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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near no name, colorado
Last Line: I knew I'd lost it.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes


AFTER ANNUNCIATION, by ANNA WICKHAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest, little guest
Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Sons; Truth


AN EPIGRAM TO THE QUEEN, THEN LYING IN, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail mary, full of grace, it once was said
Last Line: Of so much safety to the realm, and king.
Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Pregnancy


ANOTHER STORY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always thought you favored the bride
Last Line: For as long as we stay here
Subject(s): Mirrors; Marriage; Pregnancy


ARTIST, ONCE, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was in a room for rent.
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pregnancy


AT THE LYING-IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spell your last name for me please %p a r k e r
Last Line: What did you husband do %he moved rocks
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Parents; Pregnancy


BABY SHOWER, by SCOTT C. WITHIAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's quite possible I was born
Last Line: Landing without a glitch no accidents %on the other hand I'd like his know-how
Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Truth


BARRY'S CALF, by JASON [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: When barry went upon the land
Last Line: Was found to have a fertile vealer
Alternate Author Name(s): Jason
Subject(s): Cattle;curiosities & Wonders;pregnancy;wealth; Riches;fortunes


BECAUSE ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS IS NINE MONTHS PREGNANT, SHINY, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She revives in me the weight of her birth, her need, her feel on my hip
Last Line: And all I want is this child serenely suckling outside of her, strong enough
Subject(s): Pregnancy


BELLY DANCER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: An etruscan priestess %through whom the earth speaks
Last Line: Moon of earth, great mother
Subject(s): Birth; Dancing And Dancers; Pregnancy


BETWEEN, by LANCE LARSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's harder with a newborn curled between us
Last Line: It's harder with a newborn curled between us
Subject(s): Children; Pregnancy


BIRTH, by LOIS PALCHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Todays are mothers bound to being pregnant
Last Line: And build a world and men secure from terror?
Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery


BIRTHDREAM (2), by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the afterbirth I am after, the afterbirth's
Last Line: Like a pea-green crone skin washed %out of the sea
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy


BIRTHDREAM (4), by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clear night and the river sounds closer
Last Line: Intent on passing swiftly
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy


BLOOD LIKE A RORSCHACH BLOT, by ALICIA VOGL SAENZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes it is a bird's wing extended, or an oak leaf. I read the stain
Last Line: William carries me to the car like an oil-drenched bird
Subject(s): Pregnancy


BUDDHA IN THE WOMB, by ERICA MANN JONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bobbing in the waters of the womb
Subject(s): Pregnancy


CARMINA BURANA, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved %secretly, %but now
Last Line: I hurt, almost die, %I cry %for myself
Subject(s): Pregnancy


CHECK-UP AFTER THE OPERATION TO EVACUATE MY DEAD FETUS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We all want comfort monsieur lotito holds a record
Last Line: I would eat it whole %I say I'm fine doing well can I go now?
Subject(s): Pregnancy


CHILD, by ANDREA POTOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We first spotted hr
Last Line: Cupped it to our ears and heard %the will of the ocean
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Sea


CONCEPTION, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am not barren though I shall conceive
Last Line: Since we conceive within a stranger's womb.
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery


CONCEPTION FRAGMENT, by JULIE CARR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daylight and tree buds
Last Line: In the open of your pregnancy
Subject(s): Pregnancy


CONTRACTIONS THROUGH THE NIGHT. FURTHER AND FURTHER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Getting bigger. Tremendous fall of rock
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


DOWN THERE, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the days before maples
Last Line: Tapping away on the red hot ceiling of hell
Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Parents; Pregnancy


EMERGENCY AT 8, by GEOF HEWITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the street, my aunt has lost
Subject(s): Pregnancy


FAUST BOOK: GRETCHEN AT THE SEWING MACHINE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My stomach is sore
Last Line: I wish I was dead
Subject(s): Faust; Pregnancy


FIRST PREGNANCY, by UNKNOWN+8    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lonely and big
Last Line: A couple of times I cried %hearing you %beating off under covers
Subject(s): Pregnancy


FIRST SUMMER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time I felt like a mother
Last Line: To keep a small flame going
Subject(s): Babies; Love; Milk; Mothers; Pregnancy


FIRST TRIMESTER, by THOM WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who knows where they begin
Last Line: The fast hooves of a boy's heart %over the ocean floor
Subject(s): Change; Pregnancy; Water


FOETAL SONG, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vehicle gives a lurch but seems
Last Line: I am waiting for my turn
Subject(s): Pregnancy


FOR A CHILD EXPECTED, by ANNE RIDLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter
Last Line: May she grow to her right powers %unperturbed by passion of ours
Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Pregnancy


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


FROM A LITTLE HANDBOOK ON DREAMS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there are dreams I should remember
Last Line: Hand in hand %more than a human shadow
Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Pregnancy


HEARTBEAT, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My pants pushed down around my knees
Last Line: This sound with its own plan
Subject(s): Babies; Pregnancy


HEAVY WOMEN, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irrefutable, beautifully smug
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


HOSPITAL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone is screaming almost in morse
Last Line: Screaming three longs, one short, three longs?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Pain; Pregnancy; Suffering; Misery


IN THE KINGDOM OF HIS SIBLINGS, by THOM WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It takes a long time to learn
Last Line: The language of their souls
Subject(s): Family Life; Pregnancy


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


LIKE MOTHER, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flesh of my flesh, life of my life
Last Line: Picture slipped out of the frame, bread with its crust cut off
Subject(s): Birth; Parents; Pregnancy


LONELINESS OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A kick at her inner walls
Last Line: Singing earthly songs in her
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Solitude


MATERNITY GOWN, by DAVID HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The window insulates me from the street
Last Line: As you saw the love in mine - as you do now, say you do!
Subject(s): Pregnancy


METAPHORS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a riddle in nine syllables
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


METAPHORS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a riddle in nine syllables
Last Line: Boarded the train there's no getting off
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


MILK, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Given your birth, I am the glue of the cosmos.
Last Line: Never forget me
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Love; Milk; Pregnancy


MIRACLE MODERNE, by ELAINE M. MOORHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My baby, a being of little size
Last Line: My soul also had not grown in trust.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


MISERABLE SINNER, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a child of chance with a window brush
Last Line: I draw power. I walk barefoot
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death - Children; Murder; Pregnancy; Rape; Sin


MORNING IN THE BOILING RIVER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At daybreak we strip and enter it
Last Line: Dropping their necks to take long drinks
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy


MOTHER-SONG, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who are you there in that dark, little room?
Last Line: What are you bringing me? Where was your home?
Subject(s): Pregnancy


MOTHERHOOD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't knock on my door, little child
Last Line: I cannot give you birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Variant Title(s): Black Woman
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Despair; Mothers; Pregnancy


MY DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT, by NAOMI FEIGELSON CHASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the moon rises
Last Line: The placenta %carrying my mother's breath
Subject(s): Pregnancy


MY FATHER SOLD ME TO PAY THE DEBTS, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lacked beauty, the graces
Last Line: I fell alive into the flames. %still struggling
Subject(s): Household Employees; Pregnancy; Rape; Women - Abused


MY RAPTOR, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind hovered over my baby, like
Variant Title(s): The Raptor
Subject(s): Pregnancy


NINE MONTHS MAKING, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery


NINE STONES: 8. JONATHAN TINNING (11-19-79 TO 3-24-80), by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were the proof of someone's backseat
Last Line: That's what we need. Duct tape
Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder; Pregnancy


NOW THAT I AM FOREVER WITH CHILD, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the days went
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery


NOW THAT I AM FOREVER WITH CHILD, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the days went
Last Line: I can only distinguish %one thread within running hours %you...Flowing through selves %toward you
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy


ONE IS INSIDE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That is beautiful
Subject(s): Pregnancy


ONIONS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rooster pheasant crows in the gully
Last Line: To the cellar, where they will remain for months
Subject(s): Onions; Pregnancy


PAEDOTROPHIA, SELS., by SCEVOLE (GAUCHER) DE SAINTE-MARTHE                       
Subject(s): Babies; Mnemonics; Pregnancy


PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing
Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women


PLANKS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we are all together under burning bulbs we would do well
Last Line: And hold on. Never mind learning to draw. The giant hibiscus
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy


POEM FOR J., by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What she made in her body is broken
Last Line: And made light, the dark seed of her pain
Subject(s): Pregnancy


POEM FOR J., by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What she made in her body is broken
Last Line: She has taken back into her flesh, %and made light, the dark seed of her pain
Subject(s): Pregnancy


POEM OF TWO, SELS., by MICHELE MURRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother talked of breakfast or laundry
Last Line: I shook my head. The heavy belly dragged me down
Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women


POEM WONDERING IF I'M PREGNANT, by KATHLEEN FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is it you? Are you there
Last Line: Is it you?
Subject(s): Pregnancy


PORTRAIT OF AN UNFINISHED SELF-PORTRAIT, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Using the pad of her last clean finger, she smears a storm
Last Line: Mysterious little bumps that surface %and sink away
Subject(s): Babies; Portraits; Pregnancy


PREGNANCY, by INGEMAR LECKIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the time before labour,
Last Line: Crystal ball
Subject(s): Pregnancy


PREGNANCY, FIRST TRIMESTER, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter sky blue in the east
Last Line: In the face of the deep she had made
Subject(s): Pregnancy


PREGNANT, by GRAY JACOBIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I wish I were pregnant again
Last Line: I was happily huge, joyfully holding
Subject(s): Memory; Pregnancy


PREGNANT TEAPOT, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eek! She screamed from the kitchen one morning
Last Line: And whatever wasn't pregnant was obviously horny
Subject(s): Imagination; Pregnancy; Teapots


PRELUDE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long it has snowed and rained and snowed
Last Line: Of whatever all this day hs been listening
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy


PREMONITION, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am dreaming in colors
Last Line: Somebody is very pregnant
Subject(s): Pregnancy


PRENATAL CARE, by DEBORAH W. DOOLITTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking is a rhythm my fect make
Last Line: It's a rhythm my heart makes
Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy


PSEUDOCYESIS, by NANCY PEDRICK MAIRS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each time, her breasts swelled, grew tender, the nipples hard
Subject(s): Pregnancy


SANDHILL CRANE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My feet wet in the dew
Last Line: Not even by my simple cry
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Pregnancy


SARAH HAZARD'S LOVE LETTER, by JOHN ELLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear object of my love, whose powerful charms
Last Line: Lurks the false, trait'rous, undermining foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ellis, Jack
Subject(s): Pregnancy


SIDESHOW, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I saw a woman as big as the world
Last Line: When the fat woman's tears fell, %they looked as heavy as pears, and as succulent
Subject(s): Circus; Obesity; Pregnancy


SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetheart / when you break thru
Last Line: To break your heart forever
Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy


SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetheart %when you break thru
Last Line: To break your heart %forever
Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy


SONG OF CRADLE-MAKING, by CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast stirred!
Last Line: Through thy father's doorway!
Subject(s): Cradles; Pregnancy


SONNET: 53, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poem upon the page is as massive as
Last Line: Who can say no to it later?
Subject(s): Pregnancy


SPOILT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spoilt? Bet your life she's spoilt!
Last Line: She came back six months pregnant.'
Subject(s): Disappointment; Pregnancy


THE BALLAD OF A DAFT GIRL, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lay's son
Last Line: Eyes and died.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Girls; Pregnancy; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows
Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne.
Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies


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 EXPECTATION, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the apple-trees with their red load
Last Line: The earth will bear her longed-for perfect fruit.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pregnancy; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE FORSAKEN, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy mother of god, merciful mary, hear me
Subject(s): Premarital Sex; Sin; Pregnancy; Death; Dead, The


THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods
Last Line: Of the solemn
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; California; Death; Dead, The


THE MOTHER, by CAROLINE CLIVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feel within myself a life
Last Line: Thou too wilt rise with adams's dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline
Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy


THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow
Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue


THE UNBORN BABE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of the unborn babe peered through the windowpane
Last Line: May be the blackest sins of all are selfishness and fear.
Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Pregnancy; Childhood


THE VOYAGES, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's late when I try to sleep, resting
Last Line: We need our ignorance to keep us brave.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


THOU MUST BE PATIENT; WE CAME CRYING HITHER-KING LEAR, by BEN PASSIKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The single sperm %swimming in minion
Last Line: With overlapping %atonalities %ending in origin
Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Pregnancy


THREE SHORT POEMS: 3, by PAAVO HAAVIKKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman raises her garment, rain, wind, darkness rise
Last Line: We have visitors: darkness, wind, poverty
Subject(s): Despair; Poverty; Pregnancy


TO A CHILD BORN IN TIME OF SMALL WAR, by HELEN SORRELLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Child, you were conceived in my upstairs room
Last Line: Child, if I love you now, it is for your own sake
Subject(s): Pregnancy


TO AN UNBORN INFANT, by ISABELLA (FORDYCE) KELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be still, sweet babe, no harm shall reach thee
Last Line: And retired to endless rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedgeland, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy


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 FINE LADY WOULD-BE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fine madam would-be, wherefore should you fear
Last Line: Of the not born, yet buried, here's the tomb.
Subject(s): Duplicity; Infertility; Pregnancy; Deceit


TWO DREAMERS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the few places in this meadow
Last Line: Will be come back
Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Love - Marital; Pregnancy


VENUS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand waist-deep in the grass, holding my infant son in my arms
Last Line: As an offering, as something to shine %and give back
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children - Lost; Heaven; Mothers; Pregnancy; Women


WEATHERING OUT, by RITA DOVE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Pregnancy


WHAT IS A SYMBOL?, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird is flying north across the white sky
Last Line: Sit down
Subject(s): Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pregnancy; Women


WHEN THE DAYS ARE TOO HECTIC, by ANDREA POTOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to think of the woman who told me how
Last Line: All that burgeoned slowly, soundlessly %in the unfathomable dark
Subject(s): Pregnancy


WITH CHILD, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Women


WITH CHILD, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun
Last Line: Defiant even now, it tugs and moans %to be untangled from these mother's bones
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pregnancy; Women


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


WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh
Last Line: I am the stem that fed the fruit, %the link that joins you to the night
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women


WOMAN WITH CHILD, by FREDA LAUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: How I am held within a tranquil shell
Last Line: My child and I, together, to the sun
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Pregnancy


YOUTH MOWING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are four men mowing down by the isar
Last Line: Yea, though I'm sorry for thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Mowing And Mowers; Pregnancy