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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARENTHOOD Matches Found: 208 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEHOLD, O LORD, THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "as free-will gifts, as bonds of love" Subject(s): Family Life;jews;love;parents;togetherness; Relatives;judaism;parenthood A BALLAD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return return, my hapless spouse Last Line: Let fancy paint the rest. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Parents; Trials; Childhood; Parenthood A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A DAUGHTER'S FEVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark ivy draws a wave across the yard Last Line: Small fingers curl. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DIFFERENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I can't go to sleep Last Line: While mother's in the hall! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Horses; Parents; Parenthood A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood A HYMN FOR A CHILD THAT HAS UNGODLY PARENTS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy are those little ones Last Line: And supplication heard. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A LEAF, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf falls softly at my feet Last Line: So much that was most dear to me. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A MOTHER, by ERNEST G. MOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were stained with the dust of the road Last Line: And summer's coming. Alternate Author Name(s): Moll, Gerry Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A PARENT REPRIMANDED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think 'at parunts does Last Line: Ist wite where ma she said it's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Punishment; Parenthood A POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou's welcome wean, mishanter fa' me Last Line: An' think't weel war'd. Subject(s): Daughters; Parents; Parenthood 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 PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PROTEST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it's queer that boys should be Last Line: "yes, dearsome timenow run to bed!" Subject(s): Boys; Children; Contrariness; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A SONG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For having loved my parents Last Line: I am myself. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere. Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood A WITCH'S DAUGHTER AND A COBBLER'S SON, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A witch's daughter Last Line: See how they run! Subject(s): Children; Cobblers; Mothers; Parents; Witchcraft & Witches; Childhood; Parenthood A' LANE, LANEY!, by JOHN TAYLOR (1837-) Poem Text First Line: I've had my share o' sorrows; they've been neither few nor sma' Last Line: He winna leave the bairnie his wee lea lane! Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood AD ASTRA: 112, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What man that hath a weak and ailing child Last Line: Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sympathy; Childhood; Parenthood; Empathy ADAM, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam, my child, my son Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood AFTER THE WEDDING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought we never should be rid of them! Last Line: To find our own past in their future there! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Daughters; Love - Marital; Marriage; Parents; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood ALONE WITH JANE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Jane, in a suit of cameron plaid Last Line: I wish I were n't alone with jane! Subject(s): Courtship; Daughters; Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood ANACREONTIC, ON PARTING WITH A LITTLE CHILD, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, farewell, a little while, / easy parting with a smile Last Line: Vainly mourns for them that play. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood APPARENT, by ALBERT ELLSWORTH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: When I questioned young smithson, a short time ago Last Line: "the reason's a parent!"" cried he." Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me, Last Line: Swim in my blood and distort my thought but the old man's welcome Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Parents; Parenthood BORN INTO A WORLD KNOWING, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This will happen Last Line: In the fresh snow. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Survival; Childhood; Parenthood BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ceremonial rose in the lapel Last Line: Her hand at total rest under his hand Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: We're watching you! Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex; Parenthood CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism CIGARETTES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father burned us all. Ash Last Line: Smoldering halls. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fire; Parents; Smoking; Childhood; Parenthood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CIVILIZING THE CHILD, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't keep it, I say Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood CONSUMMATION, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: Abundant life is nature's law Last Line: To take you through the gates of heaven. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Parents; Teaching & Teachers; Parenthood; Educators; Professors CURRICULUM VITAE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in a free city, near the north sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Parenthood DESTINY, by EMMA E. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It seems but yesterday Last Line: Unto your chosen destiny. Subject(s): Children; Fate; Parents; Childhood; Destiny; Parenthood DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's, mother's, brother's deaths I pardon Last Line: And beg of heaven to charge the bill on me. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Forgiveness; Murder; Parents; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Clemency; Parenthood DREAM OF DONEGAL, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD Poem Text First Line: I can see the little cottage by the sea, by the sea Last Line: Oh, father, be a boy again, and not so cold and still! Subject(s): Dreams; Parents; Sea; Nightmares; Parenthood; Ocean ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924); Childhood; Parenthood EMPTY CRADLE SONGS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think about the rooms Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITHALAMIUM, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This body of my mother, pierced by me Last Line: My sister, heralded by no moan, no sound. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Marriage; Parents; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood ETHELBERT'S 'COMING HOME IN THE DARK', by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did I tell you how we went to tea Last Line: At what we told him, willie and I. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood EXCUSES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I'm special naughty Last Line: Just how bad I was!) Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood FAMOUS MAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Fluttered across his face Last Line: Of his father. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Parents; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives; Parenthood FATHER GOOSE, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mother goose became quite new Last Line: The tales of father goose. Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Books; Geese; Parents; Reading; Parenthood FATHER POEM, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have fathered / four sons, they surround Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood FATHER'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, against admonishment Last Line: She tries to teach me risk. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Parents; Prudence; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood; Caution FATHER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father's got the queerest valentine! Last Line: "that was mother, thirty years ago!" Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Mothers; Parents; Valentine's Day; Childhood; Parenthood FIERCE PARENTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If your parent should be dressed in Last Line: And laughs back as all fathers do in every kind of land. Subject(s): Children; January; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood FOR A CHILD: 2. NIGHT SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, our lord, and for thy peace Last Line: Be your great protection shed. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood FORTY YEARS LATER, by SHARON OLDS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I suddenly sensed the rubber band which I had Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood 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 FRUIT OF THE FLOWER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a quiet man Last Line: That flushes this wild fruit? Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood FULFILLMENT, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: My children have the things I wanted - college Last Line: God lets me give the things I never had. Subject(s): Parents; Universities & Colleges; Parenthood GRADUATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ex-wife comes over Subject(s): Graduation & Graduates; Divorce; Parents; Parenthood GRAVE, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Graves; Parents; Tombs; Tombstones; Parenthood GROWN UPS, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aunties know all about fairies Last Line: Even the little ones. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood HEAVEN, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a little child Last Line: To show true heaven is all above. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood 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 POET-BROTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What ef little childerns all Last Line: Wuz big as parunts is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Retail Trade; Childhood; Parenthood; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers HIS PA'S ROMANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All 'at I ever want to be Last Line: "I laugh' an' yell', ""hooray-hooraw!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Parents; Uncles; Parenthood 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 HOW IT PASSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I'll begin to cook like mother Last Line: It won't go away. Subject(s): Aging; Creative Ability; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Parenthood; Feminism I GO BACK TO MAY 1937, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges Subject(s): Parents; Marriage; Failure; Parenthood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 IMPORTANT QUERIES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why this hurrying to and fro Last Line: Adorn and bless the nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood INFIDELITY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two-toned olds swinging sideways out of Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Quarrels; Parenthood; Arguments; Disagreements INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parunts knows lots more than us Last Line: "well, what is it, honey?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Wind; Wisdom; Parenthood INTERRUPTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say it's wrong to interrupt when someone talks / to you Last Line: Which proves he doesn't hear, nor even look at what I'm showing. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Talk; Childhood; Parenthood JACOB UNRECOGNIZED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I was lyin' in the grass Last Line: But my mawwhy, you jes' can't int'rest her! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood KING'S DAUGHTERS, HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, 1948, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there figures a man. In uniform. He's not white. He Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Daughters; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood LIFE IS THUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never look behind Last Line: Behind. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Life; Parents; Poverty; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood LIQUID FLESH, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a light chocolatine room Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Relationships; Body, Human; Infants; Parenthood LOOKING IN AT NIGHT, by MARY KINZIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep, alive, her shape makes me afraid Last Line: Drawing the night along her shoulder blade Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood LOST AND FOUND, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a southern city lived a wealthy family Last Line: My poor little wanderer far away from home. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I do zew, wi' nimble hand Last Line: Up here a-while. Do come. Subject(s): Autumn; Parents; Seasons; Solitude; Fall; Parenthood; Loneliness LYNCHING AND BURNING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lean toward the wood Last Line: People lived there. Now we live there... Subject(s): Children; Ku Klux Klan; Lynching; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs M. ON HER THIRTHIETH BIRTHDAY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I could be a yogi Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The MENAPHON: SEPHESTIA'S [CRADLE] SONG TO HER CHILD, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee Last Line: When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Variant Title(s): Sephestia's Lullaby Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood MILKWEED AND MONARCH, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he knelt by the grave of his mother and father Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood MISSING THE DEAD, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I miss the old scrawl on the viaduct Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Parker, Charlie (bird) (1920-1955); Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The MOTHER AND SON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, in the stale cigarette smell Last Line: Drift separately into dawn. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOTHER WONDER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I have washed their clothes and their faces Last Line: I wonder! Subject(s): Children; Good; Hearts; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MY CHILDHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS; TO MY PARENTS, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Many poets great and gifted whom the muse's touch had blessed Last Line: When at last our bark is anchored there to spend our happiest days. Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood MY PARENTS HAVE COME HOME LAUGHING, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: That seems not to be pain, and it comforts me Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood 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 NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 2D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour thy parents to prolong thine end Last Line: Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. Subject(s): Parents; Truth; Parenthood NEW WAVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He listens to a punk rock group Last Line: Due to the effects of listening to agent orange. Subject(s): Adolescence; Music & Musicians; Parents; Teen Agers; Parenthood 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 NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Death; Parents; Dead, The; Parenthood NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Death; Parents; Graveyards; Relatives; Dead, The; Parenthood NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism 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 NUMBER SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem 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 ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies to each her parents' ruth Last Line: Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On My First Daughter Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Parents; Death - Babies; Parenthood ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Families, when a child is born Last Line: By becoming a cabinet minister. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Birth; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Parenthood OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1873, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas-days are still in store Last Line: News to men! To god old glory! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood OUR HOMESTEAD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our old brown homestead reared its walls Last Line: They are in my heart to-night! Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia; Parents; Parenthood 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 OUR ROMANCE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is narrow which leads to that house Last Line: And saved the parents, being children. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Parents; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OUR SON SWEARS HE HAS 102 GALLONS OF WATER IN HIS BODY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum Last Line: That nobody could break. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Milk; Parents; Water; Wine; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Parenthood PARENTAL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parunts don't git toys an' things Last Line: She know he ever saw! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Parents; Toys; Parenthood PARENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What it must be like to be an angel Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood PHOTOGRAPHS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take what you want, we'll throw the rest away Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Memory; Parents; Parenthood PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a heavy knocking Last Line: Is coming home Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood POLAND OF DEATH: 1, by ALLEN GROSSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear my father underground scratching with a nail. And I say Last Line: "and mother says, ""this is the forest primeval."" poland of death!" Subject(s): Graves; Jews; Parents; Poland; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Parenthood POPULAR BALLAD: NEVER FORGET YOUR PARENTS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young man once was sitting Last Line: You would not have been born. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Gratitude; Grief; Parents; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PREPOSITIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction) Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these your eyes, isla Last Line: Pulse of my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood RACHEL MOURNETH, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Where are my babes, husband, where are my babes? Last Line: Butgodwhere are my babes? Subject(s): Children; Parents; Youth; Childhood; Parenthood READING A STORY TO MY CHILD, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a small boy Last Line: In a ragged coat. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs SCALLOP SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem 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 SEED, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corn is universal, / so like a roman senator Last Line: Oh my daughters. Subject(s): Children; Corn; Indian Summer; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SIX LOVE POEMS: 1, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are seated at the kitchen table Last Line: The space we occupy together Subject(s): Parents; Male-female Relationships; Parenthood 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 SKY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be buried beside my parents Last Line: Beside us, face up to the sky Subject(s): Parents; Graves; Parenthood SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my father was a god Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood SO THERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I would not let one four-year-old son Last Line: My my we are a stubborn personality Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charles, my slow heart was only sad, when first Last Line: And dearer was the mother for the child. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To A Friend Who Asked How I Felt;mother And Child;to A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When The Nurse First Presented Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Parenthood SONNET: 2, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow Last Line: And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. Subject(s): Aging; Love; Parents; Parenthood STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood TESTAMENT (TO MY CHILD), by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot will you much of wealth Last Line: All good shall flow to you. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Love; Parents; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Parenthood THE AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America THE ANSWER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My johnny is left me and gone to the sea Last Line: We are all born to troubles, I must that endure. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Parents; Parenthood THE CABBAGE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have rented an apartment Last Line: You can live with this. Subject(s): Children; Paintings And Painters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children bear our froward mood Last Line: See, lord,they bear with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood THE CONTINUOUS LIFE, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of the neighborhood homes awash Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THE CORONA, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knife-edge / days and shimmering nights Last Line: Makes us pause and move on. Subject(s): Fire; Parents; Parenthood THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DANGER OF DISCONTENT, by E.-G. BAYFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh, soon may that holiday period come Last Line: "than that which is caus'd by the man of your heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Cooper, Laura+(1) Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Parents; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood THE DOLL BELIEVERS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lifeless construction Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Parents; Toys; Childhood; Parenthood THE FAMILY GROUP, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sunday at the zoo I understood the child Last Line: The strange uncertain rumor of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood 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 FIRSTBORN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the night doth fall Last Line: In small appear. Subject(s): Children; Inheritance And Succession; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE GOODNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood still by her bed Subject(s): Children; Anxiety; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE HOOLIGAN ZOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry and depressed I take my son to the zoo Subject(s): Parents; Zoos; Parenthood 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 LAST THING I SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE MODEL KID, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet the child who says, 'I will' Last Line: Dies, no soul in town will mourn. Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Obedience; Parents; Parenthood THE MURMUR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor flicks on a light Last Line: Red and green and indigo. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Medicine; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription; Parenthood THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood THE NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE OLD-FASHIONED PARENTS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The good old-fashioned mothers & the good old-fashioned dads Last Line: If we'd no old-fashioned mother and we'd no old-fashioned dad. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THE PARENT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood THE PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They renounce the very idea Last Line: Like the crazy birds, to their offspring. Subject(s): Children; Insanity; Parents; Childhood; Madness; Mental Illness; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 173, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise girls but not too many Last Line: You're big but no match for your mother Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Parents; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 241, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see people everywhere Last Line: End your attachment to form Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Parents; Buddha; Buddhists; Relatives; Parenthood THE PRIMITIAE TO PARENTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our household-gods our parents be Last Line: Us hands to get what here we have. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE RED HAT, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It started before christmas. Now our son Subject(s): Parents; Anxiety; Parenthood THE SIX SORROWS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are six sorrows in my heart Last Line: Six sorrows all my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood THE THERMOS, by ARTHUR SZE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppy seeds from a north bennington garden Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion; Dead, The; Parenthood; Theology THE TWO MOTHERS, by VIRGINIA BULLOCK-WILLIS Poem Text First Line: They brought him home on his birthday Last Line: While the last bears him to death's long rest. Subject(s): Funerals; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Burials; Parenthood THE TWO PARENTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my little son, and yet when he was ill Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Parenthood THE VELVET HAND, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call that parent rash and wild Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THE VOICE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sunrise, swimming out to sea Last Line: And answer that sweet calling. Subject(s): Parents; Sea; Parenthood; Ocean THE WANDERER, by V. O. WALLINGFORD Poem Text First Line: I wonder, wayward child of mine Last Line: I'll clasp your hand, and share your joy! Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Parents; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Parting; Parenthood THE WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood 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 THEN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My parents and the parents Subject(s): Parents; Women; Parenthood THIS BE THE VERSE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fuck you up, your mum and dad Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THOMAS AND NANCY LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fit us for humblest service,' prayed Last Line: Will hallow their repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1784-1818); Lincoln, Thomas (1778-1851); Parents; Presidents, United States; Liberty; Parenthood TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Poem Text First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood TO FOUR MOTHERS, by ETHEL LOVE DUNHAM Poem Text First Line: God bless you, parents of young lives gone Last Line: In god's great, wide infinity you all shall meet again. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD CORBET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I shall leave thee none can tell Last Line: As innocent as now thou art. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard Variant Title(s): A Father's Blessing Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN - ASLEEP, by ALAN SULLIVAN (1867-) Poem Text First Line: List to their gentle breathing in the night Last Line: Put out the light! The gloom cloaks best a worshiper. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrors are to come. The earth Last Line: Though the pain of them is on me Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood TO NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Cooling, quieting night Last Line: And be at one with the silent three that brood and move in the shadow of god! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Night; Parents; Dead, The; Bedtime; Parenthood TO TRY AGAIN, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble,' says the sword-grass, leaning over the water Last Line: "look,"" says the void. ""what meaning? Be thou me." Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood TO WHERE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing a tawny lion pelt upon Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood 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 TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turinna, famed for every grace Last Line: Revive from such distress again. Subject(s): Daughters; Epitaphs; Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood UPON WEDLOCK, AND DEATH OF CHILDREN, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious knot god made in paradise Last Line: Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Parents; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VERTUOSI, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People whose lives have been shaped Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood VIOLIN SONGS: A FATHER TO A MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's own child came down to earth Last Line: It's only till to-morrow! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Death; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Dead, The; Parenthood WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky Last Line: "she let me kiss each box Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents; Parting; Parenthood WE HAVE KNOWN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have known such joy as a child knows Last Line: And will not survive, though you have them. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Love; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Parenthood WE HAVE NO TIME FOR CHILDREN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have no time for children, we have no hour / for these Last Line: By giving less of money and giving more of care. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT FATHER KNOWS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father knows the proper way Last Line: But look to ma for action. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were small Last Line: Ancient eyes. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT LITTLE SAUL GOT, CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us parents mostly thinks our own's Last Line: "I'm got the pleurisy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; Illness WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem 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 PARENTS GO OUT SHOPPING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: That any child would choose Subject(s): Shopping; Parenthood WHEN THE FOLKS COME ALONG, by FREDERICK L. ALLEN Poem Text First Line: I like to go driving alone in the flivver Last Line: -- oh, why must my folks come along. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Parents; Parenthood WHERE FAME IS SURE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow-sounding trump of fame Last Line: The parent you would like to be! Subject(s): Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood WHILE WE HAVE THEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no one like a mother, lad Last Line: Let's be our very best. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood WHITE BUTTONS, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Having been blown away Subject(s): Books; Parents; Reading; Parenthood WHITE SMOKE, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Our fathers twisted hay for fuel; their sons now twist their / lives Last Line: High dreams are dead and life will have its fire. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Parents; Optimism; Parenthood WHY YOUR FATHER CRIED, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sister is telling the story. It was Last Line: "some of the best thoughts I had in my life." Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WILD ORPHAN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bladly mother/takes him strolling Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WISHES FOR MY SON; BORN ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1912, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, my son, is life for you Last Line: In your hand and heart and tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood YESTERDAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My friend says I was not a good son Last Line: And nothing I had to do Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Children; Men; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood YOU TAUGHT ME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All those years, alone Last Line: I didn't even know my name! Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood |
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