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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY MOTHER, HEMMING NAPKINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG
First Line: She sits there in her high-backed rocking-chair
Last Line: Remembering all the lovely things she knows.
Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age
First Line: She sits there in her high-backed rocking-chair
Last Line: Remembering all the lovely things she knows.
Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age
She sits there in her high-backed rocking-chair,
The sunbeams playing on her silvery hair.
Her flying fingers of thin loveliness
Touch the white damask with a light caress.
Her happy smile is constant proof to me
Of an eternal joy in ministry.
I wonder at the rhythm and the grace
With which she guides the needle to its place—
The deft and skillful motion to and fro—
While she sings softly as the stitches grow.
Her smile grows wistful as she sings and sews
Remembering all the lovely things she knows.
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