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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BABIES Matches Found: 894 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` *BABY BREAKDOWN*; FOR BILL BERKSON, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lumbering logging lonesome Last Line: Warmth surrounds the circle as you cheer them on, em on Subject(s): Babies; Infants 1947: DOPE COCKTAIL, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: I wait, uncrated Last Line: Of my own blood %even touches me Subject(s): Babies; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Sickness 3 STANCES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine / poised for the leap Subject(s): Babies; Girls; Infants 8/9, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languor, uselessness & general swamp I'd be or Last Line: Roving traveler. Subject(s): Babies; Fertility; Mothers; Infants A BABY ASLEEP AFTER PAIN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a drenched, drowned bee Last Line: Are a heaviness, and a weariness. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A BABY AT THE PARTY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found one night, when I awoke Last Line: I cried the louder for my bed. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parties; Infants; Childhood A BABY IN THE HOUSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that a baby was hid in the house Last Line: I am sure, very sure, there's a babe in that house. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Mothers; Infants A BABY'S DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little soul scarce fledged for earth Last Line: The song that smiled. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Roundels; Soul; Infants; Dead, The A BABY'S EPITAPH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, made me: winter laid me here away asleep Last Line: Here I sleep not: pass, and weep not here upon your child. Subject(s): April; Babies; Death; Epitaphs; Infants; Dead, The A BABY'S RATTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Only a baby's rattle Last Line: Of such is the kingdom of heaven Subject(s): Babies;toys; Infants A BIT OF HEAVEN, by GERTRUDE D. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Child of the slums, how happy Last Line: Is a child—or a tramp—or a beast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, G. Gertrude Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun has left the hill-top Last Line: Pass to eternity. . . . Subject(s): Babies; Infants A BOTANICAL TROPE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elliptical regrets figure the nights Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Children; Death - Babies A BUNCH OF ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rosy mouth and rosy toe Last Line: To kiss and play together. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roses; Infants A CALL TO PRAYER, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the minaret the moslem Last Line: "god is love and god is good." Subject(s): Babies; Prayer; Infants A CHILD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o hades, death's inexorable king" Last Line: When sorrow broods above the home he left? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S GRACE AT FLORENCE; A.A.E.C., by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of english blood, of tuscan birth Last Line: For death's annunciation.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S GRAVE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I linger by this grass-grown mound Last Line: And love this plot shall keep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A CHRYSALIS, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little madchen found one day Last Line: Was but the radiant creature's flight! Subject(s): Butterflies; Death - Children; Death - Babies A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old. Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A DEAD BABY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little soul, for such brief space Last Line: So, our first dream, our first hope -- is over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A DEAD CHILD, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five years alone had vanished since my birth Last Line: I learnt but little of life's sins and grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A GHOST STORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her life was plain, her death Subject(s): Death - Children; Roses; Death - Babies A GRAVE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A HELPER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear me!' wailed all the household Last Line: "and det just that much over." Subject(s): Babies; Infants A HINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our daisy lay down Last Line: "why, that's why I kiss you! She said." Subject(s): Babies;daisies;flowers; Infants A HUSBAND'S VOICE, by FRANK WILLIAM HOLSLAG Poem Text First Line: My heart-and your heart Last Line: Since baby's gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies A HYMN OF SLEEP, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Another day is dying Last Line: And are asleep on jesu's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Religion; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology A LITLE BUD, by T. H. DUNN Poem Text First Line: He came one day, in springtime gay Last Line: Beneath the leaves there is no pain. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nought loves another as itself Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore? Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies A LITTLE CHILD, by THOMAS MILLER (1831-) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fairy child! With eyes of lustrous blue Last Line: And angels waft thee to the world unseen! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood A LITTLE OUTSTRETCHED HAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I'm sometimes very weary Last Line: By baby's outstretched hand. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A LULLABY, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, baby, hush-a-bye Last Line: Let your mother rest now. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants A MOTHER'S LAMENT [FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON], by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate gave the word, the arrow sped Last Line: With him I love, at rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A PHANTOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little baby, you have wandered far away Last Line: And will not kiss nor touch me with its hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell? Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies A POEM FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants A POET TO HIS BABY SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny bit of humanity Last Line: Not to be a poet Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Infants A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset deepens in the west Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep! Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR A VERY NEW ANGEL, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, god, be lenient her first night there Last Line: When she wakes up, do things for her my way! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A RONDEAU OF BABIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you must know, some men there be Last Line: As you must know. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A SONG FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now first of all he means the night Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!) Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where enormous shadows creep Last Line: He was john jones, son of john jones. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Graveyards; Death - Babies A SUPERSTITION REVISITED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While on the lavender by the door Last Line: Defied eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A TABERNACLE THOUGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely grapes and apples Last Line: Of the coming years. Subject(s): Babies; Jews; Infants; Judaism A TERRIBLE INFANT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recollect a nurse call'd ann Last Line: "-- and that's my earliest recollection." Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Babies; Nurses; Women; Infants A THOUGHT OVER A CRADLE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sadden when thou smilest to my smile Last Line: And link us close, oh god, when near to heaven! Subject(s): Babies; Infants A TOAST FOR LITTLE IRON MIKE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having come in out of the unrelenting Subject(s): Amniotic Fluid Embolism; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ABANDONED BABIES' HOME, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Week to week we do not know how many to expect Last Line: But hold the unresponsive little bodies to our breasts %and rock them, rock them Subject(s): Babies; Desertion And Nonsupport; Home ABER STATIONS: STATIO PRIMA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I make so much of aber fall? Last Line: That's all, that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just listen to the blackbird -- what a note Last Line: I hope he won't go mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ABER STATIONS: STATIO TERTIA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream is very sweet Last Line: That sent a shiver to my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ABSENCE, by HARRY TRAVIS RHODES Poem Text First Line: Little brown eyes, little clown eyes Last Line: In the land god made like thee! Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Death - Babies ABUSED AS A BABY, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: My psyche's a mess. Yes, it may be Last Line: It's no wonder my psyche's a mess Subject(s): Babies AD ASTRA: 158, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Except like little children ye believe Last Line: Faith that shall open wide the gates of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; God; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise AD ASTRA: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little hands and feet! O heart of mine! Last Line: Thy heart is mine, and beauty dwelleth there! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Hearts; Love; Infants ADDRESS TO MRS. WM. ANDERSON, ON THE DEATH OF HER ONLY SON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We weep with those who weep:' I sympathize Last Line: Shall blossom in the paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Sons; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Bereavement ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the front door close Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement AFTER OUR LADY'S PRESENTATION, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wife, my wife our journey o'er Last Line: To her according to thy word! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women In The Bible; Infants; Paradise; Virgin Mary AFTER THE CHRISTENING, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come along, everybody, see the pretty baby Last Line: Tickle her and pinch her and yodel in her ear Subject(s): Babies AFTER THE LAST LESSON, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful he seems to me Last Line: Stands clear before our eyes. Subject(s): Death - Children; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THE BABY', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ache in the back and an ache in the arms Last Line: All on account of the baby Subject(s): Babies ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hushaby, %don't you cry Last Line: Go to sleepy, little baby Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers ALL THOSE HOURS ALONE IN THE DARK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With his lonely head pressed against the crib Subject(s): Babies; Infants AMNION, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: I paid no mind %for a week, to steady pains Last Line: How the baby stretches still %for the torn, tilting water Subject(s): Babies; Birth AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ELEGY: PRINCESS KATHERINE BORN, CHRISTENED, BURIED IN ONE DAY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that can aptly mix your joys with cries Last Line: Resign our office to the hierarchy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgins promis'd when I dy'd Last Line: Maids, and here strew violets. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies AN IDOLATOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baby has no skies Last Line: Of such as this. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Infants AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ANGEL COME TO TOWN, by OPHIE LOU NALL Poem Text First Line: Lips so red, hair of brown Last Line: That bring a fond regret. Subject(s): Babies; Infants ANNA AT 18 MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as it did Subject(s): Babies; Infants ANYBODY'S, by ALICE STETTINER Poem Text First Line: You dainty piece of bric - a - brac Last Line: You adorable babe—beginning to talk! Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Infants APPARITION, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts; Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives ARALUEN (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep Last Line: Other hands will come and tend them -- other friends in other hours. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies ARCHEDIKE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child of hippias, foremost captain once / in hellas' land, lies here Last Line: She lifted not her heart to vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each day, when the glow of sunset Last Line: "yes, dear! They are all at home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies AS SOFT AND AS PINK AS A NURSERY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the good child Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Babies AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little babe I held upon my knee Last Line: And as the sparks flew up he saw and smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Babies; Infants ASTROPHIL TO HIS SON, AGED SEVEN MONTHS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! With whom I fondly share Last Line: As idle—but less innocent. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Innocence; Pleasure; Infants; Childhood AT BOTTOM (MAY, 1982), by HERMAN ASARNOW Poem Source First Line: A few years later you had me take you Last Line: Breathed in your still celestial breath Subject(s): Babies; Children AT DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon? Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AT HOME TONIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lessons are done and the prizes won Last Line: "yes, ""home to-night!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Death - Babies AT ONE WEEK OLD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He will be straight and strong and fair Last Line: Like that behind his daddy's ear! Subject(s): Babies; Future; Mothers; Sons; Speculation; Infants AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She stood at the beautiful gate of heaven Last Line: But never to be divided more. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AT THE NICU, by GEORGE SINGER Poem Source First Line: A nurse pauses by an incubator Last Line: My breath on seeing him, tiny fish Subject(s): Babies; Hospitals; Sickness AUTUMN, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly we go with the old dog close behind us Last Line: Of dead illusions as of children that have died. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness BABE BURIED AT SEA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deep sea took the dead. It was a babe Last Line: Never to fade, nor die. -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean BABES OF A DAY, by ALPHONSE DAUDET Poem Text First Line: Babes of a day, new fledglings all Last Line: Have wings! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABIES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born gorgeous with nerves, with brains Last Line: The first time will ever do Subject(s): Play; Babies BABIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby is so queer, you know Last Line: To be as fine a boy as me. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABIES, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us save the babies Last Line: Let us try to save the babies Subject(s): Babies BABY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teach him - when he makes the names Last Line: Some like 'emily' Variant Title(s): Poem: 198; Poem: 22 Subject(s): Babies; Names BABY, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Dimpled and flushed and dewy pink he lies Last Line: Through sin, at least, thine eden is not lost. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby in her slumber smiling Last Line: "may she never sleep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY & THE GYPSY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wizened elf woman Last Line: Don't you worry about that! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY BELL, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not heard the poets tell Last Line: Out of this world of ours. Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Babie Bell Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies BABY CHARLEY, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's fast asleep. See how, o wife Last Line: Macon, georgia, december, 1869. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY DREAMS, by GWEN HEAD Poem Source First Line: Sponge plastic with chromium nipples Last Line: These dolls I give you to play with, %only daughter Subject(s): Babies BABY HAIR, by CONSTANCE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: I took a peek for the very first time Subject(s): Babies BABY IN CHURCH, by MINNIE M. GOW Poem Text First Line: Aunt nellie had fashioned a dainty thing Last Line: Ere our baby re-enter the family pew. Subject(s): Babies; Public Worship; Infants; Church Attendance BABY JOHN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lazy sun is yawning as it hides behind the town Last Line: To see if you are sleeping, baby john. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants BABY LOUISE, by MARGARET (WINSHIP) EYTINGE Poem Text First Line: I'm in love with you, baby louise Last Line: Ungrateful baby louise. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood BABY MAY, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheeks as soft as july peaches Last Line: That's may bennett; that's my baby Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Infants; Childhood BABY RUNNING BAREFOOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass Last Line: Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood BABY TEN MONTHS OLD LOOKS AT THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere near the end of a snow-shoe trail Last Line: Northwest in the direction %of his cosmic section Subject(s): Babies BABY'S DIMPLES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love goes playing hide-and-seek Last Line: All about the kissing-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Dimples; Infants BABY'S DRINKING SONG, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: Sip a little %sup a little Last Line: On the table %top a little Subject(s): Babies BABY'S DYING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby's dying, / do not stir Last Line: Kiss and miss her after while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BABY'S EYES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wise is the baby with eyes of brown Last Line: Wilful baby with eyes of black. Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Infants BABY'S FEET AND HANDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Subject(s): Babies; Feet; Hands BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took away my bottle Last Line: They make such noises in my ear. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Infants; Nativity, The BABY'S FIRST WORD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We watched our baby day by day Last Line: Should thus abuse his mother! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY'S GOT A TOOTH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The telephone rang in my office today, as it often has tinkled before Last Line: "baby, my dear, has a tooth." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches BABY'S LETTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear ole untle, I dot oor letter" Last Line: Bully ole untle with a glass eye Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY'S PANTOUM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids BABY'S QUERY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, lover of my soul Last Line: "but tell me—what's er bosomfly?" Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants BABY'S RING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother's quite distracted Last Line: Ring and hand to keep. Subject(s): Babies; Jewelry & Jewelers; Infants; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces BABY'S SHOES, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, those little, those little blue shoes! Last Line: And whose sight makes such fond tears start! Subject(s): Babies; Shoes; Infants; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers BABY'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very song the blackbird sung Last Line: To the first song the blackbird made. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Infants BABY'S TURN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny feet so busy in a tiny patter out of sight Last Line: Did she think she was forgotten? Now 'tis baby's turn once more. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABY, BABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Stick your head %in gravy! Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers BABYHOOD, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, baby, with your marvellous eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger Last Line: Back to the lotus-lands of the far-away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by MRS. GEORGE RINGHOFER Poem Text First Line: A baby nestles in my arms Last Line: You were a gift sent to our door. Subject(s): Babies; Infants BABYHOOD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby shines as bright Last Line: Rose Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roundels; Infants BABYSITTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was about six months old Last Line: Upside-down, just under the ceiling of the world Subject(s): Adolescence; Babies BALI HAI CALLS MAMA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was putting away the groceries Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives BALLAD OF THE LAYETTE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Infants BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you have hardly been born Last Line: Any suggestions? Well, have a good day Subject(s): Babies; Infants BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you have hardly been born Last Line: Any suggestions? -- well, have a good day Subject(s): Babies BE KIND TO THE LITTLE ONES, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind to all little ones Last Line: I always have been kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Babies; Infants BEATEN TO DEATH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: At depth of night, this thought on home had shone Last Line: Was dying through two hours -- beaten to death. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies; Educators; Professors BEAUTIFUL BABY, by SCOTT C. WITHIAM Poem Source First Line: The cascade Last Line: Cameras flashing, he slipped it back on Subject(s): Babies; Waterfalls BEAUTY'S BABE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: A babe was born to beauty: the new care Last Line: "since now you rule the mistress, wife and mother." Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Infants BECAUSE IT HAPPENED, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A death-cry ripens, and rises - a boy's Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BEFORE THE WORDS, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It was simple then Last Line: And there was constant transformation Subject(s): Babies BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BEREAVED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me come in where you sit weeping Last Line: Who have no child to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, weep not, dearest, though the child be dead Last Line: That where our treasure is, our hearts may be. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies BEREFT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though heaven has gained one angel more Last Line: Gaze through the gates of paradise. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Sons; Death - Babies BETHLEHEM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For paten and for chalice Last Line: To the majesty of the least. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants BEYOND THE SUNSET, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Beside the cripple's casement Last Line: Beyond the sunset veil. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones BIRTHDREAM, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: This time I had given birth Last Line: The last I saw of her Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children; Dreams BIRTHDREAM (2), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: It is the afterbirth I am after, the afterbirth's Last Line: Like a pea-green crone skin washed %out of the sea Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy BIRTHDREAM (4), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Clear night and the river sounds closer Last Line: Intent on passing swiftly Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy BITTER-SWEET: CRADLE SONG [OR, BABYHOOD], by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the little one thinking about? Last Line: See! He is hushed in sweet repose! Subject(s): Babies; Infants BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from dawn till noon seems one long day Last Line: We've broken the day in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Day; Mothers; Sleep; Infants BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials BURIAL OF AN EMIGRANT'S CHILD IN THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The desolation and the agony Last Line: Kneel, and bow submitted hearts to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Forests; Funerals; Death - Babies; Woods; Burials BURIAL OF TWO YOUNG SISTERS; ONLY CHILDREN OF THEIR PARENTS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're here, in this turf-bed - those tender forms Last Line: Blend in a full eternity of bliss. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Children; Death - Babies BY CANDELIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is winter, this is night, small love --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Candles; Night; Infants; Bedtime CAESARIAN, by CAMILLE DU BARRY Poem Text First Line: Woman, you are big with child Last Line: Alas, little mother, you are dead! Subject(s): Babies; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids CATHARINE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We children every morn would wait Last Line: "and tell the master catharine's dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CAVE PAINTING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: My week-old daughter's Last Line: Emptiness %and then my outline Subject(s): Babies; Daughters; Mothers; Mothers And Daughters CHASM, by MARY LANIGAN HEALY Poem Text First Line: She and I / can never be friends! Last Line: The same weight. Subject(s): Babies; Infants CHILD, by LEON LEIVA GALLARDO Poem Source First Line: It's the smile of a child Last Line: Little white cradle %subterranean Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Death - Children; Heaven CHILD, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the greenest of wheat rang gold at his birth! Last Line: (o reborn poplars) than in michigan earth Variant Title(s): For My So Subject(s): Babies CHIMES, by WALTER EDWARDS HOUGHTON JR. Poem Text First Line: It was a silly night Last Line: But I still live to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CHOOSING MY CONCEPTION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother at a party in a blue dress Last Line: Of a blue dress falling, and soon, %and randomly I will exist Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Conception; Creation CHRESTOLEROS, SELS., by THOMAS BASTARD Subject(s): Babies CHRISTMAS, by HARRIET WHEELER PIERSON Poem Text First Line: A simple tale of shepherds and of sheep Last Line: And to the dear, familiar things, a star! Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Stars; Infants; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love to think of bethlehem Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The CLEVEDON VERSES: 2. DORA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt upon her brother's grave Last Line: My god, I leave it unto thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies CLEVEDON VERSES: 3. SECUTURUS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each night when I behold my bed Last Line: And I would gladly die. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies COME AWAY, DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come away, death, make no mistake Last Line: A dead-born child destroy its mother.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CONCH, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hold a baby to your ear Last Line: The listener or his small load? %the held or the holder? Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers; Shells CONSECRATION, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God! I ask one miracle Last Line: Will you give the bread? Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants CONSOLATIN TO M. DU PERIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must thy grief, du perier, knowe no end? Last Line: Can lead us unto peace. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness CONSOLATION TO M. DU PERRIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Du perrier, must thy grief eternal be Last Line: This only gives us rest. Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies CONSOLATION; TO M. DUPERRIER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will then, duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal? Last Line: That gives us any rest. Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies CORIDON ON THE DEATH OF HIS DEAR ALEXIS, OB. JAN. 28, 1682/3, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis! Dear alexis! Lovely boy! Last Line: For what my sighs and pray'rs can ne'er retrieve? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CRADLE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, little baby of mine" Last Line: "awake and asleep, / because I am certain of this?" Subject(s): Babies;mothers; Infants CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lullaby! O lullaby! / baby, hush that little cry Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants CRADLE SONG, by MARY M. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Tis night on the mountain Last Line: Then, sleep, darling, sleep. Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Infants CRADLE SONG, by PAULINE FRANCES CAMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a baby moon rocking far up in the sky Last Line: O hush thee, my little one sleeps! Subject(s): Babies CRADLE SONG, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pram and scottie season now Subject(s): Babies; Infants CRAUSHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay so, a wee house, / an' three acres av green Last Line: "from broadway—maureen!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Love; Thought; Death - Babies; Thinking CRY BABY, CRY; DEDICATED TO STERLING A. WOOD, JR., by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's little cry baby from cry baby town Last Line: The day is for play, but the night is for rest. Subject(s): Babies; Tears; Infants CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUTHBERT, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful mother / of a beautiful boy Last Line: Welcomed by christ who has conquered the grave! Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Mothers & Sons; Death - Babies; Paradise DA QUEENA BEE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Meester, eef you nevva see Last Line: Evra wan hersal' a queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Babies; Bees; Insects; Infants; Beekeeping; Bugs DAHN THE PLUG 'OLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A muvver was barfin' 'er biby one night Last Line: "your biby 'as fell dahn the plug 'ole / not lorst, but gorn before!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DAUGHTER O' MINE, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: You came to me, dear, so welcome, so fair Last Line: Blest little daughter o' mine. Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Daughters; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight DAVID'S CHILD; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In face of a great sorrow like to death Last Line: But when the heart is broken -- not a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DAWN MAGIC, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I stand in the dim, fragrant dawning Last Line: Looks down on the slumbering world. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Magic; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery DAWNSONG, by BILL SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: Like razor-wire uncoiling, I am pulled out of you Last Line: Its warm swell is a milky gag Subject(s): Babies; Birth DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo' bed Last Line: Let de little pickaninny res'. Subject(s): Babies; Rest; Sleep; Infants DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine faded from the room Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise DEAD BOY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEATH & CO., by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two, of course there are two. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Babies; Dead, The; Infants DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH OF A SON (WHO DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL AGED ONE), by JON SILKIN Poet's Biography First Line: Something has ceased to come along with me Subject(s): Death - Children; Depression, Mental; Death - Babies; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who navigated with success Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death found strange beauty on that cherub Last Line: The signet-ring of heaven. Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Tears; Death - Babies DEATH OF AN INFANTS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One little bud adorned my bower Last Line: T will bloom again on high. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ah, venerate this hallowed ground Last Line: "their little mistress they bemoan." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies DELIVERY, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Bub will let you take your sweet time picking Last Line: A linen someone embroidered in the spring Subject(s): Babies; Love - Marital; Mothers DESIDERIUM: IN MEMORIAM, S.F.A., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The call of homing rooks, the shrill Last Line: Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness DESTINY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down Last Line: Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Roses; Death - Babies DETAIL FROM WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naked in a splash of sun, he pees into a paper plate Last Line: He pees naked in a splash of sun as she reached for potato chips Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Excrement DETROIT, TOMORROW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan; Death - Babies DIAPERS, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Think of all the diapers that have ever been hung Last Line: You keep on along the brave line of your promises Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Babies DIED YOUNG, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: And she is sleeping now without a dream Last Line: In that you know the mystery of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DIM HOUSE, BRIGHT FACE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She still cries over that dead child Last Line: The ones who can't know yet what living was Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DINNA CHIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Dinna chide the mither! Last Line: Ye may na hae her lang! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Sickness; Infants; Illness DINNER-TIME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tuggin' at your bottle Last Line: Who is bendin' o'er your cot! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Infants DOROTHY, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little dorothy, she is no more! Last Line: Are more lost than my heart, which died not when it broke! Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DOWN THERE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: In the days before maples Last Line: Tapping away on the red hot ceiling of hell Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Parents; Pregnancy DUMBNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure man was born to meditate on things Last Line: And penetrate the heart, if not the ear. Subject(s): Babies; Freedom; Language; Infants; Liberty; Words; Vocabulary EACH FLEETING DAY, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: These to rejoice in: a smile Last Line: Enrich our lives each fleeting day. Subject(s): Babies; Mankind; Infants; Human Race EDELWEISS, by WARREN PEASE Poem Text First Line: Child of the snowdrift and the storm! Last Line: Is baby madeleine. Subject(s): Alps; Babies; Children; Edelweiss; Mountains; Infants; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EILEEN, DIARMUID, AND TEIG, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind unto these three, o king! Last Line: Be kind, o king, unto this two and one! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement EMINENT VICTORIANS, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a day is dead already-- Subject(s): Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) EMMIE AND CHILD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In this portrait %the bold chintz Last Line: Flux of milk and dusk and something else Subject(s): Babies; Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Mothers; Paintings And Painters; Portraits EPIGRAM ON A DEAD CHILD, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frowning fates have taken hence / callimachus, a child Last Line: So were his troubles small. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Variant Title(s): Calimachus Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM: 19. NICOTELES, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philip's nicoteles, a twelve-year lad Last Line: Lies buried here; the hope his father had. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH FOR A YOUNG LADY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Youth, beauty, love, a mother's joy divine Last Line: But sees the daylight dawn beyond the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL INFANT, by THOMAS MAURICE Poem Text First Line: Bright to the sun expands the vernal rose Last Line: Put forth fair blossoms, charmed us, and expired. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They killed her lamb, and no one wept Last Line: This was the little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies Last Line: Now let him sleep in peace his night of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Last Line: And bade it blossom there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its balmy lips the infant blest Last Line: Death sang to sleep with lullaby. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this greedy stone Last Line: The only melancholy stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Erotion Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON MRS. ANNE PRIDEAUX, DAUGHTER OF DR. PRIDEAUX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature in this small volume was about Last Line: Threw dust upon it, and shut up the book Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Prideaux, John (1578-1650); Death - Babies EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep with me, all you that read Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little vault, this narrow room Last Line: The flames, the arrows, all lie here. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady mary villiers lies Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn. Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (3), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The purest soule that e're was sent Last Line: Of room to lodge th' inhabitant. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF ROBERT DIGBY, AND HIS SISTER MARY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Fair example of untainted youth Last Line: Tis all a father, all a friend can give! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE TOMBSTONE OF A CHILD, LAST OF SEVEN THAT DIED BEFORE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little, silent, gloomy monument Last Line: Spread their gay wings before the throne, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH OVER THE GRAVE OF TWO BROTHERS, A CHILD AND A YOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, that canst gaze upon thine own fair boy Last Line: Where god hath sealed the fount of hope he gave. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Graves; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she lies, a pretty bud Last Line: The earth that lightly covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement EPITAPH: CATHERINE BAKER (1778-1779), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah lovely child and art thou fled Last Line: So soon to join the silent dead Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH: HENRY BROWN (1851-1861), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How soon I was cut down when innocent at play Last Line: The wind it blew a scaffold down and took my life away Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear father and dear mother: let me crave Last Line: The little girl so lightly bore on you. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ERRANTRY, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby wades alone across the lawn Last Line: Green-eyed, bedizened, at the dappled center Subject(s): Babies ESKIMO BABY, by LUCY DIAMOND Poem Source First Line: If you were an eskimo baby Subject(s): Babies; Eskimos; Native Americans ETUDE REALISTE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Last Line: A baby's eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Feet; Mothers; Roundels; Infants; Childhood EVENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the elements solidify! --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Despair; Infants FAR OUT AT SEA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Last Line: Far out at sea! Far out at sea! Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FEBRUARY ELEGY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bald year, frozen now in february. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FIELD BURIAL, by CARROLL CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: Dying so young, may I retain of youth' Last Line: "shall blossom into clover, gorse and flower." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones FIRST FOOTSTEPS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little way, more soft and sweet Last Line: A little way. Subject(s): Babies; Roundels; Infants FIRST LINES, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is bright to recollect Last Line: Names never from animals Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Babies; Southwest; Pacific States FIRST SUMMER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: The first time I felt like a mother Last Line: To keep a small flame going Subject(s): Babies; Love; Milk; Mothers; Pregnancy FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 1. BABYHOOD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby's gone awandering Last Line: And strike the homeward trail. Subject(s): Babies; Infants FLOWERS FOR THE HEART, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers! Winter flowers! - the child is dead Last Line: The childless cannot speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR A CHILD EXPECTED, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter Last Line: May she grow to her right powers %unperturbed by passion of ours Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Pregnancy FOR A CHRISTENING, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In june the early sings Last Line: In his terrible mercy, world without end Subject(s): Babies; Birth FOR MOHAMMED ZEID OF GAZA, AGE 15, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no stray bullet, sirs Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Death - Children; Gaza, Palestine; Arab-israeli Conflict; Death - Babies FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I changed the baby,fed it, dithered Last Line: I have been here, and some of it was love Subject(s): Babies; Infants FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I changed the baby,fed it, dithered Last Line: I have been here, and some of it was love Subject(s): Babies FOR REUBEN, AT TWELVE MONTHS, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever else you come to be Last Line: Where marvels are many and you are one Subject(s): Babies FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here Last Line: Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FOR THERE IS NO HELP IN THEM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies on that white breast she loves, and well Last Line: So disenchanted and so sadly wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies FORTIFIED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little dear heart, tiny wonderer Last Line: I but hope to share in serving! Subject(s): Babies; Infants FRED ENGLEHARDT'S BABY, by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dru as I leev, most efry day Last Line: To dot schmall leetle baby. Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Subject(s): Babies; Infants FROM A LITTLE HANDBOOK ON DREAMS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: If there are dreams I should remember Last Line: Hand in hand %more than a human shadow Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Pregnancy FROST AT MIDNIGHT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frost performs its secret ministry Last Line: Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Subject(s): Babies; Fantasy; Parents; Infants; Parenthood GIVE ME THE BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the baby to hold, my Last Line: Give me the baby to hold, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Soul; Infants GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: Adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness GOING! GOING!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Attention, good people! A baby I'm selling Last Line: How much for a baby? What offer? Who'll buy? Subject(s): Babies; Infants GOODNIGHT, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in bed and waiting to find out Subject(s): Night; Babies; Bedtime; Infants GOOFER-DUST, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Graves; Infants; Tombs; Tombstones GRADUAL INCARNATION, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Pulled like hardening taffy, stubbornly extruded Last Line: I circle lovingly, a phantom she-wolf suckled by sweet air Subject(s): Babies GREEDY BABY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greedy baby / sucking the sweet tit Subject(s): Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) GULLA LULLABY, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: The buzzard and the butterfly playing in the field Last Line: Nobody home but the baby Subject(s): Babies; Infants GULLIVER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over your body the clouds go Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants HANDFISHING RETABLO: 4, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born not stillborn one elderly baby Last Line: Le bon temps roulez help your selves flywheels turned ici Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours appears to me Last Line: To smile upon and love me! Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open your gates for him Last Line: Promise of joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Babies; Infants HARVEST SLUMBER SONG, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little baby, sleep, sleep, sleep Last Line: Sleep, little baby, sleep, sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Babies HEALTH, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cut the stem of the amaryllis, and water poured out so suddenly, I didn't Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Flowers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HEARTBEAT, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: My pants pushed down around my knees Last Line: This sound with its own plan Subject(s): Babies; Pregnancy HEAVEN'S GLORY SHONE WHERE HE WAS LAID, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares HELPLESS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The word is a lead blanket on my son Last Line: You might give a desperate cry, and a goddess, %her breasts full of milk, might come Subject(s): Babies HER FIRST WEEK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was so small I would scan the crib a half-second Subject(s): Babies; Infants HER FIRST WEEK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was so small I would scan the crib a half-second Last Line: Felt she was serious, I believed she was willing to stay Subject(s): Babies HER FIRST-BORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was her first sweet child, her heart's delight Last Line: Nor knows how soon it will be borne away. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies HER GIFT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes, her mouth, her chin, so strangely small Last Line: Take mighty hold upon two human hearts. Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood HER NAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in search, from a to z, they passed" Last Line: And she's simply 'little peg' Subject(s): Babies;names; Infants HIS DAUGHTER, DYING ON HER FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That fatal day, which lent my earliest breath Last Line: "mine calls aloud for tears, and bids me weep." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies HOLY INNOCENTS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They scarcely waked before they slept Last Line: Dear mothers, come: for heaven is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise HOME AND THE BABY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home was never home before Last Line: Till the baby came. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Infants HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD: ANNOUNCEMENTS: JACKSON BLVD 1957 AND 1980, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: I hate babies - they mess up your nice things,' Last Line: She cries, of course, and offers me her ring Subject(s): Babies; Memory HON. JESSE HOLDOM OF CHICAGO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the great lake's pride Last Line: And the waning sun sink low. Subject(s): Babies; Fate; Fear; Future; Past; Infants; Destiny HONEY LAM, by MILDRED M. FORT Poem Text First Line: Hush dat noise, an' don' yo' weep Last Line: Honey lam'. Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood HOSPITAL NURSERY, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: Purity - whiteness - spotlessness! Through glass Last Line: Past -- present -- future -- in the hand of fate! Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hospitals; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HOW FAR IS IT TO THE LAND WE LEFT?, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first day of his life Last Line: And he won't even flinch. Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Rest; Tears; Infants HOW TO GET A BABY, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Go to the sea Last Line: She is one with your joy Subject(s): Babies HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation! Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee! Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies I LIVE A PRAYER, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: With human love Last Line: This is my prayer. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies I THOUGHT I WAS A FERTILITY GODDESS, by BECCA HENSLEY Poem Source First Line: That goddess of willendorf Last Line: Softly touching their tiny feet %with mine Subject(s): Babies; Children I WAS BORN A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What has been %added? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Growth; Nature ICE CHILD, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold for so long, unable to speak, Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ICONOCLASTS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There are those who would silence the thrush Last Line: Comes the luminous face of christ! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Theology IDEAS ONLY GO SO FAR, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I made up a baby. I made her in the shape of a hatbox or a cake. I could have iced her & Last Line: Sunset—quite unlike my baby, who like any good idea, eventually ended up dead Subject(s): Babies; Infants IL LATTE, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ye fair, for whom the hands of hymen weave Last Line: Unblam'd inebriate at that healthful spring. Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Nature; Parents; Infants; Parenthood ILLOGICAL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're as proud as they can be Last Line: Make me have so big a voice? Subject(s): Babies; Children; Speech; Infants; Childhood; Oratory; Orators IN AN OLD NURSERY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: A prim old room where memories stir Last Line: Of some walled garden! Subject(s): Babies; Past; Rooms; Infants IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them all—they are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN HEAVEN, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence filled the courts of heaven Last Line: "thy will, o lord, be done!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise IN MEMORIAM ALPHONSE CAMPBELL FORDHAM, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Yes, my darling, when life's shadows Last Line: "surely at the ""gates of gold." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE SHADOWS: 13, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And, well-beloved, is this all, this all? Last Line: O heart! Be merciful -- I loved him utterly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies IN THE THRIVING SEASON, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as she ctahches fistfuls of sun Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Babies; Infants IN THE WOMB, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still rests the heavy share on the dark soil Last Line: The infant spirit for eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants INEVITABLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I was so weary and I lay Last Line: Forgetting all my need of peace and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Infants INFANCY, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wore the wreath on baby brows Subject(s): Babies; Infants INFANCY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Born to the world with my hands clenched Last Line: I laughed, with open eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Babies; Infants INFANCY, by MARION H. RAND Poem Text First Line: What! My merry little one Last Line: Prove thine in blest reality. Subject(s): Babies; Infants INFANT INNOCENCE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grizzly bear is huge and wild Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Infants INFANT INNOCENCE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grizzly bear is huge and wild Last Line: He has been eaten by the bear Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Babies; Innocence INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no name: / I am but two days old Last Line: Sweet joy befall thee! Variant Title(s): Joy Is My Name Subject(s): Babies; Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Infants; Joy; Delight INFANT NEPHEW, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: My zero, my thumbtack Last Line: My bit of chalk, my wrinkle, %my oblivious Subject(s): Babies; Family Life INFANTICIDE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man says, all the girl babies Last Line: They know too many ways to die Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Marriage; Women INFELICE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the skies are tinted blue Last Line: Ah, woe is me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness INFELIX, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, gazing on thy cradle sleep Last Line: And thine own mother comfort thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Comfort; Mothers; Infants INVAGINATIONS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I passed the afternoon wandering the bazaar, lingering in stalls so long I al Last Line: And squirmed from his towel down the sand and into the water Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise IT IS WELL, by LUCY H. HOOPER Poem Text First Line: Twas a low grave they led me to, o'ergrown Last Line: "above that quiet refuge -- ""it is well." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones IT MUST BE THE MILK, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a thought that I have tried not to but cannot help think Last Line: And the infant is the one that feels all right when it wakes up Subject(s): Babies JOHNEEN, by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, he's five months, an' he's two foot long Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Moira Subject(s): Babies JOHNNY'S GOT A BAWBEE, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-) Poem Text First Line: Johnny's got a bawbee - how will he ware't? Last Line: We maun send for something owre the saut sea. Subject(s): Babies; Gifts & Giving; Infants JOY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Newborn, how long to stay Last Line: Unmakes the dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BABY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: To the very gate of heaven Subject(s): Babies KEEP HIM A BABY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can; Last Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Men; Mothers; Infants KING OF THE CRADLE, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Draw back the cradle curtains, kate Subject(s): Babies KING ROBERT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There's a king in our house, and we bow to his crown Last Line: And added a world to our family domain. Subject(s): Babies; Courts & Courtiers; Infants LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps as a lamb sleeps Last Line: Feeds, and is clothed in white. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LAMENT, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merry merry lark was up and singing Last Line: Sleeps sound till the bell brings me. Variant Title(s): The Merry Lark Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LAMENT FOR A LITTLE CHILD, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in the tomb, love Last Line: O my little child! Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!, by ISABEL MCLENNAN MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another dab of powder near your eye Last Line: Thank you, dear god. Our mary will get well! Subject(s): Babies; Sickness; Infants; Illness LEARNING TO GO ALONE, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my darling, come away Last Line: After such a walk as this. Subject(s): Babies; Walking; Infants LEARNING TO SPEAK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was the quietest thing I'd ever seen Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Speech; Babies; Oratory; Orators; Infants LEARNING TO TALK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On magnolia avenue there are no magnolias. Someone bought Subject(s): Neighbors; Birds; Mothers; Babies; Infants LEEDLE DUTCH BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leedle dutch baby haff come ter Last Line: Hey! Leedle dutchman come ter town! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Infants LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie - angels named her Last Line: From me like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; God; Summer; Death - Babies LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You gave the youngster into my care. - he's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You put the kid in my care. He's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTICE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little lettice is dead, they say Last Line: On the hills, and no longer rue her! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LIFT ME HIGHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift me higher! Lift me higher! / from this sphere of earthly dross Last Line: "lifted higher"" -- than life's cares." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Last Line: The new world. As if the future were theirs Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women LINES ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON CHARLES, by DANIEL WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, thou wast my heart's delight Last Line: My son! My father! Guide me there. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My Son Charles Subject(s): Death - Children; Sons; Death - Babies LINES TO A YOUNG MOTHER, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young mother! What can feeble friendship say Last Line: And laid my first-born in the silent tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies LIQUID FLESH, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a light chocolatine room Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Relationships; Body, Human; Infants; Parenthood LITTLE BERNHARD, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting, one fair, bright spring morning Last Line: Still the goddess love is gazing. Subject(s): Babies; Infants LITTLE BROWN BABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes Last Line: Little brown baby wif spa'klin eyes! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Babies; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants LITTLE DAVID'S CHRISTMAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Little hunchback david Last Line: Is tall, and straight, and strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Infants; Nativity, The LITTLE FEET, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little feet, so small that both may nestle Last Line: Will guide the baby's feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood LITTLE JESSIE, by WILLIAM C. CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, see my little baby-girl - a toddling, winsome thing Last Line: As she her baby-doll doth rock -- my little angel bright! Subject(s): Babies; Infants LITTLE JOHNNY, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LITTLE JUDE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Po' little jude, why doan' yo' know Last Line: Fo'get dat day. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Infants; Dead, The LITTLE LOVE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little love into my bosom darted Last Line: For his pinions are burnt and won't bear him away. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants LITTLE MATTIE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Thirteen a month ago! Last Line: Rather than such angels, lord! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LITTLE NORA, OR THE PORTRAIT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask'd of little nora, but he drew Last Line: Still nursed her pile of summer-wreaths and smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LITTLE ONE SMILES, by OSCAR STJERNE Poem Source First Line: While we are still drowsing Subject(s): Babies LITTLE ONE WEARY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crying, my little one, footsore and weary Last Line: Dreaming of pretty things, dreaming of pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 19 Subject(s): Babies; Infants LITTLE PUSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleek coat, eyes of fire Last Line: That's puss Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Cats LONE CHILDER, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: When the wind was soft sobbin' the night Last Line: For to hush where lone childer had died! Subject(s): Death - Children; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness LONELY CABIN, by JOHN A. SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Some say the cabin fell almost apart Last Line: After she found her son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Despair; Mothers & Sons; Murder; Death - Babies LOST AND SAVED, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou wert born into the world Last Line: In happier skies than ours! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LOST BABIES, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The lake's a lake of purple wine Last Line: "until they come, bide close to me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Infants; Nightmares; Virgin Mary LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago I fell in love Last Line: And she'll be three weeks old on sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants LOVE'S TENDRILS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter far than lyric rune Last Line: Sounds her heart-beat in my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Babies; Infants LOVE, THE BABY, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him be sold, I say! Let him be sold Last Line: Close to the heart of my zenophile. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Babies; Infants LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LUCY (5), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three years she grew in sun and shower Last Line: And never more will be. Variant Title(s): The Education Of Nature;four Natural Women Subject(s): Death - Children; Nature; Death - Babies LULLABY, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Text First Line: They are fluttering and fluttering, like birds upon Last Line: Bye oh! Baby bye! Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LULLABY, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy head upon this pillow Last Line: Safe within a mother's love! Subject(s): Sleep; Babies; Mothers; Infants LULLABY, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Whose %wisp of moon Last Line: On the shoulder %of winter %whose Subject(s): Babies LULLABY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close those pretty azure eyes Last Line: Go to sleep Subject(s): Babies LULLABY, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little one, sleep softly Last Line: Together--I and you. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LULLABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple strews the embers of its leaves Last Line: Till your own are wet above me when I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants LULLABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Someone would like to have you for her child Last Line: But you are mine Subject(s): Babies; Mothers LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies MAMMA DIN'T RAISE NO FOOLS, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died before we could honor Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MAN DANCING WITH A BABY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before balance, before counting, before Subject(s): Babies; Infants MARGARET SLACK AND THE PRINCE OF WALES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you mothers and fathers, I hope you'll attend" Last Line: And look to the rights of margaret slack Subject(s): Babies;churches;love;wales; Infants;cathedrals;welshmen;welshwomen MARY BLY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here, doing nothing, alone, worn out by long winter. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day Last Line: Mary burke—mary burke! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise MARY RUANE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-like girl that we knew! Last Line: Unweariedly! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MATERNAL GRIEF, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Departed child! I could forget thee once Last Line: Immortal as the love that gave it being. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies MATERNITY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud? Last Line: I view this babe of sorrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureen—maureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MAY I HOLD THE BABY? (A HUMBLE REQUEST OF THE MODERN MAMMA), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear modern mamma, if you please Last Line: If I may hold the baby. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MEDEA: SPEECH OF THE CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haggard queen! To athens dost thou guide Last Line: Perish when thy victims bleed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MELANCHOLY; AN ODE, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, vain mirth, and noisy joys Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies METEMPSYCHOSIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces; Infants; Dead, The METEMPSYCHOSIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy innocent gone home Last Line: On heavenly banks. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise MICHAEL FLYNN AND THE BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luk at 'ere, ould baby, - who Last Line: Don't yez know yer feyther -- boy? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives MILK, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Given your birth, I am the glue of the cosmos. Last Line: Never forget me Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Love; Milk; Pregnancy MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 1, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have dark egyptians stolen thee away Last Line: In changeless baby loveliness still there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 10, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis christmas, and we gaze with downbent head Last Line: In the dim nursery that men call death! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 11, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How patiently they did their work of old Last Line: In sunrise tints on memory's missal page. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 12, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the season when the elves of spring Last Line: And the wild tulips on the grassy shelves! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 13, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now florence fills her lap with buds of may Last Line: "of sun and rain, of smile and sorrow born." Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 14, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pale pressed rose-bud in the book of death Last Line: O'er his inscrutable angelic face. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 15, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how, with fancy's hand Last Line: The eye-lids sealed in pale seraphic rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 16, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little ship that passed us in the night Last Line: And she was gone; and we were left behind. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 17, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall the scents, the insect whirr Last Line: Which now, god knows, is hidden but too well. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 18, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, through the open window of the room Last Line: And watch it breathless, lest it should be she. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 19, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What alchemy is thine, o little child Last Line: Shrines in its sanctuaries while ages flow. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 2, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two springs she saw - two radiant tuscan springs Last Line: We, left alone, shall seek one bud in vain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 20, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What essences from idumean palm Last Line: Obliterate the rolls of human fame. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 3, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could know the silent shapes that pass Last Line: Of vast and lifeless seas in the beyond? Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 4, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rosy as the lining of a shell Last Line: To wake the sleep-struck playground of the dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 5, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wast thou, little baby, that art dead Last Line: Enough for us, thou wast thy baby self. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 6, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bless the law that veils the future's face Last Line: Its footing, and fall headlong from to-day. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 7, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantled in purple dusk, imperial death Last Line: "now let the little children come to me." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 8, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I mind me, now that she is dead Last Line: That leave the shores that are for those that seem! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 9, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brook that fell too soon into the sea Last Line: In death's dim ocean that before us lay. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: SONNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis march; and on the hills that stretch away Last Line: Intone in march, as did their antique sires. Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MINIATURE ROSE BUD, by ZELLA SPILKA Poem Text First Line: I picked the little rosebud / I held it in Last Line: Just lying there asleep. Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Infants MIRIAM'S SONG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death to the first-born sons, always Last Line: For the breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): It's A Boy Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery MISCARRIAGE: THE NURSE SPEAKS TO THE BABY, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: We are going back to the dirty Last Line: Vine of warm ground %born to suffer loss Subject(s): Babies; Death; Loss; Medicine; Nurses MODERN LOVE: 11, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the yellow meadows, where the bee Last Line: Is lying a dead infant, slain by thee. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MODERN LULLABY, by ELEANOR STANLEY LOCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Hush-a-bye, baby, life's just a blight Last Line: But the name of the lady, nobody knows. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched on the dying mother's lap, lies dead Last Line: And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823); Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The mouth of a girl who had long lain among the reeds looked gnawed away Last Line: Oh, how the little muzzles squeaked! Subject(s): Autopsies; Death - Children; Expressionism - Poets; Morgues; Death - Babies MORNING IN THE BOILING RIVER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: At daybreak we strip and enter it Last Line: Dropping their necks to take long drinks Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy MOTHER & CHILD; AFTER CAREW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the destination of the sunlight's particles? Last Line: Under your innocent lashes Subject(s): Babies; Literary Form; Mothers; Infants MOTHER AND CHILD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She feared the baby would fall Last Line: Hands resting upon her Subject(s): Mothers; Death – Children; Death - Babies; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums MOTHER AND CHILD, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Hell of a place to start a family Last Line: The baby at her breast will save the world Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Family Life MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east Last Line: Let none look at me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians MOTHER TO BABE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleck of sky you are Last Line: Up to dear sunshine. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MOTHER'S SONG TO A BABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First %this little baby Last Line: Was cared for Subject(s): Babies MOTIF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the garret sleeps the roof Last Line: In its crib by the mold'ring wall Subject(s): Babies;death - Children;rest; Infants;death - Babies MOURNING A FOAL, by LASZLO NAGY Poem Source First Line: Your mother was white and you're black Last Line: You with your velvet hide Subject(s): Babies; Death; Mourning; Orphans MUNDUS ET INFANS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kicking his mother until she let go of his soul Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MUNDUS ET INFANS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kicking his mother until she let go of his soul Last Line: Either or both, we had never learned to distinquish %betweenhunger and love? Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Babies MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Last Line: Whether he hears my song or not Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor And Laborers; Physical Disabilities MY BABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cunning mite in robes of white Last Line: "my baby." Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants MY BABY'S LIPS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My baby's lips can reach my hand Last Line: Kiss on, o baby mine. Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Kisses; Infants MY BOY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little bird once Last Line: And wish that I were dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MY BOY JACK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the news of my boy jack? Last Line: And gave to that wind blowing and that tide! Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies MY CHILD, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot make him dead! Last Line: T will be our heaven to find, that - he is there! Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY FIRST BAWBEE, by ARCHIBALD MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O nane, I trew, in a' the earth, was happier than me Last Line: "a something whispers -- ""robin, mind your first bawbee." Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY FIRST-BORN, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON Poem Text First Line: She came to my soul like a sunbeam of bliss Last Line: The tears that are shed when alone. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Love; Infants; Dead, The MY INFANT DAYS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a little infant, Last Line: In this world of grief and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY LITTLE LOVER, by CECILE SAUVAGE Poem Source Subject(s): Babies; Love MY LOST BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Comes little maud and stands by my knee Last Line: The perilous heights of childhood's shore Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY PRETTY CHILD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mo paistin deas, I did not know Last Line: And knew how far god's gardens are. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies MY SISTER'S FUNERAL, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Funerals; Grief; Death - Babies; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness MY SWEET LITTLE BABY, WHAT MEANEST THOU TO CRY?, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Lulla, la lulla, lulla lullaby. Subject(s): Babies; Infants MY SWEET LITTLE DARLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my sweet little darling, my comfort and joy" Last Line: "sweet baby, lully, lully, sweet baby, lully, lully" Subject(s): Babies; Infants NAMES, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Your mother gave you little names, as if the tide brought them Last Line: That's how your were loved. Sometimes by me Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Names NAMING HIM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name Last Line: Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed! Subject(s): Babies; Names; Parents; Infants; Parenthood NAMING OUR BOY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jokes come first Last Line: For us, %touched my arm, and whispered, your shot, son. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Fathers And Sons; Names; Poetry And Poets NAPPING IN THE SHADOW OF DAY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is still that shook with glee Last Line: Hush he's lightly breathing Subject(s): Babies; Infants NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A swollen infant under a tree, rose petals Last Line: Equal to childhood, throughout the kingdoms of the east. Subject(s): Babies; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paintings & Painters; Rousseau, Theodore (1812-1867); Infants; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin NELLY TELLS HOW BABY CAME, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER Poem Text First Line: There's no use of your talking, for mamma told me so Last Line: Why, tell them it's the angels, for mamma told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens Subject(s): Babies; Infants NEW YEAR ON DARTMOOR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is newness : every little tawdry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): New Year; Babies; Infants NEW-BORN, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard them in the night Last Line: These - of the little, new breath - %have they a prudence so old? Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Subject(s): Babies NEWBORN ODE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A soft baritone lifts you up, the one that drives the sap Last Line: When I hold you in my arms I m the rock from the old testament Subject(s): Babies; Fathers NIGHT CRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The radiator taps like a frantic blind man Last Line: A crocheted cap for a stillborn baby. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you, o infant of my midnight thought! Last Line: Ah, well, some day you 'll be a married man. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Marriage; Parents; Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood NIGHTFALL, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: In the tall summer grass Last Line: Wings fluttering under the thin %dress of eyelids Subject(s): Babies; Children NIGHTMARE BEGINS RESPONSIBILITY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I place these numbed wrists to the pane Last Line: Nightmare begins responsibilit Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry NOCTURNE, by EMERALD BROWNING KOEB Poem Text First Line: Wee life supine, now panting for thy breath Last Line: Your soul, love's golden spark, to god belongs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants NORMAN CRADLE-SONG, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon is afloat Last Line: And the heavenly noon. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Sleep; Infants NOTES FOR THE EARLY JOURNEY, by EVELYN E. SHOCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere along the way you will need to lean Last Line: Lullaby I know she meant you to sleep sweet Subject(s): Babies; Mothers NUMBER SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've multiplied, I'm 2 Last Line: Kind congruity. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood NURSE'S WATCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The moon it shines Last Line: Now bring my baby's porridge straight Subject(s): Babies; Moon OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Last Line: It's beautiful she thinks- %snow nobody has walked on Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth ODE: TO MISS MARGARET PULTENEY, DAUGHTER OF DANIEL, IN THE NURSERY, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dimply, damsel, sweetly smiling Last Line: Tender, and averse to killing Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Variant Title(s): To Miss Margaret Pulteney .. In The Nursery Subject(s): Babies; Infants OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled Last Line: How to this port at every step I go. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement OFFERING, by JAMES DOYLE Poem Source First Line: The infant %warped by the flame Last Line: And marries us to the spawning soil Subject(s): Babies ON A CHILD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of a day, thou knowest not Last Line: Thou wilt not ever see her weep. Variant Title(s): To A Dead Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ON A CHILD'S EYES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How loveable all infant beauties are! Last Line: That shall not blench when jesus takes his throne! Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Infants ON A DEAD BABE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly away! Thou heavenly one!-- Last Line: But I can not weep fer thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Grief; Infants; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON A DEAD CHILD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee Last Line: And the things we have seen and have known and have heard of, fail us. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON A NUN, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of two fair virgins, modest, though admired Last Line: And knock, and knock, and knock -- but none replies. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Variant Title(s): Sonnet On A Nun Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Nuns; Death - Babies ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! Thou such a one hast smit Last Line: If he be dead or flown away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Tuberculosis; Death - Babies; Consumption (pathology) ON AN INFANT, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bewail not much, my parents! Me, the prey Last Line: Not many joys, my griefs were also few. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Babies; Infants ON AN INFANT, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, a sleeping infant lies Last Line: "had been as short as thine." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be, rather than be called, a child of god' Last Line: Possessor, not inheritor. Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies ON AN INFANT'S DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little life Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM FOR 1979, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without kings and warriors occasional verse fails Subject(s): Africa; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Death - Babies ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Text First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross! Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies to each her parents' ruth Last Line: Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Variant Title(s): Epitaph On My First Daughter Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Parents; Death - Babies; Parenthood ON READING IN A NEWSPAPER THE DEATH OF A MOTHER AND THREE CHILDREN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, my soul, sustain the mournful page! Last Line: Frail is our knowledge, frailer is our bliss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's sense, his mother's grace Last Line: The health and appetite of rizzo. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Infants ON THE CORNER OF CAMPBELL AND KENNEDY STREETS, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: The baby's droll, sweet face Last Line: Cross which the lovely vessel disappears Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Streets ON THE CYDNUS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the glorious sky, where the sun low rings Last Line: The divine and infant twain, desire and death. Subject(s): Babies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Infants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE DEAD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou in this wide cold church art laid Last Line: Death follows with uplifted dart. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Consolation; Death - Children; Graveyards; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by HUGO MUNSTERBERG Poem Text First Line: Dear child, now you have gone to sleep so gently Last Line: Is truly blessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Terberg, Hugo Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by EDWARD S. SILVERA Poem Text First Line: You came like the dawn Last Line: So you stole away in the dark. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came, you went, as angels go Last Line: Forth from god's hand into god's hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis o'er, - in that long sigh she past Last Line: "the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted Last Line: That till the world's last end shall make thy name to live. Subject(s): Death - Children; Plague; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death never came so nigh to me before Last Line: Doth waken thy beloved with a kiss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Death - Babies; Theology ON THE DEATH OF A HIGHLY GIFTED AND PRECOCIOUS CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too fair, too pale, too pure and wise Last Line: Heaven took what it had lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well did the holy prophet say Last Line: To gather infant buds to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by EVARISTE DE PARNY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scaping from childhood, still a child Subject(s): Death - Children; Youth; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis difficult to feel that she is dead Last Line: In its most ravishing sweetness rudely broken. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sweet child, and hast thou gone, for ever fled! Last Line: "and murmur not at your great father's will." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by DIRK SMITS Poem Text First Line: A host of angels flying Last Line: But left the shell on earth. Variant Title(s): Death Of An Infant Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The little child is dead Last Line: And love and mortal fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT OF FIVE DAYS OLD, by ELIZABETH BOYD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How frail is human life! How fleet our breath Last Line: And the shocked father tear for tear return. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF J.C., AN INFANT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rise Last Line: Not at your bar must sov'reign wisdom stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die—"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF TWO LITTLE CHILDREN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Bitter chance! No hand the blow could ward! Last Line: And one low funeral bell shall bring ye home! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ONE DAY OLD BABY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: A rag of puffy flesh in Last Line: Sleeping in a stranger's forearm, %when it is all he is Subject(s): Babies; Sleep ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs. Subject(s): Birth; Babies; Mothers & Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery; Infants ONE NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Text First Line: The ancient spiders with a flutter spread Last Line: With silver crowned me there remote and lone. Subject(s): Babies; Change; Infants ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE', by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant eyes look out amazed upon the frowning earth Last Line: That loves a world all loveless, and smiles on calvary! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Babies; Infants ONE-YEAR-OLD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wakes wet; is prompty toileted Last Line: And jargons, jargons all day long Subject(s): Babies ONLY A BABY (TO A LITTLE ONE JUST A WEEK OLD), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Only a baby Last Line: Toes dettin' cold Subject(s): Babies; Infants ONLY A BABY SMALL, by MATTHIAS BARE Poem Source Last Line: Small, but how dear to us, %god knoweth best Subject(s): Babies ONLY A BABY SMALL, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a baby small, dropt from the skies Last Line: Small, but how dear to us, god knoweth best. Subject(s): Babies; Infants ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness OUR DARLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bounding like a football Last Line: That's our heart's delight. Subject(s): Babies;football; Infants OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PAEDOTROPHIA, by SCEVOLE (GAUCHER) DE SAINTE-MARTHE Poem Source First Line: In the bright regions of th' extended east Last Line: The pow'r omnipotent, who gave them breath, %consign'd them o'er to woe, to sin, and death Subject(s): Babies PAEDOTROPHIA, SELS., by SCEVOLE (GAUCHER) DE SAINTE-MARTHE Subject(s): Babies; Mnemonics; Pregnancy PALACE OF THE BABIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place Subject(s): Night; Loneliness; Babies; Bedtime; Infants PATCH AV GREEN AN' FIELD AV CORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, a field av goold corn jist ferenst a wee green Last Line: For wee childer's all ris up an' reapin' the day! Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Play; Roses; Death - Babies PEDIATRIC REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many an infant that screams like a calliope Last Line: Could be soothed by a little attention to its diope Subject(s): Babies PHASES OF GIRLHOOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fondest love and sweetest pleasure Last Line: He still preserves my virtuous girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Girls; Growth; Mothers & Daughters; Virtue; Infants PILGRIMAGE, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: A score of years had passed since they had laid Last Line: And scarlet poppies, swaying with each breeze.) Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones PLACE OF BIRTH, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I was baptized by Last Line: Down home, %sanctified jazz Subject(s): Babies; Baptism; Birth PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women PLAY OF REAL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From down here, oops, balcon. She walks erect Last Line: Cosmic bad casting but it's too late to start over Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Life; Mothers; Plays And Playwrights; Women PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That is your little playmate, jane Last Line: Would any child not die!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness POISONOUS FRUIT, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As tommy and his sister jane Last Line: Again along the shady lane. Subject(s): Death - Children; Poisons And Poisoning; Death - Babies POLLIKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Dear little pollikins;--what a strange name Last Line: As pollikins will be a man. Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants POOR LITTLE JOE, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prop yer eyes wide open, joey Last Line: O, my god! Can joe be dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Child Labor; Death - Children; Death - Babies PORTRAIT OF A BABY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay within a warm, soft world Last Line: He entered on man's heritage! Subject(s): Babies; Infants PORTRAIT OF AN UNFINISHED SELF-PORTRAIT, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Using the pad of her last clean finger, she smears a storm Last Line: Mysterious little bumps that surface %and sink away Subject(s): Babies; Portraits; Pregnancy PRAYER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: She cannot tell my name / nor whence I came Last Line: When my child's call I hear, I catch her to my heart. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies PRE-TEXT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archaic, his gestures / hieratic, just like caesar or sappho Subject(s): Babies; Ancestors & Ancestry; Time; Infants; Heritage; Heredity PREDICTION, by ELLEN M. ACTON Poem Text First Line: The baby's hair is just a timid fuzz Last Line: Of going just the way it wants to go. Subject(s): Babies; Infants PRELUDE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: All day long it has snowed and rained and snowed Last Line: Of whatever all this day hs been listening Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Mothers; Pregnancy PREMONITION, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the cottage stair Last Line: Her eyes might never look. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 40, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under thy rod, my god, thy smarting rod Last Line: My musick shall thy praises sweetly bring. Subject(s): Death - Children; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies PUTTIN' THE BABY AWAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight of 'em hyeah all tol' an' yet Last Line: "do sumpin' fu' to comfo't dad!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants PUTTING DOLLY TO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother has so many cares Last Line: And rock our babes to sleep. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Dolls; Mothers; Toys; Infants; Childhood PUVA, PUVA, PUVA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Babies QUALITY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have a modest little home Last Line: She is the best—and she's our own! Subject(s): Babies; Infants QUEEN VICTORIA'S BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart" Last Line: Queen victoria's baby Subject(s): "babies;birth;courts & Courtiers;victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901);" Infants;child Birth;midwifery RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: MONSTROUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take babies Last Line: I'll take rabies Subject(s): Babies; Rabies REFLECTION ON BABIES, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bit of talcum Last Line: Is always walcum Variant Title(s): Babies; Ode To A Bab Subject(s): Babies; Mnemonics REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE BABY'S DEBUT, BY W. W., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My brother jack was nine in may Last Line: I'll blow a kiss to you. Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Infants REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruined and ill, - a man of two score Last Line: Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Daughters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE, by JOHN HENRY BONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that we retain of our dead friends Last Line: Remember only when her babe first smiled. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies RESCUE, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Gentle, warm, dark, the sea Last Line: The labour of your birth %into final stillness Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Love RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 18. MARGARET EMMA HENLEY (1888-1894), by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you wake in your crib Last Line: Peace of the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ROADSIDE POEMS: THE CHILD-MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily slumbered noonday bright Last Line: "I did not let him go!" Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood ROCKING THE BABY, by MADGE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: I hear her rocking the baby Last Line: In the room just next to mine. Subject(s): Babies; Infants ROOTBOUND, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: In april, in the nursery, the impatiens Last Line: Opening to receive his dark embraces Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Babies; Expressionism - Poets; Grandparents; Mothers ROZSA IN THE PARLOR, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: The pedal of the sewing machine Last Line: Up a stairway of tilting and rolling steps Subject(s): Babies; Budapest, Hungary; Mothers RUTH, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be the baby's name! Last Line: Let us call the baby ruth Subject(s): Babies; Names RUTH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby girl not two years old Last Line: "safe in the arms of love divine." Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love; Mothers; Infants SANDHILL CRANE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: My feet wet in the dew Last Line: Not even by my simple cry Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Pregnancy SATISFIED, by HESTER A. BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: Where moss-made beds are brightest by the river Last Line: Of locks long longed for -- and am satisfied. Subject(s): Babies; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight SCALLOP SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a garland of the briar that put me now in awe Last Line: & leave all sorrow bye & bye. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SHE CAME AND WENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a twig trembles, which a bird Last Line: Only to think she came and went. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SILENT BABY, by ELLEN BARTLETT CURRIER Poem Text First Line: The baby sits in her cradle Last Line: Like the birds, the bees, and the flowers. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood SILENT BABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The baby sits in her cradle Last Line: Like the birds, the bees, and the flowers Subject(s): Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 122, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson curtains round my mother's bed Last Line: For I am but a baby. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 123, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby lies so fast asleep Last Line: Kiss her once and leave her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 124, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a baby, such a baby Last Line: And oh the sleepy eyes that wink! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 23, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My baby has a mottled fist Last Line: For he's the very thing for kisses. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Baby Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 24, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did baby die? Last Line: But bow and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SIX WEEKS OLD, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is so small, he does not know Last Line: And does not care to learn the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Infants SIXTH DAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Straight to the rabbit's nest Last Line: But of the sixth day's veiled amenities. Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When day is over, mother sings songs Last Line: And he doesn't even hear mother putting out the light. Subject(s): April; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Infants SLEEP, DARLING, SLEEP, by MARY B. C. SLADE Poem Text First Line: Fold thy hands, little one Last Line: Rest, darling, rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SLEEPING AND WATCHING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, baby on the floor Last Line: With reveille holy. Variant Title(s): The Child And The Watcher Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SLUMBER FAIRIES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, my little one ! Hush! Lie down Last Line: Mamma must go. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SMILING IN HIS SLEEP, by HARRIET W. STILLMAN Poem Source First Line: The baby sleeps and smiles Last Line: So beautiful? Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Smiles SNOWBANKS NORTH OF THE HOUSE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house... Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives SO THE INFANT IS BOUND, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Invites them to get ready Subject(s): Babies SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We set wreaths of brightness on the graves of the passionate Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SONG FOR THE FUNERAL OF A BOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On stems from silver woods Last Line: As dews that on the uplands shine and go! Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man" Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG: 6, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first upon your tender cheek Last Line: They sicken, and expire. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Infants SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. Variant Title(s): "desideria;transient Joy;""surprised By Joy-impatient As The Wind""; Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Wordsworth, Catherine (1808-1812); Death - Babies; Bereavement STANZAS ON AN INFANT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose-bud, blushing through the morning's tears Last Line: Awake her heart to joy, and wipe away her tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Infants STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though parental affection lament thee Last Line: Through the god of the spirits of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STILL LIFE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Aubergin and yellow glazes Last Line: Idle now, it lolls at ease. Subject(s): Babies; Brothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Half-brothers; Death - Childbirth STILL LIFE WITH PHOTO OF DEAD BABY, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: This is a photo of a photo taken Last Line: That there is nothing anyone can say Subject(s): Babies; Death; Photography And Photographers STORM CLOUDS, by PAULINE PARKER Poem Text First Line: Shadders of de evenin' / air a-tumblin' down Last Line: Mak' de black clouds shoo! Subject(s): Babies; Lightning; Infants; Lightning Rods STORY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where there used to be a thousand branches Subject(s): Babies; Infants STORY OF BABY'S BLANKET, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON Poem Source First Line: Once a little baby, on a sunny day Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie Subject(s): Babies; Blankets STORY OF BABY'S PILLOW, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON Poem Source First Line: These are the eggs that were put in a nest Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie Subject(s): Babies; Pillows STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STUNT FLIER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into my dim bedroom Last Line: To demonstrate how easy gliding is Subject(s): Babies SYLVIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across a space peopled with stars I am Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness SYMPATHY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When her little baby frets and cries Last Line: And oh! There's a spell of sunny weather! Subject(s): Babies; Infants TAKING A BATH WITH ROSIE, by NANCY MEANS WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The squealing six-month-old squats Last Line: Ivory towel, leaving me child- %less now in the cooling lave Subject(s): Babies; Baths And Bathing TAR BABIES, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tar babies are / not the children Subject(s): Babies; Infants TELL ME FAIREST MAIDEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once a little angel Last Line: Through the gates above? Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES 2, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: Hardy came up with great names for this one Last Line: Nights she left her body to search for fun Subject(s): Babies; Names THAT CHILD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That child was dangerous. That just-born Subject(s): Babies; Native Americans - Children; Infants THAW, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empty mocking bird nests Subject(s): Corpses; Death - Children; Cadavers; Death - Babies THE 1922 BABY, by GEORGE K. DENNY Poem Text First Line: Shall I tell you a story, baby dear? Last Line: You're a tiresome child! Run along to nurse! Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE ABANDONED NEWBORN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found you, you were not breathing Subject(s): Babies; Abandonment; Infants; Desertion THE ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the barred window sandbags Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE ALTRUIST ORDER, SELECTION, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: He will not sleep, my child Last Line: May shine the radiant sun: mankind's first god! Subject(s): Babies; Home; Life; Mothers; Silence; Infants THE ANGEL'S WHISPER, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby was sleeping Last Line: "said, ""I knew that the angels were whispering with thee." Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Children; Sleep; Smiles; Infants; Childhood THE BABE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange when thou wert not, a life to-be! Last Line: As utter peace and quiet as dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE BABIE, by JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes Last Line: Our babie straight frae heaven. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood THE BABIES, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us save the babies Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE BABY, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On parents' knees, a naked, new-born child Last Line: Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep. Variant Title(s): A Moral Tetrastich;so Live;to An Infant Newly Born Subject(s): Babies; Children; Infants; Childhood THE BABY OVER THE WAY, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across in my neighbor's window Last Line: Of the house that's over the way. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE BABY'S DANCE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance, little baby, dance up high Last Line: While the gay merry coral goes ding-a-ding, ding. Subject(s): Babies; Dancing & Dancers; Infants THE BABY-HOUSE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear agatha, I give you joy Last Line: That cheaper baby-house is thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Dollhouses; Babies; Infants THE BABYSITTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was about six months old Subject(s): Adolescence; Babies; Teen Agers; Infants THE BACCHANTE TO HER BABE, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sprite, and dance! The sun is up Last Line: And squirm, and gurgle -- and grow wise! Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fairies; Infants; Elves THE BALD-HEADED TYRANT, by MARY E. VANDYNE Poem Text First Line: O! The quietest home in earth had I Last Line: This bald-headed tyrant from no-man's-land. Subject(s): Babies; Baldness; Infants THE BLACK MAMMY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whitened head entwined in turban gay Last Line: That it some day might crush thine own black child? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BLUE HOG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have to buy the acid Last Line: Who's said to still be in the district. Variant Title(s): A Blue Hog Subject(s): Death - Children; Devil; Pigs; Revenge; Death - Babies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Boars; Hogs THE BOOTLESS BAIRN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days of the whirling snowflakes, nights of the / weeping wind Last Line: They fall on the bootless bairn, and crush the hapless child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIAL OF AN INFANT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest infant bud, whose blossom-life Last Line: To dress them, and unswaddle death. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE BURIAL OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark-eyed maids, at shut of day Last Line: Highest and nearest god's right hand. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BURIED CHILD, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Text First Line: He is not dead, nor liveth Last Line: To his mother saith. Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE CHANGELING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child with monstrous pumpkin head Last Line: For heaven's sake, drown it or else burn it! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Monsters; Infants; Childhood THE CHANGELING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the changeling enter in? Last Line: Came back, and I did not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Child Custody; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the greenest of wheat rang gold at his birth! Variant Title(s): For My Son Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers THE CHILD ASLEEP, by CLOTILDE DE SURVILLE Poem Text First Line: Sweet babe! True portrait of thy father's face Last Line: Beside me watch to see thy waking smile? Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou playing with time in thy sweet baby-glee? Last Line: May time and my ellen be playmates together. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Life; Time; Infants THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Call my brother back to me Last Line: "would I had loved him more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Half-brothers; Death - Babies THE CHILD'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy sight, sorrento, green thy shore Last Line: From long deep slumbers at the morning light. Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE CHILD'S GRAVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the churchyard where pretty joy lies Last Line: Her sweet dawning smile and her violet eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHILD'S LAST SLEEP; SUGGESTED BY MOMUMENT OF CHANTREY'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepst - but when wilt thou wake, fair child? Last Line: Beautiful dust! When we look on thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Death - Children; Sculpture & Sculptors; Women; Death - Babies THE CHILD'S STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star that watched you in your sleep Last Line: "when his begins to burn." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Stars; Infants THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long." Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise THE CHILDLESS MOTHER'S LULLABY, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, many's the time in the evening Last Line: "tenderest angels will guard thy rest." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE CHRISTMAS BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the night when sleeping Last Line: And he comes by no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Babies; Children; Christmas; Infants; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: It was on the western frontier Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States THE COAL STRIKE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Red are the rails with rust to-day Last Line: Who went to heaven—starved. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Heaven; Hunger; Poverty; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Paradise THE COMING MAN', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A pair of very chubby legs Last Line: God bless the 'coming man' Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE COTTAGER TO HER INFANT, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The days are cold, the nights are long Last Line: And wake when it is day. Variant Title(s): The Cottager's Lullaby;to My Niece Dorothy, A Sleepless Baby Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Wordsworth, Dorothy (dora) (1804-1847); Infants THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne. Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies THE CRIB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought immortality Last Line: Immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Immortality; Infants THE CRUEL GAMEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In buxton town in staffordshire Last Line: All on the gallows tree so high Subject(s): Babies;crimes & Criminals;death;murder;pregnancy; "infants;dead, The; THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE CRY-BABY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O me, o my!' Last Line: "just to start the earth a-growing!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE DAWN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: He shook his head as he turned away Last Line: "are dancing and singing. ""thank god— the dawn!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Mothers; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: But yesterday she played with childish things Last Line: She will not smile to-day, for she is dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, dear, now Last Line: And share thy rest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child had of the garden made a friend Last Line: "come, let me see your fine new summer-dress!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD CHILD AND THE MOCKING-BIRD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a land of balm and flowers Last Line: Moans round their place of sleep! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEAD SON, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy was in the clay Last Line: God comfort them that mourn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement THE DEATH LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, baby, sleep!" Last Line: In dreamless sleep Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cover him over with daisies white Last Line: For the first-born, love, is dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE DOLL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry you in a glass jar Last Line: Dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dolls; Toys; Death - Babies THE DREADFUL HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly Subject(s): Babies; Time; Ancestors & Ancestry; Infants; Heritage; Heredity THE DYING BOY TO THE WINDFLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And have ye come again Last Line: I follow! Lead the way! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Death - Babies THE DYING CHILD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could not die when trees were green Last Line: He died so quietly. Subject(s): Death - Children; Spring; Death - Babies THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear? Last Line: The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides so late through the midnight blast? Last Line: But alack! In his arms the child lay dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE FAITH OF A CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've learned the tale of the crooning waves Last Line: Of rosses by the sea. Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Faith; Heaven; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE FIRST BIRTHDAY, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, sweet girl, hath run his year-long race Last Line: Its father's frown, its nurse's mimic rage. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Infants THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE FIRST KISS OF SUNSHINE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The first kiss of sunshine this morning came to me Last Line: In speaking of my treasure, my little sunshine boy. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Sun; Infants THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had begun in the gloaming Last Line: Folded close under deepening snow. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Snow; Dead, The; Death - Babies THE FIRST STEPS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I held my arms to you Last Line: To save you from a fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE FIRST STORY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Mid seaweed on a sultry strand, ten thousand years ago Last Line: So he wrote the first of stories with his little fingernail. Subject(s): Babies; Octopuses; Prehistoric Peoples; Writing & Writers; Infants THE FIRST YEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The year is nearly gone, my child Last Line: We couldn't do without you! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE FOUNTAIN AT THE TOMB, by NICIAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay weary traveler, stay! Last Line: His buried child to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE GIFT OF THE SEA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead child lay in the shroud Last Line: "we let it die in the dark!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Sea; Death - Babies; Ocean THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE GOLD PIECE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: My lord will not miss of all his store Last Line: Because I have stolen from my lord the ransom he would not give. Subject(s): Death - Children; Gold; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise THE GOOD LORD GAVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The good lord gave, the lord has taken from me Last Line: Oh, 'tis lonely, lonely, by the little grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE HANGING OF THE CRANE: 3, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The picture fades; as at a village fair Last Line: And so good night to king canute. Variant Title(s): The Household Sovereign Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE HANGING OF THE CRANE: 4, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who walking in a forest sees Last Line: Into the days that are to be. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE HOPELESS CASE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The babykin's nose is a pug, so they say Last Line: But your husband will stay just about as he is. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 100. A NEW-BORN DEATH (2), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou, o life, the lady of all bliss Last Line: And did these die that thou mightst bear me death? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Death - Babies THE HOUSE WAS JUST TWINKLING IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE HUMAN TRINITY, by GRANVILLE LOWTHER Poem Text First Line: The sunshine reached across the space Last Line: In father, childhood, motherhood. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers; Love; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE INDIAN WITH HIS DEAD CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of the midnight Last Line: My father's path I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Native Americans; Death - Babies; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INFANT, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an infant -- health, and joy, and light Last Line: "oh! Happy child! Untried and early blessed!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE INFANTS THREE SABATHS', by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, infant, slumber Last Line: Consecrate thy rest Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Sabbath THE IRISH MOTHER'S LAMENT, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half the long night, my children, I lie waking Last Line: In the next glad spring time? Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Absent Ones Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE JAZZ BABY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when babies were gently Last Line: "baby an' the cradle an' all!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives THE LAST CRADLE SONG, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu Last Line: I'll sing to my baby for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LEGEND OF ARA-COELI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at fra gervasio Last Line: "what know I, signor? They found her dead!" Subject(s): Legends; Catholicism; Babies; Infants THE LETTER SHE DID NOT WRITE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was never set down in black and white Last Line: Had come to the letter she could not write? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants THE LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women; Infants THE LION OF FLORENCE, by GEORGE DONALD Poem Text First Line: In the fair city of florence, on a time Last Line: Then slowly on its way it quietly went. Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Lions; Infants THE LITTLE HAND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wak'st, my baby boy, from sleep Last Line: It strike the lyre of praise. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE LITTLE ONE THE WATER-SPIRIT LOVED, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: So young he could not go alone on earth Last Line: Before whom I must smile dry-eyed? Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Mothers; Water; Death - Babies THE LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LOST CHILDREN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little girls, one fair, one dark Last Line: But the child keeps on playing, so I play Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Death - Babies THE LOST LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Simple and sweet as a child Last Line: Simple and sweet as a child. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Paradise THE LOST SISTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They waked me from my sleep, I knew not why Last Line: Which rent thee from me. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I believe in the community of little children Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE MITHERLESS BAIRN, by WILLIAM THOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When a'ither bairnies are hushed to their hame Last Line: That god deals the blow, for the mitherless bairn! Alternate Author Name(s): Inverary Poet, The Subject(s): Babies; Children; Orphans; Infants; Childhood; Foundlings THE MOON, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: A baby looks up at the moon Last Line: Through charted space! Subject(s): Babies; Moon; Infants THE MOTHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the nurse gone now? And are we alone at last? Last Line: The father (joyously): no, no; good-morning, mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MOTHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night he lay within my arm Last Line: To keep him safe from fear and harm! Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Mothers; Infants THE MOTHER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas! Christmas! Merry christmas! Rang the / bells. / o god of grace! Last Line: While twain spirits, joy and sorrow, hovered o'er my plundered nest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE MOTHER'S CHAIR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The century's day had just begun Last Line: As she rests in the prim little rocking-chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Grandparents; Mothers; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE MOTHER'S LAMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale and cold is the cheek that my kisses oft press'd Last Line: And only to wake when ascended to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER INFANT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Cold is his brow, and the dew of the evening Last Line: Henceforth will I worship my saviour alone! Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies THE MOTHER'S PLEA, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand not here in judgment, haughty priest Last Line: "leaves life its worth. That lost I welcome death." Subject(s): Death - Children; Faith; Mothers; Death - Babies; Belief; Creed THE MOURNER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night that wee francesca died Subject(s): Mourning; Death - Children; Bereavement; Death - Babies THE MOURNING MOTHER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou weep, mourning mother Last Line: Wait on, thou mourning mother. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE MUD CAKE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little drops of water Last Line: Of sweet felicity. Subject(s): Babies; Dirt; Play; Infants THE NEW BABE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The babe is the beautifully cunning dust that desires and breathes Last Line: Of the babe in the storm and sun of the nourishing years. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE NEW SISTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, pete, do you like her? Last Line: "we should go in once more and bid ""baby"" good night!" Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE NEW YEAR BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two together, babe and year Last Line: Brother year was gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Holidays; New Year; Infants THE NIGHT DANCES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smile fell in the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Hush! Pretty darling, hush! -- bye, bye, bye, bye Last Line: And give us safe deliv'ry from our terrors. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Babies; Charity; Newspapers; Nurses; Infants; Philanthropy; Journalism; Journalists THE NURSERY SAGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know a quaint philosopher Last Line: That fond expression—dad! Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Language; Mothers; Infants; Words; Vocabulary THE ODE OF INFANCY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, little child! Last Line: And life's imperial portals opening gradually wide. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE OLD MAMMY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, lil baby, en go ter sleep Last Line: Er heap sight mo' dan his mudder do! Subject(s): African Americans; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants THE OLD WALNUT CRADLE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the attic I found it Last Line: Like a careless babe again. Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Memory; Infants THE PAMPERING OF LEORA, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore, no more recounting of dreams, a routine thing Subject(s): Youth; Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) THE RABBIT TRAP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in de sage fiel', settin' in de sno' Last Line: An' little phil sleeps in de sleet an' de rain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Death - Children; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SCHOOLMISTRESS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: If she, their nurse, be faint with famine Last Line: Bid birds and angels bring her bread. Subject(s): Babies; Orphans; Infants; Foundlings THE SCULPTURED CHILDREN; ON CHANTREY'S MONUMENT IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair images of sleep Last Line: The faith, trust, joy, of immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Monuments; Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies THE SLAVE-MOTHER, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her new-born child she holdeth, but feels within her heart Last Line: "god grant my little helpless one in helplessness may die!" Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Slavery; Infants; Serfs THE SPANISH CHAPEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a mountain brook my guide Last Line: "an angel thus to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Spain; Women; Death - Babies THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us! Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks THE STORK VISITS A CABIN, by WILLIAM FRED SACHS Poem Text First Line: Hop wid de banjo Last Line: I's twice-cum pappy. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE STUNT FLIER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into my dim bedroom Last Line: To demonstrate how easy gliding is Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE SUPPER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Since music is love's milk and keeps him strong Last Line: Has fixed on me his large, unwavering eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Paternity; Infants THE TREASURE BOX, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Ah! Here's the box! And there's his baby shoe Last Line: His glory home! O little star of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; War; Death - Babies THE TROUBLESOME BABY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE TURNSTILE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Sad were we as we did peace Last Line: His last white arms, and they stood still. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE TWA BAWBEES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately, lang-robit, an' steppin' at ease Last Line: The puir body's bawbees war mair than it a'. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE TWO MYSTERIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies THE WARM CRADLE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, baby, hush Last Line: Dream, baby, dream. Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WAY THE BABY CAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this is the way the baby came Last Line: O this is the way the baby came! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WAY THE BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way the baby slept Last Line: And this is the way the baby slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants THE WAY THE BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the way the baby woke Last Line: And this is the way the baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WHITE CAP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day a baby wave was born Last Line: With sunbeams in her hair! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE WHITE HEARSE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, I have walked with you through summer days Last Line: Discards the life, and builds on blood its wealth. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman sentinel stood helm'd and tall Last Line: Jesus went calmly on his way to nain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Death - Babies THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice Last Line: Weep for his mother! -- weep, young bride, for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers-in-law; Death - Babies THE WINNER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a child inside Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WONDER CHILD, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our little babe,' each said, 'shall be' Last Line: One thing is certain, -- it will be our little babe. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE WORLD IS SO SMALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a very little place Last Line: To suit me so. Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Infants; World THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute -- looking at the grave in which he lies! Variant Title(s): The Boy Poet;the Boy And The Owls Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute - for he died when he was ten years old. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THIS IS MY NAME, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source Last Line: It can bring me back %(call patty, patty, patty) Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers; Names THOMAS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead, my son! My son! Last Line: "the tears of parting blind me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THOU MUST BE PATIENT; WE CAME CRYING HITHER-KING LEAR, by BEN PASSIKOFF Poem Source First Line: The single sperm %swimming in minion Last Line: With overlapping %atonalities %ending in origin Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Pregnancy THRENODY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-wind brings / life, sunshine, and desire Last Line: "lost in god, in godhead found." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THUNDER OVER THE NURSERY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to me, angel tot Last Line: But know from him who murder endures, %it's his idea much more than yours Subject(s): Babies TIMOMACHUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in his father's arms he lay / and breathed the joy of youth away Last Line: A heart so brave, so cool a head.' Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A BEREAVED MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, say not that your little son is dead Last Line: Is your ambassador. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TO A BEREAVED MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER TWO LITTLE BOYS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother bereaved! From thy desolate hearth Last Line: Tis well with thy children, with thee it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO A BLIND BABE, SLEEPING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are thy dreams dark? Or is the light Last Line: A kindling radiance appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Blindness; Sleep; Infants; Visually Handicapped TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep breathes at last from out thee Last Line: "who say, ""we 've finished here." Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): To T. L. H. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Childhood; Death - Babies TO A CHILD IN HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: How dost thou fare in the high, silent skies? Last Line: Since thou art there and I to earth exiled? Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO A DEAD BABE, by VERA ANDREW HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one! Last Line: For all eternity through sorrow saved! Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Mothers; Infants TO A DEAD BABY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale little feet, grown quiet ere they could run Last Line: There is a heaven that makes this earth complete. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Life; Infants; Death - Babies TO A DYING BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bubble, break! All heaven thou hast Last Line: Love calls thee to depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A DYING INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to thy rest, my child! Last Line: Amid yon cherub-train. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO A FATHER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand of the highest, who woundeth, can heal Last Line: That thou may'st go to him, though he cannot return. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Death - Babies TO A GENTLEMAN & LADY ON THE DEATH ... CHILD NAMED AVIS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On death's domain intent I fix my eyes Last Line: And seek beatitude beyond the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LADY AND HER CHILDREN, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON ..., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song Last Line: And to your god immortal anthems raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LITTLE CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear eyes of heaven's chosen hue Last Line: I feel god's wondrous tenderness. Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise TO A NEWBORN CHILD, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small traveler from an unseen shore Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers TO A WISE AND BEAUTIFUL BABY, by DOROTHY HOMANS Poem Text First Line: He has eyes blue as / grape hyacinths Last Line: When the brown earth is blossoming. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO A YOUNG GIRL DYING, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is palm sunday: mindful of the day Last Line: Pray that our pilgrimage may end like thine! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO ADA, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the smile and thine the bloom Last Line: Thou art not near a father's heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies TO AN INFANT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Cease thy tears and sobs, my little life Last Line: Meek nurse of souls through their long infancy! Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO AN INFANT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wak'st from rosy [or, happy] sleep, to play Last Line: He will remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Infants TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by MEHETABEL (WESLEY) WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO BE BORN AGAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist Last Line: "you've been forgiven" Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TO CHARLOTTE PULTENEY [IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS], by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Timely blossom, infant fair, / fondling of a happy pair Last Line: This picture, once, resembled thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Variant Title(s): To An Infant In Her Mother's Arms Subject(s): Babies; Labor & Laborers; Infants; Work; Workers TO CLARE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou toddling babe, none looks upon but loves Last Line: On a still sunny morning of winter we see. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO DAVID - AT SIX MONTHS, by ELEANOR CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, my little son, I have become Last Line: Your wondering, upward look, %your old, old air of grave surprise Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers TO EDITH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou little bud of being, edith named Last Line: To cumulate thy sin & piety. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO HER SACRED MAJESTY, THE QUEEN MOTHER, ON DEATH OF MARY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Respite, great queen, your just and hasty fears Last Line: And dereliction adds unto remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Death - Babies TO HER THREE DAYS' CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I only, its mother, have known Last Line: Two in one, and in god one in three. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants TO IANTHE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, baby! For thine own sweet sake Last Line: The image of thy mother's loveliness. Subject(s): Babies; Shelley, Elizabeth Ianthe; Infants TO JOY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not this enough for moan Last Line: Alone on that most wintry wild? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO KING CHARLES AND QUEEN MARY FOR LOSS OF THEIR FIRST-BORN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who dares deny, that all first fruits are due Last Line: Cannot but heap that grace, he will require. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie!' angels missed her Last Line: Than the morning skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Tears; Death - Babies; Paradise TO LOUISE (A CHRISTMAS BABY, NOW ONE YEAR OLD), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undaunted by a world of grief Last Line: Lit candles on a christmas tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Infants; Nativity, The TO MARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Thou art happy, and I feel Last Line: My foolish heart be still, or break. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Jealousy; Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth; Infants TO MARY, by MAURETTE CHRISTOPHER Poem Text First Line: Upon my knees my little baby lies Last Line: How dear his hands and tiny wrinkled feet! Subject(s): Babies; Faces; Jesus Christ; Infants TO MISS --, THEN TWO YEARS OLD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blossom, opening to the beams of day! Last Line: To endless peace, and purest bliss above. Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Gentility; Innocence; Youth; Infants TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER, UPON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let thy tears, le vayer, let them flow Last Line: -- surely these claim immitigable [or, eternity of] tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothe Le Vayer, Francois De La; Death - Babies TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 24. THE WORLD'S NEED, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The whole round world is but a woman's child Last Line: Enjoy and bless her for eternally. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Earth; Mothers; Infants; Childhood; World TO MRS. J. CLELAND ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED SON AND ONLY CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My olive plant, so green and fair Last Line: "and thou wilt join him ne'er to sever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO MY BABY, by MARGERY STEVENS WARNER Poem Text First Line: When first I held you in my arms Last Line: And now you've gone so far away. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound upon the night Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO OLINTHUS GREGORY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a spot where pity's foot Last Line: Sees all life held most dear enshrined. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies TO ONE BEREFT, by ETHEL KNAPP BEHRMAN Poem Text First Line: War drums shall never summon him, nor cold Last Line: Such love can not be covered in a grave. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO SOME VIOLETS, by ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ GRANADOS Poem Source First Line: O sweet violets, blue as heaven Last Line: And her eyes their heavenly hue! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief TO THE HONOURABLE T.H. ESQ; ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Last Line: "converse with heav'n, and taste the promis'd joy" Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO THE LADY CREW, UPON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, madam, will ye longer weep Last Line: To spring againe another yeare. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At times our britain cannot rest Last Line: Will mix with love for you and yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Blackwood, Frederick (1826-1902); Death - Children; India; Death - Babies TO THE MEMORY OF A FAVOURITE CHILD; THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is on the haunted air Last Line: An altar for my prayers and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THEODORE, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such are the little memories of you Last Line: Kneel nightly now in agony of prayer. Subject(s): Death - Children; Racism; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The billows on the beach are leaping around it Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lost william, thou in whom Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy little footsteps on the sands Last Line: When we returned to gaze on thee -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WINIFRED (AGED EIGHTEEN MONTHS), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The angels alone might tell you Last Line: The sorrow it needs must find! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Infants TOILING CHILDREN, by NELLIE H. EVANS Poem Text First Line: The prey of greed and cruel industry Last Line: An ample chance to play, to grow and learn. Subject(s): Babies; Cruelty; Labor & Laborers; Infants; Work; Workers TOTH FARRY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the back of the charm-box, in a sack, the baby Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BABY SONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croonie croonie, baby baby, up and down Last Line: Baby baby, what art thou? Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CRADLED IN FLAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in flame Last Line: Thy form, thy form, indelible remains. Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Love; Infants TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BABE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trio perfect: the man, the woman, and the babe Last Line: And herein all creation. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Family Life; Love; Infants; Relatives TOYS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have laid you away as we lay Last Line: With the toys of a little dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Toys; Death - Babies TROUBLE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One folds the little white hands, and lays a flower Last Line: God wot,—a living grief is worse than the peace that folds the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TRUANTS, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The moonbeams live, pulsate, and dance Last Line: To a punishment they had earned. Subject(s): Absence; Babies; Family Life; Separation; Isolation; Infants; Relatives TWO CHILDREN, DYING OF ONE DISEASE, AND BURIED IN ONE GRAVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought forth, in sorrow, and bred up in care Last Line: By taking this inheritance of dust. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones UNDER THE VIOLETS, by EDWARD YOUNG (1818-) Poem Text First Line: Under the violets, blue and sweet Last Line: O grave! I would thy gates were wide. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UNKNOWN VOICE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: An unknown voice told me Last Line: I was not flung from the highest peak Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Voices UNTITLED, by MARY JO BANG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UNTITLED, by KING D. KUKA Poem Source First Line: Tiny baby, you're ugly Last Line: Gayle marie, you're beautiful Subject(s): Babies UPON A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here a pretty baby lies Last Line: Th' easy earth that covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON A CHILD; AN EPITAPH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But borne, and like a short delight Last Line: Love and they'l thank you for't. Adieu. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF J.K., FIRST BORN OF H.K., by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed spirit, thy infant breath Last Line: Since what is thy fate now, must once be mine. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies UPON WEDLOCK, AND DEATH OF CHILDREN, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious knot god made in paradise Last Line: Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed. Subject(s): Death - Children; Parents; Puritans In Literature; Death - Babies; Parenthood UPON YOUNG MASTER ROGERS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gentle blood, his parents only treasure Last Line: He leap'd o'er age, and took the shortest way. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness UT TUTO AB ATRIS CORPORE VIPERIS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horace, an infant, (here he interweaves Last Line: "for bears read goats""—pro ursis lege hircis" Subject(s): Babies; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Infants VENUS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I stand waist-deep in the grass, holding my infant son in my arms Last Line: As an offering, as something to shine %and give back Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children - Lost; Heaven; Mothers; Pregnancy; Women VERA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, I know not if thy poor old father Last Line: I could not keep her here, nor lose her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Love; Memory; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES TO AN INFANT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings rest on thee, happy one Last Line: In mercy be fulfill'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Babies; Infants VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF A CHILD NAMED AFTER CHARLES LAMB, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our gentle charles has pass'd away Last Line: The poet and the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Death - Children; Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Death - Babies VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF P. BURGESS; A CHILD OF SUPERIOR ENDOWMENTS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not length of years which lends Last Line: Partake with joy its light forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies VERSES, SUGGESTED BY THE FUNERAL OF AN EPITAPH IN BURY CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When siloam's tower in fragments strew'd the ground Last Line: The boon of immortality was given! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials WAGTAIL AND BABY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby watched a ford, whereto Last Line: The baby fell a-thinking. Subject(s): Babies; Birds; Wagtails; Infants WAIL OF THE DIVORCED, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I give thee up, my child, my dearest, earliest born Last Line: And may'st thou find a home at last in heaven's celestial bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WASHING-DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While mother is tending baby Last Line: But dolly'll have to wait Subject(s): Babies;laundry & Laundering;mothers; Infants WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rockets flamed in sudden fire Last Line: The grandest name that stars the state. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Infants WE ASSUME: ON THE DEATH OF OUR SON, REUBEN MASAI HARPER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We assume / that in 28 hours Last Line: You did not know we loved you. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies WE WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, by JESSICA GREENBAUM Poem Source First Line: On a mild early evening Last Line: And the time of timelessness was over Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Winter WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a plane Last Line: Was funnier than the whole arm. Subject(s): Babies; Brides; Clothing & Dress; Marriage; White (color); Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEE JOUKYDAIDLES, by JAMES SMITH (1824-) Poem Text First Line: Wee joukydaidles, toddlin' oot and in Last Line: I'll see my bonnie bairnie a braw, braw lass! Subject(s): Babies; Infants WEIGHING THE BABY, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many pounds does the baby weigh Last Line: That claims a home in eden yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood WEIGHT GAINER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bong on your platter Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER (BY A DISPLACED THREE-YEAR-OLD), by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mozzer bought a baby Last Line: And beat him on the head. Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Subject(s): Babies; Infants WELL BABY, by RAFEL DWAINE RIEVES Poem Source First Line: On most visits you cuddled Last Line: Closely, see what it hides Subject(s): Babies; Change; Growth; Progress WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once he comes to live on the outside of her, he will not sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once he comes to live on the outside of her, he will not sleep Last Line: The batting of the salt-bag quilt commencing its long mope unto death Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parents WHEN BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby Last Line: When baby donned her dreams, and slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Infants; Nightmares WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares WHEN GRANDMA COMES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never any noise or fuss Last Line: All snuggled up against her breast. Subject(s): Babies; Comfort; Grandparents; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WHERE BABIES COME FROM, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Many are from the maldives, Subject(s): Babies; Infants WHERE DO ALL THE DAISIES GO?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That is where they go! Subject(s): Babies;birds;daisies;flowers;mothers;winter; Infants WHERE SHALL THE BABY'S DIMPLE BE?, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the cradle the mother hung Last Line: "and my baby the angel's seal shall keep." Subject(s): Babies; Dimples; Infants WHO'LL TEND BABY?, by E. E. Poem Text First Line: Who'll take care of the baby?' Last Line: "she went to pay her taxes!" Subject(s): Babies; Children; Irony; Nonsense; Infants; Childhood WILLIE WINKIE, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wee willie winkie rins through the town Last Line: To me. Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants WRETTEN BY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD ROBERT PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord hath called for my sonne Last Line: Enoughe my lord; now lett me dye. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Death - Babies WRETTEN MY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD PERIGRENE PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my all was given before Last Line: Thy hand maid's pleas'd, compleatly happy still: Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fingers lie in the lap Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness YOU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three times as many of you Last Line: As when I was born Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery YOU'RE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Infants |
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