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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GRANDPARENTS Matches Found: 442 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 19-NOV-42, by DEBORAH ESTHER SCHIFTER Poem Source First Line: The stench, it seemed, had been there forever. %the jews of Last Line: Then they were told to enter the shower Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women 1932, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Harry saul wraps the leather straps of tefillin boxes around Last Line: She makes the man oatmeal and coffee Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews - Women A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand-dad, they say you're old and frail Last Line: You do not hear me, dad. Subject(s): Grandparents; Sickness; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Illness 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 GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full 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 GRANNY, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The cross her withered fingers hold Last Line: Here was thy meek, thy trusting, stainless heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Religion; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology A PORTRAIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a slim, young girl, in lilac quaintly dressed" Last Line: "her grandson, might have been my own grandsire" Subject(s): Grandparents;love;sex; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers A SONG O' CHEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grampa he's a-allus sayin' Last Line: "old -- bob -- white!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grandparents; Nature; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ACQUEDOTTO, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I should've been born in triseste in 1884 Last Line: It was that of a slow-moving man with mustaches, %a dreamer and banker his whole life Subject(s): Grandparents ACQUISITION, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Grandmother counted linens Last Line: Who never thought it mattered? Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ADVICE FROM NANA, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: Always wear your clothes like they have only been yours Last Line: I always found good men by their smell Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,I've dropped another stitch!" Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AFTERNOON WITH GRANDMOTHER, by BARBARA A. HUFF Poem Source First Line: I always shout when grandma comes Last Line: And I say, 'yes we did!!!' Subject(s): Grandparents ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 1. TWO ROOMS, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: I can still see nanny bending Last Line: And laughter without forgetting %the presence of sorrow Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 2. ONE-EYED JOKER, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: After pappy died, nanny followed Last Line: Nanny would life her teacup %and tell me a story Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AN INCIDENTAL REPORT ON MY GRANDMOTHER'S DIVINITY, by BOB HICOK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother had 14 children Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents; Dead, The; Burials; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AN OLD WOMAN WALKING ON THE ROAD, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Grey the day! And grey her life! Last Line: Trudging, lonely, on her way. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Solitude; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Loneliness ANISHINABE GRANDMOTHERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source Last Line: The world will change Subject(s): Grandparents ANNA, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: No one asked anna for stories of russia Last Line: A mother could love her only daughter Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ANYUTA, by ANNE COREY Poem Source First Line: My grandmother anyuta %the woman I am named for Last Line: I hear anyuta's screams. %her screams Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women APPLES, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: After henry died, his wagon full Last Line: Their bruises turning to cider Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your / birthday and I have tried Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your %birthday and I have tried Last Line: And not be ashamed Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations APRIL FOOL POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is yout Subject(s): Birthdays; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ARRANGEMENT OF SKIN, by WALTER GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother was a %taxidermist. She skinned Last Line: Not feel the prickly straw %against her naked back Subject(s): Grandparents; Taxidermy And Taxidermists AT GRANDFATHER'S, by JOHN FRENCH WILSON Poem Text First Line: My son, upon this curving stair Last Line: Where bears have lurked and lovers kissed. Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AT THE PIG PEN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandpa messed with his hogs Last Line: Grandma worried about his tongue Subject(s): Grandparents; Pigs AUNT IRIS' WEDDING, by SAUCI S. CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Except for just a moment Last Line: Smothered the flames against her breast Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AUTONOMIC, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: When love arrives %like hunger-thirst Last Line: To lie down first %bones will follow Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Old Age BABUSHKA, by ANNA WASESCHA Poem Source First Line: All this land Last Line: My mother says: the road to perham gets shorter every year Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Poland BALLAD OF THE TWO GRANDFATHERS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Shadows I alone can see Subject(s): Grandparents BAMBOOZLING GRANDMA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a grandma half so good Subject(s): Grandparents BE KIND TO AULD GRANNIE, by ARCHIBALD MACKAY Poem Text First Line: Be kind to auld grannie, for noo she is frail Last Line: Like a time-shatter'd tree bending low in the gale. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BEAUTIFUL GRANDMAMMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair Last Line: Was to grow a beautiful grandma for me Subject(s): Children;grandparents; Childhood;grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers BEAUTY, by SUSAN GLICKMAN Poem Source First Line: Maybe there are no easy deaths but grandpa's Last Line: From inside, my true inheritance Subject(s): Grandparents BENDING TIME, by JULIA VAN GORDER Poem Source First Line: Near your old homestead, grandfather Last Line: And watch you harvest oil Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Memory BESIDE THE BARS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BLESSING ON YOUR HEAD, HAND, AND FOOT, by NANCY BERG Poem Source First Line: Grandma and grandpa %get lost at ellis island Last Line: Filter out through the window screen %and perch on the branch of a tree Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma and the children left at night Last Line: To go to a new country Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Immigrants; Relatives BRAIDING MY DAUGHTER'S HAIR, by MARCY SHEINER Poem Source First Line: This is what we waited for Last Line: My fingers fly, over and through, %over and through Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BREAD, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you make a connection between this table and that table Subject(s): Bread; Grandparents; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BREAD, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you make a connection between this table and that table Last Line: For the rest of your life these cast-out bodies of lepers Subject(s): Bread; Grandparents; Memory BUB SAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in the sky is a custard Last Line: An' talk about suddently droppin' off. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Clouds; Grandparents; Moon; Sky; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BUBBIE, MOMMY, WEIGHT WATCHERS AND ME, by BARBARA NOREEN DINNERSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The lady up front was rosalie, she used to be fat, feh Last Line: I am a strong proud jewish woman from pesant stock Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Last Line: And perch on grandmother's lap Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING: 15, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to my grandfather's to say good-bye Last Line: Doomed by his ignorance to stumble and blunder Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Farewell CALLING FROM THE GATE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Mother stops scouring the rice pot Last Line: Enter the home of her kin Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Grandparents CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many other codices Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many other codices Last Line: And I studied %I could read him like an open book Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition CEMETERY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When we were smaller, silk ladies Last Line: Like granite sunk into the untended %green grass of their eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grandparents; Graves; Revolutions; Youth CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?' Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHILD'S SONG FOR GRANDMA, by NANNIE VICTORIA JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: I know where the roses grow Last Line: It's out at my grandma's. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CHINESE GRANDMOTHER, by LLOYD STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly she sits in the darkened movie house Last Line: And politely watches. Subject(s): Grandparents; Motion Pictures; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Movies; Cinema CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT Poem Text First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently." Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.) CLICHE, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: In every photo of her Last Line: Let your head hang down Subject(s): Grandparents; Photography And Photographers COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GREAT WHITE FATHER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Engineers %found the great white father dying Last Line: Bloated with ears and testicles %and human hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Salmon; Sea Voyages COMPANIONS; A TALE OF A GRANDFATHER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not of what we ponder'd Last Line: And what this is all about. Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers COMPLETELY SEDUCED, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: & missing children Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Wrinkles CONSTELLATIONS, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nighttime / fore I go to bed Last Line: Grandma ole. Subject(s): Grandparents; Slavery; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Serfs CONVERSATION WITH MY GRANDSON, WAITING TO BE CONCEIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will bloom %in a family of flowers Last Line: You are a flower %that has no name Subject(s): Grandparents COOKING IN TONGUES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's hands drip Last Line: As we peel skin from the sopressata Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Love CORSET, by MYRA SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The corset of my bubbe annie %held her to the feminine Last Line: When I was grown I wanted fat like hers %rushing over me as unrestrained as water Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women CURTAINS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandpa took me along to the hospital Subject(s): Grandparents; Hospitals; Window Treatments; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes DANCING, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school I found Last Line: He asked if some evening he could take me / dancing Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing; Youth; Old Age DAUGHTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman who shines at the head Last Line: Of georgia, daughter of / dazzling you Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Grandparents DAYS THROUGH STARCH AND BLUING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mondays, sweating the flat smell Last Line: Of tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's pressing Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Grandparents DEAR CHILDREN TELL ME THAT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our grandma has two little dogs Last Line: Dear children tell me that? Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers DISHWATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slap of the screen door, flat knock Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers DOROTHY Q; A FAMILY PORTRAIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's mother: her age I guess Last Line: Through a second youth of a hundred years. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Quincy, Dorothy; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers DREAMINGS, by EDUARDO GALEANO Poem Source First Line: At the end of her days grandma raquel was blind. But in helena's dream grandma Last Line: And in helena's dream helena tried, but she couldn't Subject(s): Grandparents ELEGY, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: June, %and you are gone at ninety-one Last Line: That sabbath candle at no one's table. Grandma, %who will say the evening blessing? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ELEGY, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: April again and it is a year again Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ELEGY, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: April again and it is a year again Last Line: With your enemies, the swift departing years Subject(s): Grandparents ELEMENTAL PEA, by LYNN DOIRON Poem Source First Line: After mumbling elemental-pea, que Last Line: From the swing, I planed a vision Subject(s): Grandparents; Swings ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: New on the block Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women EPITAPH ON HIS GRANDFATHER, by THOMAS SHIPMAN Poem Source First Line: Here lies an aged corpse, which late Last Line: Being born in good days, but deceased in bad Subject(s): Grandparents EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed Last Line: That she would grow again. Subject(s): Grandparents; African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed Last Line: That she would grow again. Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers EVOCATION OF RECIFE, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: Recife %not the american venice Last Line: Recife, now dead, bighearted recife, recife brazilian as my %grandfather's home Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Brazil; Childhood Memories; Grandparents FAMILY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin - she %must have been in that Last Line: The greenness gone someplace else Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAMILY PICNIC, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: All yellow and pink, child Last Line: Holding you, she recrosses continents Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAT, by TONI MERGENTIME LEVI Poem Source First Line: Sensing behind her back %that I had slimmed Last Line: Slipping out the door at seventeen %dressed only in my nerve and bones Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FIELD OF PTUJ, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You were tired at the very beginning Last Line: That's not the way you figured it, mon general Subject(s): Generals; Grandparents; Yugoslavia FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing Last Line: But I remember his hands Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing Last Line: But I remember his hands Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair snipped and tightly curled gives me great comfort Last Line: Unlike mine, you save me. I would grow so tired were it not for you. Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Grandparents; Hawaii; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Last Line: I planned long ago I would live here, somebody's grandfather Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood FOR ARMENAK SAROYAN, MY GRANDFATHER, by ARAM SAROYAN Poem Source First Line: At thirty-six, the story goes Last Line: I can forgive you Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Grandparents FOR GRANNY (FROM HOSPITAL), by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, before the ferryman's return Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FOR GRANNY (FROM HOSPITAL), by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, before the ferryman's return Last Line: Appear more plumbless than the skies? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Grandparents FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, RUTH LEVIN, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two gnarled tree trunks from russia Last Line: But I'll never give you a great-grandchild %only a love poem I hope you understand Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY Poem Source First Line: Our rabbi tells us not to live in the past Last Line: Familiar road turn black with soldiers Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOXFIRE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At eighty-six she takes to pressing flowers Last Line: If she could find herself, herself planting %instead of keeping Subject(s): Grandparents FUNERAL LAUGHTER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: At my grandmother's Last Line: Is these seats tooken?' Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents; Graves FUZZY LOGIC, by E. R. CARLIN Poem Source First Line: At the mouth of west newport trail Last Line: This isn't a playground. Stop horsing around up there Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Scars GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language GEO. KUPPER'S FATHER, by TOM DOMEK Poem Source First Line: My father drives spikes Last Line: Grown white and more white %with its churches and bars Subject(s): Grandparents; North Dakota; Refuse And Refuse Disposal GIFTS, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: She sat amidst %the clutter of her life Last Line: It always makes %wonderful soup Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GIRL WHO BECAME MY GRANDMOTHER, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Every nitght after the household was asleep, the girl who would be my Last Line: Be sure she was still there Subject(s): Grandparents GLINT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother mentioned only once how the piano teacher she had as Last Line: They're drifting just outside the tune. Subject(s): Grandparents; Kisses; Lips; Music Teachers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GLISSANDO, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Only once I remember my mother's father Last Line: To get a whole song out of him %or out of that house? Subject(s): Grandparents; Music And Musicians GRAMPA SCHULER, by RUTH SUCKOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grampa schuler, when he was young Last Line: "young fools coming to!" Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRAMPA'S CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First and best of earthly joys Last Line: Why, the one that's happiest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Happiness; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Joy; Delight GRAMPY SINGS A SONG, by HOLMAN F. DAY Poem Text First Line: Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis Last Line: Was chester cahoon of the tuttsville brigade. Subject(s): Grandparents; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs GRAN'FAITHER AT CAM'SLANG; AT THE TIME OF THE GREAT REVIVAL WORK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He donn'd his bannet braid an' blue Last Line: Had leev'd an' gane as saints shou'd gang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Grandparents; Religion; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology GRANDFAITHER'S KNEE, by JAMES M. NEILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the ingle auld grandfaither's sittin' Last Line: Their sairs hale on grandfaither's knee. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER, by GEORGE BOWERING Poem Source First Line: Grandfather %jabez harry bowering Last Line: Till he died the day before his eighty fifth birthday %in a catholic hospital of sheets white as his Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDFATHER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1915 my grandfather's / neighbors surrounded his house Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1915 my grandfather's %neighbors surrounded his house Last Line: Played backwards on his grandson's eyes Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents GRANDFATHER, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Your eyes brushed me Last Line: The loudest language you could give Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Memory GRANDFATHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Grandfather urinates Last Line: Because accroding to my grandfather %you need only cross %the door's threshold %to arrive in cuba Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents GRANDFATHER, by ROBYN OVERSTREET Poem Source First Line: The question Last Line: Black shoe firmly %on the brake Subject(s): Death; Grandparents GRANDFATHER, by TIM ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Beginning with the time Last Line: Afraid to cry as you cut our hair %down to the skin Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDFATHER BRIDGEMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh, boys!' cried grandfather bridgeman, 'it's time before dinner today' Last Line: The old man fails never to tell you: 'you've got the french general's there!' Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; War; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER IN THE OLD MEN'S HOME, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle at last, and as clean as ever Last Line: Beating their little bibles till he died Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents GRANDFATHER POEM, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: It can not %contain words like: %ubangi %rolling pin %popsicle, %but words like: %supreme court %gra Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents GRANDFATHER SQUEERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather squeers,' said the raggedy man Last Line: "he was forced to request it to thunder again." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents; Wisdom; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER'S LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said he sent his love to me Last Line: I like his cough-drops twice as much. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER'S POCKETKNIFE, by JEFF STEWART Poem Source First Line: I keep the pulsing finger to myself Last Line: Bring me that finger, boy Subject(s): Grandparents; Knives GRANDFATHER'S STORY, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dive into the elwha river challenges fear Last Line: As you zig-zag down the beach, your feet gulls' prints Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDFATHER, YOUR WOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wound is open Last Line: Your head is what I remember Subject(s): God; Grandparents 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 GRANDMA, by JESSE KULBERG Poem Source First Line: As I grow older Last Line: And how I miss her how I miss her how %I miss her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA SARAH, by DEBORAH ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: When I was young I would ask you to show me Last Line: I watch its dormant jewish waves %spring soundlessly to life Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA'S BIBLE, by LEAFA DORNE SEIBERT Poem Text First Line: Grandma's bible is old and worn Last Line: Her influence and love of long ago. Subject(s): Bible; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMA'S BYWORDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandma rocks on the porch Last Line: And we have bucket music Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Language GRANDMA'S OBITUARY, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: At eighty, %she drove once a week to the montefiore rest home Last Line: But what would my friends say!' she gasped, and died at the thought Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMAMMA'S LECTURE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Grandmamma sits in her high-backed chair Last Line: With her sweetheart, when she was a girl. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMAMMA'S WARNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a fire,' she said. 'love is a fire Last Line: "oh, did you learn by what your elders told?" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grandparents; Love - Nature Of; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMITHER, THINK NOT I FORGET, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmither, think not I forget, when I come back to town Last Line: That I would like to be. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs GRANDMOTHER, by LISA GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I imagine three men %standing on the shore Last Line: Quivers as you sleep, %grandmother Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by JOE HORRELL Poem Text First Line: She sits with heavy face and grimly knits Last Line: And the lucretian atom-dance gone mad. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHER, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother, marmita %was given the name minnie Last Line: And trace her love %forever on me Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by KAREN SEXTON-STEIN Poem Source First Line: We planted seeds Last Line: I, her shadow %and she, my world Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDSON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I hear it, now when there is company Last Line: Does it remind me of?' till someone comes Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory GRANDMOTHER DEAR, by MABEL VINCENT Poem Text First Line: Grandmother dear, I never knew Last Line: And ages hence be loved by me! Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Paintings And Painters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHER DYING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ridden in her christian bed, either Last Line: Inside it to explain it, nothing, nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDMOTHER POEM #1: SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: In the cold winter months ice'd sike up from red clay Last Line: Don't have no cold weather now - think it's a warning? Subject(s): Cold; Grandparents; Schools; Winter GRANDMOTHER POEM #3: MOVING INTO TOWN, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: Stayed in the country until I was thirteen years old 'round Last Line: Contact with 'em. No, we didn't build no fires in town Subject(s): Grandparents; Moving And Movers; Towns GRANDMOTHER SOPHIE, by SUSAN SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The silence tells me it's sabbath Last Line: And sophie on the fire escape %winks a slavic eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER WATCHING AT HER WINDOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was always the river or the train Last Line: But all the time you keep going away, away Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents GRANDMOTHER'S, by ERIC P. ELSHTAIN Poem Source First Line: Jars, ready for future fruits Last Line: Held to the mouth %of the nothing she cradles Subject(s): Fruit; Grandparents GRANDMOTHER'S BARN AT KITTY HAWK, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trotting when orville flew two pusher props Last Line: That turned and ticked until they stopped Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Death; Grandparents GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the garden that grandmother made Last Line: Why, where should I be this blessed minute? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHER'S LAND, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: Hers is a land unsettled Last Line: In the distance %o welcome her children home Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life GRANDMOTHER'S SOUL, by SHARON GOLDYN Poem Source First Line: There's an almost eternal soft pillow Last Line: As I lay my head down and %sleep to dream Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents; Memory GRANDMOTHER'S STORY, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother shlepped these %candlesticks all the way Last Line: Later she said the candlesticks %were a gift from the czar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER'S TEACHING, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother dear, you do not know; you have lived the old-world life Last Line: "with my stick and your arm I can manage. But see! There, connie comes up the walk." Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHER'S TIMING, by M. L. BROWN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother lies at home Last Line: The only lesson left to her to learn Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age GRANDMOTHER'S VALENTINE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The branches creaked on the garret roof Last Line: Grandmother's valentine told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Grandparents; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Eros; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHERS, by MARYLYN CROMAN Poem Source First Line: My father's mother %wore silky dresses Last Line: You end by choosing your own Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you Last Line: Reciting your unwritten novels to the children Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters; Women GRANDMOTHERS: 2. HATTIE RICE RICH, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sweetness of soul was a mystery to me Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHERS: 2. HATTIE RICE RICH, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sweetness of soul was a mystery to me Last Line: Dispersed among the children and grandchildren Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDPA, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandpa is the finest man Last Line: The way my grandpa does for me Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDPA LEW, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Glassed an eye that wasn't there Last Line: Remembered as %ornery Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life GRANDPA'S APPLE THUNDER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: His wine saps rolled from the edge Last Line: I was twelve years old Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents; Thunder GRANDPA'S CHRISTMAS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his great cushioned chair by the fender Last Line: "with grandma, this year." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Grandparents; Past; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDPA'S TREES, by BARBARA M. HALES Poem Source First Line: My grandpa built a farmhouse Last Line: Holding earth and sky together Subject(s): Grandparents; Trees GRANDPAPA, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a portrait. Here one can Last Line: Founder of a distinquished line, %and worthy ancestor of mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDPARENTS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the deterioration of sight Last Line: They enter each of them the last lap Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Grandparents GRANDSER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandser was a fearsome man! Last Line: Like a brook away to sea! Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE MIRK: A HAMILTON GRANNIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As she lay on her bed, frail, dowie, an' dune Last Line: Bless a' his sair labours, protect an' provide! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE MIRK: A STIRLING GRANNIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A clever young dominie - noo in a kirk Last Line: The goal be as bricht as the race he has run. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE VISITED AT BLACKHILL, SHOTTS: JULY, 1805, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's fifty towmonds since, an' mair Last Line: That simmer gloamin' at blackhill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE'S CRACK ABOUT THE FAMINE IN AULD SCOTLAN' IN 1739-40, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, saw ye e'er sic witless bairns Last Line: "may see sic timessae sad an' sair." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Scotland; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers 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 GRANNIE'S INGLE-SIDE, by JAMES M. NEILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The craw the highest fir may tap Last Line: The days at grannie's ingle-side! Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE'S TALE: A BALLAD O' MEMORIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days o' langsyne, oh! The days o' langsyne Last Line: "in that grave lay his wife an' four bairnies dear." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in her elbow chair, she sits Last Line: Since it has had its day. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY, by WALTER J. HEALY Poem Text First Line: You were ever praising sweetly Last Line: A bit of irish sod. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Granny's come to our house Last Line: That runs to kiss their granny! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY POE, by MARIE RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Old granny poe wuzn't a-carin' Last Line: So I left her not a-carin'. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY SPINS, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At her wheel the old, old granny Last Line: Of the flax have all been spun. Subject(s): Grandparents; Spinning; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY'S LITTLE FLOCK, by CHARLES J. HANFORD Poem Text First Line: The lamp's dim, the fire's low Last Line: To her sleepy flock. Subject(s): Grandparents; Shadows; Weaving & Weavers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRATITUDE FOR A BAD DECISION, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: My grandfather who visitied once Last Line: I clutched my father's leg %the man coughed like he had a rat in his throat Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory GREAT GRANDMOTHER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No death is ever final. The morning paper Last Line: Settling above them, certain as the sunset %that these three chicks would multiply forever Subject(s): Grandparents GREAT-GRANDFATHER GREEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great-grandfather green never heard, never seen Last Line: But think how much more fun he could have had now! Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GREAT-GRANDMOTHER CORNELIA ALICE HENDRY-WILDER 1849-1938, by SUZANNE KEYWORTH Poem Source First Line: Hidden in shadow, I become %the shadow, close my eyes, curl Last Line: Next to mine, the tug, the tangle, %the body rocking, rocking Subject(s): Grandparents; History GRUDNOW, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he spoke of where he came from Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration HEAL-ALL: IN MEMORY OF KANA NAKAMA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because the sky is a cipher Last Line: I've grown too pale and thin Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence HEALER, by ROCHELLE SHAPIRO NATT Poem Source First Line: Mama tells me %how grandmother raised her ten children Last Line: As if it doesn't hurt at all Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women HEAVY WATER, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: From the kitchen, iw atch grandaddy making his bath Last Line: Yes, I want desperately to believe %I might ignite it Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Grandparents; Water HELLION, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandma poured carbolic acid Last Line: To the top of the crooked pine Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents HERON AT LOW TIDE, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder young patsy Last Line: I can almost feel it snap %once for young patsy Subject(s): Grandparents; Herons HOME: ONE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: I return to grandmother's Last Line: Five months of the year? Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Home HONESTY, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money doesn't grow on trees, my mother said Last Line: In water I waited for incoming tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grandparents; Honesty; Money; Mothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers HORSEFLY, by ALICE HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: On the edge of the prairie so wide it was called the sea of Last Line: Neighbors on days like this, and no one has disagreed with him yet Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Grandparents; Horses HOW GRANDMA AND GRANDPA MET, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: She was quiet and a good student, so no boy, at first, warmed up to the Last Line: Just as I've told it Subject(s): Grandparents HUGGING THE JUKEBOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an island the soft hue of memory, Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Childen; Grandparents; Jukeboxes; Songs; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers I WAS FOUR IN DOTTED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swiss summer pajamas %my face a blotch of Last Line: Me as so few ever %have since as if %not to lose more Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IDA, by BARBARA SIEGEL CARLSON Poem Source First Line: My grandmother didn't believe in god Last Line: She called me babushkala %& hugged me hard before she left Subject(s): Grandparents IF POETRY WERE NOT A MORALITY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the kind of woman who Last Line: As joy, as more horses than we need Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Horses; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers IMMIGRANT, by LINDA WATSKIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's hands Last Line: My head between her breasts %and listen Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IN JANUARY, 1962, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his hat on the table before him Last Line: Near the soft gray felt hat on the table Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Winter; Country Life; Old Age IN MY DREAM - MY GRANDMOTHER, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Gerunds!' - she is screaming Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents IN THE BLOOD, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brown-eyed child Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing & Dancers; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood IN YOUR DOUGH KITCHEN, by KAREN NEUBERG Poem Source First Line: They say you hid in the trunk of a tree Last Line: I knew you were dying. %I knew that I would never know Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women INCIDENTAL REPORT ON MY GRANDMOTHER'S DIVINITY, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother had 14 children Last Line: Since the first child emerged to screams %of holy insistence Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents INHERITING MY GRANDMOTHER'S NIGHTMARE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the adhesiveness of things Subject(s): Grandparents; Conduct Of Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers INVITATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Come hither ya slither,' she said. 'get yer lazy Last Line: While yer grandad has a ball Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Grandparents IT'S INDIAN SUMMER, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: It's indian summer, more beautiful than I can remember Last Line: And black mounds of coal turned to dust in the cellar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women JENNY'S CHAIR, by BETH A. SPIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Everybody else calls their mother's mom grandma Last Line: And in her language that means happiness Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women JOHNNY'S OPINION OF GRANDMOTHERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Grandmothers are very nice folks Variant Title(s): Grandmother Subject(s): Grandparents JOKER FAMILY, by GREG DELANTY Poem Source First Line: You took such care of your hair Last Line: How the winds blow Subject(s): Grandparents; Jokes; Laughter JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am your little grandmother Last Line: And fields to liverpool Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents KICKING THE LEAVES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each fall in new hampshire, on the farm Last Line: Three of us sitting together, silent, in gray november Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers KINDLY WATER OTHER LEVEL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two found together - construct regard Last Line: A vivid weightless bean Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers KISS GRANDMOTHERS GOOD NIGHT, by ANDREW HUDGINS Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Grandparents; Kissing; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers KNITTING, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: You with the knit one purl two Last Line: How to pick them up Subject(s): Grandparents; Knitting LAST EARTHWORDS FOR AWHILE, by LOUISE STEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Answer this question: if a train is moving at forty kilomete Last Line: Listen,' she says, 'everything is believeable, but what can we do?' Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some dirty plates Last Line: What are all those %fuzzy-looking things out there? %trees? Well I'm tired %of them and rolled her h Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers LATE POEM TO MY FATHER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly I thought of you Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Love; Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LAWYER PETE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Every night of his life my grandfather washed dishes Last Line: Rewashing all the dishes after he went to bed Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Old Age LEAVES OF EBONY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cigarette glows Last Line: With ponchos of ice and no hat Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Old Age LEAVING TRAUB, MY GRANDMA'S STORY, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: I'm ready, all %I can carry packed Last Line: I will read the lost words %directly from my heart Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Last Line: Said what they meant %and I guess nobody ever does Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEGACIES, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: I don't know if the old people will return one day Last Line: Never have remorse, as we have Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Old Age LEGACIES, by UNKNOWN+261 Poem Source First Line: Grandmother could save nothing from the dust Subject(s): Grandparents LEGACY, by GENA FORD Poem Source First Line: Grandad, I didn't burn it Last Line: No one here could play it Subject(s): Grandparents; Violins LEGACY, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two came from russia Last Line: And finally surrendering %to the night Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEGACY 2, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Grandfather never went to school Last Line: Where grandfather stood %that day Subject(s): Grandparents LETTERS TO MEEMA, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source First Line: There is a kitchen Last Line: And you %are out there Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LIFTING DARKNESS, by KATHRYN MANCLARK Poem Source First Line: My grandmother was always up before dawn Last Line: Gently lifting darkness %from these rooms Subject(s): Grandparents LILLIAN, QUEEN OF THE KELLS, by CASSANDRA SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Now that nana is dead Last Line: And open %all of the letters Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LINES TO MY GRANDFATHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear grandpapa, -- to be obedient Last Line: Affectionate granddaughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LITTLE BROTHER'S STORY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat in front of the fire Last Line: And grandmother gave him jumps on her lap. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 30, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If my dark grandam had but known Last Line: With him I make my quest. Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers LITTLE JENNY, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: Shards of a wine goblet Last Line: Before the sky spit %bullets and axes Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LOGIC, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My years to come are numbered on two hands Last Line: Ten aprils hence, to hear his grandchild sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers 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 LONG-GONE SUN: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SOMBER HOURS, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source Last Line: What guardian angel was watching over them %what demon? Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents LONG-GONE SUN: YEARS LATER, AFTER THE WAR, MY GRANDMOTHER, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source Last Line: An impotent witness and, as always, %present against her will Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Grandparents; Time LORNA, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Pure as the air that breathes the moorland o'er Last Line: I love you too, I love you too. Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise LOST PEARL, by SUSAN KAN Poem Source First Line: Click and caught, %framed and fit in glass Last Line: You hummed as you combed your hair %to a clip at the back of your head Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MANNERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather said to me Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents; Manners; Courtesy; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MANNERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather said to me Last Line: So we all got down and walked, %as our good manners required Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents MEDICINE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was Last Line: You're going to live. Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism MILK AND BUTTER LADY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandma churned and minded the flies Last Line: And there wasn't any use %in being that particular Subject(s): Butter; Grandparents; Milk MINE WAS NOT A BUBBE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: But an oma Last Line: Then she died Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MIRRORS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma makes me mad Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MODERN WOMAN, by IRENE RETI Poem Source First Line: Margit grunbaum reti - %you are a modern woman Last Line: Never stop learning, %live Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MORE BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I back the car over a soft, large object Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Grandparents; Truth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MORE BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I back the car over a soft, large object Last Line: Even. If. The. Sky. Is. Falling. %my. Peace. Rose. Is. In. Bloom Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Grandparents; Truth MORNING, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: It is eight o'clock in Last Line: And when I look for my grandmother %where shall I go to find her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY FATHER TELLS THIS STORY ABOUT HIS BROTHER FRANK AND THE WICK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Your grandpa marquart, he was a tight sonofabitch you know every Last Line: Your grandfather, I'm telling you, now there was a tight man Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Money MY GRAMDMOTHER HATED MY BOYFRIEND, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: All his pleases thank yous Last Line: Died. She must have hated you Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relationships MY GRANDFATHER WALKS IN THE WOODS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere / in the light above the womb Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Grandparents; Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMA HAD A LOVER, by CAROLYN WHITE Poem Source Last Line: And grandma with her young young hand %draws back her golden hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMA'S BREW, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: Somewhere, in lavender, is laid Last Line: The elder-flower's fragrant crown? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grandparents; Wine; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMA'S FAVORITE GORDITAS, by BEATRIZ DIAZ Poem Source First Line: On saturday %a comfortable afternoon Last Line: My mouth can't resist Subject(s): Food And Eating; Grandparents MY GRANDMAMMA'S SEDAN, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: The ladies of st. James'' / went 'swinging to the play' Last Line: With skill and grace, comes on apace, my grandmamma's sedan! Subject(s): Automobiles; Grandparents; Cars; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: She kept an antique shop - or it kept her Last Line: Only the new dust falling through the air Subject(s): Grandparents MY GRANDMOTHER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother moves to my mind in context of sorrow Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother moves to my mind in context of sorrow Last Line: The tongues and tasks of her children's children Subject(s): Grandparents MY GRANDMOTHER IN THE STARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is possible we will not meet again Last Line: And only memory making us rich. Subject(s): Grandparents; Loss; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER WASHES HER FEET, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see her still, unsteadily riding the edge Last Line: I never had the guts to stir that earth Subject(s): Farm Life; Feet; Grandparents MY GRANDMOTHER'S BED, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How she pulled it out of the wall Last Line: And her bed disappeared without a trace. Subject(s): Beds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER'S BRAID, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: I lift her %thin braid Last Line: When the grown-ups %smile Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER'S GHOST, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She skimmed the yellow water like a moth Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Grandparents; Ghosts; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE LETTERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no stars to-night Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE LETTERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no stars to-night Last Line: And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof %with such a sound of gently pitying laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Grandparents MY GRANDMOTHER'S POEMS, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They've disappeared now, as you did Last Line: Two sunstruck tatters dancing in the mirror Subject(s): Grandparents MY GRANDMOTHER'S [TURKEY-TAIL] FAN, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It owned not a color that vanity dons Last Line: My grandmother's turkey-tail fan. Subject(s): Fans; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY GRANDMOTHER, THE REVOLUTIONARY, by SANDRA GARDNER Poem Source First Line: My grandmother %in the russian revolution Last Line: And left a note in yiddish %that no one could read Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHERS IN AMERICA, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: When I take you out Last Line: Swimming in your children Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grandparents; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY LAST AFTERNOON WITH UNCLE DEVEREUX WINSLOW, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't go with you. I want to stay with grandpa!' Variant Title(s): Life Studies: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY LAST AFTERNOON WITH UNCLE DEVEREUX WINSLOW, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't go with you. I want to stay with grandpa!' Last Line: Uncle devereux would blend to the one color Variant Title(s): Life Studies: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslo Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents MY MOTHER, CLIMBING HER FAMILY TREE, by DONNA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: When I write to my mother asking about relatives Last Line: Daily, through the holy, holy land we are living in now Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Family Life; Grandparents MY SAINTED, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY SANCTIFIED GRANDMOTHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Not my own. Theirs Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Speech NAMES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother's name was nora swan Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NAMES, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother's name was nora swan Last Line: Bedstraw, toadflax - from whom I did descend in perpetuity Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grandparents NAN'S BROOCH, by CARL LEGGO Poem Source First Line: My grandmother could never understand how Last Line: I didn't tell carrie. My grandmother never told on me Subject(s): Friendship; Grandparents NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: A glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above Last Line: On the tables . . . Grandmother. Grandfather Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above Last Line: On the tables ... Grandmother. Grandfather Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music And Musicians NONE OF IT, by JANET KAPLAN Poem Text First Line: God lists who'll live who'll die Subject(s): Grandparents; Jewish Families; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like Last Line: The dead don't get around %much anymore Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age 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 OLD AND YOUNG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Grandpa, what are the drums a-saying? Last Line: I'll be a soldier in your place. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OLD GREAT-GRANDMA, by NORA YAZZIE HUNTER Poem Source First Line: I drive a long stretch of dirt road Last Line: We return you to earth as rain begins to sprinkle its blessings Subject(s): Grandparents OLD TILLICUM, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A timber blue haze dissolves Last Line: I rise too late %to return home with little crow. Instead, I hear %his first jump through chance's h Subject(s): Grandparents OLD-FASHIONED VALENTINE, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON Poem Text First Line: Larkspur and mignonette! Well does she know Last Line: Drops fragile bits of heaven at her feet. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ON LEARNING THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE OCCUPIED 2790 GREEN ST., by JANET WINANS Poem Source First Line: Odd of them to put a consulate Last Line: There's no one anymore to fix these things Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ON LOVE: OSCAR GINSBURG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, friends and strangers Last Line: Son, brooding about the strangeness of love Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Love ON THE DEATH OF MRS. JENNINGS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past: dear venerable shade, farewell Last Line: Who gave the dearest blessing I possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ONE SOLID PIECE, by LINDA SHEAR Poem Source First Line: In the corner of the kitchen Last Line: She knew she would have to make room %for this legacy Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ONE THOUSAND SATURDAYS, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: By early adolescence, I was deposited more and more at grandma's. I Last Line: Budding bosom and discovered it would hurt Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Grandparents; Pain OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down in the moist dirt Subject(s): African Americans; Grandparents; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OUR GRANDMOTHERS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay, skin down on the moist dirt Last Line: Lay aside your fears that I will be undone, %for I shall not be moved Subject(s): Grandparents PERFECT ENDING, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be anti-grandmother in your little black box Last Line: Shut up, in everyear, in the negative mirror %in the absolute no light Subject(s): Grandparents PERMANENT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: The wind blew me from the porch Last Line: That's going to be permanent Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Grandparents; Hair; Permanence PHOEBE, OR MY GRANDMOTHER WEST, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, phoebe! How slily, love's arrow to barb Last Line: A counterfeit true of her grandmamma west. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Girls; Grandparents; Love; Time; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PICASSO'S PANTALOONS, by JEFFREY LEVINE Poem Source First Line: Last time out for stone crabs, my grandfather pointed Last Line: How my son studies the ground Subject(s): Grandparents; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) PINEAPPLE SURPRISE, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Grandma wasn't much for hugging Last Line: Baked for nobody else but me Subject(s): African Americans; Cakes; Food And Eating; Grandparents; Love PLAIN WEDDING, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: I try to imagine my grandparents Last Line: Blemished, but with touch %upon touch, to be filled Subject(s): Grandparents; Marriage; Religion PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: Plow cemetery, downhill from the church Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming; Graveyards; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: My life in time will seal shut like a scar Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming PLUMS, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Grandma bruchac lies with closed eyes Last Line: Her hand moves from yours to accept that gift Subject(s): Grandparents; Plums POEM FOR GRANDMOTHERS, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Your figures stamp across the paths of memory Last Line: The root and passion of us all Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women POOR DEAR GRANDPAPA, by D'ARCY W. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: What is the matter with grandpapa? Last Line: Tommy without a t. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PORTRAIT OF MY GERMAN GRANDPARENTS, 1952, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I see them always in midsummer, the retired minister and his wife seated Last Line: And holds it there, feeling the slow winter pulse Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits PRAYER FOR AN OLD MAN IN HEAVEN, by WILLIAM ARNETTE WOFFORD Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, when grandpa stiles knocks at your door Last Line: Oh, give him one. It will please him lots, I know. Subject(s): Grandparents; Heaven; Prayer; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise 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 RECIPE, by SUSAN (RITTER) LEVINKIND Poem Source First Line: A guggle muggle %I'm not even sure how to spell it Last Line: Don't burn your throat, %so it feels, yes? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women REFLECTIONS OF LA VIEJA, by ALMA CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: I woke up in the morning Last Line: Goodnight, viejo %yo tambien te amo' Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Wrinkles RELATIVES, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma lives in this town; Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers REQUEST TO A YEAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the year is meditating a suitable gift Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers REQUEST TO A YEAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If the year is meditating a suitable gift Last Line: Year, if you have no mother's day present planned; %reach back and bring me the firmness of her hand Subject(s): Grandparents; Women RICHARD BROUGHT HIS FLUTE, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: The day the two old women were dissecting two birds Last Line: And all silence was reduced to listening Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents; Women RITUALS OF THE DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandpa stood under the hickory tree Last Line: Which showed a woman buying bvd's, %back ventilated drawers Subject(s): Grandparents ROBERTO RECALLS HIS DEAD GRANDFATHER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He does not believe in the devil Last Line: All crazy and have no tongue Subject(s): Grandparents ROCK OF AGES, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother, just back from the hospital, her heart lost Last Line: In a view of earth we otherwise never get to see Subject(s): Grandparents ROOTBOUND, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: In april, in the nursery, the impatiens Last Line: Opening to receive his dark embraces Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Babies; Expressionism - Poets; Grandparents; Mothers ROSE, by MARGO HITTELMAN Poem Source First Line: Crazy, they called you Last Line: I'm sorry %I love you Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ROUNDHEAD AND CAVALIER, by WILLIAM YANDELL ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Old noll looked down from the wall, and spoke to me Last Line: His wart went red. Subject(s): Cavalier, Jean (1681-1740); Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamushka, it has been so long since we have spoken Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women 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 SALVAGE, by BETH KEMPER GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: From falling barns my grandfather bought boards Last Line: And wondered %if blight blesses us Subject(s): Absence; Drinks And Drinking; Grandparents; Memory SARAH IN HER DAUGHTER'S HOUSE ... REMEMBERS THE SHUL, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I'm remembering: %in the old country, you know, in the shul Last Line: The tears cames running some more Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology SENRYU (78), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the pilgrimage to ise Last Line: How many grandchildren Subject(s): Grandparents SHARING THE WISDOM, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: You come, old one, %to my bones that ache from Last Line: Your thin frame and silvered mind, %a talisman against growing old Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SHE LIVES WITH HER OWN GRANNY DEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cries william when first come from sea Last Line: "grenadier! Did you say, etc" Subject(s): Grandparents;laughter;pain; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers;suffering;misery SHIMASANI (GRANDMOTHER), by GERTRUDE WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Shimasani, you have traveled a long way Last Line: Trying hard to taste your life %shimasani, you have traveled a long way Subject(s): Grandparents SHIMASANI/ MY GRANDMOTHER, by DELLA FRANK Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's house is small Last Line: And I wish my dear grandma good-night %shimasani 'ayoo' anii nishnih Subject(s): Grandparents SHORT HAND, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: For years grandma's gloves lay Last Line: That's when I feel her hand in mine Subject(s): Generosity; Grandparents SHUFFLE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foolscap the shape of whys Last Line: Young one wet in my womb thinking Subject(s): Grandparents SKETCH, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was as dark and slim as a polynesian girl Last Line: How to be cut apart and always come back whole Subject(s): Forests; Grandparents; Life 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 SNAKEBITE, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: For a moment, hunched in his body's glistening fever Last Line: Of the terrible acts by which love is painstakingly known Subject(s): Animals; Grandparents; Snakes SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence Subject(s): Mothers; Grandparents; Snow; Childhood Memories SO GOOD, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to me Subject(s): Weather; Birds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SOME ON IN, THE SENILITY IS FINE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People live forever in jacksonville and st. Petersburg and tampa Last Line: Don't go around saying quote I don't mind being a grampa but I hate being married to a gramma unquot Subject(s): Grandparents SONNET, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: When I was far too young to comprehend Last Line: And wonder at the whiteness of his hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SONNET (ON THE DEATH OF HIS GRANDMOTHER), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove Last Line: Wherefore does any grief our joy impair? Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SOOTHING THE BURN, by ELIZABETH POLINER Poem Source First Line: My sister and I, barely teenage Last Line: I feel her palms gather the burn, open to fire Subject(s): Grandparents; Sisters; Sunbathing; Vacation SORBY ELEGY, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: Wild chervil and chamomile surge against the base Last Line: From other years. And the june wind sweeps by Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Memory STAYING AT GRANDMA'S, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes they left me for the day Last Line: And leave the other there alone? Subject(s): Grandparents; Holy Ghost; Religion; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Holy Spirit; Theology STAYING AT GRANDMA'S, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes they left me for the day Last Line: And leave the other there alone Subject(s): Grandparents; Holy Ghost; Religion STEERAGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By now, the sachel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STILL LIFE, by KAREN HEAD Poem Source First Line: Precariously held by a magnet to the filing cabinet next to my desk, is a Last Line: Night she whispered his name, over and over, like a question, 'cliff?' Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Old Age STILLEBEN, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: As she might have called it Last Line: South and southeast. %have I? Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory STROKES, by TIM ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: A few weeks after my grandmother's stroke Last Line: And when I break her heart by ignoring her %it's not me Subject(s): Grandparents; Poetry And Poets; Stroke SURVIVORS, by GEORGIA KREIGER Poem Source First Line: That summer, %left to ourselves Last Line: Reckless, prickly, %at her mercy Subject(s): Grandparents 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 TALL WOMAN WALKING, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun stares Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TALL WOMAN WALKING, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun stares Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes Subject(s): Grandparents; Women TEAR, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poet's Biography First Line: I was sent in to see her Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TEAR, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was sent in to see her Last Line: You vanish with early tears Subject(s): Death; Grandparents THE ASH TREE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother led me out Subject(s): Grandparents; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood Memories; Ash Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE AULD STAIRHEID, by JAMES NORVAL Poem Text First Line: At hin hairst - when leaves are cast in humplocks on the blast Last Line: And their beacon through life's blast was that auld stairheid. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BEE-BAG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ist a brownie - a Last Line: The fairies stold away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Grandparents; Childhood; Elves; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Click the grief castanets. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE DRY SPELL, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking early / with the warming house Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Cokking & Cooks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF STERLING AND SARAH LANIER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rainbow span of fifty years Last Line: Macon, georgia, september, 1868. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers 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 GRANDFATHER, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There's a kind of morning prayer Last Line: Filled the room. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GRANDFATHER-FATHER POEM, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rolled in the grass Subject(s): Grandparents; Fathers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GRANDMOTHER'S APOLOGY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And willy, my eldest born, is gone, you say, little annie? Last Line: But stay with the old woman now; you cannot have long to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grandparents; 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 GRANDMOTHERS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mortality THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As small children, we were taken to meet them. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE HOMECOMING OF THE BRIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sarah greenleaf, of eighteen years Last Line: On the barn floor pealed the smiting flail. Subject(s): Brides; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some dirty plates Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE MORNING BAKING, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma, come back, I forgot Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE MOTHER'S CHAIR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The century's day had just begun Last Line: As she rests in the prim little rocking-chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Grandparents; Mothers; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: Glimmer of a glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration 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 THE OLD SPINNING WHEEL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember the old spinning wheel Last Line: "from grandmother's old spinning wheel." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Grandparents; Sewing; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE PHOSPHORESCENT MAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of roast beef and browning potatoes Last Line: Clung to the stair obstinate as salt. Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE PLEASURES OF OLD AGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandmother lisette turned ninety-nine Subject(s): Old Age; Romance; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE POET GOES ABOUT HER BUSINESS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Michele has become another dead little girl. And easy poem Last Line: Toward any dark trees Subject(s): Death – Children; Grandparents THE QUIET BETWEEN US, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN Poem Text First Line: The red coal of the sun Subject(s): Grandparents; Relationships; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE RAG BAG, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: When we went down to grandma's Last Line: When we are coming to town. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE SEEKERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our grandfathers were strangers and their absurd notions Last Line: We'll have to walk because we're going farther Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Knowledge; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE THROWBACK, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even I can't help but notice, my sweet Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE VERY END, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are strange to the print tonight Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Dead, The THE WEAKNESS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That time my grandmother dragged me Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE WORDS UNDER THE WORDS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother's hands recognize grapes Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Sorrow; Sadness THERE IS A PLACE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: Where much water fell Subject(s): Faces; Grandparents; Native Americans; Riddles THREE BASKETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bertha's basket: maiden bertha, with the / merry dancing eyes Last Line: Folding dearest work for others, whether she be maid or wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Grandparents; Household Employees; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Servants; Domestics; Maids THREE PORTRAITS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Her manners were perfectly dainty Last Line: I hope to understand her. Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO A GRANDMOTHER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At six o'clock in the evening Last Line: To feel those arms again!) Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO BETTY LEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear betty lee, my thought for you Last Line: "to pen this sentence, ""I love you." Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Love; Relationships; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO MY GRANDMOTHER, by HELEN E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Now you need never start Subject(s): Grandparents TO MY GRANDMOTHER, 187-1970, by CAROL ASCHER Poem Source First Line: Suddenly you're gone and I see years ago Last Line: Dead, now dead %and a time is over Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TO MY GRANDMOTHER; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY MR. ROMNEY, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This relative of mine Last Line: Grandpapa. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Grandparents; Home; Romney, George (1734-1802); Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TOOLON HOSPITAL, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I am the stranger in the room Last Line: And I am just beginning to understand Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Baby Boom Generation; Grandparents; Hospitals TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering april evening Last Line: Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TRAIN WRECK, 1890: MY GRANDMOTHER LIES DOWN WITH THE DEAD, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You come in to the past, dark, where the fires still burn Last Line: Never tell them who, in the black plunge of love, %you belong to again Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Disasters; Grandparents; Railroad Wrecks TRAUB, IN MY GRANDMA'S WORDS, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: A small village, %a few huts Last Line: Opens like a child's mouth %to the russian sky Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TRAVELING AS A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert of itabira Last Line: The family, itabira, the rest Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Silence TRUTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: There were two ways to get to my grandmother's house. One was to cross Last Line: The diffusion of countless spores %flying thick in the air like fine dust swelling your nostrils. Br Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Roads TRUTH FOR MANY, ISN'T WORTH A PENNY, by HENRY HABIBE Poem Source First Line: His grandma %djindja clabel yocopra Last Line: While spitting in the face %of djindja %clabel %yocopra Subject(s): Grandparents TWO GRANDMOTHERS, by IRENE ARCHER Poem Text First Line: One grew pale lilies in the shade Last Line: Remembering when her heart was flame. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TWO-DOLLAR BILLS, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: When you had to sit %on the hall steps to read Last Line: They're a piece of history now Subject(s): Grandparents; High School Students; Teenagers UNDER GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Beneath the house of my father's childhood Last Line: Dried and crumbled, grain by grain, in the night breezes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Grandparents UNITED JEWISH APPEAL, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind Subject(s): Old Age; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers UNTITLED, by ASHA RADJKOEMAR Poem Source First Line: Nani you too left the earth Last Line: God will grant us the honor %of your corpse Subject(s): Grandparents UPSTATE NEW YORK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandfather says that Last Line: Silas I guess we can't %all be jesus can we? Subject(s): Grandparents VIGOROUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY', by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: The doc smiles weakly, looks at us Last Line: That gram and gramps are - %well, you know Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents VISIT, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: Grandmother, I dreamed of you again Last Line: So I may sleep, rest at night Subject(s): Grandparents VISIT AT ONE, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: My grandfather's bones %and nicotine skin half-step Last Line: And first daughter's arm %half-steps him back Subject(s): Grandparents; Poetry And Poets VOICES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will never taste cantaloupe Last Line: Ocean shell, chinese button, against the sky. Subject(s): Grandparents; Legacies; Memory; Regret; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WAR HERO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where recollections end, Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood WEARINESS OF MEN, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother said when she was young Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT FALLS OUTSIDE THE FRAME, by J. P. CRAIG Poem Source First Line: The lines are down this morning Last Line: A blur in an arched window as the film slows, %a hat tipping to the camera? Subject(s): Grandparents; Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Photography And Photographers WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your thoughts are for the poor and weak? Last Line: Well, I'm your grandson. You'll grow wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grandparents; Hate; Love; Names; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WHAT HANDS IN MY HANDS, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: My grandfather's wide hands, freckled and brown Subject(s): Grandparents; Hands WHAT I HAVE OF YOU, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I try to hold you as an idea in my head Last Line: How it glowed and rose and took you home from oz Subject(s): Death; Grandparents WHAT I KNOW ABOUT MY GRANDMOTHER, by PAUL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I remember her flowered apron, her hair Last Line: We have no pictures that show her young Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age WHAT MY GRANDFATHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: My grandfather was given a medal Last Line: His best friend ate all nine at once and died Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER DID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by PETER CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: The day after we lost the war Last Line: The soft rattling words of our tongue Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii WHEN 'GRAND OLD MEN' PERSIST IN FOLLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then straight onward to sanremo Subject(s): Grandparents; Melancholy; Old Age WHEN BUILDINGS LOSE THEIR PURPOSE, by JOHN B. LEE Poem Source First Line: My grandfather's house Last Line: Behind the weather at the windows %with no one looking out Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses WHEN ELSE, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: My grandfather goes out for bagels Last Line: Who has no bank account of her own Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Life WHEN GRANDMA COMES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never any noise or fuss Last Line: All snuggled up against her breast. Subject(s): Babies; Comfort; Grandparents; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WILLOW WARE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On grandmamma's table is waiting for me Last Line: "that beautiful, queer, little land of blue" Subject(s): Grandparents;legends;willow Trees; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents WOMAN OF THE HOUSE, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a patrician evening in ireland Last Line: In the family earth beside her husband %only to think of her, now warms my mind Subject(s): Grandparents WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Years after surviving Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry & Poets; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years after surviving Last Line: On the arch of her white %pubic bone Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry And Poets YARTZEIT; FOR IDA CHERIN, by SHEILA BENDER Poem Source First Line: Grandma, I haven't heard from you Last Line: I think, if this is the only way I can get %what I want, nu, okay yes Subject(s): Death; Grandparents YOU'RE THE TOP, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the people that I've ever known Last Line: Bright and beautiful and useless Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ZAYDEE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the sea burn? Why do the hills cry? Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ZAYDEE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the sea burn? Why do the hills cry? Last Line: The long streets were still and the snow %swirled where I lay down to rest Subject(s): Grandparents ZENITH, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was part of her parlour's darkness Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii; Radio; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Second World War |
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