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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS Matches Found: 132 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women A DISCORD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buds were out on the lilac-trees Last Line: That sweet spring morning, was lying dead. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The A LESSON FOR MAMMA, by SYDNEY DAYRE Poem Text First Line: Dear mamma, if you just could be Last Line: Now, mamma, couldn't you? Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters A MASQUERADE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little old woman before me Last Line: "that I was ninety-nine." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Masquerades; Mothers & Daughters; Old Age A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A WOMAN MOURNED BY DAUGHTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, not a tear begun Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Daughters; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary ANNIE'S DAUGHTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering charm of a dream that has fled Last Line: And see the old smile to the young lips rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters BESS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When bess, the landlord's black-eyed Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Dreams; Nightmares BIRD, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother loomed all hips and breasts, Last Line: Coat of feathers grew over you, trying to save you Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers & Daughters; Women BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; India; Parting CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay errors Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Subject(s): Life; Mothers & Daughters 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 FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FAWN BEFORE DOW SEASON, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day I went to work, Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses FINDING WHAT'S LOST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets FIRST THANKSGIVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes back, from college, I will see Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Homecoming; Thanksgiving Day FOR MY DAUGHTER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was lingering summer Last Line: I thank your star, and you. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Feminism FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO LOVES ANIMALS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a week, whether the money is there Last Line: Even the slightest of their calls. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love; Mothers & Daughters FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: HOME TO FARGO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals live by mutual interchange Last Line: Drive to the next time zone. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Fargo, North Dakota; Mothers & Daughters; Graveyards GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She always wanted to be dorothy gayle Last Line: Sailboats like dropped handkerchiefs below me. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Journeys; Trips GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small square with elms Last Line: "but she does. She has to." Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: THE ROAD TO BUFFALO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take all her belongings Last Line: And drove with her knuckles. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters GRANDMOTHER GRANT, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the rejected lies of the new york foundling Last Line: Here is my claim. I need to come into my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Mothers & Daughters; Nuns 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 HELEN BIDS FAREWELL TO HER DAUGHTER HERMIONE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is time before I go Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; Coming Of Age; Parting HER BECKETT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to visit my mother is like starting in on a piece by beckett Last Line: And hides again Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen years, her breath in the house Subject(s): High School Students; Mothers & Daughters HIPPOLYTE AT BREAKFAST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has forgotten Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives HOUSE WITH YELLOW SMOKE SONNET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two daughters who seemed to be listening Last Line: Of her spine. Subject(s): Boredom; Daughters; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep; Ennui HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass Last Line: Here on my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs IF I COULD KEEP HER SO, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a little baby, lying in my arms Last Line: Safe among the angels, I would keep her so. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood IN THE VOICE OF JANE TO HER MOTHER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caught myself / putting away four dresses Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress JESSIE MITCHELL€™S MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth 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 LIES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Probably no one noticed the mornings I disappeared to sit Last Line: The little mothers and sisters. Subject(s): Lies; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Sisters LIKE A HENRY MOORE STATUE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And suspend it in my opening Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); Body, Human; Self; Mothers & Daughters LINES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone Last Line: "it feel like burning, said the child trying to be Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters LITTLE NORA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off upon a western shore Last Line: Sweet words to make them glad? Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood; Dead, The LULLABY FOR 17, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so young Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth MAKEUP ON EMPTY SPACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am putting makeup on empty space Last Line: Singing & moaning in empty space Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MOTHER, by CATHARINE CARSTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Mother sits in the old armchair Last Line: Children and mother, a loyal pair. Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 1, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young laughters, and my music! Aye till now Last Line: Comes not again the young spring joy that went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 10, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not love, not love, that worn and footsore thrall Last Line: "or else when was the moment that love went?" Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 11. LOVE'S MOURN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis men who say that through all hurt and pain Last Line: And faith to love--faith to our dead at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters; Women MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 12, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has made me wayside posies: here they stand Last Line: A presence of my darling mingling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Posies MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 13, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling scarce thinks music sweet save mine Last Line: Thou echo to the self she knows not yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Voices MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 14, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To love her as to-day is so great bliss Last Line: Yet, ah! My child with the child's trustful eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 15, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That some day death who has us all for jest Last Line: But death and her! That's strangeness passing grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 16, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will not have it that my day wanes low Last Line: And I forget to age, through her sweet will. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 17, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And how could I grow old while she's so young? Last Line: Not burdening age, with her, could make me chilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Aging; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 18, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard that the full summer of our round Last Line: And we know then that some time since youth went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 19, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks Last Line: Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 2, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That she is beautiful is not delight Last Line: And oh the beauty of it, being thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 20, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one I miss. A little questioning maid Last Line: The eager baby voice outside my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 21, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardly in any common tender wise Last Line: So gives back such a meaning in her own. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Language; Mothers & Daughters; Words; Vocabulary MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 22, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brook leaps riotous with its life just found Last Line: These in their joyfulness feel the tarn's strong hush. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 23, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sing 'I love you, love' the whole day through Last Line: Possesses the dear trust that each gives each. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Trust MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 24, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You scarcely are a mother, at that rate Last Line: Yet I, I do not envy them indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 26, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of my one pearl so much more joy I gain Last Line: Has but one channel, therefore infinite deeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the sweet grave face in timorous thought Last Line: She hears a woe, 'tis simple tears she weeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 4, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a child. The quiet juno gaze Last Line: "two hyacinths in my garden almost out!" Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 5, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the broad blue lightnings flamed the sky Last Line: "mother,"" my darling breathed, and slept content." Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 6, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, as young things will, she vexes me Last Line: And, oh my penitent, how dear thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 7, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her father lessons me I at times am hard Last Line: I watch one treasured pearl for me and him. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Discipline; Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 8, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child she, half defiant came Last Line: Is their love, love, or some remembered ghost? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 9, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back! Last Line: For yet some sparks to warm the livelong gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters MY MOTHER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The twilight falls on mother's life Last Line: I'd be distraught,—for mother. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The MY MOTHER LEFT ME, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 24 pairs of unmatched white gloves Last Line: She left me. Subject(s): Death; Gloves; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Mittens; Muffs MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood ON A DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY, by MRS. H. T. GUDGEN Poem Text First Line: Twas thirty years ago today, my dear Last Line: Breeds courage to meet and stem life's tide. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters 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 OUR LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our merry little daughter Last Line: To give my mother sorrow! Subject(s): Daughters;girls;grief;mothers & Daughters;parents; Sorrow;sadness;parenthood PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Subject(s): Horses; Mothers & Daughters PARENTS' DAY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I breathed shallow as I looked for her Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a Last Line: I was your murdered child. Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PERSISTENCE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters 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 PICTURES OF MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small thatched cottage, moss-grown, old Last Line: Crushed out beneath my careless feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters PLANNING THE FUTURE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed my daughter would be 16 Last Line: The job of waking into each morning, trusting. Subject(s): Future; Love; Mothers & Daughters POCKETS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The point of clothes was line Last Line: To find both hands and pockets empty. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Sewing POEM FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm going to have it Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Birth; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall / I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years Last Line: "warding off despair." Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The RESEMBLANCE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I have on mine no likeness Last Line: And stamped me as your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters ROADSIDE POEMS: RECIPROCITY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother, elfie older grown Subject(s): God; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is an end Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp. Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd have thought her diamond was set in my flesh Last Line: Wahpeton - mandan - medora - to vanishing point. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters SEX, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the bare feet on the warm boardwalk Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore STEALING A LINE WRITTEN BY HAFIZ AND TRANSLATED BY EMERSON, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion. Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE CLASP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters THE COUNTERPANE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Who were you, with the busy, patient hands Last Line: The simple pattern of your peerless days. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DIZZY DAUGHTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary jane, you dizzy daisy, what a mess Last Line: She's with us you should aid her, not make work for her to do. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Daughters THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE FAMILY: 1. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High as my heart! The quip be mine Last Line: My solace and its ornament! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers & Daughters; Relatives THE FIRST SNOW STORM, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The very first snow of the year, mama Last Line: Around in my underclothes. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Snow THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE MAGICIAN (TO MY DAUGHTER, FAITH HARLOW), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No longer have I fear of falling leaves Last Line: Since you found my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE MEMORIAL PILLAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and child! Whose blending tears Last Line: Surely your hearts have met at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Mothers & Daughters; Women THE RISK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Suicide THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE TALK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark square wooden room at noon Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Swimming & Swimmers THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had not expected to be an ordinary woman Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Mothers & Daughters; Middle Age THE WHISTLING DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whistle, my dearest daughter, and I will give thee a cow" Last Line: And so the whistling soon began Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters THE WHITE RABBIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, mother / holding the banister with five-year-old fingers Last Line: Come back to climb the stairs. Subject(s): Memory; Mothers & Daughters THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has been dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand songs I might have made Last Line: Immortal—and forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Immortality; Mothers & Daughters; Smiles TO MY DAUGHTER IN A RED COAT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late october. It is afternoon. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Autumn; Fall TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful child that launchest out on the great sea of life Last Line: Closer even than now. Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters TRANSPLANTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs UNDER THE ZANZARIERE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She put the comb in one hand and with the left waved. With that Last Line: Persistent voices, like whispers in another room. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Daughters; Secrets UNE PETITE CHANSON DE LAMENTATION A MA MERE, by BELLE DE COEUR Poem Text First Line: Give me my youth, and let me play Last Line: To find a new day and you. Subject(s): Children; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Past; Childhood VISIONS FROM MY OFFICE WINDOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the students between the buildings Last Line: Her eyes deep-set and dark as olives. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Students VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations WASTEFUL GESTURE ONLY NOT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruth visits her mother’s grave in the california hills Last Line: That’s what going to sleep is like Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women YOUTH SPEAKS, by MABEL M. BURTON Poem Text First Line: I am just turned sixteen Last Line: And my hair is red gold. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth |
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