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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOME, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN First Line: Ambitious dreams of youthful worldliness Last Line: The simple, obvious service due from me! Subject(s): Home; Old Age | |||
Ambitious dreams of youthful worldliness Are dead long since, by tiny hands brought low. To keep the home, to see the children grow, To clothe and nourish little minds not less Than little bodies; these the tasks that bless The routine of my days: and well I know No greater gifts than these could I bestow Nor ask a truer measure of success. God must have righteous men upon His earth; For still He weaves its age-old destiny, And still His threads are hearts of inner worth. O patient, tender, happy may I be In woman's mighty stewardship of birth The simple, obvious service due from me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE |
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