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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INFANTS Matches Found: 383 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` *BABY BREAKDOWN*; FOR BILL BERKSON, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lumbering logging lonesome Last Line: Warmth surrounds the circle as you cheer them on, em on Subject(s): Babies; Infants 3 STANCES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine / poised for the leap Subject(s): Babies; Girls; Infants 8/9, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languor, uselessness & general swamp I'd be or Last Line: Roving traveler. Subject(s): Babies; Fertility; Mothers; Infants A BABY ASLEEP AFTER PAIN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a drenched, drowned bee Last Line: Are a heaviness, and a weariness. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A BABY AT THE PARTY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found one night, when I awoke Last Line: I cried the louder for my bed. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parties; Infants; Childhood A BABY IN THE HOUSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that a baby was hid in the house Last Line: I am sure, very sure, there's a babe in that house. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Mothers; Infants A BABY'S DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little soul scarce fledged for earth Last Line: The song that smiled. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Roundels; Soul; Infants; Dead, The A BABY'S EPITAPH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, made me: winter laid me here away asleep Last Line: Here I sleep not: pass, and weep not here upon your child. Subject(s): April; Babies; Death; Epitaphs; Infants; Dead, The A BABY'S RATTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Only a baby's rattle Last Line: Of such is the kingdom of heaven Subject(s): Babies;toys; Infants A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun has left the hill-top Last Line: Pass to eternity. . . . Subject(s): Babies; Infants A BUNCH OF ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rosy mouth and rosy toe Last Line: To kiss and play together. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roses; Infants A CALL TO PRAYER, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the minaret the moslem Last Line: "god is love and god is good." Subject(s): Babies; Prayer; Infants A HELPER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear me!' wailed all the household Last Line: "and det just that much over." Subject(s): Babies; Infants A HINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our daisy lay down Last Line: "why, that's why I kiss you! She said." Subject(s): Babies;daisies;flowers; Infants A LITLE BUD, by T. H. DUNN Poem Text First Line: He came one day, in springtime gay Last Line: Beneath the leaves there is no pain. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The A LITTLE CHILD, by THOMAS MILLER (1831-) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fairy child! With eyes of lustrous blue Last Line: And angels waft thee to the world unseen! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood A LITTLE OUTSTRETCHED HAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I'm sometimes very weary Last Line: By baby's outstretched hand. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A LULLABY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, baby, hush-a-bye Last Line: Let your mother rest now. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants A PHANTOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little baby, you have wandered far away Last Line: And will not kiss nor touch me with its hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The A POEM FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants A POET TO HIS BABY SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny bit of humanity Last Line: Not to be a poet Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Infants A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset deepens in the west Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep! Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A RONDEAU OF BABIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you must know, some men there be Last Line: As you must know. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A SONG FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now first of all he means the night Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!) Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs A TABERNACLE THOUGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely grapes and apples Last Line: Of the coming years. Subject(s): Babies; Jews; Infants; Judaism A TERRIBLE INFANT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recollect a nurse call'd ann Last Line: "-- and that's my earliest recollection." Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Babies; Nurses; Women; Infants A THOUGHT OVER A CRADLE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sadden when thou smilest to my smile Last Line: And link us close, oh god, when near to heaven! Subject(s): Babies; Infants A TOAST FOR LITTLE IRON MIKE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having come in out of the unrelenting Subject(s): Amniotic Fluid Embolism; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives AD ASTRA: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little hands and feet! O heart of mine! Last Line: Thy heart is mine, and beauty dwelleth there! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Hearts; Love; Infants ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism AFTER OUR LADY'S PRESENTATION, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wife, my wife our journey o'er Last Line: To her according to thy word! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women In The Bible; Infants; Paradise; Virgin Mary ALL THOSE HOURS ALONE IN THE DARK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With his lonely head pressed against the crib Subject(s): Babies; Infants AN IDOLATOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baby has no skies Last Line: Of such as this. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Infants ANGEL COME TO TOWN, by OPHIE LOU NALL Poem Text First Line: Lips so red, hair of brown Last Line: That bring a fond regret. Subject(s): Babies; Infants ANNA AT 18 MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as it did Subject(s): Babies; Infants ANYBODY'S, by ALICE STETTINER Poem Text First Line: You dainty piece of bric - a - brac Last Line: You adorable babe—beginning to talk! Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Infants AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little babe I held upon my knee Last Line: And as the sparks flew up he saw and smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Babies; Infants ASTROPHIL TO HIS SON, AGED SEVEN MONTHS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! With whom I fondly share Last Line: As idle—but less innocent. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Innocence; Pleasure; Infants; Childhood AT ONE WEEK OLD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He will be straight and strong and fair Last Line: Like that behind his daddy's ear! Subject(s): Babies; Future; Mothers; Sons; Speculation; Infants BABES OF A DAY, by ALPHONSE DAUDET Poem Text First Line: Babes of a day, new fledglings all Last Line: Have wings! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby is so queer, you know Last Line: To be as fine a boy as me. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Dimpled and flushed and dewy pink he lies Last Line: Through sin, at least, thine eden is not lost. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby in her slumber smiling Last Line: "may she never sleep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY & THE GYPSY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wizened elf woman Last Line: Don't you worry about that! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY CHARLEY, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's fast asleep. See how, o wife Last Line: Macon, georgia, december, 1869. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY IN CHURCH, by MINNIE M. GOW Poem Text First Line: Aunt nellie had fashioned a dainty thing Last Line: Ere our baby re-enter the family pew. Subject(s): Babies; Public Worship; Infants; Church Attendance BABY JOHN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lazy sun is yawning as it hides behind the town Last Line: To see if you are sleeping, baby john. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants BABY LOUISE, by MARGARET (WINSHIP) EYTINGE Poem Text First Line: I'm in love with you, baby louise Last Line: Ungrateful baby louise. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood BABY MAY, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheeks as soft as july peaches Last Line: That's may bennett; that's my baby Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Infants; Childhood BABY RUNNING BAREFOOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass Last Line: Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood BABY'S DIMPLES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love goes playing hide-and-seek Last Line: All about the kissing-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Dimples; Infants BABY'S EYES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wise is the baby with eyes of brown Last Line: Wilful baby with eyes of black. Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Infants BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took away my bottle Last Line: They make such noises in my ear. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Infants; Nativity, The BABY'S FIRST WORD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We watched our baby day by day Last Line: Should thus abuse his mother! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY'S GOT A TOOTH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The telephone rang in my office today, as it often has tinkled before Last Line: "baby, my dear, has a tooth." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches BABY'S LETTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear ole untle, I dot oor letter" Last Line: Bully ole untle with a glass eye Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY'S PANTOUM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids BABY'S QUERY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, lover of my soul Last Line: "but tell me—what's er bosomfly?" Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants BABY'S RING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother's quite distracted Last Line: Ring and hand to keep. Subject(s): Babies; Jewelry & Jewelers; Infants; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces BABY'S SHOES, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, those little, those little blue shoes! Last Line: And whose sight makes such fond tears start! Subject(s): Babies; Shoes; Infants; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers BABY'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very song the blackbird sung Last Line: To the first song the blackbird made. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Infants BABY'S TURN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny feet so busy in a tiny patter out of sight Last Line: Did she think she was forgotten? Now 'tis baby's turn once more. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, baby, with your marvellous eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger Last Line: Back to the lotus-lands of the far-away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by MRS. GEORGE RINGHOFER Poem Text First Line: A baby nestles in my arms Last Line: You were a gift sent to our door. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby shines as bright Last Line: Rose Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roundels; Infants BALI HAI CALLS MAMA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was putting away the groceries Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives BALLAD OF THE LAYETTE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Infants BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you have hardly been born Last Line: Any suggestions? Well, have a good day Subject(s): Babies; Infants BE KIND TO THE LITTLE ONES, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind to all little ones Last Line: I always have been kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Babies; Infants BEAUTY'S BABE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: A babe was born to beauty: the new care Last Line: "since now you rule the mistress, wife and mother." Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Infants BETHLEHEM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For paten and for chalice Last Line: To the majesty of the least. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants BITTER-SWEET: CRADLE SONG [OR, BABYHOOD], by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the little one thinking about? Last Line: See! He is hushed in sweet repose! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from dawn till noon seems one long day Last Line: We've broken the day in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Day; Mothers; Sleep; Infants BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials BY CANDELIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is winter, this is night, small love --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Candles; Night; Infants; Bedtime CAESARIAN, by CAMILLE DU BARRY Poem Text First Line: Woman, you are big with child Last Line: Alas, little mother, you are dead! Subject(s): Babies; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids CHASM, by MARY LANIGAN HEALY Poem Text First Line: She and I / can never be friends! Last Line: The same weight. Subject(s): Babies; Infants CHRISTMAS, by HARRIET WHEELER PIERSON Poem Text First Line: A simple tale of shepherds and of sheep Last Line: And to the dear, familiar things, a star! Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Stars; Infants; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love to think of bethlehem Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The CONSECRATION, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God! I ask one miracle Last Line: Will you give the bread? Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants CRADLE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, little baby of mine" Last Line: "awake and asleep, / because I am certain of this?" Subject(s): Babies;mothers; Infants CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lullaby! O lullaby! / baby, hush that little cry Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants CRADLE SONG, by MARY M. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Tis night on the mountain Last Line: Then, sleep, darling, sleep. Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Infants CRADLE SONG, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pram and scottie season now Subject(s): Babies; Infants CRY BABY, CRY; DEDICATED TO STERLING A. WOOD, JR., by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's little cry baby from cry baby town Last Line: The day is for play, but the night is for rest. Subject(s): Babies; Tears; Infants CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DA QUEENA BEE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Meester, eef you nevva see Last Line: Evra wan hersal' a queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Babies; Bees; Insects; Infants; Beekeeping; Bugs DAUGHTER O' MINE, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: You came to me, dear, so welcome, so fair Last Line: Blest little daughter o' mine. Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Daughters; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight DAWN MAGIC, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I stand in the dim, fragrant dawning Last Line: Looks down on the slumbering world. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Magic; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo' bed Last Line: Let de little pickaninny res'. Subject(s): Babies; Rest; Sleep; Infants DEATH & CO., by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two, of course there are two. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Babies; Dead, The; Infants DINNA CHIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Dinna chide the mither! Last Line: Ye may na hae her lang! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Sickness; Infants; Illness DINNER-TIME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tuggin' at your bottle Last Line: Who is bendin' o'er your cot! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Infants DUMBNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure man was born to meditate on things Last Line: And penetrate the heart, if not the ear. Subject(s): Babies; Freedom; Language; Infants; Liberty; Words; Vocabulary EACH FLEETING DAY, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: These to rejoice in: a smile Last Line: Enrich our lives each fleeting day. Subject(s): Babies; Mankind; Infants; Human Race EDELWEISS, by WARREN PEASE Poem Text First Line: Child of the snowdrift and the storm! Last Line: Is baby madeleine. Subject(s): Alps; Babies; Children; Edelweiss; Mountains; Infants; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement EMINENT VICTORIANS, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a day is dead already-- Subject(s): Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) ETUDE REALISTE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Last Line: A baby's eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Feet; Mothers; Roundels; Infants; Childhood EVENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the elements solidify! --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Despair; Infants FIRST FOOTSTEPS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little way, more soft and sweet Last Line: A little way. Subject(s): Babies; Roundels; Infants FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 1. BABYHOOD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby's gone awandering Last Line: And strike the homeward trail. Subject(s): Babies; Infants FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I changed the baby,fed it, dithered Last Line: I have been here, and some of it was love Subject(s): Babies; Infants FORTIFIED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little dear heart, tiny wonderer Last Line: I but hope to share in serving! Subject(s): Babies; Infants FRED ENGLEHARDT'S BABY, by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dru as I leev, most efry day Last Line: To dot schmall leetle baby. Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Subject(s): Babies; Infants FROST AT MIDNIGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frost performs its secret ministry Last Line: Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Subject(s): Babies; Fantasy; Parents; Infants; Parenthood GIVE ME THE BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the baby to hold, my Last Line: Give me the baby to hold, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Soul; Infants GOING! GOING!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Attention, good people! A baby I'm selling Last Line: How much for a baby? What offer? Who'll buy? Subject(s): Babies; Infants GOODNIGHT, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in bed and waiting to find out Subject(s): Night; Babies; Bedtime; Infants GOOFER-DUST, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Graves; Infants; Tombs; Tombstones GREEDY BABY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greedy baby / sucking the sweet tit Subject(s): Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) GULLA LULLABY, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: The buzzard and the butterfly playing in the field Last Line: Nobody home but the baby Subject(s): Babies; Infants GULLIVER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over your body the clouds go Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours appears to me Last Line: To smile upon and love me! Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open your gates for him Last Line: Promise of joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Babies; Infants HEALTH, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cut the stem of the amaryllis, and water poured out so suddenly, I didn't Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Flowers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HER FIRST WEEK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was so small I would scan the crib a half-second Subject(s): Babies; Infants HER GIFT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes, her mouth, her chin, so strangely small Last Line: Take mighty hold upon two human hearts. Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood HER NAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in search, from a to z, they passed" Last Line: And she's simply 'little peg' Subject(s): Babies;names; Infants HOME AND THE BABY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home was never home before Last Line: Till the baby came. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Infants HON. JESSE HOLDOM OF CHICAGO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the great lake's pride Last Line: And the waning sun sink low. Subject(s): Babies; Fate; Fear; Future; Past; Infants; Destiny HONEY LAM, by MILDRED M. FORT Poem Text First Line: Hush dat noise, an' don' yo' weep Last Line: Honey lam'. Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood HOSPITAL NURSERY, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: Purity - whiteness - spotlessness! Through glass Last Line: Past -- present -- future -- in the hand of fate! Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hospitals; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HOW FAR IS IT TO THE LAND WE LEFT?, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first day of his life Last Line: And he won't even flinch. Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Rest; Tears; Infants IDEAS ONLY GO SO FAR, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I made up a baby. I made her in the shape of a hatbox or a cake. I could have iced her & Last Line: Sunset—quite unlike my baby, who like any good idea, eventually ended up dead Subject(s): Babies; Infants IL LATTE, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ye fair, for whom the hands of hymen weave Last Line: Unblam'd inebriate at that healthful spring. Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Nature; Parents; Infants; Parenthood ILLOGICAL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're as proud as they can be Last Line: Make me have so big a voice? Subject(s): Babies; Children; Speech; Infants; Childhood; Oratory; Orators IN AN OLD NURSERY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: A prim old room where memories stir Last Line: Of some walled garden! Subject(s): Babies; Past; Rooms; Infants IN THE THRIVING SEASON, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as she ctahches fistfuls of sun Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Babies; Infants IN THE WOMB, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still rests the heavy share on the dark soil Last Line: The infant spirit for eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants INEVITABLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I was so weary and I lay Last Line: Forgetting all my need of peace and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Infants INFANCY, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wore the wreath on baby brows Subject(s): Babies; Infants INFANCY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Born to the world with my hands clenched Last Line: I laughed, with open eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Babies; Infants INFANCY, by MARION H. RAND Poem Text First Line: What! My merry little one Last Line: Prove thine in blest reality. Subject(s): Babies; Infants INFANT INNOCENCE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grizzly bear is huge and wild Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Infants INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no name: / I am but two days old Last Line: Sweet joy befall thee! Variant Title(s): Joy Is My Name Subject(s): Babies; Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Infants; Joy; Delight INFELIX, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, gazing on thy cradle sleep Last Line: And thine own mother comfort thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Comfort; Mothers; Infants INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature JOHNNY'S GOT A BAWBEE, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-) Poem Text First Line: Johnny's got a bawbee - how will he ware't? Last Line: We maun send for something owre the saut sea. Subject(s): Babies; Gifts & Giving; Infants JOY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Newborn, how long to stay Last Line: Unmakes the dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight KEEP HIM A BABY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can; Last Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Men; Mothers; Infants KING ROBERT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There's a king in our house, and we bow to his crown Last Line: And added a world to our family domain. Subject(s): Babies; Courts & Courtiers; Infants LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps as a lamb sleeps Last Line: Feeds, and is clothed in white. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!, by ISABEL MCLENNAN MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another dab of powder near your eye Last Line: Thank you, dear god. Our mary will get well! Subject(s): Babies; Sickness; Infants; Illness LEARNING TO GO ALONE, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my darling, come away Last Line: After such a walk as this. Subject(s): Babies; Walking; Infants LEARNING TO SPEAK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was the quietest thing I'd ever seen Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Speech; Babies; Oratory; Orators; Infants LEARNING TO TALK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On magnolia avenue there are no magnolias. Someone bought Subject(s): Neighbors; Birds; Mothers; Babies; Infants LEEDLE DUTCH BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leedle dutch baby haff come ter Last Line: Hey! Leedle dutchman come ter town! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Infants LIQUID FLESH, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a light chocolatine room Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Relationships; Body, Human; Infants; Parenthood LITTLE BERNHARD, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting, one fair, bright spring morning Last Line: Still the goddess love is gazing. Subject(s): Babies; Infants LITTLE BROWN BABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes Last Line: Little brown baby wif spa'klin eyes! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Babies; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants LITTLE DAVID'S CHRISTMAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Little hunchback david Last Line: Is tall, and straight, and strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Infants; Nativity, The LITTLE FEET, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little feet, so small that both may nestle Last Line: Will guide the baby's feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood LITTLE JESSIE, by WILLIAM C. CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, see my little baby-girl - a toddling, winsome thing Last Line: As she her baby-doll doth rock -- my little angel bright! Subject(s): Babies; Infants LITTLE JUDE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Po' little jude, why doan' yo' know Last Line: Fo'get dat day. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Infants; Dead, The LITTLE LOVE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little love into my bosom darted Last Line: For his pinions are burnt and won't bear him away. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants LITTLE ONE WEARY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crying, my little one, footsore and weary Last Line: Dreaming of pretty things, dreaming of pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 19 Subject(s): Babies; Infants LOST BABIES, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The lake's a lake of purple wine Last Line: "until they come, bide close to me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Infants; Nightmares; Virgin Mary LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago I fell in love Last Line: And she'll be three weeks old on sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants LOVE'S TENDRILS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter far than lyric rune Last Line: Sounds her heart-beat in my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Babies; Infants LOVE, THE BABY, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him be sold, I say! Let him be sold Last Line: Close to the heart of my zenophile. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Babies; Infants LULLABY, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Text First Line: They are fluttering and fluttering, like birds upon Last Line: Bye oh! Baby bye! Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LULLABY, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy head upon this pillow Last Line: Safe within a mother's love! Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Mothers; Infants LULLABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple strews the embers of its leaves Last Line: Till your own are wet above me when I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs LUMPECTOMY EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I dream of lips Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Breast Cancer; Nursing (infants) MAN DANCING WITH A BABY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before balance, before counting, before Subject(s): Babies; Infants MARGARET SLACK AND THE PRINCE OF WALES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you mothers and fathers, I hope you'll attend" Last Line: And look to the rights of margaret slack Subject(s): Babies;churches;love;wales; Infants;cathedrals;welshmen;welshwomen MARY BLY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here, doing nothing, alone, worn out by long winter. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MATERNITY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud? Last Line: I view this babe of sorrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants MAY I HOLD THE BABY? (A HUMBLE REQUEST OF THE MODERN MAMMA), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear modern mamma, if you please Last Line: If I may hold the baby. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants METEMPSYCHOSIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces; Infants; Dead, The MICHAEL FLYNN AND THE BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luk at 'ere, ould baby, - who Last Line: Don't yez know yer feyther -- boy? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives MINIATURE ROSE BUD, by ZELLA SPILKA Poem Text First Line: I picked the little rosebud / I held it in Last Line: Just lying there asleep. Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Infants MIRIAM'S SONG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death to the first-born sons, always Last Line: For the breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): It's A Boy Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery MODERN LULLABY, by ELEANOR STANLEY LOCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Hush-a-bye, baby, life's just a blight Last Line: But the name of the lady, nobody knows. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MOTHER & CHILD; AFTER CAREW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the destination of the sunlight's particles? Last Line: Under your innocent lashes Subject(s): Babies; Literary Form; Mothers; Infants MOTHER TO BABE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleck of sky you are Last Line: Up to dear sunshine. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MOTIF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the garret sleeps the roof Last Line: In its crib by the mold'ring wall Subject(s): Babies;death - Children;rest; Infants;death - Babies MUNDUS ET INFANS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kicking his mother until she let go of his soul Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples MY BABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cunning mite in robes of white Last Line: "my baby." Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MY BABY'S LIPS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My baby's lips can reach my hand Last Line: Kiss on, o baby mine. Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Kisses; Infants MY FIRST BAWBEE, by ARCHIBALD MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O nane, I trew, in a' the earth, was happier than me Last Line: "a something whispers -- ""robin, mind your first bawbee." Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY FIRST-BORN, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON Poem Text First Line: She came to my soul like a sunbeam of bliss Last Line: The tears that are shed when alone. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Love; Infants; Dead, The MY INFANT DAYS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a little infant, Last Line: In this world of grief and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY LOST BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Comes little maud and stands by my knee Last Line: The perilous heights of childhood's shore Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY SWEET LITTLE BABY, WHAT MEANEST THOU TO CRY?, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Lulla, la lulla, lulla lullaby. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY SWEET LITTLE DARLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my sweet little darling, my comfort and joy" Last Line: "sweet baby, lully, lully, sweet baby, lully, lully" Subject(s): Babies; Infants NAMING HIM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name Last Line: Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed! Subject(s): Babies; Names; Parents; Infants; Parenthood NAPPING IN THE SHADOW OF DAY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is still that shook with glee Last Line: Hush he's lightly breathing Subject(s): Babies; Infants NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A swollen infant under a tree, rose petals Last Line: Equal to childhood, throughout the kingdoms of the east. Subject(s): Babies; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paintings & Painters; Rousseau, Theodore (1812-1867); Infants; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin NELLY TELLS HOW BABY CAME, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER Poem Text First Line: There's no use of your talking, for mamma told me so Last Line: Why, tell them it's the angels, for mamma told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens Subject(s): Babies; Infants NEW YEAR ON DARTMOOR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is newness : every little tawdry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): New Year; Babies; Infants NIGHT CRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The radiator taps like a frantic blind man Last Line: A crocheted cap for a stillborn baby. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The NIGHT FEEDING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Nursing (infants) NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you, o infant of my midnight thought! Last Line: Ah, well, some day you 'll be a married man. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Marriage; Parents; Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood NOCTURNE, by EMERALD BROWNING KOEB Poem Text First Line: Wee life supine, now panting for thy breath Last Line: Your soul, love's golden spark, to god belongs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants NORMAN CRADLE-SONG, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon is afloat Last Line: And the heavenly noon. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Sleep; Infants NUMBER SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've multiplied, I'm 2 Last Line: Kind congruity. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth ODE: TO MISS MARGARET PULTENEY, DAUGHTER OF DANIEL, IN THE NURSERY, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dimply, damsel, sweetly smiling Last Line: Tender, and averse to killing Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Variant Title(s): To Miss Margaret Pulteney .. In The Nursery Subject(s): Babies; Infants ON A CHILD'S EYES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How loveable all infant beauties are! Last Line: That shall not blench when jesus takes his throne! Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Infants ON A DEAD BABE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly away! Thou heavenly one!-- Last Line: But I can not weep fer thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Grief; Infants; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON AN INFANT, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bewail not much, my parents! Me, the prey Last Line: Not many joys, my griefs were also few. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Babies; Infants ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's sense, his mother's grace Last Line: The health and appetite of rizzo. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Infants ON THE CYDNUS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the glorious sky, where the sun low rings Last Line: The divine and infant twain, desire and death. Subject(s): Babies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Infants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs. Subject(s): Birth; Babies; Mothers & Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery; Infants ONE NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Text First Line: The ancient spiders with a flutter spread Last Line: With silver crowned me there remote and lone. Subject(s): Babies; Change; Infants ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE', by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant eyes look out amazed upon the frowning earth Last Line: That loves a world all loveless, and smiles on calvary! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Babies; Infants ONLY A BABY (TO A LITTLE ONE JUST A WEEK OLD), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Only a baby Last Line: Toes dettin' cold Subject(s): Babies; Infants ONLY A BABY SMALL, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a baby small, dropt from the skies Last Line: Small, but how dear to us, god knoweth best. Subject(s): Babies; Infants OUR DARLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bounding like a football Last Line: That's our heart's delight. Subject(s): Babies;football; Infants OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PALACE OF THE BABIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place Subject(s): Night; Loneliness; Babies; Bedtime; Infants PASTORAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight Last Line: The vigil of astonishment. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The PHASES OF GIRLHOOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fondest love and sweetest pleasure Last Line: He still preserves my virtuous girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Girls; Growth; Mothers & Daughters; Virtue; Infants POLLIKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Dear little pollikins;--what a strange name Last Line: As pollikins will be a man. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants PORTRAIT OF A BABY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay within a warm, soft world Last Line: He entered on man's heritage! Subject(s): Babies; Infants PRE-TEXT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archaic, his gestures / hieratic, just like caesar or sappho Subject(s): Babies; Ancestors & Ancestry; Time; Infants; Heritage; Heredity PREDICTION, by ELLEN M. ACTON Poem Text First Line: The baby's hair is just a timid fuzz Last Line: Of going just the way it wants to go. Subject(s): Babies; Infants PUTTIN' THE BABY AWAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight of 'em hyeah all tol' an' yet Last Line: "do sumpin' fu' to comfo't dad!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants PUTTING DOLLY TO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother has so many cares Last Line: And rock our babes to sleep. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Dolls; Mothers; Toys; Infants; Childhood QUALITY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have a modest little home Last Line: She is the best—and she's our own! Subject(s): Babies; Infants QUEEN VICTORIA'S BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart" Last Line: Queen victoria's baby Subject(s): "babies;birth;courts & Courtiers;victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901);" Infants;child Birth;midwifery REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE BABY'S DEBUT, BY W. W., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My brother jack was nine in may Last Line: I'll blow a kiss to you. Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Infants ROADSIDE POEMS: THE CHILD-MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily slumbered noonday bright Last Line: "I did not let him go!" Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood ROCKING THE BABY, by MADGE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: I hear her rocking the baby Last Line: In the room just next to mine. Subject(s): Babies; Infants RUTH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby girl not two years old Last Line: "safe in the arms of love divine." Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love; Mothers; Infants SATISFIED, by HESTER A. BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: Where moss-made beds are brightest by the river Last Line: Of locks long longed for -- and am satisfied. Subject(s): Babies; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight SCALLOP SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a garland of the briar that put me now in awe Last Line: & leave all sorrow bye & bye. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SILENT BABY, by ELLEN BARTLETT CURRIER Poem Text First Line: The baby sits in her cradle Last Line: Like the birds, the bees, and the flowers. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 122, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson curtains round my mother's bed Last Line: For I am but a baby. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 124, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a baby, such a baby Last Line: And oh the sleepy eyes that wink! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 23, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My baby has a mottled fist Last Line: For he's the very thing for kisses. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Baby Subject(s): Babies; Infants SIX WEEKS OLD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is so small, he does not know Last Line: And does not care to learn the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Infants SIXTH DAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Straight to the rabbit's nest Last Line: But of the sixth day's veiled amenities. Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When day is over, mother sings songs Last Line: And he doesn't even hear mother putting out the light. Subject(s): April; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Infants SLEEPING AND WATCHING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, baby on the floor Last Line: With reveille holy. Variant Title(s): The Child And The Watcher Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SLUMBER FAIRIES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, my little one ! Hush! Lie down Last Line: Mamma must go. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man" Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG: 6, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first upon your tender cheek Last Line: They sicken, and expire. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Infants STANZAS ON AN INFANT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose-bud, blushing through the morning's tears Last Line: Awake her heart to joy, and wipe away her tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Infants STILL LIFE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Aubergin and yellow glazes Last Line: Idle now, it lolls at ease. Subject(s): Babies; Brothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Half-brothers; Death - Childbirth STORM CLOUDS, by PAULINE PARKER Poem Text First Line: Shadders of de evenin' / air a-tumblin' down Last Line: Mak' de black clouds shoo! Subject(s): Babies; Lightning; Infants; Lightning Rods STORY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where there used to be a thousand branches Subject(s): Babies; Infants STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove, Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants) SYMPATHY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When her little baby frets and cries Last Line: And oh! There's a spell of sunny weather! Subject(s): Babies; Infants TAR BABIES, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tar babies are / not the children Subject(s): Babies; Infants TELL ME FAIREST MAIDEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once a little angel Last Line: Through the gates above? Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants THAT CHILD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That child was dangerous. That just-born Subject(s): Babies; Native Americans - Children; Infants THE 1922 BABY, by GEORGE K. DENNY Poem Text First Line: Shall I tell you a story, baby dear? Last Line: You're a tiresome child! Run along to nurse! Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE ABANDONED NEWBORN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found you, you were not breathing Subject(s): Babies; Abandonment; Infants; Desertion THE ALTRUIST ORDER, SELECTION, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: He will not sleep, my child Last Line: May shine the radiant sun: mankind's first god! Subject(s): Babies; Home; Life; Mothers; Silence; Infants THE ANGEL'S WHISPER, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby was sleeping Last Line: "said, ""I knew that the angels were whispering with thee." Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Children; Sleep; Smiles; Infants; Childhood THE BABE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange when thou wert not, a life to-be! Last Line: As utter peace and quiet as dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE BABIE, by JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes Last Line: Our babie straight frae heaven. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood THE BABIES, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us save the babies Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE BABY, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On parents' knees, a naked, new-born child Last Line: Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep. Variant Title(s): A Moral Tetrastich;so Live;to An Infant Newly Born Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood THE BABY OVER THE WAY, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across in my neighbor's window Last Line: Of the house that's over the way. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE BABY'S DANCE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance, little baby, dance up high Last Line: While the gay merry coral goes ding-a-ding, ding. Subject(s): Babies; Dancing & Dancers; Infants THE BABY-HOUSE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear agatha, I give you joy Last Line: That cheaper baby-house is thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Dollhouses; Babies; Infants THE BABYSITTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was about six months old Subject(s): Adolescence; Babies; Teen Agers; Infants THE BACCHANTE TO HER BABE, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sprite, and dance! The sun is up Last Line: And squirm, and gurgle -- and grow wise! Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fairies; Infants; Elves THE BALD-HEADED TYRANT, by MARY E. VANDYNE Poem Text First Line: O! The quietest home in earth had I Last Line: This bald-headed tyrant from no-man's-land. Subject(s): Babies; Baldness; Infants THE BLACK MAMMY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whitened head entwined in turban gay Last Line: That it some day might crush thine own black child? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE CHANGELING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child with monstrous pumpkin head Last Line: For heaven's sake, drown it or else burn it! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Monsters; Infants; Childhood THE CHANGELING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the changeling enter in? Last Line: Came back, and I did not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Child Custody; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the greenest of wheat rang gold at his birth! Variant Title(s): For My Son Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE CHILD ASLEEP, by CLOTILDE DE SURVILLE Poem Text First Line: Sweet babe! True portrait of thy father's face Last Line: Beside me watch to see thy waking smile? Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou playing with time in thy sweet baby-glee? Last Line: May time and my ellen be playmates together. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Life; Time; Infants THE CHILD'S STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star that watched you in your sleep Last Line: "when his begins to burn." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Stars; Infants THE CHRISTMAS BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the night when sleeping Last Line: And he comes by no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Children; Christmas; Infants; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: It was on the western frontier Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States THE COMING MAN', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A pair of very chubby legs Last Line: God bless the 'coming man' Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE COTTAGER TO HER INFANT, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The days are cold, the nights are long Last Line: And wake when it is day. Variant Title(s): The Cottager's Lullaby;to My Niece Dorothy, A Sleepless Baby Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Wordsworth, Dorothy (dora) (1804-1847); Infants THE CRIB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought immortality Last Line: Immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Immortality; Infants THE CRUEL GAMEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In buxton town in staffordshire Last Line: All on the gallows tree so high Subject(s): Babies;crimes & Criminals;death;murder;pregnancy; "infants;dead, The; THE CRY-BABY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O me, o my!' Last Line: "just to start the earth a-growing!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE DREADFUL HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly Subject(s): Babies; Time; Ancestors & Ancestry; Infants; Heritage; Heredity THE FIRST BIRTHDAY, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, sweet girl, hath run his year-long race Last Line: Its father's frown, its nurse's mimic rage. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Infants THE FIRST KISS OF SUNSHINE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The first kiss of sunshine this morning came to me Last Line: In speaking of my treasure, my little sunshine boy. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Sun; Infants THE FIRST STEPS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I held my arms to you Last Line: To save you from a fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE FIRST STORY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Mid seaweed on a sultry strand, ten thousand years ago Last Line: So he wrote the first of stories with his little fingernail. Subject(s): Babies; Octopuses; Prehistoric Peoples; Writing & Writers; Infants THE FIRST YEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The year is nearly gone, my child Last Line: We couldn't do without you! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE HANGING OF THE CRANE: 3, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The picture fades; as at a village fair Last Line: And so good night to king canute. Variant Title(s): The Household Sovereign Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE HANGING OF THE CRANE: 4, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who walking in a forest sees Last Line: Into the days that are to be. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE HOPELESS CASE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The babykin's nose is a pug, so they say Last Line: But your husband will stay just about as he is. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE HOUSE WAS JUST TWINKLING IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE HUMAN TRINITY, by GRANVILLE LOWTHER Poem Text First Line: The sunshine reached across the space Last Line: In father, childhood, motherhood. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers; Love; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE INFANT, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an infant -- health, and joy, and light Last Line: "oh! Happy child! Untried and early blessed!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE JAZZ BABY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when babies were gently Last Line: "baby an' the cradle an' all!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE LEGEND OF ARA-COELI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at fra gervasio Last Line: "what know I, signor? They found her dead!" Subject(s): Legends; Catholicism; Babies; Infants THE LETTER SHE DID NOT WRITE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was never set down in black and white Last Line: Had come to the letter she could not write? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants THE LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women; Infants THE LION OF FLORENCE, by GEORGE DONALD Poem Text First Line: In the fair city of florence, on a time Last Line: Then slowly on its way it quietly went. Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Lions; Infants THE LITTLE HAND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wak'st, my baby boy, from sleep Last Line: It strike the lyre of praise. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE MITHERLESS BAIRN, by WILLIAM THOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When a'ither bairnies are hushed to their hame Last Line: That god deals the blow, for the mitherless bairn! Alternate Author Name(s): Inverary Poet, The Subject(s): Babies; Children; Orphans; Infants; Childhood; Foundlings THE MOON, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: A baby looks up at the moon Last Line: Through charted space! Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Infants THE MOTHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the nurse gone now? And are we alone at last? Last Line: The father (joyously): no, no; good-morning, mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MOTHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night he lay within my arm Last Line: To keep him safe from fear and harm! Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Mothers; Infants 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 MUD CAKE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little drops of water Last Line: Of sweet felicity. Subject(s): Babies; Dirt; Play; Infants THE NEW BABE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The babe is the beautifully cunning dust that desires and breathes Last Line: Of the babe in the storm and sun of the nourishing years. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE NEW SISTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, pete, do you like her? Last Line: "we should go in once more and bid ""baby"" good night!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE NEW YEAR BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two together, babe and year Last Line: Brother year was gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Holidays; New Year; Infants THE NIGHT DANCES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smile fell in the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Hush! Pretty darling, hush! -- bye, bye, bye, bye Last Line: And give us safe deliv'ry from our terrors. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Babies; Charity; Newspapers; Nurses; Infants; Philanthropy; Journalism; Journalists THE NURSERY SAGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know a quaint philosopher Last Line: That fond expression—dad! Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Language; Mothers; Infants; Words; Vocabulary THE ODE OF INFANCY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, little child! Last Line: And life's imperial portals opening gradually wide. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE OLD MAMMY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, lil baby, en go ter sleep Last Line: Er heap sight mo' dan his mudder do! Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants THE OLD WALNUT CRADLE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the attic I found it Last Line: Like a careless babe again. Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Memory; Infants THE PAMPERING OF LEORA, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore, no more recounting of dreams, a routine thing Subject(s): Youth; Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) THE SCHOOLMISTRESS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: If she, their nurse, be faint with famine Last Line: Bid birds and angels bring her bread. Subject(s): Babies; Orphans; Infants; Foundlings THE SLAVE-MOTHER, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her new-born child she holdeth, but feels within her heart Last Line: "god grant my little helpless one in helplessness may die!" Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Slavery; Infants; Serfs THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks THE STORK VISITS A CABIN, by WILLIAM FRED SACHS Poem Text First Line: Hop wid de banjo Last Line: I's twice-cum pappy. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE STUNT FLIER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into my dim bedroom Last Line: To demonstrate how easy gliding is Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE SUPPER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Since music is love's milk and keeps him strong Last Line: Has fixed on me his large, unwavering eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Paternity; Infants THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE TWA BAWBEES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately, lang-robit, an' steppin' at ease Last Line: The puir body's bawbees war mair than it a'. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WARM CRADLE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, baby, hush Last Line: Dream, baby, dream. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WAY THE BABY CAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this is the way the baby came Last Line: O this is the way the baby came! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WAY THE BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way the baby slept Last Line: And this is the way the baby slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WAY THE BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way the baby woke Last Line: And this is the way the baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WHITE CAP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day a baby wave was born Last Line: With sunbeams in her hair! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE WINNER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a child inside Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WONDER CHILD, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our little babe,' each said, 'shall be' Last Line: One thing is certain, -- it will be our little babe. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WORLD IS SO SMALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a very little place Last Line: To suit me so. Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Infants; World TO A BLIND BABE, SLEEPING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are thy dreams dark? Or is the light Last Line: A kindling radiance appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Blindness; Sleep; Infants; Visually Handicapped TO A DEAD BABE, by VERA ANDREW HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one! Last Line: For all eternity through sorrow saved! Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Mothers; Infants TO A DEAD BABY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale little feet, grown quiet ere they could run Last Line: There is a heaven that makes this earth complete. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Life; Infants; Death - Babies TO A WISE AND BEAUTIFUL BABY, by DOROTHY HOMANS Poem Text First Line: He has eyes blue as / grape hyacinths Last Line: When the brown earth is blossoming. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO AN INFANT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Cease thy tears and sobs, my little life Last Line: Meek nurse of souls through their long infancy! Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO AN INFANT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wak'st from rosy [or, happy] sleep, to play Last Line: He will remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Infants TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO BE BORN AGAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist Last Line: "you've been forgiven" Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TO CHARLOTTE PULTENEY [IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS], by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Timely blossom, infant fair, / fondling of a happy pair Last Line: This picture, once, resembled thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Variant Title(s): To An Infant In Her Mother's Arms Subject(s): Babies; Labor & Laborers; Infants; Work; Workers TO CLARE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou toddling babe, none looks upon but loves Last Line: On a still sunny morning of winter we see. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO EDITH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou little bud of being, edith named Last Line: To cumulate thy sin & piety. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO HER THREE DAYS' CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I only, its mother, have known Last Line: Two in one, and in god one in three. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants TO IANTHE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, baby! For thine own sweet sake Last Line: The image of thy mother's loveliness. Subject(s): Babies; Shelley, Elizabeth Ianthe; Infants TO LOUISE (A CHRISTMAS BABY, NOW ONE YEAR OLD), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undaunted by a world of grief Last Line: Lit candles on a christmas tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Infants; Nativity, The TO MARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Thou art happy, and I feel Last Line: My foolish heart be still, or break. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Jealousy; Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth; Infants TO MARY, by MAURETTE CHRISTOPHER Poem Text First Line: Upon my knees my little baby lies Last Line: How dear his hands and tiny wrinkled feet! Subject(s): Babies; Faces; Jesus Christ; Infants TO MISS --, THEN TWO YEARS OLD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blossom, opening to the beams of day! Last Line: To endless peace, and purest bliss above. Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Gentility; Innocence; Youth; Infants TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 24. THE WORLD'S NEED, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The whole round world is but a woman's child Last Line: Enjoy and bless her for eternally. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Earth; Mothers; Infants; Childhood; World TO MY BABY, by MARGERY STEVENS WARNER Poem Text First Line: When first I held you in my arms Last Line: And now you've gone so far away. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound upon the night Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO WINIFRED (AGED EIGHTEEN MONTHS), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The angels alone might tell you Last Line: The sorrow it needs must find! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Infants TOILING CHILDREN, by NELLIE H. EVANS Poem Text First Line: The prey of greed and cruel industry Last Line: An ample chance to play, to grow and learn. Subject(s): Babies; Cruelty; Labor & Laborers; Infants; Work; Workers TOTH FARRY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the back of the charm-box, in a sack, the baby Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BABY SONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croonie croonie, baby baby, up and down Last Line: Baby baby, what art thou? Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CRADLED IN FLAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in flame Last Line: Thy form, thy form, indelible remains. Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Love; Infants TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BABE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trio perfect: the man, the woman, and the babe Last Line: And herein all creation. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Family Life; Love; Infants; Relatives TRUANTS, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The moonbeams live, pulsate, and dance Last Line: To a punishment they had earned. Subject(s): Absence; Babies; Family Life; Separation; Isolation; Infants; Relatives UT TUTO AB ATRIS CORPORE VIPERIS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horace, an infant, (here he interweaves Last Line: "for bears read goats""—pro ursis lege hircis" Subject(s): Babies; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Infants VERSES TO AN INFANT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings rest on thee, happy one Last Line: In mercy be fulfill'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Babies; Infants WAGTAIL AND BABY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby watched a ford, whereto Last Line: The baby fell a-thinking. Subject(s): Babies; Birds; Wagtails; Infants WASHING-DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While mother is tending baby Last Line: But dolly'll have to wait Subject(s): Babies;laundry & Laundering;mothers; Infants WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rockets flamed in sudden fire Last Line: The grandest name that stars the state. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Infants WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a plane Last Line: Was funnier than the whole arm. Subject(s): Babies; Brides; Clothing & Dress; Marriage; White (color); Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEE JOUKYDAIDLES, by JAMES SMITH (1824-) Poem Text First Line: Wee joukydaidles, toddlin' oot and in Last Line: I'll see my bonnie bairnie a braw, braw lass! Subject(s): Babies; Infants WEIGHING THE BABY, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many pounds does the baby weigh Last Line: That claims a home in eden yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER (BY A DISPLACED THREE-YEAR-OLD), by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mozzer bought a baby Last Line: And beat him on the head. Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Subject(s): Babies; Infants WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once he comes to live on the outside of her, he will not sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood WHEN BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby Last Line: When baby donned her dreams, and slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Infants; Nightmares WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares 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 WHERE BABIES COME FROM, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Many are from the maldives, Subject(s): Babies; Infants WHERE DO ALL THE DAISIES GO?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That is where they go! Subject(s): Babies;birds;daisies;flowers;mothers;winter; Infants WHERE SHALL THE BABY'S DIMPLE BE?, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the cradle the mother hung Last Line: "and my baby the angel's seal shall keep." Subject(s): Babies; Dimples; Infants WHO'LL TEND BABY?, by E. E. Poem Text First Line: Who'll take care of the baby?' Last Line: "she went to pay her taxes!" Subject(s): Babies; Children; Irony; Nonsense; Infants; Childhood WILLIE WINKIE, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wee willie winkie rins through the town Last Line: To me. Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants YOU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three times as many of you Last Line: As when I was born Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery YOU'RE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants |
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