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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