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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A CHILD EMBRACING HIS MOTHER, by THOMAS HOOD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love thy mother, little one! Last Line: Pray for her at eve and morn! Variant Title(s): Child And Mother Subject(s): Mothers | |||
LOVE thy mother, little one! Kiss and clasp her neck again-- Hereafter she may have a son Will kiss and clasp her neck in vain. Love thy mother, little one! Gaze upon her living eyes, And mirror back her love for thee,-- Hereafter thou mayst shudder sighs To meet them when they cannot see. Gaze upon her living eyes! Press her lips the while they glow With love that they have often told,-- Hereafter thou mayst press in woe, And kiss them till thine own are cold. Press her lips the while they glow! Oh, revere her raven hair! Although it be not silver-gray-- Too early Death, led on by Care, May snatch save one dear lock away. Oh, revere her raven hair! Pray for her at eve and morn, That Heaven may long the stroke defer;-- For thou mayst live the hour forlorn When thou wilt ask to die with her. Pray for her at eve and morn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY MOTHER'S HANDS by ANDREW HUDGINS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH by JUDY JORDAN THE PAIDLIN' WEAN by ALEXANDER ANDERSON BLASTING FROM HEAVEN by PHILIP LEVINE |
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