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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MOTHER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The mother soothes her mantled child
Last Line: The wordless measure of her woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: The mother soothes her mantled child
Last Line: The wordless measure of her woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Mothers
The mother soothes her mantled child
With incantation sad and wild;
A deep compassion brims her eye
And stills upon her lips, the sigh.
Her thoughts are leaping down the years,
O'er branding bars, through seething tears,
Her heart is sandaling his feet
Adown the world's corroding street.
Then, with a start she dons a smile
His tender yearnings to beguile,
And only God will ever know
The wordless measure of her woe.
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