Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAVE YOU WRITTEN TO MOTHER, by JANE RONALSON First Line: Pray may I ask you, worthy lad Last Line: You did not write to mother. Subject(s): Mothers | ||||||||
PRAY may I ask you, worthy lad, Whose smile no care can smother, Though busy life throbs round about, Have you written home to mother? You are forgetting, aren't you, quite, How fast the weeks went flying; And that a little, blotted sheet, Unanswered still is lying? Don't you remember how she stood, With wistful glance at parting? Don't you remember how the tears Were in her soft eyes starting? Have you forgotten how her arm Stole round you to caress you? Have you forgotten those low words: "Good-by, my son, God bless you"? Oh! do not wrong her patient love; Save God's, there is no other So faithful through all mists of sin; Fear not to write to mother. Tell her how hard it is to walk, As walked the Master, lowly; Tell her how hard it is to keep A man's life pure and holy. Tell her to keep the lamp of prayer, A light, a beacon burning; Whose beams shall reach you far away, Shall lure your soul returning. Tell her you love her dearly still, For fear some sad to-morrow Shall bear away the listening soul, And leave you lost in sorrow. And then through bitter, falling tears, And sighs you may not smother, You will remember when too late You did not write to mother. | 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 ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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