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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONG MY MOTHER SINGS, by THOMAS O'HAGAN Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet unto my heart is the song my mother sings
Last Line: As I list in joy and rapture to the song my mother sings.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: O sweet unto my heart is the song my mother sings
Last Line: As I list in joy and rapture to the song my mother sings.
Subject(s): Mothers
O SWEET unto my heart is the song my mother sings
As eventide is brooding on its dark and noiseless wings!
Every note is charged with memory--every memory bright with rays
Of the golden hour of promise in the lap of childhood's days.
The orchard blooms anew, and each blossom scents the way,
And I feel again the breath of eve among the new-mown hay;
While through the halls of memory in happy notes there rings
All the life-joy of the past in the song my mother sings.
It's a song of love and triumph, it's a song of toil and care,
It is filled with chords of pathos, and it's set in notes of prayer;
It is bright with dreams and visions of the days that are to be,
And as strong in faith's devotion as the heart-beat of the sea;
It is linked in mystic measure to sweet voices from above,
And is starred with ripest blessing through a mother's sacred love.
O sweet and strong and tender are the memories that it brings,
As I list in joy and rapture to the song my mother sings.
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