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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GRANDCHILDREN Matches Found: 50 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds had an angel Last Line: Through all the heavenly height. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Grandchildren; Magi; Grandsons; Granddaughters A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood A POET TO HIS GRANDCHILD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of my buried son, while thus thy hand ...' Last Line: "my careless little-one, for thee and thine!" Subject(s): Grandchildren A THOUSAND TIMES, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH Poem Text First Line: Lovely are little hills where young grass climbs Last Line: But I bend closer to each granddaughter. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters BLACKBERRIES FOR AMELIA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fringing the woods, the stone walls, and the lanes, Subject(s): Blackberries; Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters CALVES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to canaan there is Last Line: The whole of life lies before her Subject(s): Grandchildren DIPPING CANDLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-dipping candles used to be Last Line: Can turn no tastier trick today. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandchildren; Vermont; Relatives; Grandsons; Granddaughters FAMILY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Charter's father invites family to lunch when he has something Last Line: Visit by visit, jose widens his world to include these woods, these people, our lives Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Grandchildren FAVORITE GRANDSON BRAID, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: I do not think grandmother or grandfather Last Line: Favorite grandson braid touches my heart Subject(s): Grandchildren FLEUR DE LYS, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: I remember / one time she walked within Last Line: Must be a glory to behold. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters FOR REBECCA, FOR WHOM NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN PAGE AFTER PAGE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have a language that serves us more, or less Subject(s): Grandchildren; Language; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Words; Vocabulary GRANDCHILD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take her to the park, I swing her in the little swing Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters GRANDCHILDREN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It won't work Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANDDAUGHTER, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: Loving transfigures. %my face changes Last Line: As loneliness %or birds singing Subject(s): Aging; Grandchildren GRANDDAUGHTER, by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Matrons win me with sly food Last Line: But when brynellen takes my hand, %I am undone as flowing sand Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANDDAUGHTER IN PERIL, by JANET RUTH HELLER Poem Source First Line: Man of the house at twenty-two Last Line: I can write this down while I listen Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANDDAUGHTER, FIRST MEETING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the best place for our meeting, this Last Line: I feel you around my finger like a ring Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANDFATHERS HANDS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Grandfathers hands in the sausge tub Last Line: Clicking on and off all the way home Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans GRANDMA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Grandma used to sit Last Line: Bright and brief as an adolescent's dress %on a dark porch Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Past GRANDSON, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS Poem Source First Line: Your grandmother has not moved from her couch Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANDSON, by ANNE NICODEMUS CARPENTER Poem Source First Line: Along with 'no,' 'mine' came first Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANDSON, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: You are %a porcelain figurine Last Line: And I hold your mother %once again in my arms Subject(s): Aging; Grandchildren GRANDSON, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: There goes the grandson, run off to the beach! Last Line: Wait for me, dear old days! I'm coming too Subject(s): Grandchildren GRANNIE'S DREAM: A TRUE INCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the winter e'ening fire Last Line: "the dream ye tauld this nicht to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Dreams; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nightmares; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers IF OUR GRANDCHILD BE A GIRL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish for her Last Line: Wearing %extravagant gloves Subject(s): Grandchildren IN HONOR OF MY SECOND DAUGHTER, ON THE BIRTH OF A GRANDSON, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: You're propped up in bed, and I'm kneeling next to you, what happiness for us Last Line: Greater and lesser officials will find it hard to bully him Subject(s): Grandchildren LIFETIME GIFT, by LOIS GREENE STONE Poem Source First Line: The clear plastic bassinet Last Line: She's made me a grandma Subject(s): Grandchildren LINES TO A PROBABLY UNLISTENING GRANDDAUGHTER, by ANNEMARIE EWING Poem Source First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may... Last Line: Learn to value your differentnesses Alternate Author Name(s): Towner, John H., Mrs.; Towner, Annemarie Ewing Subject(s): Grandchildren LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I wish him? Strength and health Last Line: May even as his grandsire be! Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters LONG ROOT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: She liked to tell jokes Last Line: I must say them %backward Subject(s): German Americans; Germany; Grandchildren; Grandparents MY GRANDDAUGHTER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daphne (age 2) can't say Last Line: Can have a 'dental sauce' Subject(s): Grandchildren MY GRANDSON AT GREEN LAKE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Shane gabriel diamond, just two Last Line: And demeter, bringing bread and light Subject(s): Boys; Grandchildren; Lakes MY SANCTIFIED GRANDMOTHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Not my own. Theirs Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Speech MY SON'S SON TO HIS SON'S SON - PERHAPS, by MABEL RUTHERFORD BRIDGES Poem Text First Line: See that lovely, stately thing! Last Line: And write of trees. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Pine Trees; Grandsons; Granddaughters NATIVITY SCENE, by ETHEL POCHOCKI Poem Source First Line: Sofia, %the two-year-old granddaughter Last Line: She wraps it with the gold, %and they move on Subject(s): Christmas; Grandchildren NURSING HOME: THE VISIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild-animal fear is upon him Last Line: His hair through the cage. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nursing Homes; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living POEM FOR MY GRANDSON, by TRAN TE HANH Poem Source First Line: When my child was born, I was young again Last Line: And his fingers stroke my white beard Subject(s): Grandchildren; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVILEGE, by RUTH MILLER REED Poem Text First Line: If youth were all- fleet - footed, gay with song Last Line: The master walked beside the least of these. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Walking; Youth; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PROMISES TO KEEP, by HELEN MINTUS Poem Source First Line: When I see my baby grandson Last Line: Will have a world to inherit.. %will not be betrayed Subject(s): Future; Grandchildren RAISING A GLASS FOR GRANDSONS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Break out champagne uncle carl smuggled back Last Line: And day when these boys wake and cry Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Grandchildren; Toasts SADIE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I snapped the picture weeks ago - captured Last Line: We're free to grow old Subject(s): Grandchildren; Photography And Photographers SAFE CONDUCT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snowplow was a rattling iron box Last Line: As distant as this world. Subject(s): Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Plowing & Plowmen; Snow; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SAMANTHA QUITS GROWING, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: From ultrasound to ultrasound Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Grandchildren; Growth; Sickness; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Illness SKY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: On a bright blue day in october Last Line: And the lakes look as deep as the sky Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Old Age STORY OF THE CAUL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the child woke to the world Last Line: To mend over your face Subject(s): Grandchildren TALKING TO GRANDPA EASTMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What do you think, restless one? Last Line: I won't dig up this dirt again Subject(s): Anger; Daughters; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Mothers; Sex; Unfaithfulness THE GRANDCHILD, by PEARL M. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: When baby feet go pit - a - patter Last Line: Next to your mother, in my heart. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ. Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see. Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TO ALFRED TENNYSON, MY GRANDSON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-haired ally whose name is one with mine Last Line: Mayst thou never be wrong'd by the name that is mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters |
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