First Line: He had a broad face, full cheeks Last Line: As our current events topics %each friday: %vietnam, world hunger Subject(s): Death - Children DAVID'S CHILD; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In face of a great sorrow like to death Last Line: But when the heart is broken -- not a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DAWES CEMETERY, by EDIE ARONOWITZ MUELLER Poem Source First Line: Little aggie is held Last Line: He rocks in the evening on his porch %that faces the opposite way Subject(s): Death - Children DE LEO TWINS, by JILL BART Poem Source First Line: In the cemetery Last Line: And circle slowly, telling %the hours of their only dance Subject(s): Death - Children DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine faded from the room Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise DEAD BOY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEAD BOY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction Last Line: But this was the old tree's late branch wrenched away, %grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and sh Subject(s): Death - Children DEAD CHILDREN, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: Perhaps it is a comfort when the ancients go Last Line: Like confused deer one sees by the highway, %circling and circling the struck young at dawn Subject(s): Death - Children DEAR LEO, by KAREN YOCHIM Poem Source First Line: I told you when you called Last Line: Out on. I guess this means we're %no longer engaged. %keep in touch Subject(s): Death - Children DEAR PARAMEDIC, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My baby's dead!' Last Line: That I never %got to finish %rocking %my baby Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) DEATH, by ? TRIMMER Poem Source First Line: Listen Last Line: That bent, this nicked. %coins spent, %current cut. %that's all Subject(s): Death - Children DEATH ARRANGEMENTS, by JOCELYN RILEY Poem Source First Line: You arranged Last Line: In you stilted sprawl, %who had once been so floppy and tall Subject(s): Death - Children DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Last Line: Especially when they fight, and when they sing Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women DEATH OF A GIRL IN BUDAPEST, by KIM CHUN-SOO Poem Source First Line: Winter was setting in across eastern europe Last Line: More wretched that a rat dead in a ditch Subject(s): Death - Children DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN Poet's Biography First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental; Death - Babies; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me Last Line: And out of his eyes two great tear rolleds, like stones, and he died Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who navigated with success Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who navigated with success Last Line: I planted him in this country %like a flag Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death found strange beauty on that cherub Last Line: The signet-ring of heaven. Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Tears; Death - Babies DEATH OF AN INFANTS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One little bud adorned my bower Last Line: T will bloom again on high. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ah, venerate this hallowed ground Last Line: "their little mistress they bemoan." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies DEATH SENTENCE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I can't stand Last Line: Her death is %like a sentence %passed on to me Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) DEATH TO A THREE YEAR OLD, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: After you died Last Line: Where you went %especially your big brother Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) DECEMBER, by JOHN HILDEBIDLE Poem Source First Line: Singing one more half-tuned time Last Line: Like the one rose in snow, a wry %triumph even of skeptic hope Subject(s): Death - Children DECISIONS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Parents make decisions Last Line: Why %did we think %we could grieve for him Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) DENISE AT TWENTY-NINE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: She waits, facing toward home %empty of sight, releases from blood Subject(s): Death - Children DESIDERIUM: IN MEMORIAM, S.F.A., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The call of homing rooks, the shrill Last Line: Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness DESTINY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down Last Line: Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Roses; Death - Babies DETROIT, TOMORROW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan; Death - Babies DETROIT, TOMORROW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone Last Line: To kneel down and pray for life eternal Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan DIED YOUNG, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: And she is sleeping now without a dream Last Line: In that you know the mystery of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DIM HOUSE, BRIGHT FACE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She still cries over that dead child Last Line: The ones who can't know yet what living was Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DIRGE FOR AN INFANT, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is dead and gone -- a flower Last Line: All is over with him now! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Death - Children 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 DIVER, by SUSAN FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: After the drowning of his firstborn son Last Line: And over he came back, permitting me %to fill his arms Subject(s): Death - Children DON'T TOUCH, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: You came in Last Line: I have no %baby but I %do have her %shoes and socks Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) DOROTHY, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little dorothy, she is no more! Last Line: Are more lost than my heart, which died not when it broke! Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DOUBLE VODKA SCREWDRIVERS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source Last Line: This is all about %double vodka screwdrivers? Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) DOUBTS, by WING WATSON Poem Source First Line: I guess this will really be the spring Last Line: Yet crocuses are a good omen, %spring is feeling the sun, %as if for the first time Subject(s): Death - Children 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 IN WHICH RUMPLESTILSKIN COMES BACK, by SARAH COTTERILL Poem Source First Line: The child drinks at me Subject(s): Death - Children DRESSING FOR THE FUNERAL, by MEGAN LAUBER Poem Source First Line: I change my clothes Last Line: And paint my feet with the pilot light %leaving only my voice %at your grave Subject(s): Death - Children DRIVER'S LICENCE, by MAUREEN MOREHEAD Poem Source First Line: I was swimming at the y today Last Line: As we drive through louisville Subject(s): Death - Children DRUMS FOR KENNY, by BETH HARRY Poem Source First Line: The drumming stopped Last Line: Now I think the whole world %will hear about this Subject(s): Death - Children DYING, by CHRISTINA-MARIE Poem Source First Line: Tormenting winds die with relief Last Line: Time is marked on your grave, %carved in stone. But wind carries leaves %and dandelion seeds over it Subject(s): Death - Children EDDIE COCHRAN CAR RIDE, by GWYNNE GARFINKLE Poem Source First Line: I coulda gone that way too Last Line: (how fitting they found you %in your car) Subject(s): Death - Children EILEEN, DIARMUID, AND TEIG, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind unto these three, o king! Last Line: Be kind, o king, unto this two and one! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EITHER HE'S DEAD OR MY WATCH HAS STOPPED, by MICHAEL OAKES Poem Source First Line: There was the phone call, late Last Line: Same river mallards, as if they can %tell me what the shadow means Subject(s): Death - Children ELEGY, by YUAN CHEN Poem Source First Line: O youngest, best-loved daughter of hsieh Last Line: That lifelong trouble of your brow Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Death - Children ELEGY FOR A HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND, by SONDRA UPHAM Poem Source First Line: By the time she was thirty-one Last Line: Toward the train that came %whistling at her like a love-struck boy Subject(s): Death - Children ELEGY FOR YOUTH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trembled when I heard the news Last Line: I may follow without fear, %your gift to me Subject(s): Death - Children ELEVEN DAYS LATER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I was getting ready Last Line: Get the baby anymore %the baby is dead Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) EMMA MAXWELL, by JEAN BAUR Poem Source First Line: My daughter leads me to the graveyard Subject(s): Death - Children ENVELOPE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, martin heidegger, as you have written Last Line: That chain letter good for the next twenty-five %thousand days of their lives Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Death - Children; Fear; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Human Rights EPIGRAM ON A DEAD CHILD, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frowning fates have taken hence / callimachus, a child Last Line: So were his troubles small. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Variant Title(s): Calimachus Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM: 19. NICOTELES, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philip's nicoteles, a twelve-year lad Last Line: Lies buried here; the hope his father had. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH, by EDWARD BUTSCHER Poem Source First Line: In 1776 on a blue and gold day Last Line: The grasses over her grave %still pray towards the sea Subject(s): Death - Children EPITAPH FOR A YOUNG LADY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Youth, beauty, love, a mother's joy divine Last Line: But sees the daylight dawn beyond the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH FOR JOHN HOLDEN, D. 1844 AGED 5; WORCESTERSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So soon I thought thou would'st not fade Last Line: But life is like a taper's ray, %which slightest breeze may waft away Subject(s): Death - Children EPITAPH FOR MARIANA GRYPHIUS, HIS BROTHER PAUL'S LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born on the run, ambushed by sword and flame Last Line: But I was old if you add the things I suffered Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs EPITAPH FOR MARY BOLTON, D. 1882, AGED 7; LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She had no fault save what travellers give the moon Last Line: Her life was bright, but died, alas! Too soon Subject(s): Death - Children EPITAPH FOR THE SON OF THE 4TH LORD WHARTON, D. 1642, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Nine months wrought me in ye wombe Last Line: Use it so that thou maist be %happy in ye next with me Subject(s): Death - Children EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL INFANT, by THOMAS MAURICE Poem Text First Line: Bright to the sun expands the vernal rose Last Line: Put forth fair blossoms, charmed us, and expired. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They killed her lamb, and no one wept Last Line: This was the little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies Last Line: Now let him sleep in peace his night of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Last Line: And bade it blossom there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its balmy lips the infant blest Last Line: Death sang to sleep with lullaby. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this greedy stone Last Line: The only melancholy stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Erotion Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON MRS. ANNE PRIDEAUX, DAUGHTER OF DR. PRIDEAUX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature in this small volume was about Last Line: Threw dust upon it, and shut up the book Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Prideaux, John (1578-1650); Death - Babies EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep with me, all you that read Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little vault, this narrow room Last Line: The flames, the arrows, all lie here. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady mary villiers lies Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn. Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (3), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The purest soule that e're was sent Last Line: Of room to lodge th' inhabitant. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF ROBERT DIGBY, AND HIS SISTER MARY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Fair example of untainted youth Last Line: Tis all a father, all a friend can give! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE TOMBSTONE OF A CHILD, LAST OF SEVEN THAT DIED BEFORE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little, silent, gloomy monument Last Line: Spread their gay wings before the throne, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH OVER THE GRAVE OF TWO BROTHERS, A CHILD AND A YOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, that canst gaze upon thine own fair boy Last Line: Where god hath sealed the fount of hope he gave. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Graves; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she lies, a pretty bud Last Line: The earth that lightly covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement EPITAPH: CATHERINE BAKER (1778-1779), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah lovely child and art thou fled Last Line: So soon to join the silent dead Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH: HENRY BROWN (1851-1861), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How soon I was cut down when innocent at play Last Line: The wind it blew a scaffold down and took my life away Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who spurs on the road when day is done Last Line: There in his arm the boy lay dead Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Superstition ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who rideth so late through the night-wind Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides so late through the night-wind wild Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear father and dear mother: let me crave Last Line: The little girl so lightly bore on you. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EULOGY/ HEAVEN IS DESTROYING ME, by JOHN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The road was so much longer than before Last Line: Tomorrow we pause briefly %in the shadow of your eclipse, %ashadow without cosmology, without ellips Subject(s): Death - Children; Troy EVERY NIGHT, by SAMUEL RAY Poem Source First Line: Every night I sit Last Line: Perhaps my vanity %will think it dark %and sleep Subject(s): Death - Children EXPERIENCE OF BLOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never knew there was so much blood Last Line: Because after all it was my blood too Subject(s): Blood; Death - Children; Suicide FACTS, by CECILIA BUSTAMANTE Poem Source First Line: The invisible machines of war Last Line: That expertly penetrates %the tree of life Subject(s): Bullets; Death - Children; Guns; War FALL RITUAL, by BARRI ARMITAGE Poem Source First Line: Even the marigolds on my windowsill Last Line: I will kneel at this earth's pocket %as flesh of the springtime's flesh %begins to crown Subject(s): Death - Children FALLING APART, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I hear stories of Last Line: After the death of %a child are you %allowed to fall apart Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) FALSE SPRING, by CAROL LEE SAFFIOTI Poem Source First Line: I have thought many things Last Line: Water upon large stone surfaces %making pebbles Subject(s): Death - Children FANTASY BOOK, by WING WATSON Poem Source First Line: My castle in the sky: red tiled house Last Line: Book, that sits lost on a shelf, it will %be unearthed %someday Subject(s): Death - Children FAR FROM HOME, I REMEMBER THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND JOE WOLFE, GONE, by ANDREW MULVANIA Poem Source First Line: Judge is quiet tonight Last Line: Swift and silent as the pole of charon Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Memory FAR OUT AT SEA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Last Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean FAREWELL, by JOHN PRESS Poem Source First Line: The smell of death was in the air Last Line: And cry, by god's, or terror's, grace: %'I go, I go, away I go' Subject(s): Death - Children 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 FEBRUARY ELEGY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bald year, frozen now in february. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FIELD BURIAL, by CARROLL CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: Dying so young, may I retain of youth' Last Line: "shall blossom into clover, gorse and flower." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones FINISH LINE, by BARRI ARMITAGE Poem Source First Line: At twelve, in a yellow slicker, she biked muddy fields, pedaling Last Line: Tonight, I ride out my lights Subject(s): Death - Children FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I'm pregnant %nearly due Last Line: You understand %the mother %you have Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) FIRST DAY OF SUMMER, 1984, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: Lost baby of strange light and dreams Last Line: Gone fast as the click of the glasses %we had celebrated your beginning with Subject(s): Death - Children FIRST DEATH, by YVONNE MOORE HARDENBROOK Poem Source First Line: Though I didn't know you Last Line: It's better to have it over %when you're young Subject(s): Death - Children FIRST SHOT OF THE SEASON, by LONNIE HODGE Poem Source First Line: Tracks ended in the early snow Last Line: And the hunted, toward your face, %penitent and peaceful, in the snow Subject(s): Death - Children FIRST THURSDAY OF FALL SEMESTER, by MEGAN LAUBER Poem Source First Line: Mopeds mutter by Last Line: And you are buried between people you have never met %we will wipe the snow from your face Subject(s): Death - Children FIVE DAYS LATER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I know %my baby Last Line: Do I %still hear %her crying? Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) FLAIL, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: 4 times around it came Last Line: Being stuck, but weep down leaves thick as leather %and veiny as the back of my left hand? Subject(s): Death - Children FLOWERS FOR THE HEART, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers! Winter flowers! - the child is dead Last Line: The childless cannot speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR A BOY DEAD AT THIRTEEN, by SONDRA UPHAM Poem Source First Line: A beetle, plump and insistent Last Line: Surrounded by the books he was reading %even the algebra %hecouldn't understand Subject(s): Death - Children FOR A FRIEND UNDER IT ALL, by RANDY TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: When your greyhound hit the ice Last Line: That if you're deep enough %you can hear %the music of mud fish kissing Subject(s): Death - Children FOR A MISCARRIED CHILD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Bruised pear Last Line: A sphere of pith and hardening %that makes trees stand Subject(s): Death - Children FOR AMY (1957-1983), by DAISY FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: With the light the way it is today, no sign of sun Last Line: Surprising her, again and then again, %with all her favorite songs Subject(s): Death - Children FOR DAVID, THE 'BUBBLE BOY' (1), by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: David, heaven is too much Last Line: God or child, david, you go so far beyond %me, here, left %to rise to your being gone Subject(s): Death - Children FOR DAVID, THE 'BUBBLE BOY' (2), by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: David, heaven is too much %like a glass dome Last Line: Don't go, david, into that open room %your last white bed, the living air Subject(s): Death - Children FOR JOSEPH ANTHONY, by EUGENE PLATT Poem Source First Line: Happy birthday, son Subject(s): Death - Children FOR MOHAMMED ZEID OF GAZA, AGE 15, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no stray bullet, sirs Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Death - Children; Gaza, Palestine; Arab-israeli Conflict; Death - Babies FOR NICHOLAS, by TIMOTHY SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: Antoni gaudi dreams Last Line: Explore the smog-ridden %air as gaudi's %cathedral blooms %endlessly Subject(s): Death - Children FOR THE BOTH OF US, by CINDY BELLINGER Poem Source First Line: His name was probably %timothy Subject(s): Death - Children FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here Last Line: Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR THERE IS NO HELP IN THEM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies on that white breast she loves, and well Last Line: So disenchanted and so sadly wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR THOSE WHO ARE LEFT, by BARRY STERNLIEB Poem Source First Line: For those who are left Last Line: Whatever isn't being born %is giving birth Subject(s): Death - Children FOR WING WATSON, by GEORGETTE PRESTON Poem Source First Line: Severe in Last Line: Were little spaces, %hesitations %at fall of night %and the counting %of sparrows Subject(s): Death - Children FROM THE INTERIOR, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: The pass was difficult; more so Subject(s): Death - Children FROM THE JOURNAL OF AMANDA'S DEATH, by BERNICE RENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Wednesday: at the mailbox Last Line: Framed your own exotic face %that returned our love, %dropped it in leis over our heads Subject(s): Death - Children FUNERAL, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Funeral arrangements %flowers, headstone Last Line: My heart %and mind %completely broken Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) GATHERING--A CONCERTO OF BROKEN CHIMNEYS, by JENNIFER GARRETT Poem Source First Line: She lives in a house with lots of windows Last Line: Praying both deep sides of heaven %please... %hold her heart again Subject(s): Death - Children GEESE WITH THE BLACK NECKS HAVE GONE, by ? TRIMMER Poem Source Last Line: Across the slow still surface of the autumn lake %like all the days of summer Subject(s): Death - Children GET WELL, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: You've been %on antibiotics Last Line: Grief over %your sister's %death closer %to acceptance Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) GHAZAL OF THE DARK DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: I want to sleep the sleep of the apples Last Line: Who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children GIFT, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: Grandma kinneson's right shoulder Last Line: Grandpa's trembling arms %offering her dead two-year-old %like a broken gift Subject(s): Death - Children GILAD FALLEN IN SINAI, by LEO HABER Poem Source First Line: Not my son who followed his fathers Last Line: No! One band of prime light-- %and another ineradicable mark%on time's shifting sand Subject(s): Death - Children GIRL DEATH, by MAUREEN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: She was no longer than darkness Last Line: I walked conover street in my nightgown to watch %her spiritship sail out of new york harbor Subject(s): Death - Children GIVING AWAY HIS THINGS, by CARINE TOPAL Poem Source First Line: She's packing her husband's things Last Line: To the corner store %given any %given up %given %given %given Subject(s): Death - Children GOD AS THIEF, by CARINE TOPAL Poem Source First Line: Like the hand of god Last Line: How I knew %how breaking my heart %opened it Subject(s): Death - Children GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: Adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: He is tired of eve's fancy and %adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude GOLDSBORO NARRATIVE #4: MY FATHER'S VIET NAM TOUR NEAR OVER, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldier was younger Last Line: And, afterwards, there's nothing left %to look forward to Subject(s): Army - United States; Death - Children; War GOODNIGHT, by WING WATSON Poem Source First Line: Sleep %dream and hug your dog Last Line: I will adjust the thermostat %and bring in the cat Subject(s): Death - Children GREEN LIGHTS ON A BICYCLE, by NANCY ARMITAGE Poem Source First Line: Somehow I wander to the dizzy Last Line: But these chains of yours %won't crack... %are there really brakes? Subject(s): Death - Children GRIEF, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Sometiems lately I've Last Line: Times I'm fine %really I am Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) GRIEF RITUAL, by JENNIFER LAGIER Poem Source First Line: I stitch shock beneath the features Last Line: I grow accustomed to anger's devouring ulcer, need pain %to eclipse the endless movie that keeps rol Subject(s): Death - Children GUILT, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Even though my doctor Last Line: As if letting it go %--would let her go Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Your first birthday Last Line: Your birthdays will %never be happy Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) HARVEST, by BERNITA SUNDQUIST Poem Source First Line: Alone in the april woods you leaped to darkness Last Line: We stood with you in the dark, %our sister, one of us people, %and we wept %for you %for us Subject(s): Death - Children HAUNTED, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I get so scared Last Line: I get so scared %the thought of it... %finding my baby dead Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) HEADDSTONE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I %don't %have %a %baby Last Line: I %have %a %headstone Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) HEAVEN'S GLORY SHONE WHERE HE WAS LAID, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares HER FIRST-BORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was her first sweet child, her heart's delight Last Line: Nor knows how soon it will be borne away. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies HER PICTURE BY THE PIANO, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Yes, it tells Last Line: No matter how much it tells %no matter how much it asks %I don't %know Subject(s): Death - Children HEULWEN, by BRENDA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The night she died Last Line: No, her light is out. %it's all quiet %where heulwen is Subject(s): Death - Children HIEROGLYPHICS, by AMY ROTHHOLTZ Poem Source First Line: September is lying on its side Last Line: I must get back. %I left my favorite pants %hanging %in the closet Subject(s): Death - Children HIS DAUGHTER, DYING ON HER FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That fatal day, which lent my earliest breath Last Line: "mine calls aloud for tears, and bids me weep." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies HIT ME, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I %don't even Last Line: It hits %me all %over again Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) HOLIDAY TIME, by CARLYN PARKER Poem Source First Line: Perhaps you would still love me Last Line: As thanksgivings come and go %satan's reindeers pull my sleigh Subject(s): Death - Children HOLY INNOCENTS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They scarcely waked before they slept Last Line: Dear mothers, come: for heaven is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise HOPE, by KATE BERTRAND Poem Source First Line: Hope is a little nervous Subject(s): Death - Children HOW I LEARNED THAT DEATH COULD WAIT, by JO NELSON Poem Source First Line: Sabrina knew how I Last Line: That her demise %did not validate my own-- %only then did she %release my hand Subject(s): Death - Children HOW TO BE LOVED, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: That lake was where beneath pine panels Last Line: I hear it still, the radio, the son Subject(s): Death - Children HOW'S THE BABY?, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I was having Last Line: About something happening %to someone else Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation! Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee! Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies I AM A SAINT WITH RED LACES IN MY HIKING BOOTS!, by ? TRIMMER Poem Source Last Line: As if it stored in itself %an immense power %that it does not need to use Subject(s): Death - Children I FOUND HER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I made a bottle for her Last Line: And now she is gone forever Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) I LIVE A PRAYER, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: With human love Last Line: This is my prayer. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies I LOVED MY LITTLE COUSIN, by BETH BARMACK Poem Source First Line: That smooth child white Last Line: Your small silhouette %loops over us like %a lasso pushing %its way forward Subject(s): Death - Children I NEEDED YOU, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My baby %who depended Last Line: And I %thought you %needed me Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) I WANT TO SCREAM, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Lately when I hear Last Line: You have no problems Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) ICE CHILD, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold for so long, unable to speak, Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ICONOCLASTS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There are those who would silence the thrush Last Line: Comes the luminous face of christ! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Theology IF ONLY, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: To sids parents Last Line: If only %we %weren't %sids %parents Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) IF YOU HAVE TO WRITE POEMS, by ? TRIMMER Poem Source Last Line: Go where I can't see you, %and take your poems Subject(s): Death - Children IL Y A UNE FOIS, by D. BOSLEY WILDER Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: Counterpart %of my heart %which died %that same summer Subject(s): Death - Children IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them allthey are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN HEAVEN, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence filled the courts of heaven Last Line: "thy will, o lord, be done!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise IN MEMORIAM ALPHONSE CAMPBELL FORDHAM, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Yes, my darling, when life's shadows Last Line: "surely at the ""gates of gold." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies IN MEMORIAM: FOR MY DAUGHTER, by ANN B. KNOX Poem Source First Line: Before you fade Last Line: What force it takes %to separate my hands %from that sweet pull Subject(s): Death - Children IN MEMORY OF A CHILD, by LENA LONDON CHARNEY Poem Source First Line: For eight years Last Line: Daffodils, %dandelions, %nurtured by %the unseen brook Subject(s): Death - Children IN MEMORY, DECEMBER 1984, by FELICIA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: All this week I dream of john henry Last Line: In a year orwell only dreamed of, %before he knew he never would Subject(s): Death - Children IN ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, CHESTERTON, CAMBRIDGE (1797), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Near this place lies interred %anna maria vassa Last Line: But she is gone and dwells in that abode %where some of every clime shall joy in god Subject(s): Death - Children IN THE ABSENCE OF YELLOW, by REVA SHARON Poem Source First Line: It is summer and it is quiet Last Line: Here in terezin %wings the color of rust %are fluttering Subject(s): Death - Children; Jews IN THE CHURCH AT ST. IVES, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bold infidelity, turn pale and die! Last Line: They died, for adam sinned - they live, for jesus died Subject(s): Death - Children IN THE HOSPITAL, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: She sits in her strong middle age Last Line: And weakness holds him where there is %no exchange of hostages Subject(s): Death - Children IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE SHADOWS: 13, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And, well-beloved, is this all, this all? Last Line: O heart! Be merciful -- I loved him utterly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies INFELICE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the skies are tinted blue Last Line: Ah, woe is me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness INFERTILITY, by SYLVIA GIROUX RELATION Poem Source First Line: We no longer make love Subject(s): Death - Children IRASCIBLE DISTINCT MIST PEEKS THROUGH THE CREVICES OF THE GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Hope? Who has not seen a child hiding behind a tree trunk? Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina IS THERE TIME TO COMPOSE?, by SAMUEL RAY Poem Source First Line: I feel an old man in me Last Line: Hoping that beethoven did not compose %the last great symphony Subject(s): Death - Children ISATOU DIED, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who spilt the perfume %mixed with morning dew?' Subject(s): Death - Children ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise IT IS WELL, by LUCY H. HOOPER Poem Text First Line: Twas a low grave they led me to, o'ergrown Last Line: "above that quiet refuge -- ""it is well." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones IT'S REAL / IT'S OVER, by DAYBO Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children ITALIAN EXTRAVAGANZA, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Lombardi's month-old son is dead Last Line: And ten black cadillacs to haul it in Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals JAHNA CHRISTINE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Your headstone %is not Last Line: See your %name carved %in stone Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) JAZZ FOR HOMEBOY, by G. TIMOTHY GORDON Poem Source First Line: Akron in heat Last Line: How sweet kevin snell (found in fall %river) kneads the twine %with a soft left claw Subject(s): Death - Children JOHANNES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Who opens the nose of the compost? Pranajama Last Line: Where bobrowski used to rest Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Funerals; Graves JOURNEY'S END, by NICHOLAS SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: A hush falls upon the buildings; the lamps wink off one by Last Line: May they slumber in the wondrous light once more Subject(s): Death - Children KERIN, by MARIELLE JOY COHEN Poem Source First Line: So she was born Subject(s): Death - Children KERIN YOU DESERVE, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children KEVIN, by SYLVIA GIROUX RELATION Poem Source First Line: In winter your skate blades swished in the rink Last Line: Your seasons pressed with twisted metal, %your shoe sounds now silent on our steps Subject(s): Death - Children KNEELING ON A DECEPTIVE MATTRESS, by AMY ROTHHOLTZ Poem Source Last Line: They say there's skating on the pond in winter %but I just say %no Subject(s): Death - Children LAMENT, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merry merry lark was up and singing Last Line: Sleeps sound till the bell brings me. Variant Title(s): The Merry Lark Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LAMENT, by CAROLE VOPAT Poem Source First Line: The disease that soiled your immaculate body Last Line: Peter, how I wish you were %on your way to a fish dinner at the anchorage! Subject(s): Death - Children LAMENT FOR A LITTLE CHILD, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in the tomb, love Last Line: O my little child! Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies LAMENT FOR GOLDEN GOURD, JIN-HU, by CAO ZHI Poem Source First Line: Caressed and nursed in swaddling clothes Last Line: But a time will come when I go with you Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children LAMENT FOR SION Y GLYN, by LEWYS GLYN COTHI Poem Source First Line: One son was my darling-dwynwen! Last Line: And farewell, my cheery friend, %buried while I live, sion my son Subject(s): Death - Children LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Last Line: My heart cries - %for the three dead children Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning LAST LESSONS, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: After weeks of planning Last Line: And the first secret of the dead %is a shrill horn full of everything Subject(s): Death - Children LATER I'LL SAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Listening to %my body breaking Subject(s): Abortion; Childlessness; Death - Children LEARNING, by S. W. BLISS Poem Source First Line: Like a girl and her favorite doll Subject(s): Death - Children LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie - angels named her Last Line: From me like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; God; Summer; Death - Babies LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You gave the youngster into my care. - he's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You put the kid in my care. He's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER TO CAREL FABRITIUS, SEPTEMBER 1643, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I groan when I think of you in that low spot Last Line: Oh, carel, your loss winters the night Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief LETTICE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little lettice is dead, they say Last Line: On the hills, and no longer rue her! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LIFE AFTER SIDS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: How I felt Last Line: She belongs to me %and she is going to live! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) LIFE AND DEATH, by PATRICIA FILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Maria is a displaced person Subject(s): Death - Children LIFT ME HIGHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift me higher! Lift me higher! / from this sphere of earthly dross Last Line: "lifted higher"" -- than life's cares." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise LINES ON THE DEATH OF BABY, by B. H. Poem Source First Line: One little bud the less Subject(s): Death - Children LINES ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON CHARLES, by DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, thou wast my heart's delight Last Line: My son! My father! Guide me there. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My Son Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Sons; Death - Babies LINES TO A YOUNG MOTHER, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young mother! What can feeble friendship say Last Line: And laid my first-born in the silent tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies LITTLE JIM, by EDWARD FARMER Poem Source First Line: The cottage was a thatch'd one Last Line: In heaven, once more to meet again, %their own poor little jim Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Death - Children LITTLE JOHNNY, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LITTLE MATTIE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Thirteen a month ago! Last Line: Rather than such angels, lord! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LITTLE NO-NAME, by LYNNE CHENEY-ROSE Poem Source First Line: Come away with me Subject(s): Death - Children LITTLE NORA, OR THE PORTRAIT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask'd of little nora, but he drew Last Line: Still nursed her pile of summer-wreaths and smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LONE CHILDER, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: When the wind was soft sobbin' the night Last Line: For to hush where lone childer had died! Subject(s): Death - Children; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness LONELY CABIN, by JOHN A. SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Some say the cabin fell almost apart Last Line: After she found her son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Despair; Mothers & Sons; Murder; Death - Babies LONG DISTANCE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: We moved away Last Line: Or was that bench on state street %okay with you today...? Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) LONG SILENT, by JENNIFER GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Walking on the edge Last Line: Of the world's absences, %and looking for a door %to the long silent Subject(s): Death - Children LONGING FOR HIS SON, FURUHI, by YAMANOUE NO OKURA Poem Source First Line: What value to me the seven kinds of treasures Last Line: Show him the way to heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Yamamoue Okura; Okura Subject(s): Death - Children LOST AND SAVED, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou wert born into the world Last Line: In happier skies than ours! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Last Line: My life will keep silent %listening to %my body breaking Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children LOST CHILD, by HANNAH ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: They harvested their love Last Line: He was the one they lost %...Their grasshopper child Subject(s): Death - Children LOST MORNING, by FRANZ DOUSKEY Poem Source First Line: You sleep with your hands Subject(s): Death - Children LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LUCY (5), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three years she grew in sun and shower Last Line: And never more will be. Variant Title(s): The Education Of Nature;four Natural Women Subject(s): Death - Children; Nature; Death - Babies LULLABY, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little one, sleep softly Last Line: Together--I and you. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LULLABY FOR MY DEAD CHILD, by DENISE JALLAIS Poem Source First Line: You shouldn't be afraid of the dark Last Line: To console you for being little %and dead Subject(s): Death - Children LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies MAMA, by FELICIA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: I had to hunt her down Last Line: You come into this world alone.' Subject(s): Death - Children MAMMA DIN'T RAISE NO FOOLS, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died before we could honor Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MAN, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: Out of waters warm Last Line: Are the dead Subject(s): Death - Children MARGUERITE, by PATRICIA BEVAN Poem Source First Line: My cousin marguerite Last Line: The darkness, mother %no one listens for my name %anymore Subject(s): Death - Children MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day Last Line: Mary burkemary burke! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise MARY HAMILTON (VERSION A), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Word's gane to the kitchen Last Line: There was marie seton, and marie beton, %and marie carmichael, and me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MARY HAMILTON (VERSION B), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were ladies, they lived in a bower Last Line: Ye should na shamed me here Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MARY RUANE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-like girl that we knew! Last Line: Unweariedly! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MATERNAL GRIEF, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Departed child! I could forget thee once Last Line: Immortal as the love that gave it being. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies MATTHEW SCHNELL, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In high school he quit them all Last Line: To the family fold, smiling, waving a hand now, %calling from the blue skies of his brain Subject(s): Death - Children MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureenmaureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MAYBE ITS WAS THE BARS OF YOUR CRIB, by JULIE MCNEILL Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children MEDEA: SPEECH OF THE CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haggard queen! To athens dost thou guide Last Line: Perish when thy victims bleed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MELANCHOLY; AN ODE, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, vain mirth, and noisy joys Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MERRY CHRISTMAS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Couldn't we skip Last Line: And I don't %feel like celebrating Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy innocent gone home Last Line: On heavenly banks. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise 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 MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 1, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have dark egyptians stolen thee away Last Line: In changeless baby loveliness still there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 10, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis christmas, and we gaze with downbent head Last Line: In the dim nursery that men call death! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 11, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How patiently they did their work of old Last Line: In sunrise tints on memory's missal page. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 12, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the season when the elves of spring Last Line: And the wild tulips on the grassy shelves! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 13, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now florence fills her lap with buds of may Last Line: "of sun and rain, of smile and sorrow born." Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 14, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pale pressed rose-bud in the book of death Last Line: O'er his inscrutable angelic face. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 15, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how, with fancy's hand Last Line: The eye-lids sealed in pale seraphic rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 16, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little ship that passed us in the night Last Line: And she was gone; and we were left behind. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 17, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall the scents, the insect whirr Last Line: Which now, god knows, is hidden but too well. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 18, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, through the open window of the room Last Line: And watch it breathless, lest it should be she. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 19, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What alchemy is thine, o little child Last Line: Shrines in its sanctuaries while ages flow. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 2, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two springs she saw - two radiant tuscan springs Last Line: We, left alone, shall seek one bud in vain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 20, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What essences from idumean palm Last Line: Obliterate the rolls of human fame. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 3, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could know the silent shapes that pass Last Line: Of vast and lifeless seas in the beyond? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 4, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rosy as the lining of a shell Last Line: To wake the sleep-struck playground of the dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 5, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wast thou, little baby, that art dead Last Line: Enough for us, thou wast thy baby self. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 6, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bless the law that veils the future's face Last Line: Its footing, and fall headlong from to-day. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 7, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantled in purple dusk, imperial death Last Line: "now let the little children come to me." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 8, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I mind me, now that she is dead Last Line: That leave the shores that are for those that seem! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 9, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brook that fell too soon into the sea Last Line: In death's dim ocean that before us lay. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: SONNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis march; and on the hills that stretch away Last Line: Intone in march, as did their antique sires. Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MISCARRIAGE, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: There was no talking Subject(s): Death - Children MISCARRIAGE, by LOUISE H. S. FORSHAW Poem Source First Line: The lights that shine by night Subject(s): Death - Children MISERABLE SINNER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I am a child of chance with a window brush Last Line: I draw power. I walk barefoot Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death - Children; Murder; Pregnancy; Rape; Sin MISERY AND COMPANY, by BARRI ARMITAGE Poem Source First Line: Their idea sounded good--reduce grief Last Line: His book to the poem I'd wept for, %and walked in his direction Subject(s): Death - Children MISPLACEMENT, by GAIL GHAI Poem Source First Line: This morning cleaning the study Last Line: Till it finally braked %into a silent stop %of release Subject(s): Death - Children MISS AUGUST, by KAREN RICKENBACH Poem Source First Line: She sleeps in a green place Last Line: When a morning milk truck %changed destiny to oblivion %there was no laughter Subject(s): Death - Children MODERN LOVE: 11, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the yellow meadows, where the bee Last Line: Is lying a dead infant, slain by thee. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MOM, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Sam and sapphina and wini and wes Last Line: I was mom, seldom dad, and grieve now %as only a mom could, mid-morning Subject(s): Death - Children MONUMENT IN ISLEHAM CHURCH TO BARBARY THIMBLETHORPE, 1619, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whoso ear chance for to behould this tombe Last Line: Then let this tombe to all be a merror %to tel us life is but breath to trust in error Subject(s): Death - Children MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched on the dying mother's lap, lies dead Last Line: And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823); Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The mouth of a girl who had long lain among the reeds looked gnawed away Last Line: Oh, how the little muzzles squeaked! Subject(s): Autopsies; Death - Children; Expressionism - Poets; Morgues; Death - Babies MOTHER, by HANNAH ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: You were my child, my own Last Line: Your imperfections humored %and life shall never find us out again Subject(s): Death - Children MOTHER, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Four times I opened wide and life emerged Subject(s): Death - Children MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east Last Line: Let none look at me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians MOTHER AS SHITWORKER, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: After bearing elle I watched them hand her over Last Line: Not again and again %but once and for all Subject(s): Death - Children MOTIF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the garret sleeps the roof Last Line: In its crib by the mold'ring wall Subject(s): Babies;death - Children;rest; Infants;death - Babies MOURNING FOR MY ELDEST DAUGHTER ZHAOQI [WANWAN], by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: I stored your clothes in the chest, but who would wear them? Last Line: By the ge river we will exchange smiles, fortuitously met Subject(s): Death - Children; Reincarnation MY BABY, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I feel like Last Line: Like some ole' %love affair Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) MY BABY! MY BABY! THEY'VE TOLD ME HE IS DEAD, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As again it echoeth the words, 'my child, my child is dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Death - Children MY BOY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little bird once Last Line: And wish that I were dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MY BOY JACK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the news of my boy jack? Last Line: And gave to that wind blowing and that tide! Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies MY CHILD, by LISA LENZO Poem Source First Line: Your birthday is coming again Last Line: My child, I wanted to follow you %when your eyes closed on the world %I reentered without you Subject(s): Death - Children MY CHILD, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot make him dead! Last Line: T will be our heaven to find, that - he is there! Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies MY DEAD, by SONDRA UPHAM Poem Source First Line: November again Last Line: I accept this, too, %that a child can die Subject(s): Death - Children MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY FRIEND, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My friend %lets me Last Line: I just %hope I %listen enough %to her Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) MY LIFE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My sweet baby Last Line: My dreams %my world %my life Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) MY OBSTETRICIAN, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: He brought %me down Last Line: Reduced to %tears I %want to %be sick Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) MY PRETTY CHILD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mo paistin deas, I did not know Last Line: And knew how far god's gardens are. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MY SISTER'S FUNERAL, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Funerals; Grief; Death - Babies; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness MY THREE YEAR OLD, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My %three year old Last Line: He wouldn't need %my undivided %attention Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JANICE BURRES Poem Source First Line: Wrapped in blankets Last Line: It's midnight, 1980 %and silvie is dead Subject(s): Death - Children NICOLETTE, by CHARLOTTE INEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children NIGHT GLASS, by JOAN MCMILLAN Poem Source First Line: Almost a year now since the man Last Line: I watch them press at the window for hours, %feel them tap out a frantic untranslatable code Subject(s): Death - Children NIGHT HE DIED, by LINDA PORTNAY Poem Source First Line: At eighteen years old Last Line: Like the sundial in the yard, marking time %beside epaulets of goldenrod Subject(s): Death - Children NIGHTMARE BEGINS RESPONSIBILITY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I place these numbed wrists to the pane Last Line: Nightmare begins responsibilit Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry NINE STONES: 1. JENNIFER TINNING (12-26-71 TO 1-3-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were the first to feel the soft pillow Last Line: Gone from the planet, synapses, ligaments freed Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 2. JOSEPH TINNING (1-10-70 TO 1-20-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were a cap of bells, a fold at the end Last Line: You were saturday night after calamity Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 3. BARBARA TINNING (5-31-67 TO 3-2-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I aided nurses, drove the school bus. Now Last Line: A flea market tip for her sneaking suspicion Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 4. TIMOTHY TINNING (11-21-73 TO 12-10-73), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Suspicion is not a mysterious disease Last Line: His head. Every funeral is a party Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 5. NATHAN TINNING (3-30-75 TO 9-2-75), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Two minutes of force while your father sleeps Last Line: Even my hair casts its shadow Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 6. MICHAEL TINNING ADOPTED (8-3-78 TO 3-2-81), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Not even your mixed skin could keep you Last Line: Gaze at your open casket, overstuffed with toys Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 7. MARY FRANCIS TINNING (10-29-78 TO 2-22-79), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The apnea monitor, left in the armchair Last Line: On platters of baked cookies, in ham casseroles Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 8. JONATHAN TINNING (11-19-79 TO 3-24-80), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were the proof of someone's backseat Last Line: That's what we need. Duct tape Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder; Pregnancy NINE STONES: 9. TAMI LYNNE TINNING (8-22-85 TO 12-20-85), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: No root to a spring frost. No proof Last Line: From elysium has left her dower of resin Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINETY-EIGHT DAYS LATER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I realized today Last Line: I have to %cover it up %more and more Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) NO CONDOLENCES, by A. K. BAUMGARD Poem Source First Line: Grey head bent, fingering pearls Last Line: This world is the cross on which we're hung Subject(s): Death - Children NO MORE BIRTHDAY PARTIES, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: We buried her Last Line: That she %wouldn't be going %to anymore %birthday parties Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) NOBODY WANTED TO LISTEN TO ME: NOBODY WANTED TO KNOW, by LORI BROWN PATRICK Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children NOT LEAVING THIS CITY, by SAMUEL RAY Poem Source First Line: Countless skylines have faded at my heels Last Line: Your lights are stronger than time itself, %and I have found my home Subject(s): Death - Children NOW IT'S HARD, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source Last Line: To get through the first day of school %to get through the day Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) OCTOBER 30TH, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Fall is %here - winter Last Line: She only %died two %months ago Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled Last Line: How to this port at every step I go. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement OH, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, by KRSTINE OSBAKKEN Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children ON A CHILD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of a day, thou knowest not Last Line: Thou wilt not ever see her weep. Variant Title(s): To A Dead Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ON A DAUGHTER'S DEATH BY SUICIDE, by JULIE COOPER FRATRIK Poem Source First Line: Even the silent ones Last Line: Only you've come later, %will leave sooner, %aware always %that this earth %was not your place Subject(s): Death - Children ON A DEAD CHILD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee Last Line: And the things we have seen and have known and have heard of, fail us. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies 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 A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! Thou such a one hast smit Last Line: If he be dead or flown away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Tuberculosis; Death - Babies; Consumption (pathology) ON AN INFANT, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, a sleeping infant lies Last Line: "had been as short as thine." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be, rather than be called, a child of god' Last Line: Possessor, not inheritor. Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies ON AN INFANT'S DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little life Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM FOR 1979, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without kings and warriors occasional verse fails Subject(s): Africa; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Death - Babies ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM FOR 1979, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Without kings and warriors occasional verse fails Last Line: The year of the child must make no difference then %where tadpoles are never allowed to grow into fr Subject(s): Africa; Death - Children; Poetry And Poets ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Text First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross! Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness 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 READING IN A NEWSPAPER THE DEATH OF A MOTHER AND THREE CHILDREN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, my soul, sustain the mournful page! Last Line: Frail is our knowledge, frailer is our bliss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEAD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou in this wide cold church art laid Last Line: Death follows with uplifted dart. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Consolation; Death - Children; Graveyards; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by HUGO MUNSTERBERG Poem Text First Line: Dear child, now you have gone to sleep so gently Last Line: Is truly blessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Terberg, Hugo Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by EDWARD S. SILVERA Poem Text First Line: You came like the dawn Last Line: So you stole away in the dark. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came, you went, as angels go Last Line: Forth from god's hand into god's hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis o'er, - in that long sigh she past Last Line: "the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted Last Line: That till the world's last end shall make thy name to live. Subject(s): Death - Children; Plague; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death never came so nigh to me before Last Line: Doth waken thy beloved with a kiss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Death - Babies; Theology ON THE DEATH OF A HIGHLY GIFTED AND PRECOCIOUS CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too fair, too pale, too pure and wise Last Line: Heaven took what it had lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well did the holy prophet say Last Line: To gather infant buds to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by EVARISTE DE PARNY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scaping from childhood, still a child Subject(s): Death - Children; Youth; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis difficult to feel that she is dead Last Line: In its most ravishing sweetness rudely broken. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sweet child, and hast thou gone, for ever fled! Last Line: "and murmur not at your great father's will." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by DIRK SMITS Poem Text First Line: A host of angels flying Last Line: But left the shell on earth. Variant Title(s): Death Of An Infant Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The little child is dead Last Line: And love and mortal fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT OF FIVE DAYS OLD, by ELIZABETH BOYD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How frail is human life! How fleet our breath Last Line: And the shocked father tear for tear return. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by LEWIS GLYN COTHI Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: One son was a jewel to me Last Line: Farewell, whilst I live below, %my mercy darling, my sion Subject(s): Death - Children ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Dead! The child I lov'd so well! Last Line: To waft, and welcome us to land Subject(s): Death - Children ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON VINCENT, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking at morn, with the accustomed sigh Last Line: That mocked the will to move it Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Death - Children ON THE DEATH OF J.C., AN INFANT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rise Last Line: Not at your bar must sov'reign wisdom stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD, by JAMES REYNOLDS WITHERS Poem Source First Line: My child, thou art gone, thou art taken away Last Line: And blessed for ever be the name of the lord Subject(s): Death - Children ON THE DEATH OF THE POET'S DAUGHTER SATO, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world of dew Last Line: And yet Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Death - Children 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 DEATH OF TWO LITTLE CHILDREN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Bitter chance! No hand the blow could ward! Last Line: And one low funeral bell shall bring ye home! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE INFANTICIDE, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Marie farrar. Birthdate: april Last Line: So, I beg you, don't be angry at her. %each creature needs the help of every other Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder ON THE RECURRENCE OF GRIEF, by FAITH WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: So, what's it like? Subject(s): Death - Children ON TURNING THIRTY, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: Five years later Last Line: Spring %and your son %blossom without you Subject(s): Death - Children ON TWO DAUGHTERS, AND A SON DYING AT BIRTH, OF ROGER ASHTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here reader see Last Line: It glads my heart %their better part %is now with god, never to part Subject(s): Death - Children ONE MORN I LEFT HIM IN HIS BED, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A grief - your and my universe! Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children OPERATION, by WILLIAM E. PASSERA Poem Source First Line: American flag %blowing taps Last Line: Advancing %melts from view Subject(s): Death - Children ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness OUR DEAREST CHILD, OUR DEAREST LOVE CHILD, by ? DAVIDSON Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children OUR VISIT, by LEO WIENER Poem Source First Line: In a few weeks it Last Line: And return it to you %each in our way %through memory Subject(s): Death - Children OUTING, by MAUREEN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: This road held romance Last Line: When he could not bear to close %his eyes, his final triumph, peace %was found in falling snow Subject(s): Death - Children OVER THAT, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Aren't you %over that Last Line: Over that? %over her? %no Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) OVERFLOW, by JOAN MCMILLAN Poem Source First Line: Breaking through leaves, the tip of winter Last Line: Like the memory of his life %knotted to mine, %overflowing this silence, drenching the roots Subject(s): Death - Children PAINFUL WISDOM, by MARSHA BEHREND Poem Source First Line: The emptiness fills me Last Line: I sat alone, %defenseless before a jury of one) %clutching an emptiness %tight %against my breasts Subject(s): Death - Children PATCH AV GREEN AN' FIELD AV CORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, a field av goold corn jist ferenst a wee green Last Line: For wee childer's all ris up an' reapin' the day! Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Play; Roses; Death - Babies PATTY, 1949-1961, by SHARON MAYER LIBERA Poem Source First Line: Buried under a flat stone, but beside Last Line: Go flower child, in peace bloom free Subject(s): Death - Children PERSEVERING BOW STRING WHO NEVER FAILS TO RETURN WITH GAME, by MOSES IGO OWULOH Poem Source Last Line: Leopard was thrown into incessant cry of lamentation! Subject(s): Death - Children; Igede (african People); Mourning PHOTOGRAPH (25 JANUARY 1945), by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Though released your return Last Line: Your soul make invisible circles about me? Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures PILGRIMAGE, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: A score of years had passed since they had laid Last Line: And scarlet poppies, swaying with each breeze.) Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones PINING FOR HIS SON FURULI, by YAMANOUE NO OKURA Poem Source First Line: The seven treasures Last Line: Teach him the way to heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Yamamoue Okura; Okura Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning PITCHING A SOFTBALL WITH MY DAUGHTER, by MARITA GARIN Poem Source First Line: She can't believe her luck, her choice Subject(s): Death - Children PLACENTA PREVIA, by KATHARINE AUCHINLOSS LORR Poem Source First Line: This one, inside, that cups a fetus (bone) Subject(s): Death - Children PLANTING, by JEAN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: I hold the clay, wet with this morning's rain Subject(s): Death - Children PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That is your little playmate, jane Last Line: Would any child not die!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness POEM CALLED GEORGE, SOMETIMES, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: Before he died, my son made up this poem Last Line: You in your poem, but it's made me see I'm going to have to %write that poem I do not want to write, Subject(s): Death - Children POEM FOR A THIRD DAUGHTER, by JULIE COOPER FRATRIK Poem Source First Line: The v-birds of children's drawings make no sound, have Last Line: This is the third daughter's song. %the son has no refrain Subject(s): Death - Children POEM FOR ANTHONY MILANO, by JANET MASON Poem Source First Line: There is that bar, the edgely inn Last Line: You who I have never met; you who have nothing %to do with my life %except everything Subject(s): Death - Children POEM FOR MARVIN NAIRIN, by BARRY SPACKS Poem Source First Line: Marvin nairin died at twelve, no one would say from what Last Line: Always back to you back then, %marvin nairin Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory; Mourning POEMS ON DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN .. WITHIN A MONTH: HENRY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow leaves, how fast they flutter -- woodland hollows thickly strewing Last Line: Into endless day for you Subject(s): Death - Children; Loss POEMS ON DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN .. WITHIN A MONTH: KATIE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All rough winds are hushed and silent, golden light the meadow steepth Last Line: Ay, forever -- evermore! Subject(s): Death - Children; Loss POEMS ON DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN .. WITHIN A MONTH: SAMUEL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have left you, little henry, but they have not left you lonely Last Line: Into endless day for you Subject(s): Death - Children; Loss POINT GUARD, by JOHN WESSELLS ATTHOWE Poem Source First Line: Feet, a hummingbird's wings Last Line: He is me in my lofty green valley of %glacier fed springs; sunlit, airy, unseen Subject(s): Death - Children POISONOUS FRUIT, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As tommy and his sister jane Last Line: Again along the shady lane. Subject(s): Death - Children; Poisons And Poisoning; Death - Babies POOR LITTLE JOE, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prop yer eyes wide open, joey Last Line: O, my god! Can joe be dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Child Labor; Death - Children; Death - Babies POST CARD FROM NEWBLISS, by DAISY FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: I've come here for a different landscape Last Line: I shall want to take a little sip of you Subject(s): Death - Children POST PARTUM BLUES, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I've got the blues today Last Line: I feel %the gap %between my children %of a little girl %I'llnever raise Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) PRAYER, by HWANG KUMCHAN Poem Source First Line: Lord god! %a tiny soul has just left Last Line: Please love the little soul more Subject(s): Death - Children 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 PREGNANT / FOR THOSE FEW LATE DAYS, by FLORENCE ANN KOZAK Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children PREMATURE BABY, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: And she wanted that baby to live Subject(s): Death - Children PREMONITION, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the cottage stair Last Line: Her eyes might never look. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 40, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under thy rod, my god, thy smarting rod Last Line: My musick shall thy praises sweetly bring. Subject(s): Death - Children; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies PRETTY EYES, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: My little girl Last Line: Never agian %to see those...Pretty eyes Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) PROMISE OF YOU, by JUDITH EDELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I feasted on dreams Subject(s): Death - Children PROVENCAL LEGEND, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On his little grave and wild Last Line: Play-time to that martyr child Subject(s): Death - Children; Provence, France PUT IT BEHIND YOU, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Now %now %why Last Line: I %put %my %dead %child %behind %me Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) RAINY DAY, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I remember %the first day it rained Last Line: With a baby who was buried in the ground Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) RED, by KYLA MEGAN ADAMS Poem Source First Line: In one red black thunderous burst Last Line: We hold hands never letting go Subject(s): Death - Children REDWOODS, by GAGE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: Summer mornings we sat Last Line: I leave the buckets %hanging from a nail Subject(s): Death - Children REFLECTIONS, by JOHN HENRY MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: On dead grey nights I sit alone Last Line: Licks his paws, pads off on soft feet, %and never glances back Subject(s): Death - Children REFLETS DANS L'EAU, by MARSHA BEHREND Poem Source First Line: The magic sounds of water, clear as light Last Line: Although my dream, with water, rushes on Subject(s): Death - Children REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii 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 REMEMBERING GULLEN: AFFIRMATIONS TO EXPLAIN THE DEATH, by MARIANA YONUSG Poem Source First Line: This child died of dehydration Subject(s): Death - Children; Peace REMEMBERING MY DECEASED DAUGHTER YINQING ON A MOONLIT NIGHT, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: I tugged at her robe at parting Last Line: On her old dressing case in the empty chamber Subject(s): Death - Children REMEMBRANCE, by JOHN HENRY BONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that we retain of our dead friends Last Line: Remember only when her babe first smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies RESENTMENT, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I miss you Last Line: I miss %you...Always Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) RESENTMENT, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: From the beginning people Last Line: I resent the fact %that life goes on Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) RETURN TO HAMPTON BAYS, by AMY ROTHHOLTZ Poem Source First Line: The little house is painted black now, shutters shut Last Line: Black now, among scrub-pines and burning sand Subject(s): Death - Children RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 18. MARGARET EMMA HENLEY (1888-1894), by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you wake in your crib Last Line: Peace of the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies RHYTHMS, by LYNETTE CRANE Poem Source First Line: His fingers were tiny Last Line: My hands clutch my own %warm body for some remnant %of him; but I am alone. %I rock Subject(s): Death - Children ROGUE WAVE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: This morning near my house, a wave swept up Last Line: Struck, lit only by a klieg-lamp's narrow gaze Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons; Grief; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Storms; Waves RUNNING BOY, by HANNAH ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: In marathon streets Last Line: Invites you to enter his narrow kingdom %and live with him forever Subject(s): Death - Children RYAN, by C. B. FOLLETT Poem Source First Line: Today, a sparrow fell Last Line: Gone. %this boy who made a difference Subject(s): Death - Children SCHOOLBUS, AFTER A CHILD'S DEATH, by JANE RUITER Poem Source First Line: Heard through half-sleep Last Line: Premature, it seemed, %by several seconds-- %now that one less child %was riding Subject(s): Death - Children SEARCHING, by VALERIE FRIEDRICH Poem Source First Line: They call it searching - I really don't know Subject(s): Death - Children SECOND CHANGE SONG, by ELIZABETH KEMPF Poem Source First Line: If I ever get a baby in my belly again Subject(s): Death - Children SELECTED FANTASIES, 1978, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children SEVEN YEARS LATER: ON A SUICIDE, by DAVID PITRE Poem Source First Line: Not one more! Not one more! Last Line: Seven years later it's time for both of us to rest Subject(s): Death - Children SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY, by PHYLLIS HOTCH Poem Source First Line: Dance towards your birthday, a cold thursday Last Line: The liquid black eye surveys without tears, %speaks without words, believes in the dance Subject(s): Death - Children SHE ANSWERS HER COMFORTERS, by FAITH WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Yes, I have susan, geoffrey, sarah, and tim Subject(s): Death - Children SHE CAME AND WENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a twig trembles, which a bird Last Line: Only to think she came and went. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SHE IS GONE YET SHE IS STILL WITH ME, by FRIEDA STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Unto-heaven is my prowl Last Line: Without you there is no chapel Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Love SILVAE: STATIUS CONSOLES ATEDIUS FOR THE LOSS OF HIS ADOPTED SON, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so death took him. Yet be comforted Last Line: And win thy parents back to thee again Alternate Author Name(s): Statius Subject(s): Adoption; Death - Children SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 123, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby lies so fast asleep Last Line: Kiss her once and leave her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 24, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did baby die? Last Line: But bow and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SISTER FAR AWAY, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: She sat cross-legged, studious, on the bed Last Line: Eyes that knew I would always be there, %that tiny, listening hand Subject(s): Death - Children SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SIXTY-SEVEN DAYS LATER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I don't miss her Last Line: Keep it to myself %buried like she is Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) SKELETONS, by PHILLIS GERSHATOR Poem Source First Line: In the old days Subject(s): Death - Children SLEEP, DARLING, SLEEP, by MARY B. C. SLADE Poem Text First Line: Fold thy hands, little one Last Line: Rest, darling, rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SMALL DAUGHTER, by JUDITH YARROW Poem Source First Line: No, little baby I am Subject(s): Death - Children SMALL SON, by MAUDE MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: They have gone Subject(s): Death - Children SMALL WAR, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: They brought anti-tank mines, useless Last Line: All emblematic, immemorial Subject(s): Death - Children; Fights; Pyrenees (mountains), Europe; War SNOWBANKS NORTH OF THE HOUSE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house... Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives SOMETIMES FATE WILL STEAL A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soft as a bundle of rags Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Children; Fate; Nature; Old Age SOMETIMES I REGRET THE DECISION I MADE PERSONALLY, by ROCHELLE H. DUBOIS Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children SOMETIMES MY TEARS, by JAMES MARDIS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes Last Line: And the camera %is the only eye %that recalls these truest moments %of living... %without tears Subject(s): Death - Children SOMEWHERE IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, by CHARLOTTE ANNE ALEXANDER Poem Source Last Line: Where did this all begin? %how much more technology can we afford Subject(s): Death - Children SONG, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The house is a cote for doves Last Line: The rhythms of the sea resound Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Mothers And Sons SONG FOR A LOST SON, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: My son's image Last Line: Mist faces, %faces in shrouds, %faces in clouds... %water has worn the cameos down Variant Title(s): Song For A So Subject(s): Death - Children SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We set wreaths of brightness on the graves of the passionate Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SONG FOR THE FUNERAL OF A BOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On stems from silver woods Last Line: As dews that on the uplands shine and go! Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials SONG OF HANDS, by JESUS E. VALENZUELA Poem Source First Line: Hands-like soft blossoming buds Last Line: You shall that day hold the lyre! Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Kindness; Prayer SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. Variant Title(s): "desideria;transient Joy;""surprised By Joy-impatient As The Wind""; Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Wordsworth, Catherine (1808-1812); Death - Babies; Bereavement SORROW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has its wonders too which Last Line: This sorrow will remain Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief SORROW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Heaven took my wife. Now it Last Line: Not even a shadow in the mirror Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children; Grief SOUTH PEARL STREET, by SHARON NEGRI Poem Source First Line: Second thursday in july Last Line: Watch for the shine %to rise up in him Subject(s): Death - Children SPAWNING, by CAROL DINE Poem Source First Line: I store you Subject(s): Death - Children SPECIAL OCCASIONS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: We don't bring her Last Line: A basket for easter %we bring her flowers Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) SPOTTED PONY, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: I see you still on a black and white pony Last Line: Billy, billy, where--and why-- %did the spotted pony go? Subject(s): Death - Children ST VITUS DANCE, by JOAN MAIERS Poem Source First Line: Friends reflect Last Line: Weighs daylight against the dark. %then turns her brights into water Subject(s): Death - Children STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though parental affection lament thee Last Line: Through the god of the spirits of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STARKNESS, by WING WATSON Poem Source First Line: The snow %covers %and covers Last Line: And the silence of winter %with bare trees keeps watch with me Subject(s): Death - Children STILL AWKWARD, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: It's still awkward after Last Line: Pretend that I never %had my second child Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) STILL LIFE WITH GOLEM, by MAGGIE JAFFEE Poem Source First Line: Already Last Line: (but I know that birds %learn to fear the hawk's %shadow before they ever learn %of the hawk). %no b Subject(s): Death - Children STOLEN, by JO NELSON Poem Source First Line: We loosed a thousand balloons Last Line: Flitting happily, it hummed %a song of death and life %to the rest of the universe Subject(s): Death - Children STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies SUBSEQUENT CHILD, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: When you were born Last Line: When you were born %I knew for sure Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) SUCH IS LIFE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: It's a mellow evening Last Line: Such is grief Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) SUICIDE AT DAWN WAS WRAPPED IN LIGHT, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: The suicide at noon was wearing warm clothes Last Line: With the name of that unknown court: the kingdom of why Subject(s): Death - Children SUMMER WITH THE BABY, by HILARY SIO Poem Source First Line: I grab the key Subject(s): Death - Children SUNDERLAND CHILDREN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the surplus childhood, held as cheap! Last Line: Wisely. She feared their threat Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Death - Children SWIMMER, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: The waters are slipping away from you Last Line: I also will learn the currents. %teach me the path to the beach Subject(s): Death - Children SYLVIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across a space peopled with stars I am Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TAMMI, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: I always think of you in summer Last Line: The last day of your life %on another summer day %I can't forget Subject(s): Death - Children TANKA: AN INTERNEE MOURNS FOR HIS SON WHO DIED IN ITALY, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: As thou light a candle Subject(s): Death - Children; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TEDDY BEAR, by CAROL FOWLER Poem Source First Line: He didn't look much like my baby Subject(s): Death - Children TELL KIRK, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: Tell kirk I have stopped looking for him Last Line: Catching the echo of his laughter %where all the questions drown Subject(s): Death - Children THAT LIGHT GREEN '53 FORD SEDAN, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: I hand you my story to type Last Line: How deep your eyes were, %how gentle your hands Subject(s): Death - Children THAW, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empty mocking bird nests Subject(s): Corpses; Death - Children; Cadavers; Death - Babies THE ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the barred window sandbags Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BLUE HOG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have to buy the acid Last Line: Who's said to still be in the district. Variant Title(s): A Blue Hog Subject(s): Death - Children; Devil; Pigs; Revenge; Death - Babies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Boars; Hogs THE BOOTLESS BAIRN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days of the whirling snowflakes, nights of the / weeping wind Last Line: They fall on the bootless bairn, and crush the hapless child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIAL OF AN INFANT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest infant bud, whose blossom-life Last Line: To dress them, and unswaddle death. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE BURIAL OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark-eyed maids, at shut of day Last Line: Highest and nearest god's right hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIED CHILD, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Text First Line: He is not dead, nor liveth Last Line: To his mother saith. Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Call my brother back to me Last Line: "would I had loved him more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Half-brothers; Death - Babies THE CHILD'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy sight, sorrento, green thy shore Last Line: From long deep slumbers at the morning light. Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE CHILD'S GRAVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the churchyard where pretty joy lies Last Line: Her sweet dawning smile and her violet eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHILD'S LAST SLEEP; SUGGESTED BY MOMUMENT OF CHANTREY'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepst - but when wilt thou wake, fair child? Last Line: Beautiful dust! When we look on thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Death - Children; Sculpture & Sculptors; Women; Death - Babies THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long." Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CHILDLESS MOTHER'S LULLABY, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, many's the time in the evening Last Line: "tenderest angels will guard thy rest." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE COAL STRIKE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Red are the rails with rust to-day Last Line: Who went to heavenstarved. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Heaven; Hunger; Poverty; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne. Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE DAWN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: He shook his head as he turned away Last Line: "are dancing and singing. ""thank god the dawn!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Mothers; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: But yesterday she played with childish things Last Line: She will not smile to-day, for she is dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, dear, now Last Line: And share thy rest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child had of the garden made a friend Last Line: "come, let me see your fine new summer-dress!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD AND THE MOCKING-BIRD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a land of balm and flowers Last Line: Moans round their place of sleep! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD SON, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy was in the clay Last Line: God comfort them that mourn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement THE DEATH LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, baby, sleep!" Last Line: In dreamless sleep Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cover him over with daisies white Last Line: For the first-born, love, is dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DOLL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry you in a glass jar Last Line: Dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dolls; Toys; Death - Babies THE DYING BOY TO THE WINDFLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And have ye come again Last Line: I follow! Lead the way! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Death - Babies THE DYING CHILD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could not die when trees were green Last Line: He died so quietly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Spring; Death - Babies THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear? Last Line: The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides so late through the midnight blast? Last Line: But alack! In his arms the child lay dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE FAITH OF A CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've learned the tale of the crooning waves Last Line: Of rosses by the sea. Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Faith; Heaven; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had begun in the gloaming Last Line: Folded close under deepening snow. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Snow; Dead, The; Death - Babies THE FOUNTAIN AT THE TOMB, by NICIAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay weary traveler, stay! Last Line: His buried child to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE GIFT OF THE SEA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead child lay in the shroud Last Line: "we let it die in the dark!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean THE GOLD PIECE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: My lord will not miss of all his store Last Line: Because I have stolen from my lord the ransom he would not give. Subject(s): Death - Children; Gold; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise THE GOOD LORD GAVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The good lord gave, the lord has taken from me Last Line: Oh, 'tis lonely, lonely, by the little grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 100. A NEW-BORN DEATH (2), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou, o life, the lady of all bliss Last Line: And did these die that thou mightst bear me death? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Death - Babies THE INDIAN WITH HIS DEAD CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of the midnight Last Line: My father's path I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Native Americans; Death - Babies; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE IRISH MOTHER'S LAMENT, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half the long night, my children, I lie waking Last Line: In the next glad spring time? Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Absent Ones Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives THE LAST CRADLE SONG, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu Last Line: I'll sing to my baby for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LITTLE ONE THE WATER-SPIRIT LOVED, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: So young he could not go alone on earth Last Line: Before whom I must smile dry-eyed? Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Mothers; Water; Death - Babies THE LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LOST CHILDREN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little girls, one fair, one dark Last Line: But the child keeps on playing, so I play Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Death - Babies THE LOST LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Simple and sweet as a child Last Line: Simple and sweet as a child. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Paradise THE LOST SISTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They waked me from my sleep, I knew not why Last Line: Which rent thee from me. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I believe in the community of little children Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE MOTHER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas! Christmas! Merry christmas! Rang the / bells. / o god of grace! Last Line: While twain spirits, joy and sorrow, hovered o'er my plundered nest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE MOTHER'S LAMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale and cold is the cheek that my kisses oft press'd Last Line: And only to wake when ascended to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Cold is his brow, and the dew of the evening Last Line: Henceforth will I worship my saviour alone! Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S PLEA, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand not here in judgment, haughty priest Last Line: "leaves life its worth. That lost I welcome death." Subject(s): Death - Children; Faith; Mothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed THE MOURNER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night that wee francesca died Subject(s): Mourning; Death - Children; Bereavement; Death - Babies THE MOURNING MOTHER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou weep, mourning mother Last Line: Wait on, thou mourning mother. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE RABBIT TRAP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in de sage fiel', settin' in de sno' Last Line: An' little phil sleeps in de sleet an' de rain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Death - Children; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SCULPTURED CHILDREN; ON CHANTREY'S MONUMENT IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair images of sleep Last Line: The faith, trust, joy, of immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Monuments; Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies THE SPANISH CHAPEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a mountain brook my guide Last Line: "an angel thus to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Spain; Women; Death - Babies THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us! Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE TREASURE BOX, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Ah! Here's the box! And there's his baby shoe Last Line: His glory home! O little star of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; War; Death - Babies THE TURNSTILE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Sad were we as we did peace Last Line: His last white arms, and they stood still. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE TWO MYSTERIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies THE WHITE HEARSE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, I have walked with you through summer days Last Line: Discards the life, and builds on blood its wealth. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman sentinel stood helm'd and tall Last Line: Jesus went calmly on his way to nain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Death - Babies THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice Last Line: Weep for his mother! -- weep, young bride, for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers-in-law; Death - Babies THERE IS ONE THING, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: One %thing %I Last Line: The nausea %does %eventually %go %away Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute -- looking at the grave in which he lies! Variant Title(s): The Boy Poet;the Boy And The Owls Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute - for he died when he was ten years old. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THEY DON'T KNOW, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I see %people I Last Line: Who don't %even know %I had %my baby Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) THEY SAW HER GRASP HER OWN WAIST, AND THE FRICTION FROM HER HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Rocked dead in her dreams-a memory-in her land of smoke Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers; Solitude; Sons THEY SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME, THEY SHOULD HAVE SAID, by LORI BROWN PATRICK Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children THIS DEWDROP WORLD, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Death - Children THIS PEN CLINGING TO MY HAND, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: But they soon start to whisper %and your arms once so generous Subject(s): Death - Children THOMAS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead, my son! My son! Last Line: "the tears of parting blind me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THRENODY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-wind brings / life, sunshine, and desire Last Line: "lost in god, in godhead found." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TIMOMACHUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in his father's arms he lay / and breathed the joy of youth away Last Line: A heart so brave, so cool a head.' Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A BEREAVED MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, say not that your little son is dead Last Line: Is your ambassador. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TO A BEREAVED MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER TWO LITTLE BOYS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother bereaved! From thy desolate hearth Last Line: Tis well with thy children, with thee it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep breathes at last from out thee Last Line: "who say, ""we 've finished here." Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): To T. L. H. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies TO A CHILD IN HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: How dost thou fare in the high, silent skies? Last Line: Since thou art there and I to earth exiled? Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO A DEAD BABY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale little feet, grown quiet ere they could run Last Line: There is a heaven that makes this earth complete. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Life; Infants; Death - Babies TO A DYING BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bubble, break! All heaven thou hast Last Line: Love calls thee to depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A DYING INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to thy rest, my child! Last Line: Amid yon cherub-train. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A FATHER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand of the highest, who woundeth, can heal Last Line: That thou may'st go to him, though he cannot return. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Death - Babies TO A GENTLEMAN & LADY ON THE DEATH ... CHILD NAMED AVIS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On death's domain intent I fix my eyes Last Line: And seek beatitude beyond the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LADY AND HER CHILDREN, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON ..., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song Last Line: And to your god immortal anthems raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LITTLE CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear eyes of heaven's chosen hue Last Line: I feel god's wondrous tenderness. Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO A YOUNG GIRL DYING, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is palm sunday: mindful of the day Last Line: Pray that our pilgrimage may end like thine! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies 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 INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by MEHETABEL (WESLEY) WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO BE A HERO, by DORIAN BROOKS KOTTLER Poem Source First Line: When you have a baby Subject(s): Death - Children TO HER SACRED MAJESTY, THE QUEEN MOTHER, ON DEATH OF MARY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Respite, great queen, your just and hasty fears Last Line: And dereliction adds unto remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Death - Babies TO JOY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not this enough for moan Last Line: Alone on that most wintry wild? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO KING CHARLES AND QUEEN MARY FOR LOSS OF THEIR FIRST-BORN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who dares deny, that all first fruits are due Last Line: Cannot but heap that grace, he will require. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie!' angels missed her Last Line: Than the morning skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Tears; Death - Babies; Paradise TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER, UPON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let thy tears, le vayer, let them flow Last Line: -- surely these claim immitigable [or, eternity of] tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothe Le Vayer, Francois De La; Death - Babies TO MRS. J. CLELAND ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED SON AND ONLY CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My olive plant, so green and fair Last Line: "and thou wilt join him ne'er to sever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO MY DEPARTED BABY, by LOUISA A. HORSFIELD Poem Source First Line: The flowers will bud and bloom again Last Line: To canaan's ever-blooming shore Subject(s): Death - Children TO OLINTHUS GREGORY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a spot where pity's foot Last Line: Sees all life held most dear enshrined. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies TO ONE BEREFT, by ETHEL KNAPP BEHRMAN Poem Text First Line: War drums shall never summon him, nor cold Last Line: Such love can not be covered in a grave. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO SOME VIOLETS, by ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ GRANADOS Poem Source First Line: O sweet violets, blue as heaven Last Line: And her eyes their heavenly hue! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief TO THE HONOURABLE T.H. ESQ; ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Last Line: "converse with heav'n, and taste the promis'd joy" Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO THE LADY CREW, UPON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, madam, will ye longer weep Last Line: To spring againe another yeare. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At times our britain cannot rest Last Line: Will mix with love for you and yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Blackwood, Frederick (1826-1902); Death - Children; India; Death - Babies TO THE MEMORY OF A FAVOURITE CHILD; THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is on the haunted air Last Line: An altar for my prayers and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THE MOTHERS OF ONCOLOGY, by LINDA KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Maybe between shifts Last Line: Maybe you're recalling, as a mother, the memory of that first %kiss Subject(s): Death - Children TO THE SPIRIT OF THE TREE, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: O vibrant, calm, o quietude magnanimous, sonorous Last Line: And still to be immovable, majestic as a thought! Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Heaven; Mourning TO THEODORE, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such are the little memories of you Last Line: Kneel nightly now in agony of prayer. Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The billows on the beach are leaping around it Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lost william, thou in whom Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy little footsteps on the sands Last Line: When we returned to gaze on thee -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TOMORROW, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow will be two Last Line: It's too hard to %be idle and sad Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) TOSA DIARY, SELS., by KI NO TSURAYUKI Subject(s): Death - Children; Diaries TOURING POLAND, by SHULAMITH BAT-YISRAEL Poem Source First Line: Yes, I have seen the great caches Last Line: You're wrong, I said, god knows. God knows! Subject(s): Death - Children TOYS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have laid you away as we lay Last Line: With the toys of a little dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Toys; Death - Babies TRISOMY 21, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: This one we could define Subject(s): Death - Children TROUBLE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One folds the little white hands, and lays a flower Last Line: God wot,a living grief is worse than the peace that folds the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TUESDAY MORNING I WAS TRANSPORTED TO A ROOM, by ELIZABETH KEMPF Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children TWENTY YEARS, by DO TAN XUAN Poem Source First Line: The girl grew up to become a woman Last Line: The spring hangs its head and sighs Subject(s): Death - Children; Revolutions TWENTY-SIX DAYS LATER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I %feel %like Last Line: My %life %without %you Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) TWENTY-TWO DAYS LATER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Please %let %it %be %easier Last Line: Go %on %living %without %you Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) TWILIGHT: YOUR CHISELLED LIPS, by AMY ROTHHOLTZ Poem Source Last Line: Hyacinth blue explodes, %saying what I cannot Subject(s): Death - Children TWO CHILDREN, DYING OF ONE DISEASE, AND BURIED IN ONE GRAVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought forth, in sorrow, and bred up in care Last Line: By taking this inheritance of dust. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones TWO DREAMS, 1978, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Sperm lay dali-style all over the third floor Subject(s): Death - Children TWO MYSTERIES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Subject(s): Death - Children TWO MYSTERIES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the room, in its white coffin, lay the dead Subject(s): Death - Children TWO SMOTHERED CHILDREN, by MARION ALBINA BIGELOW Poem Source First Line: Theirs was not a peaceful death-bed Last Line: And no voice of pity answer'd %to their feebly moaning cries Subject(s): Death - Children TWO-HEADED CALF, by SUSAN FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: You aim the lens over your shoulder Last Line: You're the two-headed calf or the baby %girl born with her heart outside-- %monstrous but alive. Ali Subject(s): Death - Children UGOLINO, FR. INFERNO: CANTO 33, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I awake before the dawn, my head Last Line: Bit into the skull and again took hold Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): The Flight Path: Subject(s): Death - Children; Hunger; Skulls UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS, TEREZIN, by REVA SHARON Poem Source First Line: It was here jhirka %in that black yesterday Last Line: ... But jhirka %who will ask your questions Subject(s): Death - Children; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNCOMFORTABLE, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Most people %seem uncomfortable Last Line: Take away %the pain %by changing %the subject Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) UNDER THE VIOLETS, by EDWARD YOUNG (1818-) Poem Text First Line: Under the violets, blue and sweet Last Line: O grave! I would thy gates were wide. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UNTITLED, by MARY JO BANG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here a pretty baby lies Last Line: Th' easy earth that covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON A CHILD; AN EPITAPH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But borne, and like a short delight Last Line: Love and they'l thank you for't. Adieu. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON OUR LATE LOSS OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The failing blossoms, which a young plant bears Last Line: As a first-fruit, heaven claim'd that lovely boy; %the next shall live, and be the nation's joy Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death - Children UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF J.K., FIRST BORN OF H.K., by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed spirit, thy infant breath Last Line: Since what is thy fate now, must once be mine. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON WEDLOCK, AND DEATH OF CHILDREN, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious knot god made in paradise Last Line: Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Parents; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies; Parenthood UPON YOUNG MASTER ROGERS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gentle blood, his parents only treasure Last Line: He leap'd o'er age, and took the shortest way. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness UPS AND DOWNS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: There are definitely Last Line: It seems that %there are more %downs than ups Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) VERA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, I know not if thy poor old father Last Line: I could not keep her here, nor lose her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Love; Memory; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF A CHILD NAMED AFTER CHARLES LAMB, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our gentle charles has pass'd away Last Line: The poet and the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Death - Children; Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Death - Babies VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF P. BURGESS; A CHILD OF SUPERIOR ENDOWMENTS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not length of years which lends Last Line: Partake with joy its light forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies VERSES, SUGGESTED BY THE FUNERAL OF AN EPITAPH IN BURY CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When siloam's tower in fragments strew'd the ground Last Line: The boon of immortality was given! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials VISITATION FOR THE NEIGHBOR BOY; MORTON'S CHAPEL, LINN, MISSOURI, by ANDREW MULVANIA Poem Source First Line: Dust gathers in the air outside the home Last Line: And he just lies there and won't move Subject(s): Death - Children WAIL OF THE DIVORCED, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I give thee up, my child, my dearest, earliest born Last Line: And may'st thou find a home at last in heaven's celestial bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WAITING ROOM, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the waiting room Last Line: Forget for a moment about %grieving and babies who die Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WE ASSUME: ON THE DEATH OF OUR SON, REUBEN MASAI HARPER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We assume / that in 28 hours Last Line: You did not know we loved you. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WELL WATER, by ELLEN GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Remorse is not a river but a well Last Line: Today I sprinkle it on my wrists, forehead, %think of my baby that died , that I didn't name Subject(s): Death - Children WESTERN-TRAINED IN THE OTHER WORLD, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bolted out of bed full of ideas Last Line: A fox-trot, saw yourself in black tuxedos Subject(s): Death - Children; Hospitals; Physicians; Sickness WET, by PAM CONRAD Poem Source First Line: It was wet and black Subject(s): Death - Children WHAT HAPPENED, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: What happened %to our Last Line: And scattered %in a %million directions Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WHAT NOT TO SAY, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: At %least %she Last Line: I %was %attached Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WHAT WAS THERE FOR HIM TO HEAR? FAINT SUNLIGHT, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: The bare trees a few hidden leaves far light Last Line: I cannot stand stand this pure silence' Subject(s): Death - Children WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN?, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I have learned that Last Line: It's not worth it Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WHEN MY BABY DIED, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: When %my baby Last Line: Something terrible %happening %to one of my %surviving children Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Last Line: Of our mortal goddess on the indifferent wind Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life WHERE CHRISTOPHER IS, by FAITH WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Nobody's grandson, a busy boy Subject(s): Death - Children WHITEOUT, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: Cats captured her dreams Subject(s): Death - Children WHY ARE WE ALL CLOTHED?, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are we all clothed? A man in this room Last Line: The close of reason and belief, %stand as if stepped from, meant for folding up Subject(s): Death - Children WHY DID THEY LAUGH?, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Why %did they laugh Last Line: It's one block %from the house Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING IT UP?, by PHILLIS GERSHATOR Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children WHY SOME NIGHTS I GO TO BED WITHOUT UNDRESSING, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Even as my children climb Last Line: Strange strained voices on the phone, %and I do not undress Subject(s): Death - Children WIDOW OF NAIM [OR, NAIN], by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The men that cut their graves in the grey rocks Last Line: Promised to all the widow-church's risen children.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WISHING, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I wish I could get over Last Line: With everyone %walking around you Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids); Wishes WITHOUT HER, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: Deeper and deeper Last Line: I bury my feelings %where she can be found Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) WOMAN AND HER UNBORN CHILD, by SHARON ELSWIT Poem Source First Line: It was like a mugging Subject(s): Death - Children WOMAN, WIFE, WIDOW: AIRBORNE, by FRAN CASTAN Poem Source First Line: Inside the sealed cabin, where gravity Last Line: And to give her a coverlet of earth Variant Title(s): Airborn Subject(s): Death - Children WOMAN, WIFE, WIDOW: OPERATION CRAZY HORSE, by FRAN CASTAN Poem Source First Line: A grand kowloon hotel. A hedge Last Line: All I could do was hold you Variant Title(s): Operation Crazy Hors Subject(s): Death - Children WOMEN WHO LOST BABIES, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source Subject(s): Death - Children WOUNDED CHILD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She wants to be heard, waits patient as earth Last Line: There-among the stalks and leaves, sighing Subject(s): Death - Children; Gardens And Gardening; Memory WRETTEN BY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD ROBERT PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord hath called for my sonne Last Line: Enoughe my lord; now lett me dye. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Death - Babies WRETTEN MY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD PERIGRENE PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my all was given before Last Line: Thy hand maid's pleas'd, compleatly happy still: Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WRITING OF MY SORROW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Heaven took my wife from me Last Line: This gaunt and worn ghost in the mirror Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children; Grief YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fingers lie in the lap Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness YOU GOT TO BE NEXT, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: It doesn't matter Last Line: You give %to the %birth order Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) YOU HAVE FINALLY GROWN AND NOW LAY DYING, by AMY ROTHHOLTZ Poem Source Last Line: The spinster in my closet %sweeps me quietly out the door Subject(s): Death - Children YOU PUSHED YOUR WAY INTO MY LIFE, by NICHOLAS JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Like I was famous or something--I remember Last Line: Hit by a car full of men with machine guns %you would have adored %if you were still %alive Subject(s): Death - Children YOU REFUSE TO DIE, by PATRICIA BEVAN Poem Source First Line: The rabbits' dance is over Last Line: I shiver %watch you flutter swollen against the window %on this ordinary day Subject(s): Death - Children YOU'LL DRESS HIM, by YVONNE MOORE HARDENBROOK Poem Source First Line: In his new red sweater the one you Last Line: When he was your only son you snap %the album shut with two sons left Subject(s): Death - Children YOU'RE ON MY MIND, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: You're the %last thing Last Line: There's nothing %I can %do to %bring you %back Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) YOU'RE ONLY IN MY DREAMS, by SHARON DUNN Poem Source First Line: I'm pretty low Last Line: To go on %living without you Subject(s): Death - Children; Sudden Death Infant Syndrome (sids) |
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