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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUR MOTHER, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER
First Line: Nobody else may ever care because you have a broken heart
Last Line: Days on earth.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Nobody else may ever care because you have a broken heart
Last Line: Days on earth.
Subject(s): Mothers
NOBODY else may ever care because you have a broken heart;
Nobody else, if you should err, may be inclined to take your part;
But she will know, and she will pray
That God may take your woes away;
When all fair weather friends forget, when Fortune turns
and smiles no more,
Her faith in you will linger yet, she will be faithful as before.
Nobody else may ever see your native worth, your nobleness;
Nobody else may know, but she will know what talents you possess;
Though others enviously frown,
Or slyly seek to drag you down
She will in word and thought be true, and with aweet
triumph in her breast,
Achieve her rarest blessings through the favors through
which you are blessed.
Nobody else may weep because your dearest plans have come to naught;
Nobody else might deign to pause, if in sin's meshes you were caught,
To ask you if you had been to blame,
Or seek to rid you of your shame;
But she would still, with all her heart proclaim your
innocence, your worth!
Oh, strive, my boy, to do your part to gladden her brief
days on earth.
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