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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHILDHOOD Matches Found: 1946 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CHARLEY, THE STORY-TELLER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Charles was a very wayward youth Last Line: "fie, charley, you've been fibbing!" Subject(s): Children;lies;story-telling; Childhood "HUSH-A-BA BIRDIE, CROON, CROON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: An they'll no be hame till noon Subject(s): Children;mothers; Childhood 1957, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was the place to be. Every room had view Last Line: Little and laughing; came out twelve years later: %coat-and-tied, ready for work Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories 6, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that year, 1914, we lived on the farm Subject(s): Farm Lifel Childhood Memories 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 BALLAD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return return, my hapless spouse Last Line: Let fancy paint the rest. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Parents; Trials; Childhood; Parenthood A BALLAD WITH A SERIOUS CONCLUSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowd about me, little children Last Line: "would have run the other way." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Childhood; Ocean A BAREFOOT BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A barefoot boy! I mark him at Last Line: Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood A BELATED VIOLET, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Very dark the autumn sky Last Line: Violet never woke to know. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Violets; Childhood A BIRTHDAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Light wakes you with no gentler kiss Last Line: Is fête to spare. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Youth; Childhood A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOWL OF SPAGHETTI, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Childhood A BOY GOES INTO THE WORLD, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother rode off on his bike Last Line: I at last can claim them as my own Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives A BOY'S ANSWER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train passes every afternoon Subject(s): Children; Railroads; Childhood; Railways; Trains A BOY'S MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she's so good to me Last Line: An' love him purt' nigh much as ma. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Love; Mothers; Punishment; Childhood A BUSY MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning mother had to be away Last Line: I've had one day of life, at any rate. Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Childhood A CHANGELING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little changeling spirit Last Line: That I shall find her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Children; Graves; Tears; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones A CHARM TO BRING CHILDREN (EGYPT, A.D. 100), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take twelve leaves of the male palm Last Line: Great is the lady isis! Subject(s): Charms (magic); Children; Egypt; Childhood A CHILD, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child's a plaything for an hour Last Line: Then life and all shall cease. Variant Title(s): Parental Recollections;in Memoriam Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHILD, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh added being, fair and new Last Line: Your robberies cease. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHILD ASLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How he sleepeth, having drunken Last Line: Dare not bless him! But be blessed by his peace, and go in peace. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood A CHILD ASLEEP, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: He who plucked light Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood A CHILD FOR SALE, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sell him! Though snuggled at his mother's breast Last Line: Stay with zenophila and I'll not sell you. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHILD IS WEEPING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can afflict the child thus weeping? Last Line: A child can weep itself to sleep. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness A CHILD OF TODAY, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Text First Line: O child, had I thy lease of time! Such unimagined things Last Line: How strange! -- perhaps death's conqueror sits smiling on my knee! Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Children; Modern Life; Childhood A CHILD'S AMAZE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and amazed even when a little boy Last Line: As contending against some being or influence. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA. 1953, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marching through georgia to bed, he stopped, listened, Subject(s): Georgia (state); Christmas; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Nativity, The; Relatives A CHILD'S DAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a little child Last Line: And dead leaves on a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Day; Memory; Spring; Childhood A CHILD'S FANCY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, hush! Speak softly, mother dear Last Line: "thank you for that reminder, dear." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHILD'S GUIDE TO CENTRAL OHIO, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you peer between the white bars of your pen Last Line: Its name is freedom. To reach it, there's no guide but you Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHILD'S LAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bells of heaven may ring Last Line: Laughs a child of seven. Subject(s): Children; Laughter; Childhood A CHILD'S PITY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sweeter thing than children's ways and wiles Last Line: To life's last end. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood A CHILD'S PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother! Holy mother! / in the dark I fear Last Line: One to waken me. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary A CHILD'S PRESENT TO HIS CHILD-SAVIOR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, pretty child and bear this flower Last Line: To spoil the first impression. Variant Title(s): To His Saviour, A Child; A Present, By A Child Subject(s): Bible; Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology A CHILD'S SONG, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the child played in galilee Last Line: Stood high as heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth A CHILD'S THANKS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How low soe'er men rank us Last Line: Ours, only to be blest. Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Childhood A CHILD'S THOUGHTS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When I'm grown up and children talk a little Last Line: And wonders to see them hatched so soon. Subject(s): Childhood Memories A CHILD-SAVIOUR (A TRUE STORY), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stood beside the iron road Last Line: Date: november, 1882 Subject(s): Children; Girls; Heroism; Railroads; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines; Railways; Trains A CHOICE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, they get stubborn at times; they worry and Last Line: "be that way than not." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood A CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me at christmas time and Last Line: Within her tiny, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of god! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS CHILDHOOD, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One side of the potato-pits was white with frost Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Fathers; Childhood; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS GLEE; FEIGNED AS FROM ELIZABETHAN COMEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a hey! And a hi! And a hey-ho glee! Last Line: The christmas holly and the mistletoe! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS WISH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At christmas season's glad return Last Line: And god's rich love be understood. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS-TIME JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, do you know, one short Last Line: And lit his old pipe with the end of his nose. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Uncles; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint A CLASSIC MOMENT, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could accept the frayed basement parish Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories; Students A CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! Sleep! Beauty bright Last Line: Heaven and earth of peace beguiles. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Childhood A CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angels are stooping [or, bending] Last Line: When you have grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin stills the crying Last Line: "my jesu, sleep!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A CUBAN DREAM IN THREE PARTS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dreaming again Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cuba; Fathers A DAUGHTER'S FEVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark ivy draws a wave across the yard Last Line: Small fingers curl. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DEFECTIVE SANTA CLAUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allus when our pa he's away Last Line: "trip bark' two times 'fore it's ""a-men!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives; Nicholas, Saint A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear mother, fairest queen and best Last Line: And in a while, you'll tell another tale. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A DIFFERENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I can't go to sleep Last Line: While mother's in the hall! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DIVERTED TRAGEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracie wuz allus a careless tot Last Line: "an' cried, ""my child! My precious child!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Tears; Toys; Childhood A DUBIOUS 'OLD KRISS', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us-folks is purty pore - but ma Last Line: "him skite out -- an' it wuz her pa." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives A FEEL IN THE CHRISTMAS-AIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a kind o' feel in the air, to me Last Line: The sad-sweet feel in the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Air; Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The A FLOWER PASSAGE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even if you were above the ground this year Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The A FRAGMENT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the street I am met with constant hostility Subject(s): Children; Childhood A GARDEN MYSTERY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a garden all my own Last Line: I wish I hadn't thought of that! Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood A GOOD PLAY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We built a ship upon the stairs Last Line: So there was no one left but me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 13 Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood A HALF-DEAD BLACK CHERRY TREE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM MY CHILDHOOD HOUSE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remnant of some lost orchard Last Line: Toward your slow heart. Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children; Childhood A HAPPY CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother stands at the screen door, laughing Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives A HYACINTH FOR EDITH, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now that the ashen rain of gummy april Last Line: Of our lost innocence, our ghostly childhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Hyacinths; Past; Childhood A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A kiddie dreamed that a billy goat Last Line: Can be wrecked the same as pickle boats. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Silence; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime A LAMB BY ITS MA, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just before it rains, the lilacs Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Childhood A LEAF, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf falls softly at my feet Last Line: So much that was most dear to me. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A LEGEND OF THE CHILD JESUS; WRITTEN FOR A CHILD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You ask a story, dearest. Here is one Last Line: Healed by the kisses of the holy child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, make haste: the day's too long; be gone Last Line: By all our loves conjure him not to stay. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life - nay, more Last Line: I here, thou there, yet both but one. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LETTER TO LADY [MISS] MARGARET-CAVANDISH-HOLLES-HARLEY, WHEN A CHILD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My noble, lovely, little peggy, / let this, my first epistle, beg ye Last Line: And so I rest your constant friend. Variant Title(s): To Lady Margaret Cavenish Holles-harley, Afterwards Duchess Of Portland Subject(s): Children; God; Letters; Prayer; Childhood A LIFE-LESSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There! Little girl; don't cry! Last Line: There! Little girl, don't cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A LIFETIME, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the early twilight Last Line: The trees with a heavy sigh. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Time A LITTLE CALENDAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: January's new, / february's cold Last Line: Will soon be here! Subject(s): Calendars; Children; Christmas; January; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint A LITTLE CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: For these parents Last Line: His curly, golden head. Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons; Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (1932); Prayer; Childhood; Missing Persons 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 CHILD'S HYMN; FOR NIGHT AND MORNING, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that once, on mother's knee Last Line: Wast a little one like me. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A LITTLE DUTCH GARDEN, by HARRIET WHITNEY DURBIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed by a garden, a little dutch garden Last Line: And gretchen is holding it fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Whitney, Hattie Variant Title(s): The Old Sexton Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood A LULLABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, my little one, shadows are falling Last Line: Mother is near to thee—sleep, darling, sleep. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood A MAN OF FORTY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I stood in childhood's narrow vale Last Line: On one of forty. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Maturity; Childhood A MAY DAY ORISON, by ELIZABETH STANLEY TROTTER Poem Text First Line: These are the children of the may Last Line: Emblem of happy hours. Subject(s): Angels; Children; May (month); Spring; Childhood A MEMORY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You remember, dear, together Last Line: In the purple, ample night. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Childhood A MILK TOAST, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fill your glasses brimming up Last Line: Long live the mooley cow! Subject(s): Children; Toasts; Childhood A MORTIFYING MISTAKE, by ANNA MARIA PRATT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too Last Line: "answered, ""mary ann!" Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Errors; Mathematics; Toys; Childhood; Mistakes; Fallacies A MOTHER SHOWING THE PORTRAIT OF HER CHILD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living child or pictured cherub Last Line: Less than it bestows. Subject(s): Children; God; Kisses; Mothers; Portraits; Childhood A MOTHER SPEAKS, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: This is my joy. My babe thrice blest Last Line: This is my joy. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Joy; Delight A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in thy dazzled half-oped eye Last Line: Thou dost not heed my lay. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses Last Line: The things they will do when they grow. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HER BOY-CHILD, by PETER GARDINER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm simmer sun in his glory is shinin' Last Line: Or hoo can a mither dae wantin' her bairn? Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The A MOTHER'S PRAYER, by EDITH M. GEMMER Poem Text First Line: The sun is brightly shining Last Line: When our bobby goes to school. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Prayer; Schools; Childhood; Students A NEW BEING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know myself no more, my child Last Line: And many a weeping head. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Pity; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness A NEWSBOY'S PLAINT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some fren's o' mine is tryin' hard ter put me on de / queer Last Line: A—a—ll a—bout de moider—buy a papeh, suh? Subject(s): Children; Newspapers; Childhood; Journalism; Journalists A NURSERY LEGEND, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Listen, little children, to a proper little song Last Line: Shun railway guides, directories, and almanacks as well! Subject(s): Children; Legends; Childhood A PARABLE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the sandhills and the sea Last Line: A vastness heaving gray in gray. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Children; Childhood A PASTORAL; MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENNTS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There went out in the dawning light Last Line: "'come, play with me, my treasure!'" Subject(s): Children;sympathy; Childhood;empathy A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERT'IN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most ontimely old man yit! Last Line: "sich a fool-old-man as me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Old Age; Childhood; Cathedrals A PLEA FOR THE CHILDREN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall woman's pitying love Last Line: This thrice accursed wrong! Subject(s): Children; Childhood A PLEA FOR THE LITTLE ONES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was easter monday morning Last Line: Our cause, the cause of god. Subject(s): Children; Easter; Holidays; Childhood; The Resurrection A POEM BY GARNIE BRAXTON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Garnie, I wish I was a sea gull Last Line: I been there once Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Gulls; Labor & Laborers; Childhood; Seagulls; Work; Workers A POEM FOR MY FATHER (96 YEARS OLD ON FEB. 29, 2000), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With exact wings Subject(s): Fathers; Childhood Memories A PORTRAIT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will paint her as I see her Last Line: We may all be sure he doth. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A PORTRAIT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will paint her as I see her Last Line: We may all be sure he doth. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR NORMA, by NONA HATTON BROWN Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, how can I bear to look at her Last Line: Oh, hear my pleading for my sister, lord! Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Childhood A PROSPECTIVE VISIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While any day was notable and dear Last Line: That just kept getting funnier all the time. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A PROTEST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it's queer that boys should be Last Line: "yes, dear—some time—now run to bed!" Subject(s): Boys; Children; Contrariness; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A RAINY PICNIC DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's raining-raining hard as cats and dogs Last Line: Could be put off in such a lot of ways. Subject(s): Children; Picnics; Rain; Childhood; Barbecues A REAL BOY, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a joy that is a joy Last Line: In a boy that is a boy! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight A RECOLLECTION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we was visitin' a farm Last Line: L laugh at things that isn't jokes. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Childhood; Suffering; Misery A REGGERLER WRIGGLER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you was as little as me, did you care Last Line: I'm a reggerler wriggler, that's what I am! Subject(s): Children; Movement; Childhood A ROMANY LAD PASSED BY, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: I know a gypsy boy Last Line: Till I am dead. Subject(s): Children; Gypsies; Relationships; Childhood; Gipsies A SAD, SAD STORY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three children sliding on the ice Last Line: Pray keep them safe at home. Variant Title(s): The Three Children;a Warning (attrib. To John Gay) Subject(s): Children; Childhood A SCHOOL ECLOGUE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist, william! Hist! What means that air so gay Last Line: Before the prowess of his arm you feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Schools; Children; Students; Childhood A SICK CHILD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Postman comes when I am still in bed, the Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! Subject(s): Sickness; Imagination; Children; Illness; Fancy; Childhood A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SLUMBER STORY, by ROBERT J. IRISH Poem Text First Line: At slumber time the nodding heads Last Line: My faith becomes the firmer. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Theology A SONG IN THE FRONT YARD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I've stayed in the front yard all my life Last Line: And strut down the streets with paint on my face. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A SONG OF THE GREENWAY CHILD, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went a-walking on lavender hill Last Line: And I found myself safe in my grandfather's-chair! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Children; Greenaway, Catherine (kate) (1846-1901); Childhood A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 3, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the head of great methuselah Last Line: I cry against thee; thou art worst of all.' Subject(s): Children; Dragons; God; Heaven; Methuselah; Childhood; Paradise A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A STRANGER IN SEYTHOPOLIS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eager he wandered the streets of scythopolis Last Line: Though he knew not yet that to him should the gentiles seek. Subject(s): Bethshan (seythopolis); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Palestine A SUMMER'S DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer's put the idy in Last Line: The dreams that never comes ag'in. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Youth; Childhood A SWEET-EYED CHILD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet - eyed child Last Line: "was I your doll?" Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Mothers; Toys; Childhood A THANK-YOU NOTE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter made drawings with the pens you sent, Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood A TOAST, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toast a tyrant band,-skoel in sacred chorus! Last Line: Fairyland's true elves,—to our kids, god bless 'em! Subject(s): Children; Toasts; Childhood A VISION OF CHILDREN, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I saw a little brook Last Line: Pass'd, weeping like a child. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS, by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the night before christmas, when all through the house Last Line: "happy christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" Variant Title(s): The Night Before Christmas Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint A WITCH'S DAUGHTER AND A COBBLER'S SON, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A witch's daughter Last Line: See how they run! Subject(s): Children; Cobblers; Mothers; Parents; Witchcraft & Witches; Childhood; Parenthood A WORD FOR THE FUTURE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we sow the good seed of the present Last Line: Those small hands -- grown strong -- will have done. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Socialism; Childhood A YOUNG MAN, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: I was a mite when she was tall and fair Last Line: "what treasure wasted! O too happy mite!" Subject(s): Children; Desire; Childhood A' LANE, LANEY!, by JOHN TAYLOR (1837-) Poem Text First Line: I've had my share o' sorrows; they've been neither few nor sma' Last Line: He winna leave the bairnie his wee lea lane! Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood ACCOUNTING OF STOCK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come here, little girl, come here! Last Line: They're so well adjusted for hugging your dad! Subject(s): Bodies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood AD ASTRA: 112, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What man that hath a weak and ailing child Last Line: Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sympathy; Childhood; Parenthood; Empathy AD ASTRA: 34, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then let the future cradle what it may Last Line: Who lives for god, feareth no wind of strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ADDRESS TO LITTLE CHILDREN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, little children! If ye knew Last Line: Serene and innocent. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children; Childhood ADOLESCENCIA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's work friends, all men Last Line: Sweeping all ominous thoiughts away Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Childhood Memories 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 ADVENTURERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter still is in the air Last Line: And bring her back to my own land. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Children; Childhood ADVICE TO LITTLE CHILDREN, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless those little children Last Line: Forever, little ones. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Children; Childhood AFRAID, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little noises do not bite! Last Line: Drive you to your mother! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Mothers; Childhood AFTER A READING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the seven times seventh time love would Last Line: Dear. Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Love; Childhood; Paradise AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!" Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists AGAIN OUR YESTERDAY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And fast and labor, sow and sing and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Labor And Laborers AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the little busy bee / improve each shining hour Last Line: Some good account at last. Variant Title(s): The Busy Bee Subject(s): Bees; Children; Insects; Beekeeping; Childhood; Bugs AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let dogs delight to bark and bite Last Line: And marks them for his own. Variant Title(s): Quarrelling Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements AIDED BY THE LANGUAGE OF MORNING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The gruff, throaty complaints of blue jays Last Line: And my mind which seeks to recover my history, %my splintered past Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Language AIR, by JOHN O'KEEFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be Last Line: You'll forget the little plough-boy that whistled o'er the lea. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, John Subject(s): Aging; Children; Labor & Laborers; Trade; Childhood; Work; Workers ALBUM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. It is 1939 Last Line: She is / they are Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ALCATRAZ, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a girl, I knew I was a man Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Children; Discipline; Convicts; Childhood ALICE RAY, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds their love-notes warble Last Line: We gain by what we give. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood ALONE AND TOGETHER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had a lovely lonely day Last Line: It is such fun to be together! Subject(s): Children; Play; September; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness AM, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child gets up Last Line: Over the side of the bed Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Cold; Childhood Memories AMBER ALERT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having a child changes you. For example, Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Steven Spielberg (b. 1946); Childhood; Movies; Cinema AMBITION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've shoed my horse and fed my cow Last Line: Perhaps I'll grow to be them all. Subject(s): Ambition; Children; Professions; Childhood AMBROSIA, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sipped and supped and tasted Last Line: Boyhood's bowl of bread-and-milk! Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Childhood AMBUSHED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace and safety seem to dwell Last Line: You'll be spanked and sent to bed. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy AMONG BLACKBERRIES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her lips blue from tasting, her eyes so blue Last Line: The blackberries sweating in their bucket Subject(s): Childhood Memories AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AN APPEAL TO OUR BOY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Here is a friend, my little man Last Line: Hail to you, little generous knight! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Friendship; Childhood AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS ROOM IN A SLUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far far from gusty waves, these children's faces Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Children; Schools; Slums; Social Protest; Childhood; Students; Tenements AN EPITAPH UPON A WOMAN, AND HER CHILD, BURIED TOGETHER, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this marble stone doth lye Last Line: For, tree, and fruit, shall spring againe. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Mothers; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones AN EVENING TRAIN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whistles past hacked-down fields of corn Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Children; Death; Railroads; Childhood; Dead, The; Railways; Trains 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 IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of no mortal birth, that yet doth live Last Line: Twin torches flashing into fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Desire; Immortality; Love; Mortality; Childhood AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little dickie swope's [or, scrope's] a man Last Line: Ferever an' ferever! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Sailing & Sailors; Childhood AN IMPRINT OF THE ROARING TWENTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a weakness for grubbing at the salvation army's discard tables Last Line: And the cardtable-sized embroidered tablecloths Subject(s): Divorce; Childhood Memories; Tablecloths; Alcohol & Alcoholics; Women AN ODE ON MISS HARRIET HANBURY, SIX YEARS OLD, by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I thus employ my time Last Line: A beauty, that can charm like you. Subject(s): Children; Childhood AN OFFERING FOR MR. BLUEHART, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a place, when I was young Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Orchards; Childhood Memories; Regret AN OLD CHRISTMAS CAROL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh wake ye, little children Last Line: For this is christmas day. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Nativity, The; Theology AN OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, old midsummer! Are you here again Last Line: Well, this is just like old times, I declare! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Summer; Childhood; Joy; Delight AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE], by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old sweetheart of mine! -- is this her presence here with me Last Line: To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Childhood; Nightmares AN OLD TORONTO BOY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take care, old man!' 'I thank you, sir' Last Line: Of an old toronto boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Toronto, Canada AN ORPHAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Everything has sisters, brothers Last Line: Like an orphan in the sky. Subject(s): April; Children; Orphans; Childhood; Foundlings ANCESTRAL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood ANIMAL CAUTION, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I touch the cairn Subject(s): Human Behavior; Children; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Childhood ANIMAL SPIRITS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was five and Subject(s): Animals; Children; Childhood ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Daughters; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary ANNE-ALONE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anne-alone has a house Last Line: And that's all about it! Subject(s): Children; Childhood ANOTHER TROY, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the green island bridge, a scowling trigonometry Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Troy ANTHEM FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seraphs! Around th' eternal's seat who throng Last Line: And each glad scene look brighter for the storm! Subject(s): Children; Childhood ANTHROPOLOGY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my ordernery dolls the best Last Line: To make 'em all americans like me. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood ANY MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no height, no depth, my own, could set us apart Last Line: Body of mine and soul of mine, do I not know? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Forgiveness; God; Heaven; Hell; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Clemency; Paradise ANY NIGHT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the eucalyptus, the atlas pine, Subject(s): Childhood Memories ANY WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the pillars of the house Last Line: Take me not till the children grow! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Love; Mothers; Strength; Women; Childhood APOCRYPHA, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When john the baptist was so young Last Line: He shaped a kiss: all day she smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mothers APOLOGIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These bitter stammered rhymes Last Line: To belong to the infinite stream. Subject(s): Children; Earth; Life; Rhyme; Childhood; World APOLOGY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I demand an apology Last Line: Marked by the scars of memory %fragile and alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ARTHUR'S PARTY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came with some trepidation to your vernissage Last Line: Fingered you young, as we played in our garage. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Success; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism AS CHILDREN KNOW, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elm branches radiate green heat Subject(s): Children; Childhood AS CHILDREN KNOW, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elm branches radiate green heat Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Childhood AS CHILDREN TOGETHER, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sloped snow Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives 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 BREAD LOAF INN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Above the woody summits of these hills Last Line: And man with nature climb the slope to heaven. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Heaven; Nature; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Paradise AT DAWN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come to my room at the break of the day Last Line: Is that hour in the morning before they are dressed. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Morning; Childhood AT NAZARETH, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a joy-of-heart with eyes Last Line: His daily speech so innocently wise %that all the town went telling: 'jesus saith' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth AT NIGHT, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Mamma, at night, puts out my light Last Line: My own mamma — and light. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Imagination; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Fancy; Bedtime AT REHEARSAL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cousin kit macdonald Last Line: Of the part you are playing now. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Play; Disappointment AT THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was / nearly six my Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories AT THE AQUARIUM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishes swimming in and out Last Line: I can have no part in. Subject(s): Aquariums; Children; Childhood AT THE LUXEMBOURG, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: I remember a maiden Last Line: And is the author of a baker's dozen volumes of light or delicate verse. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Household Employees; Luxembourg; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AT THE ZOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be hard for you, porcupine Last Line: Instead of my tiny self. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Zoos; Childhood AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Childhood; Students AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the ghetto streets where a jewboy Last Line: Delighting in the sobbed oriental note. Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Jews; Relatives; Judaism AUTUMN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A child's hand is dissolving Last Line: And black leaves %in the gale winds Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Childhood Memories; Seasons AVIARY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Miss loretta, most charming, is a panama parrot Last Line: For you gamble forever 'twixt a kiss and a bite. Subject(s): Children; Childhood AWAKENING, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: Lord %the cage has become a bird Last Line: What will I do with my fear Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Innocence; Old Age 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 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 ZULMA'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, by AUGUSTUS JULIAN REQUIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lighter scarf of richer fold Last Line: For thee, for thine, for all, he died! Subject(s): Children; Christmas Carols; Childhood BALANCING ACT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere between miss porter (seventh grade) Subject(s): Childhood Memories BALL-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This week it's got so warm that I have been Last Line: Unless I get first innin's at the bat! Subject(s): Balls; Children; Play; Childhood BALLADE OF THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The furrow's long behind my plow Last Line: I love the little things that count! Subject(s): Children; Counting; Childhood BARRIERS, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: O, I would never, never dare Last Line: Out from her heart, leaving it bare. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Relationships; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEAUTIFUL GRANDMAMMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair Last Line: Was to grow a beautiful grandma for me Subject(s): Children;grandparents; Childhood;grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers BEAVERHOUSE DOWNRIVER, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: In the old forever-never days Last Line: And all the grown-ups died Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Childhood Memories BED-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year my bed-time was at eight Last Line: "and it's time you went to bed!" Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Time; Childhood BEDTIME, by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Tis bedtime; say your hymn, and bid good night Last Line: "paid me my precious wages -- ""baby's kiss." Alternate Author Name(s): Rosslyn, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Childhood; Bedtime BEDTIME IN GALILEE, by BERENICE RICE Poem Text First Line: When the little jesus had been fed Last Line: Before she lost her little lad. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth BEDTIME NOW!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little leaves, go to bed!' said the wind thro' the trees Last Line: But the leaves were too sleepy to hear what he said! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime BEDTIME STORIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the very nicest things Last Line: Of that once-upon-a-time. Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Childhood BEDTIME STORIES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, when I was a small, not Last Line: The sunlit seas to bring them dolls and christmas trees. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Night; Sleep; Bedtime BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination; Fancy BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Last Line: Could her the clash of armor when I closed my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things within this fading world hath end Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness BEFORE THE BLIGHT, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elms stretched themselves in indolent joy Last Line: Rocked in the sinewy arms of summer. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Happiness; Joy; Delight BEGGAR WOMAN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Begging & Beggars BEIN' SICK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am really sick abed Last Line: When I am sick. Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness BEING A HERMIT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I'll be a hermit, in this tree Last Line: But mother's calling now for tea! Subject(s): Children; Summer; Wisdom; Childhood BEING GOOD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's the use of being good? Last Line: Than I am. Subject(s): Children; Good; Childhood BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, 'WHEN I SHALL CON', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The weight of sadness was in wonder lost Subject(s): Valleys; Childhood Memories BERENICE, by FRANCES FUERST QUICK Poem Text First Line: Such silly things my baby sneaks to bed Last Line: To want to keep them—'cause they help us dream! Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares BERTIE'S PHILOSOPHY, by EVA MARCH TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Small boy bertie Last Line: "is what I want to know." Subject(s): Children; Childhood 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 BETTER OR WORSE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily, the kindergarteners Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Childhood BEYOND KNOWLEDGE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rescued world newcomer Last Line: "o child, it is a rescued sin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Bible; Children; Redemption; Religion; Sin; Childhood; Theology BIG SISTER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house seems wrongside out to-day Last Line: "big sister's got a valentine!" Subject(s): Children; Sisters; Childhood BILLY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Returning to the beginning Last Line: And descend the hill balanced in their weight. Subject(s): Children; Death; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BILLY GOODIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look so neat an' sweet in all yer Last Line: A-eatin'! An' a-eatin'! An' a-eatin'! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Childhood BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIRDS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Childhood, how deep the memories you stir! Last Line: As you bore hence the white birds and the blue! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Youth BIRTH, by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Just when each bud was big with bloom Last Line: Peace laid upon her breast a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Raymond, Grace Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood BIRTH OF DAY, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud of agony thy face Last Line: The sun will set soon, Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood BIRTHDAY, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy, we called it punishment Subject(s): Childhood Memories BIRTHDAY GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you look sad, my minnie? Last Line: How to give her all the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Love; Childhood BIRTHDAY TALK FOR A CHILD (IRIS), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy dear, I'm only four Last Line: Because she learned and told you this. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I have leant upon a sword Last Line: Blow wild! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood BLUE APARTMENTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: In the dry season he will come down from the mountain Last Line: I will ask him to stay %the night Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Love BLUR, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle, Last Line: And more than understanding I longed for joy Subject(s): Childhood Memories BONNIE WEE ERIC, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie wee eric! I have sat beside the evening fire Last Line: "it will be onward, heavenward still, for he ""knows where he's going." Subject(s): Children; Childhood BOOK COVER, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I hadn't expected to find that fourth-grade book Last Line: And yet were born Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rows of letters on the page Last Line: And guess at what the letters say. Subject(s): Books; Children; Illiteracy; Reading; Childhood BORN INTO A WORLD KNOWING, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This will happen Last Line: In the fresh snow. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Survival; Childhood; Parenthood BOUNTY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A child and a rose Last Line: Child, rose and white soul of his mother! Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Friendship; Mothers; Roses; Childhood BOY CHRIST, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: Exquisite face that agony must tear Last Line: Yourselves upon less loving hands that will %not fail to strike you on that shameful hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth BOY'S RIGHTS, by CARRIE L. MAY Poem Text First Line: I wonder now if any one Last Line: Wrongs will be righted then. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Equality; Prejudice; Childhood; Bias; Intolerance BOYHOOD, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, then how sweetly closed those crowded days! Last Line: E'en now that nameless kiss I feel. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood BOYHOOD, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in the basement Subject(s): Childhood Memories BOYS AND GIRLS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I'm awful glad I'm not a girl Last Line: "to be a girl." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Boys; Children; Girls; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements BOYS AND GIRLS, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys and girls, come out to play Last Line: Boys and girls, come out to play! Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood BRAIN CHILDREN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother brain, through tidal ebb and flow Last Line: Immutable as deity itself! Subject(s): Children; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BRASILIA, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will they occur, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood BRAUGHAN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Blue-bells grew thick in braughan Last Line: Ay, who be the grey-beard men? Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness BREAKERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well the dimples sweet Last Line: The sand to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Childhood BREATHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day the brook is subsumed Last Line: Sucked down in its liquid mouth. Subject(s): Children; Collective Behavior; Noises; Childhood; Mobs; Crowds BRIAN AGE SEVEN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Grateful for their tour Subject(s): Children; Portraits; Childhood BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) BROADWAY REMEMBERS HER CHILDHOOD, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Sisters, little country roads I knew and loved Last Line: I remember and I envy each of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Children; Wellesley College; Childhood BUB SAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in the sky is a custard Last Line: An' talk about suddently droppin' off. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Clouds; Grandparents; Moon; Sky; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BUD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it lives to the full every minute Last Line: That tousled-haired, fun-loving rascal called bud! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood BUNCHES OF GRAPES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunches of grapes,' says timothy Last Line: For me,' says jane. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Children; Likes & Dislikes; Wishes; Childhood BUT THERE ARE WINGS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How big it is, the blueness everywhere Last Line: She digs the treacherous sand without a fear. Subject(s): Children; Childhood BY HIS BEDSIDE, by FERN MARY MUNSELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little fellow - you are fast Last Line: Gentleness. Subject(s): Children; Patience; Regret; Wisdom; Childhood C IS FOR CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: See how her arms now rise and fall Last Line: Before her feet are claimed by earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CALLAVERIA RUSTICANA, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the fireflies in the world Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Opera; Summer CALLING HIS CHILDREN HOME, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a picture frame Subject(s): Children; Childhood CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was meditating, absorbed, winding Last Line: The dust sweeps away and the ash expels Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; Meditation; Memory; Solitude CAPTIVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, kirkwood is a fine town, snugly nestled by the / hills Last Line: Holds me captive to the music of the multitude's great heart. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; City & Town Life CARD HOUSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little niece and I - I read Last Line: "yes, lizzie, build it up again." Subject(s): Children;games;play; Childhood;recreation;pastimes;amusements CAROL OF JESUS CHILD, by FRANCIS MACNAMARA Poem Text First Line: What danger, mary ...' Last Line: "by-by, lullay." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CARPENTER, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He sang at his bench in nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: To the kind, the tall carpenter Last Line: The tree-souls whispered %music without words Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by PHYLLIS HARTNOLL Poem Source First Line: Silent at joseph's side he stood Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, at joseph's humble bench Last Line: Home to thy father thou shalt bear %another child made thee like to thee Variant Title(s): At Joseph's Benc Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion CARPENTER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what he charged for chairs at nazareth Last Line: Men cheat and lie to one another so; %it's hard to be a carpenter Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER OF ETERNITY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had been his apprentice Last Line: And worked in the nazareth shop. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Variant Title(s): In The Carpenter Shop Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by GEORGE BLAIR Poem Source First Line: In nazareth, the narrow road Last Line: Mould thou into the perfect part, %o carpenter of nazareth Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by WALTER+(1) SMITH Poem Source First Line: Were it table, trunk or stool Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARTOON PHYSICS, PART 1, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know Variant Title(s): Cartoon Physics: Part I Subject(s): Children; Physics; Childhood CASSANDER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cassander! O cassander!' - her mother's voice seems cle'r Last Line: "cassander! O cassander!"" jes' a-callin' thataway." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Marriage; Mothers; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CASTLES IN THE AIR, by JAMES BALLANTYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bonnie, bonnie bairn, wha sits poking in the ase Last Line: Hearts are broken, heads are turn'd, wi' castles in the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Ballantine, James Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CATCH: ON A WET DAY, by FRANCO SACCHETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked thinking through a little grove Last Line: And never noticed till I got wet through. Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood CHANGES, by SHERRY ASBURY Poem Source First Line: To find the shack, just follow along Last Line: But I'm weeping all the same Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Life Change Events CHANSON DE L'ENFANT PRODIGUE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child of wonder looks in bed Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child, christ, is straight and wise Last Line: For the young child. Christ, straight and wise. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology CHILD, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are in a blind / desert -- child Last Line: Who sees Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD DEVELOPMENT, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD LIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the cadence of an old love song Last Line: Had flooded my room, and my soul with its light. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD LOVERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Six summers old was she, and when she came Last Line: And have a pearl ten stallions could not move.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD MARGARET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child margaret begins to write numbers on a saturday morning Last Line: Millions of rag dolls, millions and millions of new rag dolls!!) Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood CHILD MOON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child's wonder Last Line: With babblings of the moon on her little mouth. Subject(s): Children; Moon; Childhood CHILD OF MARY'S SOUL, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: The star came out to hail him Last Line: Come in and make me whole! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHILD OF MY HEART, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child heart Last Line: Would that my own heart could suffer it all! Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD OF NIGHT, by JAMES SYDNEY JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: More free by far is the wild night jar Last Line: That day is not given. Subject(s): Children; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Childhood; Bedtime CHILD THOUGHT, by JOSIE MANUS Poem Text First Line: When jesus was a child like me Last Line: He was a child like me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CHILD'S CAROL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked boy, brown boy Last Line: —christ is born! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Childhood; Nativity, The CHILD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ used to be like you and me Last Line: Our hearts go singing up to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Childhood CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner Subject(s): Christmas; Children; Wales; Nativity, The; Childhood; Welshmen; Welshwomen CHILD'S EVENING HYMN, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the day is over Last Line: Whilst all ages run. Amen. Variant Title(s): Evening Hymn Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Childhood CHILD'S PLAY, by MILDRED FOCHT Poem Text First Line: On the grass sat two-years-old Last Line: "dead and gone away." Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood CHILD'S SONG, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cheap toy lamp Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILD-PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As children play with toys Last Line: Realities that choke them here. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Tears; Toys; Childhood; Nightmares CHILD-SONGS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still linger in our noon of time Last Line: The childlike heart is all! Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology CHILD-WIDOW, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Emaciated, tiny frame: the slave Last Line: This somber widowed child of hindustan. Subject(s): Children; Widows & Widowers; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by JENS IMMANUEL BAGGESEN Poem Text First Line: There was a time when I was very small Last Line: (h. W. Longfellow) Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, at that time our days wer but vew Last Line: That the timber avore em must rue. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the booth is talking Last Line: The day ouyside the window. / boom, agua Subject(s): Children; Growth; Self; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With just a thought for childhood's hour Last Line: Into the larger place. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Thought; Youth; Childhood; Thinking CHILDHOOD, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The infant sang; the mother, life near over Last Line: The slender branches for its load too frail. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The CHILDHOOD, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long time he lay upon the sunny hill Last Line: And from his house his mother called his name. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I could see through and through you! Last Line: But a joy within guides you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the imaginary kingdom of my only-childhood, I played all the Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by ALICE STETTINER Poem Text First Line: I watched a little child one day Last Line: Unpleasantries all in forgetfulness burn. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Play; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old sorrow I shall meet again Last Line: Of age, should sadden even thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by CHARLOTTE TALLEY Poem Text First Line: Away in the fair, sweet country Last Line: As for sunshine that falls from above. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot reach it; and my striving eye Last Line: For sure that is the narrow way. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Air sleeps - from strife or stir the clouds. Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD IS THE KINGDOM WHERE NOBODY DIES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A drab and chilling afternoon Last Line: Of rain along the window glass Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories CHILDHOOD'S INHERITANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blue vault of a summer sky Last Line: Entered the little doorway of his home. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Inheritance And Succession; Summer; Childhood CHILDHOOD; TO MY ONLY SISTER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember how we lived at home Last Line: They have but shifted from thee into heaven! Subject(s): Children; Home; Childhood CHILDISH JOYS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went forth, on my ten toes, a snowball Last Line: "grist of pain."" and as I feebly tottered by, a snowball hit me in the eye." Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Joy; Delight CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When slow disease, with all her hosts of pain Last Line: And love, without his pinion, smiled on youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL Poem Text First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed. Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHILDREN, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, and take, unrecking, all you give Last Line: And, oh, they go to give what you have given! Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism CHILDREN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are what the mothers are Last Line: Open with joy and not surprise. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CHILDREN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, o ye children! / for I hear you at your play Last Line: And all the rest are dead. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDREN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My niece, who is six years old, is called 'miss tortoise' Last Line: Why did I think that I alone should escape? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Children; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Childhood CHILDREN AT PLAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I hear a merry noise indeed Last Line: Snowflakes shall be your butterflies. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood CHILDREN AT PLAY, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The wind is rustling in the lame,' said sybil Last Line: "let's do,"" jane said." Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood CHILDREN OF GRACE, ASLEEP, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: We never climbed beyond the town Last Line: Labored -- and lie. Subject(s): Children; Grace; Sleep; Childhood CHILDREN OF LILITH, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now tell me, villon, where is he Last Line: What, brother villon, shall we say? Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rome, Italy; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Childhood CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Blame us not, ah, blame us not, ye folk who love the sun Last Line: Only be blind forever, since ye cannot understand. Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Visually Handicapped; Childhood CHILDREN OF THE SUN: 21, by WALLACE GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the heights the june winds racing, unhindered Last Line: Perhaps to join the winds of other summits -- Subject(s): Children; Sun; Childhood CHILDREN OF THE WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrunken little bodies, pallid baby faces Subject(s): World War I; Children; First World War; Childhood CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals; Childhood; Work; Workers; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums CHILDREN OF TOMORROW, by ZONA GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, children of tomorrow, come! Last Line: Is calling us to humanhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Childhood CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright. Last Line: Change, dear to all things not to themselves endeared Subject(s): Children; Books & Reading; Childhood CHILDREN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are like figures held in some glass ball Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students CHILDREN'S HYMN, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! At whose dread name we bend Last Line: To thee from children's children ring. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDREN'S JUNE SONG, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little ones, let us be happy together Last Line: Each life be his blossom, each soul be his song! Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDREN'S ROOM, by RUTH E. MCCOY Poem Text First Line: This grimy cherub, lacking wings Last Line: He gives allegiance to his dream. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDREN'S SLUMBER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lambs in all the folds are sleeping by their / mothers Last Line: The happy messengers have lulled each darling house-hold band. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Childhood CHILDREN'S SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes wind and sometimes rain Last Line: If things will always alter so. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Children; Weather; Childhood CHILDREN'S SONG, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Juveniles: is it snow on the hedges? Last Line: Father's come home again, etc. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Life; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nightmares; Songs CHILDREN'S WELCOMING, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were indeed a lovely group Last Line: Than children's welcoming. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight the tall women may never have seen Subject(s): Seashore; Children; Beach; Coast; Shore; Childhood CHILDREN: THE BOY-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Show him the bird in its daring flight Last Line: Oh, pray for the boy-child — mother, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Boys; Children; Mothers; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Educators; Professors CHILDREN: THE GIRL-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Give her a flower to keep and hold Last Line: Sing for the girl-child — mother, sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Childhood CHOOSING A NAME, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have got a new-born sister Last Line: I will leave papa to name her. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHRIST'S STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How many stars so high and white Last Line: Till we shall find the promised king! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Once more the tender christ child's feet Last Line: The marvel of thy birth. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: This is the day the great god pan lies dead Last Line: To soothe his sobbing with the pipes of pan. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O babe who slept on mary's breast Last Line: "the swords of war at last are broken." Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary 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 CHRISTMAS (1), by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go a journey' Last Line: She wept, 'o my lord!' Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Happiness; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS BELLS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, christmas bells, your music swells upon Last Line: Honest youth, the days he's left so far behind. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dear days is christmas day Last Line: In all the winds that blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS EVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The north wind rustles in the roads Last Line: His blessing gave to struggling men. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I tore some lace-stuck my finger through it Last Line: Not to blame this child, because his are n't any better! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS TREE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This seablue fir that rode the mountain storm Subject(s): Christmas; Past; Children; Death; Stars; Nativity, The; Childhood; Dead, The CHRISTOPHER? OR SINBAD?, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Singing careless through the forest Last Line: And the river is at hand. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood CHRONOPHOBIA, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Light falls from our eyes and the honeybees start dying Last Line: I wish I were an airplane crossing the ocean by night Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): Childhood Memories CIGARETTES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father burned us all. Ash Last Line: Smoldering halls. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fire; Parents; Smoking; Childhood; Parenthood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CIVILIZATION, by E. P. BROWNING Poem Text First Line: Gray eyes / and chubby fists Last Line: And greed. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CIVILIZING THE CHILD, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't keep it, I say Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood CLAIR ON MY SHOULDERS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: At four, she is fearless Last Line: Sturdy and tall and beautiful Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLEARING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is going to clear!' said the thrush to the jay Last Line: "a meadow-lark sang ""it is going to clear!" Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood CLOCKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock I go to bed by is so very wee and small Last Line: It has the biggest minutes of 'most any clock I know. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Time; Childhood CLOSING DOORS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sands of my heart, what wind moans low Last Line: Lost, lost, for thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Loss; Mothers; Sea; Childhood; Ocean CLOTHESLINES, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day my mother stood in the kitchen Last Line: Kicked upo into my own eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Cuba CLOUDLAND, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child, I wanted to explore Last Line: Better hell than heaven's shadow! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Children; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Conquistadors; Explorers; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLTRANE, SYEEDA'S SING FLUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To marilyn, to peter, / playing, making things: the walls, the stairs Last Line: Up to the shins, up the eyes, / closed over Subject(s): Children; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Childhood COME TO THE STONE ..., by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child saw the bombers skate like stones across the field Last Line: Come to the stone and tell me why I died Subject(s): Air Warfare; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The COMING INTO THE SHADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the midsummer sunshine Last Line: Among the flowers in the summer glow. Subject(s): Children; Childhood COMPENSATION, by JOHN LANGDON JONES Poem Text First Line: No winter has there been whose raging cold Last Line: I can not hear the music that is thine. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Winter; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door! Last Line: Them upstarts know! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The CONFIDED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another lamb, o lamb of god, behold Last Line: Lest waking it should bleat and pine for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Childhood CONFIRMATION, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: An organ swelling out its solemn measure Last Line: Look at the picture, prithee, ere we go! Subject(s): Children; Clergy; Confirmation; Childhood; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL Poem Text First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying Last Line: You'll forget him after a while. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Sea; Children; Migration; Mothers; Ocean; Childhood CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Children; Migration; Mothers; Childhood CONTINUAL USAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder we felt weighted walking in those halls. The blackboards Last Line: Returned to her classroom to pay a different kind of attention, this time. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Schools; Childhood; Students CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Otherwise considered being is a force Last Line: Lowest of low quickest unlife the immense lordling Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD'S BEING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extended and always uncentered which is why it scares Last Line: A being freeborn and intricate like the day Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood COOKIN' THINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother's cookin' things Last Line: I've helped my mother cook. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Childhood; Cookery COUGHS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say little boys Last Line: Where it's safer to let it go off. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Worry; Childhood COUNSEL TO THOSE THAT EAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake Subject(s): Cakes;children;chocolates;food & Eating; Childhood COUNTDOWN, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: The countdown begins Last Line: A bag of poisoned candy Subject(s): Birthdays; Childhood Memories COWS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's afraid of a cow? Last Line: But I wish, o I wish that my daddy was here! Subject(s): Children; Cows; Fear; Childhood COWSLIPS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children run and leap Last Line: Go where they please. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Heaven; Keys; Childhood; Paradise CRADLE SONG, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All by the sides of the wide wild river Last Line: Lull lull, lull lull, lull lullaby! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CRADLED IN MUSIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright young mother, day by day Last Line: And in this faith we live and die. Subject(s): Children; Music & Musicians; Childhood CREATION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: That march we were thirteen Last Line: The loud love-making petals %every plant humming for release Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Girls CREEPING UP THE STAIRS, by W. S. MCFETRIDGE Poem Text First Line: In the soft falling twilight Last Line: After creeping up the stairs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 1. CHRIST IN THE CRADLE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, how he shakes for cold Last Line: Gives in a groan; or mary in a tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CUDDLE DOON, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht Last Line: "oh, bairnie~, cuddle doon" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood CURTAINS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandpa took me along to the hospital Subject(s): Grandparents; Hospitals; Window Treatments; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes CYNTHIA JANE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear,' said her mother to cynthia jane Last Line: "come to school with a hole in her stocking!" Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood DA LEETLA DOCTOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: W'en I am beeg, says he Last Line: "w'en I am beeg,"" says he." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors DA WISA CHILD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: All right, I know. All right, signor Last Line: "an' justa keep da house for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Wisdom; Childhood DAISY, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the thistle lifts a purple crown Last Line: And perish in our own. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Separation; Isolation; Childhood DAMARIS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know th' forks of th' road Last Line: The brief delusion can delude no more. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Beauty DANAE: CHILDREN, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, the sunlit hour is beautiful Last Line: See children like young buds about their house. Subject(s): Children; Childhood DANDELION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dandelion, fuzzy-top, must I stop my play? Last Line: I've really got to know at once if mother's wanting me. Subject(s): Children; Dandelions; Flowers; Play; Weeds; Childhood DANDELIONS, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome children of the spring Last Line: Of our father's loving care. Subject(s): Children; Childhood DARK CLOUD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a white horse she goes Last Line: Making a horror of time. Subject(s): Children; Horseback Riding; Time; Childhood DARK ROOM, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: The air's heaviness in the dark room, as if a vague bloodlike Last Line: Once and for all Subject(s): Childhood Memories DAUGHTER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks about skeletons Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood DAY DREAMS, OR TEN YEARS OLD, by MARGARET JOHNSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I measured myself by the wall in the garden Last Line: When, when will they bring all I dream of to me? Subject(s): Children; Childhood DAYTIME NAPS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother thinks that little chaps Last Line: But thanks me just for tryin' to.) Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Sleep; Childhood; Sleeplessness DEAR CHILDREN TELL ME THAT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our grandma has two little dogs Last Line: Dear children tell me that? Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers DEAR LITTLE HAND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little hand that clasps my own Last Line: Dread mystical life! Subject(s): Children; Childhood DEATHLESS TALE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had he not breathed his breath Last Line: Unutterably dim %our bright world, lacking him Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth DEBATE: QUESTION, QUARRY, DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asking what, asking what? - all a boy's afternoon Subject(s): Youth; Childhood Memories; Sons; Hunting; Hunters DECEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Before the old, old year can go Last Line: What if december's last—it's best of all! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; December; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime DEMAND, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh here a smile and there a kiss Last Line: Is just to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood DERWENT; AN ODE: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, by JOHN CARR Poem Text First Line: Loved stream, that meanders along Last Line: Not a lake in the land like the sneep. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Childhood DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth. Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime DESTINY, by EMMA E. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It seems but yesterday Last Line: Unto your chosen destiny. Subject(s): Children; Fate; Parents; Childhood; Destiny; Parenthood DIAGNOSIS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I was six months old, she knew something Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Children; Childhood DIALOGUE, by ELSA F. HELFRICH Poem Text First Line: If I drink all my milk and eat my mush Last Line: "but I will come back when it is night." Subject(s): Children; Childhood DIE KUCHE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lets the hydrant water run Last Line: She lets the hydrant water run. Subject(s): Children; Tears; Water; Childhood DIFFERENT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kids at our house number three Last Line: For each brings charms the others miss. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood DIRGE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reached the middle of the mount Last Line: The silent organ loudest chants %the master's requiem' Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Loss Of DISGRACE CORNER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: In our kitchen there's a corner that reserved for naughty Last Line: There's a secondary value to this corner of disgrace. Subject(s): Children; Dishonor; Punishment; Childhood DO YOU LOVE ME?, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She's twelve and she's asking the dog, Subject(s): Children; Dogs; Childhood DOCTOR EMILY, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her room, bare of all beauty Last Line: "I am coming, little one." Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors DOGS ARE SHAKESPEAREAN, CHILDREN ARE STRANGERS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dogs; Children; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Childhood DON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black as a crow, with a satin sheen Last Line: The master you carried at gettysburg. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age DON'T BE TOO PARTICULAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Never offend your wife! Subject(s): Children;honeymoons;life; Childhood DON'T LET ME BE LONELY (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time I could say no one I knew well had died Subject(s): Children; Loneliness; Childhood DORCAS, by BESSIE CLARK RANDLE Poem Text First Line: A little head of curly gold - brown hair Last Line: When tears are wiped away. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DOT LEEDLE BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O t's a leedle gristmas story Last Line: For dot leedle boy of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Germany; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Germans; Nicholas, Saint DOVECOTT MILL: 5. THE PLAYMATES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the cottage the mill-creek flowed Last Line: The tender dreams of her life's young day! Subject(s): Children; Childhood DRAWING FROM THE PAST, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only mama and I were at home Last Line: To that, too Subject(s): Childhood Memories DREAM SONGS: 292, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish sky is raining, the irish winds are high Last Line: & the last voice in drawled; 'henry? A brick' Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Nationalism - Ireland DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it a funny dream! - perfectly bewild'rin'! Last Line: Some go to dream them; and some go to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Travel; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DREAMLAND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from dreams of rare delight Last Line: And reawaken . . . Nevermore. Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares DRESSIN' UP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's fun up in the attic, when mother lets us 'splore Last Line: "but the women say ""my gracious!"" an' the men folks say ""oh gee!" Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Play; Childhood DRIVING HOME, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The tapestry of autumn flashes by Last Line: From mending fences Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home DUST, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a child Last Line: Flowers grow out of dust. Subject(s): Children; Dust; Childhood DUTY CALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sundays I jus' love to dine Last Line: An' gives me heaps o' things to eat. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Pity; Sabbath; Temperance; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday; Prohibition EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I want to educate him early Last Line: Language to language, house to house Subject(s): Children; Education; Childhood ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals ECONOMISIN', by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dad was tickled when I went Last Line: At my 'conomisin' so. Subject(s): Children; Economics; Fathers & Sons; Gifts & Giving; Childhood 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) EFFECT OVER DISTANCE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the 'sacred necropolis bird Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Public Worship; Jews; Church Attendance; Judaism EIGHT YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears Last Line: To bring us flowers from eight full years. Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood EIN URALTER SPRUCH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most prayers of my childhood days Last Line: Boree peri hagofen. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Prayer; Judaism ELEGY FOR A SUICIDE, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, these flowers of the field Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Birds; Childhood ELEGY ON A VIRTUOUS DOLL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed be all sounds profane! Let great and small Last Line: She is a fairy now! Subject(s): Children; Childhood ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924); Childhood; Parenthood ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel; Journeys; Trips ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind Last Line: A bird took all the heart out of the air Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel ELIZABETH, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: Down the silken rows of corn Last Line: "—from y. C. L. Journal and ""award" Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo soul did hear her lips complain Last Line: Would never mwore return. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Mourning; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness ELLEN LEARNING TO WALK, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My beautiful trembler! How wildly she shrinks! Last Line: When her little light feet first upbore her! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Children; Walking; Childhood EMANATION OF THE RED CHILD, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child that never existed Last Line: "what can’t be Subject(s): Children; Childhood END OF FUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rover lies all in a heap Last Line: School began to-day! Subject(s): Children; Schools; September; Childhood; Students ENDANGERED SPECIES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the living-room window Subject(s): Children; Birth; Childhood; Child Birth; Midwifery ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists ENVOY: 2. TO MY MOTHER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, too, my mother, read my rhymes Last Line: The little feet along the floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood EPIGRAM: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doubtful breast whilst motherly pity Last Line: To another must I make sepulture.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 80 Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The ETHELBERT'S 'COMING HOME IN THE DARK', by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did I tell you how we went to tea Last Line: At what we told him, willie and I. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood ETHIOPIA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven years without milk Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Children; Childhood 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 EUGENE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With gentlest tears, no less than Last Line: The love of little children laurels him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Tears; Childhood EUSTACE AND EDITH; OR THE OLD ROCKING-HORSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor rocking-horse! Eustace, and edith too Last Line: And galloped thee with all their might and skill. Subject(s): Children; Rocking Horses; Childhood EVE OF EASTER, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Milton, who made his illiterate daughters Subject(s): Children; Writing & Writers; Writing & Writers; Childhood EVEN AS A CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a child to whom sad Last Line: Even as a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING IN THE PANTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's lots more fun to eat a pie Last Line: For now and for to-morrow too! Subject(s): Children; Desserts; Food & Eating; Childhood EVENING SUN, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does this light force me back Last Line: But does not consume / my heart Subject(s): Childhood Memories EVENINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold, dark winter evenings Last Line: The evenings best of all. Subject(s): Children; Night; Childhood; Bedtime EVOCATION OF RECIFE, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: Recife %not the american venice Last Line: Recife, now dead, bighearted recife, recife brazilian as my %grandfather's home Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Brazil; Childhood Memories; Grandparents EXCUSES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I'm special naughty Last Line: Just how bad I was!) Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood EXPECTANT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yes, I shall watch the sky tonight Last Line: With heavenly halo on his head. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood FACES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whose are these faces I keep seeing Last Line: So much with us though free of time and space Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bodies; Childhood Memories; Faces FACES, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four faces in the dark Last Line: Calm and unafraid. Subject(s): Children; Childhood FAIR/BOY CHRISTIAN TAKES A BREAK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This other speaks of bones, blood-wet Last Line: The removal of what my troubled eyes have seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Carnivals; Children; Memory; Sin; Childhood FAIRY CASTLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Upon my window-pane at night Last Line: Somebody beckoning to me. Subject(s): Castles; Children; Fairies; Fantasy; Childhood; Elves FAIRY DAYS, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the old hall-fire - upon my nurse's knee Last Line: Knee! Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves FALL DAY, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are blowing the leaves away Last Line: Or would be if there were still leaves Subject(s): Leaves; Children; Childhood FALSE ALARMS, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day little mary most loudly did call Last Line: For giving mamma false alarms. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Children; Fire; Girls; Lies; Tragedy; Childhood FAMILY CARES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I have but one child-cora ann Last Line: That, really, I should like to know. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; January; Mothers; Childhood; Relatives FANTASIA, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream / of / giving birth Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood FARM MOTHER, by ERMA MELLISH Poem Text First Line: Folks said that marthy'd never lived Last Line: Of small red feet upon the stairs . . . Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers FATHER HEARD HIS CHILDREN SCREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "children should be seen, not heard!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood FATHER SPEAKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merry christmas, one and all! Last Line: Whoop, hurrah! It's christmas day. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Discontent; Fathers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Dissatisfaction FATHER'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, against admonishment Last Line: She tries to teach me risk. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Parents; Prudence; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood; Caution FATHER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father's got the queerest valentine! Last Line: "that was mother, thirty years ago!" Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Mothers; Parents; Valentine's Day; Childhood; Parenthood FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FICKLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New dolly, you are very sweet! Last Line: I re'lize, now, that she was plain. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood FIDDLE TIME, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off the fiddle of a man who rented a garage from my father Last Line: Not quite lost, over the curve of a finely honed bridge. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Passion; Childhood FIERCE ADVENTURES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Between the bookcase and the wall Last Line: I fear ye have not lived at all! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Children; November; Childhood FIERCE PARENTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If your parent should be dressed in Last Line: And laughs back as all fathers do in every kind of land. Subject(s): Children; January; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood FINIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My story's ended Last Line: Go to the next door / and get it mended Subject(s): Children; Childhood FIRST FISH, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Water lapped blue tongues Last Line: In cool blue water Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen FIRST SONG, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Then it was dusk in illinois, the small boy Last Line: His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy. Subject(s): Children; Illinois; Labor & Laborers; Childhood; Work; Workers FIRST STEPS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a desert vast and cheerless Last Line: Sturdy legs, step out! Subject(s): Children; Walking; Childhood FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 2. CHILDHOOD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sick of school an' sick of home Last Line: Please, mister, take me home! Subject(s): Children; Childhood FLASHBACK, 1973, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: When the car breaks down Last Line: Seat of that hurt %all the way downtown Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Love; Retrospection; Teenagers FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by PETER QUENNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within heaven's circle I had not guessed at this Last Line: And to make dumb our theft %the white and moving sand that will not bear a print Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth FOLK TALE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All knobs and knuckles, hammer knees and elbows Subject(s): Children; Childhood FOR A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At two years old the world he sees Last Line: At two years old. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood FOR A BOY IN A BUS DEPOT, by EDUARDO C. CORRAL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight topples %from the star-cabled night Last Line: Wings rimmed with the color of the apple Subject(s): Apples; Boys; Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fruit FOR A CHILD NAMED KATHARINE, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wait for god as I go to sleep Last Line: "I am the child who waits for you." Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves FOR A CHILD'S BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My book is such a dainty thing Last Line: You'll have a nest all to yourself. Subject(s): Books; Children; January; Reading; Childhood FOR A CHILD: 2. NIGHT SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, our lord, and for thy peace Last Line: Be your great protection shed. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood FOR A CHILD: 3. CONTEMPLATION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Actually, child, I am a god Last Line: And two mortalities, each solemnly regarding the other. Subject(s): Children; Childhood FOR A VIRGIN AND CHILD, BY HANS MEMMELINCK, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: god, man's life, born into man Last Line: Harsh nether darkness, and make painful moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonntes For Pictures: 1. A Virgin And Child, By Hans Memmeling Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans FOR MY CHILD, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thee, my child, oft I lie waking Last Line: Desolate by it I'm weeping. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood FOR MY FATHER, DEAD AT FIFTY-SIX, ON MY FIFTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you humble a man in a fight once Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If poets are evidence, let's begin with the fact Last Line: I hope I was never too much in your way Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood FOR THE 500TH DEAD PALESTINIAN, IBTISAM BOZIEH, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little sister ibtisam Last Line: Will not forget your face. Subject(s): Children; Death; Girls; Palestine; Childhood; Dead, The FOR THE ALBUM OF THE DUCHESS DE GUICHE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children! While childhood lasts, one day Last Line: Than all her brightest arms have won. Subject(s): Children; France; Italy; Childhood; Italians FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary FOR YOU THE NIGHT (THOUGHTS FOR A SLEEPING CHILD), by HELEN WALLER Poem Text First Line: For you the night is beautiful with stars Last Line: The darkness, so I dare not touch your hand. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood FORBIDDEN FRUIT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The first person Last Line: Just bitten into Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories FORECAST, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isabel, I could vainly map a happy vale Subject(s): Children; Childhood FOREIGN CHILDREN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little indian, sioux, or crow Last Line: O! Don't you wish that you were me? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 28 Subject(s): Children; Childhood FOREIGN LANDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up into the cherry tree Last Line: And all the playthings come alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 8 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy FOREST CREATURES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to walk with you in the woods Last Line: Waiting for me Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Parents FOREST OF CHILDHOOD, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot from tussock to tussock I ran Last Line: Like a crane in spring Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life FOUND IN TRANSLATION [FOR CLAIRE MALROUX], by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a beechwood sideboard there sat in state Last Line: Music, carved wood, a blue ceramic tile Subject(s): Children; Music Box; Translating & Interpreting; Childhood FOX, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After we peeled and dipped and sucked Last Line: However naked and heart-rending, however %impotent and wild Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Foxes FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children were shouting together Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Children; Childhood FROM NOW-ON?, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The family car has come Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Childhood; Parting FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 5, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: To die,' the child told me, 'is to sit still before a single Last Line: Blood. And I knew: the ship was going to set sail Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams GARDEN AND CRADLE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our babe he goeth walking in his garden Last Line: When our babe he goeth swinging in his cradle. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood GARDEN DAYS: 7. THE GARDENER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gardener does not love to talk Last Line: To play at indian wars with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood GEO-BESTIARY: 32, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the love of tarzan in africa haunted my childhood, strapped with Last Line: Of a sleeping elephant. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Childhood GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we Last Line: But never stay abroad to play. Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GEORGE A. CARR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O playmate of the far-away Last Line: We played beneath the apple trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Parting GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism GETTIN' WASHED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, when I'm kinder late an' hurry to my / place Last Line: But you just bet I'll let alone that place behin' my ears! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Cleanliness; Childhood GETTIN' WELL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When yer really sick abed Last Line: When I've been sick. Subject(s): Children; Healing; Sickness; Childhood; Cures; Illness GIANT-LAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The lanterns swinging to and fro Last Line: The trees are only waving grass. Subject(s): Children; September; Childhood GIRLISH REMINISCENCES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in a nest of flowers Last Line: Where death nor sorrows come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Girls; Past GIVE BACK, GIVE BACK, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I married him for length Last Line: At the long entrance of the children. Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Marriage; Pleasure; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GLADNESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ole man named silas: he Last Line: O gladness! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; God; Happiness; Slavery; Childhood; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Serfs GLIMPSE OF A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness in the room is pregnant, seeming Last Line: Move on the snow-white keys. Subject(s): Children; Childhood GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 1. MOTHER MAGIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days of childhood, now long-lapsed and dim Last Line: The meek, sure magic of my mother's hand. Subject(s): Children; God; Smiles; Soul; Childhood GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 2. IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May be it was her littleness, may be Last Line: And cherished her; her tears became my tears. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Noon; Tears; Childhood GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness GO SLEEP, MA HONEY, by EDWARD D. BARKER Poem Text First Line: Whipp'will's singin' to de moon Last Line: Go sleep ma honey m--m. Subject(s): Children; Childhood GOD'S GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God gave a gift to earth: a child Last Line: God will judge them and thee aright! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Children; Earth; Gifts & Giving; God; Love; Childhood; World GOGGLES AND HELMET, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her living toom Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Hospitals GOIN' BAREFOOT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's more fun goin' barefoot than anythin' I know Last Line: Er else I wisht I was so poor I hadn't none t' lose! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Feet; Play; Childhood GOIN' TO THE FAIR; OLD STYLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When me an' my ma an' pa went to the fair Last Line: "like you an' your pa an' ma went to the fair!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Festivals; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants GOING TO THE POOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A little maid tripped down the / street Last Line: And wondered if the poor were I! Subject(s): Charity; Children; Christmas; December; Kindness; Poverty; Philanthropy; Childhood; Nativity, The GOLDIE GOODWIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old uncle sidney he says it's a sign Last Line: "good's 'bout 'leventy-hunnerd times better than gold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Good; Uncles; Childhood GONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the morning fair and sweet Last Line: All are gone! Subject(s): Children;memory;old Age; Childhood GOOD HUNTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Table-leg jungle is dark and still Last Line: And I'll make him into a teddy-stew. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fair little girl sat under a tree Last Line: "good morning, good morning! Our work is begun." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Children; Childhood GOOD-NIGHT, by DOROTHEA KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: I like to think the last sleep Last Line: And closed his eyes. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Sleep; Childhood GOOSEFEATHERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve I sat by myself in the steamliner Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers GRACE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, bless my bread and meat Last Line: For guarding little boys. Amen. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Prayer; Religion; Childhood; Theology GRAMPA'S CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First and best of earthly joys Last Line: Why, the one that's happiest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Happiness; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Joy; Delight GRANDFATHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Grandfather urinates Last Line: Because accroding to my grandfather %you need only cross %the door's threshold %to arrive in cuba Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents GRANDMA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Grandma used to sit Last Line: Bright and brief as an adolescent's dress %on a dark porch Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Past GRANNY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Granny's come to our house Last Line: That runs to kiss their granny! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GREENSLEEVES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little spirit of the place Last Line: The night has frankincense and spice. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Childhood GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out walking along the river Last Line: One reserves for a ghost. Subject(s): Children; Insomnia; Self-mutilation; Childhood; Sleeplessness GUITA BRUNER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Above a rock %her troglodyte room Last Line: Foam and our love exploding Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Relationships; Tragedy; War HALF-WAKING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it was the little bed Last Line: From dreary day to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Children; Childhood HANGING THE STOCKINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas eve! It's christmas eve! Last Line: Bet to-morrow'll never come! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Waiting; Childhood; Nativity, The HANGING WITH HARPOCRATES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walk into dark verbarium hit the switch Last Line: A body runs past Subject(s): Children; Childhood HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE, by GERTRUDE ELOISE BEALER Poem Text First Line: Holly berries red and bright Last Line: Theirs a gladsome song! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Songs HARVEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring hath the morning gladness Last Line: With the peace of god is blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Harvest; Mothers; Spring; Childhood HAUNTED, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: My little child, how can you stand Last Line: And held these fingers all night long. Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural; Childhood HEART-SICK, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: O, tears, I know not what you mean Last Line: Ye bitter, scalding, tear-wrung tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Complaints; Mothers; Dead, The HEAVEN, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a little child Last Line: To show true heaven is all above. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood HELP ME TO SALT, HELP ME TO SORROW, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moon-fade and the sun’s puppy breath Last Line: Give them to me Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives HENDECASYLLABLES, by D. M. LOW Poem Text First Line: Come children, come away, to where the tawny Last Line: Playing, dancing away the careless evening. Subject(s): Children; Oxford University; Seashore; Childhood; Beach; Coast; Shore 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 POET-BROTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What ef little childerns all Last Line: Wuz big as parunts is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Retail Trade; Childhood; Parenthood; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers HER THIRD BIRTHDAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My tiny lady, can it Last Line: For you to dream upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood HERE IN THE FIELDS OF MY HOMELAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The virgin bodies will wash up on the old shore Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Home; Spain HERE IS MUSIC: 9. BALLADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Into this tiny, trivial, one-horse town Last Line: And lets me, singing, loving, live my little hour. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood HERE IS MUSIC: EPILOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: If, even as goethe, women's tears Last Line: Twin things beget true artists ... Love and cruelty. Subject(s): Children; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood HERITAGE, by DEMIE GENAITIS Poem Text First Line: These laughter-honeyed children, dirty-faced Last Line: In the arch company of stars and burning suns. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Children; Heritage; Heredity; Childhood HERSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When grace is given us ever to behold Last Line: O child, what news from heaven? Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Childhood HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary HIDE AND GO SEEK, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an old, old, old, old lady Last Line: And the boy who was half-past three. Variant Title(s): One, Two, Three!' Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit and watch at the window-pane Last Line: As I waited them below. Subject(s): Mortality; Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Play HIGH HOPES, by AVERIL H. ELLIS Poem Text First Line: A dream child cloistered in my heart Last Line: And sent her on her way. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood HILLTOPS, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: No doubt on the hills of nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth HIS CHILD, by NINA DUFFY Poem Text First Line: I wait his return at even Last Line: For they enfold his child. Subject(s): Children; Childhood HIS CHILDREN THREE; TO -- AT TWO YEARS OLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy with the wistful eyes Last Line: He watches over his children three! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The HIS CHRISTMAS SLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch him with his christmas Last Line: All glad things overtake you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The HIS FIRST AFFAIR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told eliza mary ann Last Line: Will go to war, and maybe die. Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Romance; Childhood HIS KNOWLEDGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one will love you if you're naughty,' said Last Line: "he answered, ""mother will." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Children; Knowledge; Love; Mothers; Sons; Childhood HIS WISDOM: 6 YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His feet whene'er they walk abroad Last Line: Finds country in the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Roads; Wisdom; Childhood; Paths; Trails HIS YOUTH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But all too soon the much-loved father died Last Line: For they in him found sweet companionship, %and he found good and god in everything Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HOLES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Your father's fighting world war ii %and you're in a brown foxhole you dug Last Line: And wail at the whole damn sky Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Fathers; Play; Soldiers; World War Ii HOLIDAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Of all, the flowers love a holiday Last Line: Love the days when school is out. Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Play; Summer; Vacation; Childhood HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer Last Line: When again the christmas angels come. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance HOLY INNOCENTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gold on gold, snow on snow Last Line: Should be two that are mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Mothers; Childhood HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man. Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology HOME AND MOTHER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, my own darling Last Line: Ah me, but a mother is cumbered with cares!) Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood HOMEWARD BOUND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the starry night is gone Last Line: Of our childhood . . . Long ago! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Home; Lakes; Childhood; Pools; Ponds HOP-SCOTCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I play at hop-scotch Last Line: Hopping and hopping there! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Childhood HORATIANS: 15, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: If it's permitted Last Line: Some dog kept barking in a farmhouse Subject(s): Childhood Memories HOSTAGES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, fortune, thou hast hostage of my best! Last Line: To hear the coughing of a child at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Children; Childhood HOUSEHOLD ART, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine be a cot,' for the hours of play Last Line: For the earth first laughed when the children came Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Children; Greenaway, Catherine (kate) (1846-1901); Childhood HOW TO REMAIN YOUNG, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strive always to be calm; be cheerful and sleep well Last Line: Be thou like christ in heavenly patience and in love. Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 1. VIETNAM, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow cleaves Last Line: Bowl broken by his birth. Subject(s): Children; Vietnam; Childhood HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the rats came Last Line: For a face to match her mirrors'. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cambodia; Children; Desertion; Childhood HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 3. THAILALND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes were made green in Last Line: His within this citadel. Subject(s): Children; Thailand; Childhood HYMN OF THE CHILDREN; SUNG ANNIVERSARY OF CHILDREN'S MISSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine are all the gifts, o god! Last Line: Thy perfected praise! Subject(s): Children; Childhood HYMN, COMPOSED FOR THE CHILDREN OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! To whom the grateful song Last Line: And endless life with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Religious Education; Children; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Childhood HYMN: FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 2, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By cool siloam's shady rill Last Line: To keep us still thine own. Subject(s): Children; Epiphany; Piety; Childhood; Twelfth Night HYMN: INNOCENTS' DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep not o'er thy children's tomb! Last Line: The flower in heaven shall blow! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 1, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, the children are calling Last Line: Praise be done! Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Praise; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 2. CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though the snow be on the hill Last Line: Let us behold thy guiding light! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 3, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when we have not any light Last Line: To each unloving one. Subject(s): Angels; Children; God; Childhood HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 4, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we worship thee, o lord? Last Line: In loyal deeds and patient days. Subject(s): Children; Praise; Worship; Childhood I AM CALLED CHILDHOOD, by THOMAS MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am called chyldhood, in play is all my mynde Last Line: Whiche lyfe god sende me to myne endyng day. Subject(s): Children; Childhood I DO! DON'T YOU?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer,' said the humming bee Last Line: "I like winter best—don't you?" Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The I DREAM AWAKE, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: I dream with open eyes Last Line: Calling to me! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams I DREAM I'M LEAVING, by MARGARET AHO Poem Text First Line: An island Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares I FELT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt I had met the lord Last Line: By taking up your child Subject(s): Children; Childhood I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine I SAW THEE CHILD ONE SUMMER'S DAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Children; Time; Fear; Childhood I SLEPT, AND BACK TO MY EARLY DAYS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Should revive what time destroys Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Sleep; Youth I WONDER AT THE WIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder at the wind-he lifts Last Line: A bouquet for a friend! Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Childhood IDLE FEARS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my lost childhood old folks said to me Last Line: The image of her prime may not displace. Subject(s): Fear; Childhood Memories IF I COULD KEEP HER SO, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a little baby, lying in my arms Last Line: Safe among the angels, I would keep her so. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood IKE WALTON'S PRAYER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crave, dear lord Last Line: Love, and the glad sweet face of her. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Prayer; Childhood; Anglers 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 IMMORTALITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: So I have sunk my roots in earth Last Line: I that make many souls for heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birth; Children; Immortality; Love; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood IMPORTANT QUERIES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why this hurrying to and fro Last Line: Adorn and bless the nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood IN A NORMAN CHURCH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As over incense-laden air Last Line: Who bore the son of god. Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Theology IN BETHLEHEM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to-day to bethlehem Last Line: Where yet the angels are! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Stars; Nativity, The IN CHRISTMAS LAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the beams and gleams came the christmas dreams Last Line: To the homes and hearts of you! Subject(s): Children;christmas;dreams;parades;soldiers; "childhood;nativity, The;nightmares; IN HOSPITAL: 18. CHILDREN: PRIVATE WARD, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this dim, dull, double-bedded room Last Line: Holding the limb and moaning -- case and dresser. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Childhood IN LIMBO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a child in limbo Last Line: Without a child in the house Subject(s): Children; Childhood IN MEMORY OF A CHILD-POET, L.L., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a song the great musician made Last Line: Lo, there his barque, white on the glittering sea! Subject(s): Children; Death; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Dead, The; Songs IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content Last Line: Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN MY CHILDHOOD , by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood I awoke to my mother's voice Last Line: I am fighting panic that everything / does exist in itself alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Silence; Fear IN NAZARETH, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: During happy boyhood years Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IN OUR CHILD HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Father .. Sorrow Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN SCHOOL-DAYS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Still sits the school-house by the road Last Line: Like her, -- because they love him. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Schools; Childhood; Students IN SHIMMERING ROBES, by VIRGINIA SPATES Poem Text First Line: They told me when a wondering child Last Line: Brings shining visions down to earth. Subject(s): Children; Plants; Trees; Childhood; Planting; Planters IN SWIMMING-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds above, as white as wool Last Line: Dropping, drifting through it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Clouds; Swimming & Swimmers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood; Swimmers IN THAT TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day had its own shape Last Line: His red coat and ran away. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Childhood IN THE BLOOD, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brown-eyed child Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing & Dancers; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood IN THE CARPENTER SHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IN THE CARPENTER'S SHOP, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary sat in the corner dreaming Last Line: All the years. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our doctor had call'd in another, I never had seen him before Last Line: The lord of the children had heard her, and emmie had past away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Surgery; Childhood IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime IN THE PARK, by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She sits in the park. Her clothes are out of date Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Children; Women; Childhood IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her class invents angels Last Line: They have nothing to do with you. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors IN THE STUDY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nicest place in all the house Last Line: Just as wise and big as he. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Rooms; Childhood IN THE SWING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to swing so high, so high Last Line: The world turns right side up again. Subject(s): Children; Swings; Childhood IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Father; hold me closer. Are they lions that I hear? Last Line: "and the little maiden answered, ""lo, christ jesu, I am here!" Subject(s): Children; God; Childhood IN TIME OF STRIFE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal justice, who dost all things weigh Last Line: Exalted and perpetual innocence. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Love; Childhood IN WINTER TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter time is extra nice Last Line: We put him first, in case we bump. Subject(s): Children; Play; Winter; Childhood INCARNATION, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child he was, and had not learned to speak Last Line: Where gold, to make their prince a crown, they all present Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth INCONSISTENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say I'm a darling, and joy-of-the-house Last Line: Why can't I have sugar in my bread and milk? Subject(s): Admiration; Children; Contrariness; Childhood INCORRIGIBLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I guess I'm bad as I can be Last Line: The fun I had before they caught me. Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Childhood INFIDELITY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two-toned olds swinging sideways out of Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Quarrels; Parenthood; Arguments; Disagreements INKWELL DAYBREAK, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories INNOCENCE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire on the mountain, fire under the lake Last Line: An image of fire and water. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Youth; Childhood INNOCENCE (2), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the old stone bridge he met a van Last Line: That blew away so peacefully? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Peace; Youth; Childhood INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid myself down as a woman Subject(s): War; Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The INNOCENT CHILD AND SNOW-WHITE FLOWER!, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Innocence; Children; Flowers; Childhood INSCRIPTION, FR. THE SINLESS CHILD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eva! Shall I send thee forth Last Line: To love, and peace, and youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Children; Love; Peace; Youth; Childhood INSIDE EYES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am fast asleep at night Last Line: That waking up must be a dream! Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares INTEGRITY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He made honest doors Last Line: And on a cross he died! Subject(s): Carpenters; Honesty; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth INTERRUPTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say it's wrong to interrupt when someone talks / to you Last Line: Which proves he doesn't hear, nor even look at what I'm showing. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Talk; Childhood; Parenthood INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It knows but will not tell Last Line: Those hidden lips are dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Children; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Childhood IRONING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't see why the grown-ups care Last Line: To wash and iron every day. Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys; Childhood IRONY OF GOD, by EVA WARNER Poem Source First Line: In vain %they shook their garments Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IS IT TRUE?, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: Said the child of the bright yellow hair Last Line: "like elsie's—and said: ""I'm a jew." Subject(s): Catholics; Children; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Childhood; Historians; Judaism ISAIAH'S COAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, he woke in those days Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Love; Nativity, The IT IS FINISHED', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, let me recount to thee Last Line: Thy little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood IT IS NOT NICE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not nice to see Last Line: An absolute nihilist! Subject(s): Children; Education; Faces; Nothingness; Childhood; Nihilism; Voids IT WOULD BE NICE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: In a musing frame of mind Last Line: I think myself,—it would be nice. Subject(s): Children; Childhood JACK AND JOAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Interred beneath this marble stone Last Line: And so they lived; and so they died. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Children; Death; Epitaphs; Fear; Life; Love; Childhood; Dead, The JACK FROST IN MARCH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How changeable the children grow Last Line: "and let dear spring come to the sky!" Subject(s): Children; March (month); Winter; Childhood JACOB UNRECOGNIZED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I was lyin' in the grass Last Line: But my maw—why, you jes' can't int'rest her! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood JAY A-PASS'D, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When leaves, in evenen winds, do vlee Last Line: When did my jaÿ all pass me by? Subject(s): Children; Home; Jays; Mortality; Time; Childhood JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fill us full of canned goods Last Line: And made us holler so? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips JEHANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In garments gray of sleety rain Last Line: Where they had parted, long ago. Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Childhood JESUS AND THE DOVE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, the mother good and mild Last Line: And kneel'd before her child. Subject(s): Doves; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth JOE; AN ETCHING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A meadow brown; across the yonder edge Last Line: The axe of the pioneer, the settler's plough. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Children; Homesteaders; Labor & Laborers; Pioneers; Childhood; Work; Workers JONEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had a harelip - joney had: Last Line: Purty is as purty does! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Childhood JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know! Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary JOSH BILLINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jolly-hearted old josh billings Last Line: That he answers not again? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Nature; Wisdom; Childhood; Dead, The JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Soldier! Last Line: He hears me - he is coming. %jesus - darling! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth JUBILATE!, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: We do not need, dear friend, to seek Last Line: And jubilance of christmas day! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The JUDEA, by CHARLES M. WALLINGTON Poem Text First Line: I saw in rift of cloud a beaming light Last Line: The soul's broad scope, and brotherhood of man. Subject(s): Children; Jews; Mothers; Childhood; Judaism JUNE'S PICTURE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Let me paint june's picture-first I Last Line: And so you have june's picture here before your eyes. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Childhood JUVENILES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dragons, the scale-tailed dragons have gone away Subject(s): Children; Childhood KATE'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perch'd on the upland wheatfields beyond the village end Last Line: The first visit of compliment that ever I paid. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held between wars Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood KETCHIN' RIDES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm awful fond of ketchin' rides Last Line: A place fer ketchin' on behind. Subject(s): Children; Commuters; Childhood KIND SIR: THESE WOODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Subject(s): Children; Games; Self; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements KING ARTHUR, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good king arthur ruled this land / he was a goodly king Last Line: The queen next morning fried. Variant Title(s): History;the Bag Pudding;good King Arthur Subject(s): Children; Childhood KING'S DAUGHTERS, HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, 1948, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there figures a man. In uniform. He's not white. He Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Daughters; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Parenthood KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!' Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean KITE-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night me an' my brother made a kite Last Line: A-hangin' in that elm tree down the street. Subject(s): Children; Kites; Play; Toys; Childhood KITTY CLOVER, by CARRIE W. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Midget, gypsy, big-eyed elf, little kitty clover Last Line: "so my brook won't wet its feet!" Variant Title(s): Lulu Subject(s): Children; Gypsies; Childhood; Gipsies KNIFE ON A PLATE, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements LA FOI, by KATHARINE ADAMS Poem Text First Line: The branches of the trees are bending close above Last Line: Of the night. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood LADDIES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Show me the boy who never threw Last Line: Who must be far from well. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Variant Title(s): About Boys Subject(s): Children; Childhood LAMPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sun's a lamp so large and round Last Line: Shining in the earth and skies. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Childhood LAUS INFANTIUM, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In praise of little children I will say Last Line: And left, o little child, its reflex there. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LAWYER AND CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How large was alexander, father Last Line: About the size of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; History; Childhood; Historians LE REPOS EN EGYPTE: THE SPHINX, by AGNES REPPLIER Poem Source First Line: All day I watched the stretch of burning sand Last Line: Lay stretched o'er-wearied. On my breast of stone %rested the crucified Subject(s): Egypt; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Sphinx LEARNING THE BICYCLE, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The older children pedal past Subject(s): Bicycles; Children; Cycling; Childhood LEAVES A-VALLEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the ash-tree leaves do vall Last Line: Voremost they that dropp'd behind. Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mortality; Seasons; Time; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS, by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haf von funny leedle poy Last Line: "but leaf dot yawcob strauss." Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Variant Title(s): Yawcob Strauss Subject(s): Children; Childhood LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LEGEND, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child jesus had a garden Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth LET HER SLEEP!, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden corn is rustling and the / forest's shadow ceases Last Line: Nor think life's hand will fail to do its duty -- save in seeming. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood LET YOUNG FOLKS PLAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let young folk be blithe and gay Last Line: Let young folks be blithe and play Subject(s): Children;play; Childhood LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who remembers now the backyards of our innocence Subject(s): Childhood Memories LETTY'S GLOBE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When letty had scarcely passed her third glad year Last Line: Bright over europe fell her golden hair! Subject(s): Children; Childhood LIFE IS THUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never look behind Last Line: Behind. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Life; Parents; Poverty; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood LIFE WITH SICK KIDS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One child coughs once Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness LIGARURE 4, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bioluminescent undersides of squid render them invisible to predators below. Subject(s): Children; Childhood LIGHT INFANTRY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones will gather round Last Line: And put their trust in god. Subject(s): Children; Future; God; Childhood LIKE A CHILD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playing there in the sun, chasing the butterflies Last Line: Like a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The LIKE SOME OLD-FASHIONED MIRACLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And ear — and heaven — numb Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. BUCHANAN, OF DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Gentle lady, with the bounteous hand Last Line: Long after thou art laid in hallowed rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Learning; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday LINES ON MY NEW CHILD SWEETHEART, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it a religious duty Last Line: To think I ne'er may meet her more. Subject(s): Children; Love - Age Differences; Childhood LINES ON SEEING THE SABBATH SCHOOL PROCESSION OF 3RD JULY, 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were thousand angels sinless, bright Last Line: Like him who took your nature on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Sabbath; Youth; Childhood; Theology; Sunday LINES TO A JEWISH CHILD, by C. D. Poem Text First Line: In the dark depths of those great soulful eyes Last Line: What pride a jew must feel to be a jew! Subject(s): Children; Israel; Jesus Christ; Jews; Childhood; Judaism LINES TO BE SPOKEN BY THOMAS DENMAN.....WHEN FOUR YEARS OLD, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay, I'll not be held, let me come by Last Line: I'll strut and fret my part with any here. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Children; Ambition; Childhood LISTEN CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Racism; Childhood; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry LITTLE BELL, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening came, a child was missing Last Line: Is my prayer for little bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Children; Childhood LITTLE BELL, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Piped the blackbird on the beechwood spray Last Line: "little bell, for thee!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood LITTLE BLUE PIGEON (JAPANESE LULLABY), by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings Last Line: Swinging the nest where my darling lies. Variant Title(s): Japanese Lullaby Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LITTLE BOY REALM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little boy realm is far afield Last Line: How then may I come and go? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Childhood LITTLE CHILDREN, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And yet we check and chide Last Line: Thank god! To such his smile is not demed. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Children; Childhood LITTLE CHILDREN, by MARY J. REED Poem Text First Line: Speak gently to the little child Last Line: The habitant of heaven! Subject(s): Children; Childhood LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the little children of the wind Last Line: The little tremulous leaves of the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Leaves; Solitude; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Loneliness LITTLE DAVID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother of the little boy that Last Line: In voiceless joy -- the little boy that sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood LITTLE FAIRY CHILD!, by HELEN C. WILLIS Poem Text First Line: She is sweet and very pensive, so Last Line: Land of fairy-lore! Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Happiness; Childhood; Joy; Delight 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 FINGERS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Little hands and dimpled fingers Last Line: That shall echo through your dreams. Subject(s): Children; Gentility; Kindness; Love; Prayer; Childhood LITTLE FISHERMEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little ship goes out to sea Last Line: To cheer a world that's sad with care. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; Childhood; Anglers LITTLE FOLKS IN THE GRASS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grass / a thousand little people pass Last Line: Through the grass! Subject(s): Children; May (month); Childhood LITTLE GILBERT TO LITTLE RACHEL, DURING HER ILLNESS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rachel! Tell me what you know Last Line: Give you all I have—a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness LITTLE GOLDENHAIR, by F. BURGE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Goldenhair climbed upon grandpapa's knee! Last Line: And feel ourselves clasped to the infinite breast! Subject(s): Children; Childhood LITTLE JAMIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ither laddies may ha'e finer claes, and may be better fed Last Line: My ain curly fair-hair'd laddie, little jamie. Subject(s): Children; Hunger; Childhood LITTLE JESUS, by BARBARA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Who worships the meek? The meek, of course Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth LITTLE JESUS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Little jesus, wast thou shy Last Line: Has not changed since thou wast young! Variant Title(s): Ex Ore Infantium;a Child's Prayer Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Prayer; Childhood; Nativity, The LITTLE MAID OF FAR JAPAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little maid upon my fan Last Line: Do you like this other place? Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Children; January; Japanese In The United States; Childhood LITTLE MAMMA, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it the children don't love me Last Line: Little mamma! Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LITTLE MANDY'S CHRISTMAS TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little mandy and her ma Last Line: Bigger than the other tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Poverty; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood LITTLE NORA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off upon a western shore Last Line: Sweet words to make them glad? Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood; Dead, The LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little orphant annie's come to our house to stay Last Line: Out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): The Elf Child Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Halloween; Hope; Nostalgia; Childhood; Elves; Optimism LITTLE SUSAN, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a little girl Last Line: The pride of their home. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Children; Childhood LITTLE-GIRL-TWO-LITTLE-GIRLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm twins, I guess, 'cause my ma say Last Line: "an' good little girl's comed back to stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Twins; Childhood LIVING, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Country Life; Relatives LONG AGO, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Now that deep snow Last Line: Long ago! Subject(s): Childhood Memories LONG GONE MARCH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long columns of rain Subject(s): Childhood Memories LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things I did, I did because of trees Last Line: And life in the upturned bellies of the fishkill in the creek. Subject(s): Children; Long Island (n.y.); Mathematics; Memory; Childhood LONGFELLOW'S LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, he loved their voices Last Line: Was the sweetest for him to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Love; Childhood LONGING FOR HEAVEN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As weary pilgrim now at rest Last Line: Then come, deare bridgrome, come away! Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness LONGINGS (BURNS MODEL LODGING-HOUSE), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is clatter on the pavement, there is hurry / in the street Last Line: My father's homely cottage in kilcar. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Fire; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise LOOKING IN AT NIGHT, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep, alive, her shape makes me afraid Last Line: Drawing the night along her shoulder blade Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees Last Line: Stay ye the branches. Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary LOSTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel so far from anywheres! Last Line: I'm just as losted as I was. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood LOUISE SCHELPER; SERVANT AND FRIEND OF OBERLIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fearless journeyer o'er the mountain-snow Last Line: When the glad human soul lifts a thanksgiving voice! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Advice; Children; Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids LOVE AND THE CHILD, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you so clasp me Last Line: And that child even I.' Subject(s): Children; Childhood LOVE CHILDREN, by LARRY EIGNER Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Childhood LOVE OF CHILDREN, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: The love of children lives; it never dies Last Line: The dusty aisleways wake to old lullabies! Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood LOVE SPEAKS, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: If I could stand, dear child of mine Last Line: Shall be to me as two! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood LOVELY CHILD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely child, make haste to play Last Line: You will labor for your bread. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood LOVER OF CHILDREN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my little girl plays beethoven sonatas Last Line: I hear a great, rumbling beautiful roar of laughter. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Girls; Love; Childhood LUCY, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy is but a child as yet Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Children; Childhood LUCY, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found her sitting among the toys Last Line: "whole-hearted till her one supreme has come." Subject(s): Children; Childhood LULLABY, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak roughly to your little boy Last Line: The pepper when he pleases! Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Children; Langford, G. W.; Childhood LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs LULLABY OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, child - thy mother's first-born" Last Line: A thousand songs of praise Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary LYNCHING AND BURNING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lean toward the wood Last Line: People lived there. Now we live there... Subject(s): Children; Ku Klux Klan; Lynching; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 46, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child of a king in dream have I seen Last Line: "to thy loving caresses replying." Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love; Childhood; Nightmares MAKE-BELIEVE HUNTING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often, when the meet was at the hall Last Line: His stall and pasture is your memory. Subject(s): Children; Rocking Horses; Childhood MAKIN' THINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever christmas time comes round it really / doesn't take Last Line: If folks would only use the things for what I make 'em for! Subject(s): Children; Gifts & Giving; Childhood MAKING A FIST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time, on the road north of tampico Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The MAKING BEASTS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was about ten Last Line: On the feet I never gave it. Subject(s): Children; Creative Ability; Thought; Childhood; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking MALENE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked on thee in former days Last Line: No, not as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MAMMA, WHERE DID PAPA GO?, by HENRY A. START Poem Text First Line: Manuel and little juan Last Line: "mamma, where did papa go?" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Children; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Childhood MAN OF GALILEE, by HILDEGARDE HOYT SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He waw no dreamer, dwelling in a cloud Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth MANNERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit down, all clean and bright Last Line: May ask me out to tea someday! Subject(s): Children; Etiquette; Girls; Childhood; Manners; Courtesy MARCH AND APRIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Stay in, stay in, o flowers, stay in Last Line: Come up, dear seeds, above the ground! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Spring; Childhood MARGARET LOVE PEACOCK; THREE YEARS OLD, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long night succeeds thy little day Last Line: The too fair promise of thy spring. Subject(s): Children; Childhood MARGUERITE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a child of gentlest air Last Line: Marguerite! Subject(s): Children; Childhood MARKETS, ALLEYS & HOUNDS OF HELL, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: My brother, whom we called rano Last Line: Inflamed with laughter Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Jokes; Laughter MARTIN'S PUZZLE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she goes up the street with her book in her hand Last Line: I might try at kneeling with molly to-night. Subject(s): Children; Childhood MARTYRS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My child, whose soul is like a flame Last Line: Because no night is there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Martyrs; Childhood MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How lovingly she looked on him Last Line: Of cross against the sky? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARY AT NAZARETH, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know, lord, thou hast sent him Last Line: Out of my heart the tares %are torn by awe! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATINEE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing Last Line: Just reach out and take them into my arms. Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Sexual Harassment; Childhood; Movies; Cinema MATINS: 5, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the holy grains, set Subject(s): Food & Eating; Children; Childhood MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MEIN KIND, WIR WAREN KINDER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My child, we were two children Last Line: The belief, and the love, and the truth. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Youth MEMORIAL, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Full Text First Line: Little you were and bright as a tulip-yellow Subject(s): War; Death; Children; Dead, The; Childhood MEMORIES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when the grind of the city beats on my heart Last Line: To a garden and a tree in a place of light. Subject(s): Childhood Memories MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O that immortal day of june Last Line: Of the days when earth and sky were one! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Childhood MEMORY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me to tell how it feels Last Line: She smiles, ask me %how it feels Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories; Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Prejudice MEMORY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood and watched him playing Last Line: Who once belonged to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD DAYS, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pain become pleasure Last Line: That their mother-mine outlive. Subject(s): Childhood Memories MEMORY OF MY PRIVATE CHILDHOOD, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: Those doors through my soul knock about Last Line: In the afternoon Subject(s): Childhood Memories MEMPHIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was raised %on the shore Last Line: So many questions %northern born Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Memphis, Tennessee MENAPHON: SEPHESTIA'S [CRADLE] SONG TO HER CHILD, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee Last Line: When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Variant Title(s): Sephestia's Lullaby Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood MENDING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How quickly children's clothes will rip and tear! Last Line: Whose clothes are only painted on their skin. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood MILD THE MIST UPON THE HILL, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Childhood Memories MINNIE AND WINNIE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Minnie and winnie / slept in a shell Last Line: The sun is aloft! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Children; Morning; Childhood MIRA'S SONG, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See those cheeks of beauteous dye Last Line: Sweeter -- sappho sweeter sings.' Subject(s): Children; Childhood MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER CHILDHOOD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our youth! Our childhood! That spring of springs! Last Line: On the top of the fish street column? Subject(s): Children; Childhood MISSING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that didst leave the ninety and the nine Last Line: Fold close my little one! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology MO-LENNAV-A-CHREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh, eilidh, dear to me, dear and sweet Last Line: Mo-lennav-a-chree! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Closing Doors Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Loss; Memory; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MODERN YOUTH, by RUTH VIVIAN KIDWELL Poem Text First Line: I used to have to be so good Last Line: "that I'm a ""problem child!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood MONDAY'S CHILD, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monday's child is fair of face Last Line: Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. Variant Title(s): A Week Of Birthdays;days Of Birth Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Day; Mothers; Childhood MONTERREY SUN, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: No doubt: the sun %dogged me when a child Last Line: No shadow in my childhood %but was red with sun Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Monterey, Mexico MOON WALK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son lies a monochrome of the moon Last Line: Leaving no mark on this side of space. Subject(s): Children; Moon; Childhood MORNING REPORT FROM YOUR ROOM IN BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The warning flutes of owls wake you Last Line: You left with a thirst Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Childhood Memories; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOTHER, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: Your love was daffodils in spring Last Line: I have my joy of him. Subject(s): Children; Death; Gratitude; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The MOTHER, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE Poem Text First Line: With smile just a little bit sweeter Last Line: I'll love you wherever you are. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood MOTHER AND CHILD, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: On my way homewards through the soft night's calms Last Line: And I believed, as you too would have done. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHER AND CHILD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou thinking of,' said the mother Last Line: "my mother, wouldst not thou?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Mothers; Childhood; Paradise MOTHER AND CHILD, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blew wide the casement, and within Last Line: To fold her sabbath wings above its couch. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War MOTHER AND SON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, in the stale cigarette smell Last Line: Drift separately into dawn. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOTHER DEAR, by LETTIE EARLEY VAN HOESEN Poem Text First Line: Mother, what makes the sky so blue? Last Line: "teach me to hear! Teach me to hear!" Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER MOST POWERFUL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: That thou so often held him in thine arms Last Line: Shows thou wert mortal,—mother,—yea, and more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER WANTS ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what time it is, wise little flower! Last Line: Why did I ever ask questions of you? Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER WONDER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I have washed their clothes and their faces Last Line: I wonder! Subject(s): Children; Good; Hearts; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOTHER'S DAY OUT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was quite a little boy Last Line: My mother 's very proud of me. Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Sons; Childhood MOTHER'S TREASURES, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little children sit by my side Last Line: "and the children thou hast given." Subject(s): Children; Childhood MOTHER'S WORK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear patient woman, o'er your children bending Last Line: That yours is not a hushed and empty nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHERHOOD, by ELIZABETH POATE FLEMING Poem Text First Line: How still the house is! Last Line: Lord jesus, heal my little boy! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sickness; Childhood; Illness MOTHERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Most good things-especially cakes and / toys Last Line: And that's the best of all, no doubt. Subject(s): April; Children; Mothers; Childhood MOVING WITH CHILDREN, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you prepare them for homesickness? Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Children; Homesickness; Childhood MR. AND MRS. SPIKKY SPARROW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a little piece of wood Last Line: "zikky sikky tee!" Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Childhood MR. SILBERBERG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like me yet dot leedle chile Last Line: I keep dot chile! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Smoking; Childhood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MRS. MCHUGH, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: He wrought in the field through the length av the day Last Line: An' him trimmin' the twist av a hedge! Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Marriage; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness MRS. SHAW'S CADILLAC, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cindy shaw told me Last Line: Sometimes as big as car fins Subject(s): Women; Middle Age; Childhood Memories MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bonnie birdeen Last Line: My passion, my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery MY CHILD, by JULIA H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: The foot of spring is on yon blue-topp'd mountain Last Line: Come but in dreams, my child! Alternate Author Name(s): Kinney, Julia Subject(s): Children; Childhood MY CHILDREN, by HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS Poem Text First Line: The stars-did you ever see stars Last Line: "yes, madam, to the sea." Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Stars; Childhood; Relatives MY CHILDREN, by YAMAGAMI NO OKURA Poem Text First Line: What use to me the gold and silver hoard? Last Line: The joys my children to my heart afford! Subject(s): Children; Childhood MY COUNTRY, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: This profound piety is my own country Last Line: Life, until the end, made of childhood! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Patriotism MY FATHER'S VOICE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as I rage, I see my daughter Last Line: Weathers the shaping blast. Subject(s): Anger; Children; Discipline; Fathers; Childhood MY HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's jes' a great, big, awk'ard Last Line: "is my henry's, jes' p'cise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students MY LAD, by FAY H. BUTLER Poem Text First Line: I know a lad, a sailor free Last Line: From happy morn till drowsy eve. Subject(s): Children; Mothers & Sons; Childhood MY LITTLE BOY, by ELVA SMITH Poem Text Last Line: Upon a worn-out pair of shoes! Subject(s): Children; Childhood MY LITTLE DOG AND ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog knows just as much Last Line: Don't hafter care fer me. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Childhood MY LITTLE GIRL, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl is nested Last Line: Who has my love and prayers! Variant Title(s): My Drowsy Little Queen Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Mothers; Childhood MY LOST YOUTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of the beautiful town Last Line: "and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Variant Title(s): Sea Memories;lost Youth Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portland, Maine; Sea; Youth; Childhood; Ocean MY MOTHER SAYS I'M SICKENING, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees have grown so stout and tall Last Line: And watch, and wait, and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY SECRET LIFE, by NATASHA SAJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That gent in victoria's england who screwed Last Line: The thought of drowning is a century away Subject(s): Biography; Books; Childhood Memories MY SHADOW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me Last Line: Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 18 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Shadows; Childhood; Fancy MY SIX LITTLE BOYS, by KATHLEEN MOODY NOLEN Poem Text First Line: Oh my little ones around me Last Line: My life has not been lived in vain. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MY SORE THUMB, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I jabbed a jack-knife in my thumb Last Line: In my poor thumb! Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Sympathy; Thumbs; Childhood; Empathy MY YOKE IS EASY, by GLADYS LATCHAW Poem Source First Line: The yokes he made were true Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth NATURAL HISTORY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are little boys made of, made of? Last Line: That's what young women are made of. Variant Title(s): What Are Folks Made Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood NATURE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That custom is a second nature, we Last Line: While how the same is so I comprehend. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Nature; Childhood NAUGHTY CLAUDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little claude was naughty Last Line: "I'm much obleeged to you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Punishment; Childhood NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NAZARETH, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Rome still holds her rod of power Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth NEARLY DROWNING AT SIX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue of bill's pet shop fish tank was all Last Line: Sweet jesus. Her feet, I must kiss her feet Subject(s): Drowning; Childhood Memories NELLIE, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: What ails thee, little rosebud of my heart? Last Line: "forget-me-not?"" no, little darling, no!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Childhood; Dead, The NEUTRA'S WINDOW, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass barrier by moving her lips Subject(s): Children; Obedience; Language; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary NEW ENGLAND'S MOUNTAIN-CHILD, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where foams the fall - a tameless storm Last Line: New england's mountain-child! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Children; Independence; Love; New England; Simplicity; Childhood NEW LAMBS, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I shut thon windies, sure Last Line: Dream-childer comes wid sleep! Subject(s): Children; Lambs; Childhood NICHOLAS OBERTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing! O voice of valor, sing! Last Line: He was so sorry and satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bulls; Children; Heroism; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines NICK AND THE CANDLESTICK, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am a miner. The light burns blue Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood NIGHT AND A CHILD, by NICK AARON FORD Poem Text First Line: Dark grey clouds massed themselves Last Line: The child dreamed of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Childhood NIGHT THOUGHTS OVER A SICK CHILD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness NINE YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of light, whose shrine no hands destroy Last Line: Here it hails a lord whose years are nine. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Love; Soul; Childhood NINETY-FIVE, A HUNDRED, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say the self is a story Last Line: For somebody's next surprise Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Santa Claus NO ROOM, by WINNIFRED ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: Across a wintry windswept plain Last Line: No room in men's hearts is a sadder thing! Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Childhood NO TRAVELER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd love to ride on railroads every day Last Line: I never want to travel with a kitty any more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Railroads; Travel; Childhood; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER, by MARY MORRISON Poem Text First Line: How many buttons are missing today? Last Line: Nobody knows but mother. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 2. SHADOW MARCH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the house is the jet-black night Last Line: With the black night overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 2 Subject(s): Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime NOT A CHILD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a child: I call myself a boy Last Line: Child or boy. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Roundels; Childhood NOT IN VAIN I WAITED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was but a child, a child Last Line: Down the dell she's coming -- coming, coming with me. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love; Waiting; Childhood NOT OF SCHOOL AGE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around bend after bend Subject(s): Children; Childhood NOT ONE TO SPARE, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which shall it be? Which shall it be? Last Line: Trusting the rest to one in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Variant Title(s): Which Shall It Be? Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: Golden head so lowly bending Last Line: Rising to the throne divine. Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood NUMBERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Numbers are the queerest things! Last Line: Look at 5 and see him wink! Subject(s): Children; Mathematics; Numbers; Childhood NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight NURSERY REMINISCENCES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember Last Line: Must be whipp'd and sent to bed!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Punishment; Relatives NURSES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't anythin' that's worse Last Line: They're awful ignerunt of boys! Subject(s): Boys; Child Care; Children; Nurses; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood NUTTIN'-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know where butternut an' shag-bark trees Last Line: To find a chestnut burr just where I sat. Subject(s): Children; Nuts & Nutting; Childhood O MASTER WORKMAN OF THE RACE, by JAY THOMAS STOCKING Poem Source Last Line: That it may be our highest joy, %our father's work to do Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion O YOUNG AND FEARLESS PROPHET OF ANCIENT GALILEE, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Last Line: Triumphantly to lead us along god's holy way Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion OBSERVATION, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The shadows of the trees Last Line: Primeval, unfathomable Subject(s): Aging; Childhood Memories; Shadows OBSESSIVE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a clip, it could be a comb Last Line: The father of a friend just sickened and sickened. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Games; Obsessions; Childhood; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OCTOBER, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smudge for the horizon Subject(s): Family Life; Autumn; Childhood Memories; Nature; Relatives; Fall OCTOBER, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: Crown of the year - thou golden fair october Last Line: Let us—ah—let us profit by the grace! Subject(s): Children; Gifts & Giving; Kindness; Childhood ODE TO A CHILD, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright as a morn of spring Last Line: Nature's undying, spirit-stirring strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Children; Childhood ODE TO NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: My lyre! Give me my lyre! My bosom Last Line: To listen to the echoes of my fame Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Niagara Falls; Water; Waterfalls OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OF PAPA AL, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: I think he is taking his turn tonight Last Line: And trying to come near, very near. Subject(s): Children; Death; Moon; Childhood; Dead, The OH, TEDDY BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, teddy bear, dear teddy, Subject(s): Childhood Memories OLD CHRISTMAS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now he who knows old christmas Last Line: Than many a crowned king! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Childhood; Nativity, The OLD-SCHOOL PUNISHMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old master brown brought his ferule down Last Line: "for he peeped at the girls with the beautiful curls, / and ogled them over his sleeve" Subject(s): Children;schools; Childhood;students OLNEY HYMNS: 24. PRAYER FOR CHILDREN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracious lord, our children see Last Line: Stoop, and bear the brood away. Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Childhood OM; A MEMORY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Faint grew the yellow buds of light Last Line: And brahm looked from his shining eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Hinduism; Religion; Childhood; Theology OMNISCIENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been to school at least a hundred days Last Line: And, maybe, god. Subject(s): Children; Knowledge; Childhood ON A DEAR CHILD, by WILLIAM PETER Poem Text First Line: Flowers for the loved,the lost! Bring flowers Last Line: From one, that's worthy thee? Subject(s): Children; Childhood ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students ON BEING TOLD THAT MY CHILD RESEMBLES ME, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have you of my fashioning Last Line: Of all my aspirations, blossoming from their dust! Subject(s): Children; Childhood ON CHANGE OF OPINIONS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you advance in years you long Last Line: To rake into his bag of nought. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Growth; Longing; Maturity; Childhood; Dead, The ON HER SECOND BIRTHDAY, by QUINTIN B. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I've seen the morning sun arise Last Line: The celestial cadence of your voice! Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood ON HIS FIRST BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: With hopes so rich enladen, with thy store Last Line: Eternal youth on all thy purpose there! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood ON MY DEAR GRANDCHILD SIMON WHO DIED ... ONE MONTH AND ONE DAY OLD, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep Last Line: Among the blessed in endless joys remain. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness ON NANA, by MENGMENG HUANG Poem Source First Line: For christmas, %she gave me a children's illustrated bible Last Line: And ensuing sting of lime extract, %I have lost my faith Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Faith ON READING PAUL AND VIRGINIA IN CHILDHOOD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle story of the indian isle! Last Line: To reach with blight that holiest edenflower. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good our earliest sympathies to trace Last Line: Saw but an alien footmark and was sad! Subject(s): Children; Corpses; Childhood; Cadavers ON SEEING A THOUSAND SABBATH SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PROCESSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What went ye out to see? Last Line: And reap thy full reward above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo - to the battle-ground of life Last Line: And into its tumult and pain you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood 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 FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven Last Line: Come, memory, let us seek them there in the shadows Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The ON THE ICE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O the joy to ride on the sharpened Last Line: But it cannot go as I go—so high, so high! Subject(s): Children; December; Happiness; Skating & Skaters; Childhood; Joy; Delight ON THE IRT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lily in a burdock nosegay Last Line: Swarms fireflies in a jar sealed by aphasia. Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Subways; Childhood ON THE PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet babe, whose image here expressed Last Line: Harmless infant, lull thee still! Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood ON THE [OR, A] PICTURE OF AN INFANT PLAYING NEAR A PRECIPICE, by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While on the [or, a] cliff with calm delight she kneels Last Line: And the fond boy springs back to nestle there. Variant Title(s): A Mother's Strategum Subject(s): Children; Childhood ON VIEWING HER SLEEPING INFANT CHARLES COWPER, by MARIA FRANCES CECILIA (MADAN) COWPER Poem Text First Line: I have seen the rosebud blow Last Line: Till crowned with endless joys above! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood ONE POSSIBLE MEANING, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon the park is filled with brides Last Line: Releases a magic that changes everything Subject(s): Children; Parks; Childhood ONE THING AND ANOTHER, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crows are tagged to see how far they'll take Last Line: Before waking her to a face she made long ago %out of something irreparable as love Subject(s): Childhood Memories ONLY A DAY AGO, by IRENE SHIRLEY MORAN Poem Text First Line: My son is growing tall Last Line: He was a little thing. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Sons; Childhood OOR WEE KATE, by JAMES NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Was there ever sic a lassie kent, as oor wee kate? Last Line: I wish I saw the wisdom teeth o' oor wee kate. Subject(s): Children; Childhood OPEN DOOR, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: There passed the low door of the nazareth home Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement ORDER, by PATRICIA WILSON Poem Source First Line: I never knew how much you suffered, but at your funeral I read from Last Line: Told me, 'just like that chair over there.' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Order ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER FOR THE PAST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sights and sounds of day and year Last Line: What home is too may know? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Life; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS SONG OF THE OLD CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, for youth to seek the strong Last Line: Father, take us back with him! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Old Age; Childhood; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1873, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas-days are still in store Last Line: News to men! To god old glory! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood ORGAN SONGS: SONG OF THE INNOCENTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merry, merry we well may be Last Line: We have learned to walk, and must follow him home! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood ORGAN SONGS: SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grief held me silent in my seat Last Line: Smile in my infant's smile. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Grief; Sympathy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy ORGAN SONGS: THE CHILDREN'S HEAVEN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant lies in blessed ease Last Line: And bid them dream again. Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Hope; Innocence; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Paradise; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: THE SLEEPLESS JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time to sleep, my little boy Last Line: Smile, son of god, smile on. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Sleep; Childhood ORIGIN OF THE MARBLE FOREST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood dotted with bodies Last Line: Make them stay, make them stone. Subject(s): Children; Past; Childhood ORPHEUS PLAYS THE BRONX, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten (no longer Subject(s): Mothers; Substance Abuse; Childhood Memories OTHER WOMEN'S CHILDREN, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Other women's children lean Last Line: Mean everything to me. Subject(s): Children; Childhood OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! I'm going back where Last Line: Boneset, mint, and pennyroyal. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood OUR FATHER'S CARE, by IVA TEMPLE CARTWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I wandered in a woodland Last Line: Safe, safe to the other side. Subject(s): Children; Forests; God; Religion; Childhood; Woods; Theology OUR GANG, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've got a gang, and I belong Last Line: Or all the rest, or me! Subject(s): Boys; Brotherhood; Children; Friendship; Play; Childhood OUR HILL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teddy and jock and I play on a hill all day Last Line: But it wouldn't be safe for you! Subject(s): Children; Climbing; Danger; Mountains; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OUR JEWISH ORPHANS' HOME, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Back from the street, within a wreath of bowers Last Line: Our sacred trust,—our jewish orphans' home! Subject(s): Charity; Children; Jews; Orphans; Philanthropy; Childhood; Judaism; Foundlings OUR ROMANCE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is narrow which leads to that house Last Line: And saved the parents, being children. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Parents; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations OUR WEE WHITE ROSE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in our marriage garden Last Line: White rose of all the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Childhood OUT IN THE DARK, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, up the brae, and up and up, beyont the fairy thorn Last Line: Sure ye'd think there'd be one heaven for the mother an' the child. Subject(s): Children; Childhood OUT OF BOUNDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy of heavenly birth Last Line: Join in to get him back his ball! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The might river flows as when thine eyes Last Line: Which gave its shelter to thine infant grace, %and nourished thee to be the life of life Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth OUTSIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the night fire flares up red Last Line: Outside? Subject(s): Children; Childhood OVER A CUP OF COFFEE OR SITTING ON A PARK BENCH, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Uncharted lands. Subject(s): Childhood Memories OVER THE BITTER LAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That wander around. Far Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age PARENTS' PANTOUM; FOR MAXINE KUMIN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where did these enormous children come from Last Line: We offspring of our enormous children. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism PAST AND PRESENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember, / the house where I was born Last Line: Than when I was a boy. Variant Title(s): The Old House At Home;i Remember;stanzas Subject(s): Aging; Children; Memory; Religion; Time; Childhood; Theology PAST TIME, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: We swarm the stadium Last Line: In the smallest most elegant ways Subject(s): Childhood Memories PEEK-A-BOO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cunningest thing that a baby can do Last Line: How to hide, and play peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PENGUINS IN TROUBLE WORLDWIDE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrowful and joyful mysteries, they were Last Line: Farewell, my teachers, fierce sisters of mercy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sisters; Teaching And Teachers; Widows And Widowers PENNYROYAL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy with cares no winnowing hand could sift Last Line: Safe 'mid the unblighted treasures of the past. Subject(s): Children; Forests; Memory; Past; Childhood; Woods PHILIP, MY KING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at me with thy large brown eyes Last Line: "philip, the king!" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Children; Marston, Philip Bourke (1850-1887); Childhood PHILIPER FLASH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young philiper flash was a promising Last Line: Whacked his jugular open and went to smash. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The PHOTO OF MYSELF AT THREE, by DICK JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: That kid's not tough. Too gentle, hoping Last Line: Fire,stone, oceans cannot starve or stay them Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents PHOTOGRAPH, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: We lost the picture Last Line: Even childhood is curable Subject(s): Bombs; Childhood Memories; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; War PHOTOGRAPHY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt yetta sleeps, her mouth hanging open, her eyes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Aunts; Photography & Photographers PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PICKEN O' SCROFF, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The wood wer a-vell'd in the copse Last Line: The poor childern a-pickèn o' scroff. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers PICTURE BOOKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is freshly tinted Last Line: They delight the children's eyes. Subject(s): Books; Children; Reading; Childhood PICTURE OF THE INFANT CHRIST WITH FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bright hues from eastern garlands Last Line: O'er blooms that mocked our hope, o'er idols that forsook! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION; FOR PAMELA STEWART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's best, when watching the surprising levitations Last Line: Set aside like land, will be blessed by rain. Subject(s): Children; Dwarfs; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Childhood PICTURES OF MEMORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the beautiful pictures Last Line: Seemeth the best of all. Variant Title(s): The Little Brother;the Sweetest Picture;among The Beautiful Pictures Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portraits; Childhood PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen!— Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness PIRATE'S CAVE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the table when dinner's through Last Line: And mother she gets the crew! Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Pirates; Play; Childhood; Fancy; Piracy; Buccaneers PITCH O' PINE SONNETSL 3. CLEM'S FOOL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clem told the 'squire that ben was growing strong Last Line: Sore stabbed the 'squire, -- 'twas clem the burden bore. Subject(s): Children; Geese; Hens; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PLAYING DOCTOR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I'll be a doctor-man Last Line: By bringing aunty from the hall. Subject(s): Children; Physicians; Play; Childhood; Doctors PLAYING LADY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to p'ay lady, dear mamma Last Line: "it b'longs on the bare headed one." Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Play; Childhood PLEASURE'S SIGNS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bump on his brow and a smear on his cheek Last Line: That the lad I'm so fond of is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood PLEASURES OF CHILDHOOD, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a middle place between the strong Last Line: Cities and empires, fleets and armies rose. Subject(s): Children; Childhood PLUCKING THE RUSHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Green rushes with red shoots Last Line: Had not plucked a handful when night came! Subject(s): Children;love; Childhood POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a heavy knocking Last Line: Is coming home Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood POEM 3, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: You thought that I could help you out? Last Line: The tranquil night, the warm sound of a bell? Subject(s): Childhood Memories POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry : Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POETS SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the mother, closing the exercise book Last Line: Canvas, with a violent premonition of sails! . . . Subject(s): Children; Poetry And Poets - French; Childhood POLIO, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those humid hours taht lingered on for days Subject(s): Children; Growth; Childhood POLLY, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown eyes / straight nose Last Line: My girl for me ! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you. Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POPPY: FANTASTIC EXTRAVAGANCE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare Last Line: My wither'd dreams, my wither'd dreams. Subject(s): Children; Poppies; Childhood PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This family portrait Last Line: The long road of the flesh Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Pictures POSSESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child was yours and none of mine Last Line: Who only gave him birth and death? Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Childhood POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 1. PADDINGTON STATION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A boy (scarce seventeen Last Line: Burnt offering of a fool's impetuosity. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Etching; Childhood POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories POT ROAST, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a roast Subject(s): Food & Eating; Solitude; Childhood Memories; Loneliness PRAYERS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is bedtime, every day Last Line: There is so little that they need. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood PRECEDENCE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: First to the feet of pain she bore Last Line: Your little tearless children bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood PREPETUAL MOTION, by JOHN J. EBERHARDT Poem Text First Line: When my little girl with cheeks aglow Last Line: Till he hippety-hops it through. Subject(s): Children; Childhood PRESERVING-TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All over the land there's a savory smell Last Line: "of marmalade, jelly, and jam" Subject(s): Children;fruit;smells;summer; Childhood;odors;aromas;fragrances PRETTY COW, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, pretty cow, that made Last Line: Pretty cow, go there and dine. Subject(s): Children; Cows; Childhood PRINCESS SUMMER FALL WINTER SPRING, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or was it princess fall winter spring summer? Last Line: Who once loved your heart and face? Subject(s): Puppets; Childhood Memories PRIOR TO MISS BELLE'S APPEARANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes you come here fer, mister Last Line: Ist fly-an' ever-thing! . . . I wisht I'd die! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives PRIVATE JOURNAL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We started from places that saw no gay carracks wrecked Last Line: Freedom from, not of, thought Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Second World War PULLING THE CHAIN, by SIMON RAE Poem Source First Line: When I were just a little lad, right small Last Line: Fact was, you see, I couldn't reach the chain Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Harrison, Tony (b. 1937) PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these your eyes, isla Last Line: Pulse of my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood 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 PUTTING IN THE SEED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come to fetch me from my work tonight Last Line: Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters QUATRAIN: RECONCILIATION, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Two children who had quarreled, and had walked Last Line: And each forgave the other then, and talked. Subject(s): Children; Reconciliation; Childhood QUIET EARTH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Snow fills the leaves that haven't blown Last Line: The earth's so hard, there's nothing to give back Subject(s): Childhood Memories QUITE A HISTORY, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been, lysander pratt? Last Line: "not wholly good was even that!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood RACHEL MOURNETH, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Where are my babes, husband, where are my babes? Last Line: But—god—where are my babes? Subject(s): Children; Parents; Youth; Childhood; Parenthood RAIN ON THE ROOF (1), by COATES KINNEY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the humid shadows hover Last Line: By the patter of the rain. Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood RAIN-CHARM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, rain, go away; come again another day Last Line: Seems zif jus' th' days it pours I most want t' be outdoors! Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings; Childhood; Dead, The; Relatives READING A STORY TO MY CHILD, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a small boy Last Line: In a ragged coat. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs READING ROBERT CREELEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He adored skating on that small river as a boy Last Line: Holding to what one loves – a triumph of faithfulness Subject(s): Biography; Children; Creeley, Robert (1926-2005); Biographers; Childhood REALITY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it is nice to lie in bed Last Line: With straight, brown hair that will not curl! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Girls; Childhood REBECCA; WHO SLAMMED DOORS FOR FUN AND PERISHED MISERABLY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trick that everyone abhors Last Line: -- as often they had done before. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably Subject(s): Children; Doors; Wit & Humor; Childhood RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: How good our every festival appears Last Line: And to receive — in knowing how to give. Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants RELIGION, by RUTH FENISONG Poem Text First Line: A bright new church for god they made Last Line: As though he cared! Subject(s): Children; Churches; God; Childhood; Cathedrals REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the story. The children Last Line: Darkening all our skies Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism REMEMBRANCE OF A FALL WALK, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we were tangled in the branches Subject(s): Walking; Childhood Memories; Home REMEMBRANCE OF CHILDHOOD, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON Poem Text First Line: The fire is blazing on the ample hearth Last Line: And light lids close above each sleepy eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane Subject(s): Children; Childhood REMINISCENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Strange how a simple weed can hold so much Last Line: A simple weed can so hold so much. Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Childhood RESPONSE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little one, sleep for me Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood RESPONSIBILITIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've learned to say my evening prayers Last Line: "and no one calls me ""tattle tale." Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Childhood RETURN, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: I walk the land of anahuac which is Last Line: Are so needy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; History; Mankind REVISITING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one clear road you cannot find Last Line: The rising turmoil in your breast. Subject(s): Change; Childhood Memories; Past RHENISH AUTUMN; TO TOUSSAINT LUCA, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the dead are going to play / in the graveyard Last Line: Was the color of the autumn chestnuts Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement RICHARD AND KATE, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children toppled on the green Subject(s): Children; Childhood RICHARD BROUGHT HIS FLUTE, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: The day the two old women were dissecting two birds Last Line: And all silence was reduced to listening Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents; Women RICHES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Glad heart, clear brain, clean hands Last Line: That's happiness enough for you and me. Subject(s): Children; March (month); Mothers; Childhood RICHFIELD, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smouldering odor Subject(s): Childhood Memories RIGHT CONDUCT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy and a girl were playing together Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood RING-A-RING, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ring-a-ring of little boys Last Line: And you won't catch me! Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood RIVER, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the plane flew in I followed Last Line: Somewhere and now I am saying goodbye Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories ROADSIDE POEMS: A DREAM OF WAKING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child was born in sin and shame Last Line: And melt the earthly dream. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ROADSIDE POEMS: AN OLD SERMON WITH A NEW TEXT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife contrived a fleecy thing Last Line: That holdeth fast thy life. Subject(s): Children; Education; Family Life; God; Sermons; Sewing; Childhood; Relatives ROADSIDE POEMS: HE HEEDED NOT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of whispering trees the tongues to hear Last Line: An earnest, fearless, hopeless face. Subject(s): Anger; Calm; Children; Grace; Humility; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Childhood ROADSIDE POEMS: LITTLE ELFIE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a puppet-jointed child Last Line: Sleep shining through the dark. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Innocence; Childhood; Relatives 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 ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHADOWS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little boy, with smooth, fair cheeks Last Line: Those shadows, lord, for thee! Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Shadows; Childhood; Theology ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHEEP AND THE GOAT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand streets of london gray Last Line: Thou didst it unto him. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Goats; Poverty; Sheep; Childhood; Belief; Creed ROADSIDE POEMS: THE WAKEFUL SLEEPER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When things are holding wonted pace Last Line: The child is with the father. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares ROADSIDE POEMS: THIS WORLD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy world is made to fit thine own Last Line: Because thou, god, art all in all! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fathers; God; Childhood; World ROMAE, PRINCIPIS URBIUM ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is one ode, and much the best of two Last Line: The nicer taste of liquid verse, who not. Subject(s): Children; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Childhood ROMANCE, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was but thirteen or so Last Line: They had stolen my soul away! Subject(s): Children; Chimborazo, Equador; Childhood ROMANTIC SONNET, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives ROSEBUD'S FIRST BALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tis really time you were out, I think" Last Line: "he's very nice, but inclined to be wild" Subject(s): Children;play; Childhood RUNNED AWAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sis: I wrote this noat to say I've been an Last Line: Hiding in the stable. Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Escapes; Family Life; Letters; Sisters; Half-brothers; Childhood; Fugitives; Relatives RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so certain yesterday Last Line: I'll hurry home to mother now. Subject(s): Children; Escapes; Fear; Solitude; Childhood; Fugitives; Loneliness RUSTIC CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No city primness train'd our feet Last Line: O shining grass, and shady bough. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Memory; Nostalgia; Childhood SACRED EPIGRAM: CHRIST IN EGYPT, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, o nile, show him to your people by a greater flock Last Line: Now you yourself may be the flood of your own joy Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DARK ANS STORMY VOYAGE OF ... LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the night hold these tender wayfarers, the mother with her son Last Line: And he let them bathe: and finally let them be released in the morning %so that the day itself may d Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: THE BOY JESUS IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man is deceived who hangs on every bearded chin Last Line: Not to think that whiteness of the head is the head Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: THE INFANT CHRIST IS PRESENTED TO HIS FATHER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the lamb go, and let him play at the feet of his butting father Last Line: This is the gift, this is it, which surely should dare %to be worthy of god himself: of course it is Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Hands; Surgery; Children; Childhood SAGE COUNSEL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion is the beast to fight Last Line: Stay at home and learn your catechissum. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Children; Childhood SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SANTA CLAUS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jingle of bell and clattering hoof Last Line: Hid under the quaint disguise. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint SAYING GOODBYE TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They will not be the same next time. The sayings Last Line: This world brave with hellos turns all goodbye Subject(s): Change; Children; Childhood SCENES OF CHILDHOOD, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And do I then behold again the scene Last Line: With dream of years long past, and drop a tear. Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Childhood SCEPTICS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When your old dad was as little as you Last Line: We used to spank children for mischief like that. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SECOND CHILDHOOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since such alone can of thy kingdom be Last Line: Make me, o lord, a little child again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Childhood SEED, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corn is universal, / so like a roman senator Last Line: Oh my daughters. Subject(s): Children; Corn; Indian Summer; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SEEIN' THINGS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice Last Line: Night! Subject(s): Children; Childhood SELF-PORTRAIT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I promised to stop Subject(s): Children; Secrets; Relationships; Childhood SERAPION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, child! Thou silent, shy Last Line: Thy father now, thy brother then. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Love; Soul; Childhood SERENITY OF CHILDHOOD, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sweet morn of life, when health & joy Last Line: How oft shall my sad heart your soothing scenes renew! Subject(s): Children; Childhood SEVEN TIMES FOUR [ - MATERNITY], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! Daisies and buttercups Last Line: God that is over us all! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no dew left on the daisies and clover Last Line: I am seven times one to-day. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Children; Death; Flowers; Life; Childhood; Dead, The SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven white roses on one tree Last Line: Seven years since, of seven times seven. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Childhood SEVENTH BIRTHDAY OF THE FIRST CHILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children were around my feet like dogs Subject(s): Children; Childhood SEWIN' BUTTONS ON, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every time my mother sews Last Line: But she says it is the nicest plan she ever, ever heard! Subject(s): Buttons; Children; Mothers; Sewing; Childhood SHADES OF ORIGIN, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: I was born in a flimsy nest Last Line: Oppressed my childhood dreams with terror Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Ethnic Groups - United States; Peru SHADOWS IN THE WATER, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In unexperienced infancy Last Line: Is broken, be admitted in. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Mirrors; Childhood; Fancy SHEEP AND LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All in the april evening Last Line: And thought on the lamb of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Lambs; Sheep; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SHEET OF FOIL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day of spring on the hill of anemones, masses of scarlet Last Line: Not to disturb her fingers at my back, steadying the wings Subject(s): Arabs; Childhood Memories; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SHOFAR ECHOES, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: I'm but a child, and childish toys Last Line: "in ""jacob's goodly tents"" shall dwell." Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Judaism SIGHT, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: In nazareth he know each narrow street Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth 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 SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an ancient england in the new Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SIS RAPALYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rainy-greener shoots the Last Line: With laughter, blossoms, singing birds and sweet sis rapalye. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Laughter; Spring; Childhood SIX YEARS OLD, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They've left me alone in the garden Last Line: And then I will marry a prince. Subject(s): Children; Childhood SIXTEEN MONTHS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lips of the child janet float changing dreams Last Line: Young light blue calls to young light gold of morning. Subject(s): Children; Childhood SKIPPING SONG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skippety skip, skippety skip! Last Line: And isn't skipping easy? Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Rope; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SLAUGHTER STREET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time years ago a man tried to sell Subject(s): Children; Abandonment; City & Town Life; Childhood; Desertion SLEEP SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Dear little blue-eyes, go to sleep! Last Line: Sleep, love, and close your eyes of blue. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood SLEEP SONG OF MOTHERHOOD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Little one - little one - child of my breast Last Line: My crooning sleep song to thee, rapturous thing! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood SLEEPING, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are sleeping in the valley and on the / glistening hills Last Line: "when the master holds his dear hands out, and says: ""come unto me." Subject(s): Childhood Memories SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SMALL AND EARLY, by TUDOR JENKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When dorothy and I took tea, we sat upon the floor Last Line: And I went to a real tea, and dorothy to bed. Subject(s): Children; Childhood SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my father was a god Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood SNAKES, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was 6 and Last Line: From the massachusetts review Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Telephones; Childhood; Relatives SNOOPING 'ROUND, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I caught him on his knees and looking underneath the bed Last Line: I saw a boy of years ago who also used to snoop around. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood SNOW IN SCHOOLTIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All saturday the sky was clear Last Line: To see how much stays on the ground. Subject(s): Children; December; Schools; Snow; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students SNOW-BIRDS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out the white and pulsing storm Last Line: When we were gay together. Subject(s): Children; Snowbirds; Childhood SNOWBALL-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the snow first comes, so fine an' thin Last Line: If ever any snow gets down inside. Subject(s): Children; Snow; Childhood SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence Subject(s): Mothers; Grandparents; Snow; Childhood Memories SO THERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I would not let one four-year-old son Last Line: My my we are a stubborn personality Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SOAP BUBBLES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I knew magic, and could do Last Line: The place where vanished bubbles play. Subject(s): Bubbles; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy SOAP, THE OPPRESSOR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The folks at my house half the time are thinkin' about dirt Last Line: An' no one could complain about the parts of me that show. Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Cleansing Agents; Childhood; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants SOLITARY, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Through childhood's years he struggled bitterly Last Line: And now, they brag they went to school with him! Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 1. TWICE ALIVE: DETROIT; THE SECRET..., by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not yet the blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz Last Line: The windows failing-oh the wonder!-of her dying Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Sisters; Survival SOME SCATTERING REMARKS OF BUB'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst I tooked our pepper-box lid Last Line: At's allus at the sund'y-school? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Childhood SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America SOMEBODY'S CHILD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a picture of somebody's child Last Line: Will any thing sadden the flower-like face? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Childhood SOMETHING HAS FALLEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something has fallen wordlessly Subject(s): Childhood Memories SOMETHING TO DO, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something to do, mamma, something to do Last Line: That he has given you 'something to do!' Subject(s): Children; Childhood SOMETIMES, WHEN THE LIGHT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Childhood Memories SONG (2), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby, baby, baby dear Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood SONG OF OUR LAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mountainland, fountainland, / shoreland and sea Last Line: My country forever, great land of the free! Subject(s): Children; Freedom; January; Patriotism; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Childhood; Liberty SONG OF THE BAPTISMAL CHIMES, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philistines, grocers / the while that you know, sirs Last Line: Roses. Subject(s): Baptism; Children; Christenings; Childhood SONG OF THE LAKE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The city lies directly back Last Line: "I am mushguma—michigan!" Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood SONG OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILD, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, my mouth is dimpled, Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood SONG OF THREE KINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings went forth to greet a king Last Line: (o long ago and far!) Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Gifts & Giving; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The SONG: EARLY DEATH OF THE MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last tear turns Last Line: Kingdom is born. Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement SONGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The brook has a way to spend the day Last Line: Says the bird. Subject(s): Children; Play; Summer; Childhood SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back shining from the pane, the fire Last Line: My father, in my soul! Subject(s): Children; Cold; Death; Fathers; God; Memory; Night; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The; Bedtime SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; CHILD AND BOATMAN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs Last Line: Not I.' Subject(s): Animals; Children; Singing & Singers; Voices; Childhood; Songs SONNET TO A SLEEPING CHILD: 1, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, 'tis a touching thing, to make one weep Last Line: Tinging thy dreams with unacquainted grief. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood SONNET TO A SLEEPING CHILD: 2, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyelids slept so beauteously, I deemed Last Line: If not more lovely, thou art more like love! Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood SONNET: 12, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush child! Be still and give thy fingers rest Last Line: And if life dies thou shalt not even care! Subject(s): Children; Childhood SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 17. THE CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And now the child is gone. - her simple woes Last Line: "once more in mine the child's hand as of old!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood SONNETS: CITY CHILDREN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known Last Line: O little flowers that blossom but to fade! Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life SOSPETTO D'HEROID [D'HERODE] (THE SUSPICION OF HEROD), by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, now the servant of soft loves no more Last Line: So much? Rude shepheards. What his steeds? Alas %poore beasts! A slow oxe, and a simple asse Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Variant Title(s): Herod's Suspicion Subject(s): Devil; Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SOUL FOOD, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Yesterday's chit'lin's in the frigidaire congeal miraculously into our Last Line: Chit'lin' dinner that naturally fills the soul of man Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Faith; Food And Eating SOURCES OF THE DELAWARE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you he said but saying it took twenty years Subject(s): Children; Love; Rivers; Childhood SPEAKING THE FIRST PIECE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard, when I'm dressed up so nice Last Line: To know her pieces perfectly. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Childhood SPECIAL WORDS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she has special words Last Line: Don't really mean so awful much. Subject(s): Children; Language; Mothers; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary SPEEDING YEARS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift the years roll on, my friend, how Last Line: Homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue SPINNERS, by OVIE PEDIGO TANNER Poem Text First Line: Spider - spinning up and down Last Line: When he weathered ocean gales. Subject(s): Children; Tops (toys); Childhood SPINNING TOPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day, all day, the village lads are out Last Line: Day-long, week-long, they spin their tops together. Subject(s): Children; Tops (toys); Childhood SPIRIT OF LIBERTY, by MRS. M. L. OBERHOLTZER Poem Source First Line: Bright is the moon that hangs aloft Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SPIRITS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See that apple, ripe and ruddy Last Line: I must ponder for a while. Subject(s): Children; Childhood SPONSA DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb of god! Yea, mary, and thy lamb! Last Line: For a sick child, his own and mary's son? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares SPRING SNOW, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the powdered milk I drank Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Transience; Death; Impermanence; Dead, The SPRING TONICS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love it when the folks begin Last Line: Just yell an' dance an' make 'em cry! Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription SPRINKLING THE BABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother says I'm much too small Last Line: Unless they're watered every day. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Childhood SQUATTER'S CHILDREN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the unbreathing sides of hills Last Line: Your rights in rooms of falling rain Subject(s): Children; Childhood ST. VINCENT'S, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: A smell in the air Last Line: Doors wide open to the air Subject(s): Birth; Childhood Memories; Memory STAGES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child's contempt for his juniors Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Children; Childhood STARKEST TRAGEDY, by VAN CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: A boy seems idle while at childish play Last Line: If men are prone to lose the boyhood call. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood STATUE OF A LITTLE HURT BOY, by SCOTT HORTON Poem Text First Line: That statue of a small boy, jo, do you Last Line: Were hard and flinty like that boy of stone. Subject(s): Children; Statues; Childhood STEPS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man letters the sign for his grocery in arabic and english Last Line: Making the shadows that cross each other's smiles. Subject(s): Advertising; Children; Language; Letters; Signs & Signboards; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary STILL LOCATED AT THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE, 1981, by ZONA TETI Poem Source First Line: The dead mocked me because I didn't fit in Last Line: That, in hunger, wipe clean the trail leading out of the woods Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death STOIC, by JAMES HATCH Poem Source First Line: The sight of bread's split crust on the oven sill Last Line: And say those simple prayers that children know' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Stoicism STOLEN SWEETS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Peking and heide, pekinese Last Line: Those two will never say. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Innocence; Childhood STRATEGIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I am playing, and I want to rest a bit Last Line: And rest as hard as possible to last me through the day. Subject(s): Children; Play; Rest; Childhood STRAWBERRY TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the strawberry, ripening, blushes Last Line: From fields where the berries are thick. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Strawberries; Work; Workers STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They teach such funny things in school! Last Line: Or see the things I see! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students SUDDEN JOURNEY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I'm seven in the open field-- Last Line: Of all those who reach earth by falling Subject(s): Children; Rain; Childhood SUMMER AT BLUE CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no water at my grandfather's Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories SUMMER HILL, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like to me it ought to be winter hill Last Line: The blade bite wood. Sound can't keep up with light Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Neighbors; Country Life SUNBEAM AND SHADOW, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunbeam was a lovely child Last Line: Like two fair flowers together, and so the story ends. Subject(s): Change; Children; Cousins; Forgiveness; Good; Rudeness; Childhood; Clemency; Bad Manners SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the first communion Subject(s): Children; Childhood SUNNY MORNING, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The sails that quiver in the morning breeze Last Line: They scatter in the stillness of the day? Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Seashore SUNSET CITY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset city lies along twilight's smooth, grey sea Last Line: To the close of day! Subject(s): Children; Childhood SUPERSTISHUS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onct I went a-fishin' with a man what had a reel Last Line: But I guess lots o' things is so 'at some folks never knew! Subject(s): Children; Superstition; Childhood SUPPER AT THE MILL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, frances / well, good mother, how are you? Last Line: The supper's ready. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Food & Eating; Mills & Millers; Plays & Playwrights ; Childhood; Relatives; Dramatists SUPPLANTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems zif everything nice is done Last Line: I'm awfully glad I did! Subject(s): Children; Jealousy; Childhood SURPRISING NIGHTS, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: There's no doubt that my life surprises me Last Line: Under the big sky, under its small glitter Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Night; Planets; Stars SWEET EARLSBURN, BLYTHE EARLSBURN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their lustre ever dimmed Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories; Home SWIMMIN'-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was so hot in school I sat an' sweat Last Line: They're tyin' all our stockin's into knots! Subject(s): Children; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers SWINGING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Higher, higher, farther away Last Line: Oh, swing me! Oh, swing me! Oh, swing me! Subject(s): Children; Desire; Swings; Childhood SYMPATHETIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I start out to walk, our dog he seems to know Last Line: He leaves me sittin' somewheres and a-feelin' just that way! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Sympathy; Childhood; Empathy SYMPATHETIC PORTRAIT OF A CHILD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The murderer's little daughter Last Line: That darts along her smile? Subject(s): Children; Childhood TABLE RULES FOR LITTLE FOLKS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In silence I must take my seat Last Line: In praise for his wondrous love Subject(s): Children;etiquette;grace; Childhood;manners;courtesy TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND PERHAPS GELETT BURGESS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ann was a pleasant little girl Last Line: And act like any vulgar goop. Subject(s): Burgess, Gelett (1866-1951); Children; Girls; Childhood TAKE YOUR CHOICE: THEN THERE'S T.A. DALY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so sweet, dat leetle girl Last Line: Dat leetle girl ees vera bad! Subject(s): Children; Daly, Thomas Augustine (1871-1948); Girls; Childhood TAKING BROTHER'S PICTURE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He felt quite miser'ble, I know Last Line: "said ""look as pleasant as you can!" Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Discontent; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Half-brothers; Childhood; Dissatisfaction TALISMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All heaven in my arm Last Line: With all heaven in my arm? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood TARGET, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What is, says the chorus, this human Subject(s): Desire; Children; Childhood TEA-PARTIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should enjoy, if I was let Last Line: As those of other girls I know!) Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Imagination; Play; Tea; Childhood; Fancy TEDDY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Och teddy alanna, would ye lave me alone Last Line: "yit father o'day is a power in the lan'." Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness TELEVISED, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Televised news turns Last Line: And one more morning? Subject(s): Blacks; Children; Hunger; Childhood TELL NO ONE, by NINA WILLIS WALTER Poem Text First Line: Sh! Tell no one / that you hear voices, child Last Line: Into their narrow patterns. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TEMPLE OFFERING, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Did times grow hard in nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth TEN YEARS OLD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city child, rooms are to him no mere Last Line: "richard! Get through! And put your stockings on." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life TENNIS TROPHY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in boyhood, game was all Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Tennis TESTAMENT (TO MY CHILD), by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot will you much of wealth Last Line: All good shall flow to you. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Love; Parents; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Parenthood THAT-AIR YOUNG-UN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That-air young-un ust to set Last Line: "now what's it a-talkin' of?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Rain; Childhood THE 1ST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember about that day Last Line: Nothing about the emptied family Variant Title(s): Eviction Subject(s): Children; Emptiness; Memory; Childhood THE AGES OF MAN, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees Last Line: We grow not merry though the dotard laughed. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Life; Mankind; Childhood; Human Race THE AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America THE ANCHORAGE, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you would like this seaside town-it makes me dream of whales. Last Line: That move through them. Just motion, and union, and light Subject(s): Seashore; Childhood Memories; Christianity 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 ANXIOUS FARMER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was awful long ago Last Line: For every single seed! Subject(s): Children; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters THE APPLE TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was hiding in the crooked apple tree Last Line: He fled, as if he heard some thing behind! Subject(s): Apple Trees; Children; Trees; Childhood THE ASH TREE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother led me out Subject(s): Grandparents; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood Memories; Ash Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE ASSISTANT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've learnt to sift the flour in, and the way it ought / to mix Last Line: I could be there advising her and licking off the dishes. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Childhood; Cookery THE ATTIC WINDOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the windows in our house Last Line: Where all the summer daytimes go! Subject(s): Children; Picture Books; Childhood THE AUDIENCE (AN OLD FABLE), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll let not my children, like pharaoh, be drown'd Last Line: No more of his children's intrusion. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Drowning; Herwegh, Georg (1817-1875); Nature; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cruel manger, how bleak, how bleak! Last Line: Break, o heart, for thy god! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mothers & Sons; Worship THE BABE TO THE GIFT-BEARER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold within my hands Last Line: Till I am older grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE BABES IN THE WOOD (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now ponder well, you parents dear" Last Line: Your wicked minds requite Variant Title(s): The Children In The Wood Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE BABES IN THE WOOD (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my dear, do you know" Last Line: And won't you remember / the babes in the wood? Subject(s): Children; Childhood 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 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, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did you come from, baby dear? Last Line: God thought of you, and so I am here. Variant Title(s): "where Did You Come From, Baby Dear?""; Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE BAIRNS A' AT REST, by JAMES M. NEILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was din, as ye ne'er heard the like Last Line: To a bed in the grave taen awa'? Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE BALLAD OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CZAR, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the czar Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Children; Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Childhood; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BALLAD OF THE COMFORTING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary smiled on her little son Last Line: Her torn heart beat again? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BAREFOOT BOY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings on thee, little man Last Line: Ere it passes, barefoot boy! Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood THE BAREFOOT BOY', by PHOEBE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! 'barefoot boy!' you have led me back Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE BEAUTIFUL BEESHAREEN BOY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, black-eyed boy Last Line: Home to thy orphaned nile. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Arabs; Beauty; Children; Egypt; Childhood THE BEE-BAG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ist a brownie - a Last Line: The fairies stold away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Grandparents; Childhood; Elves; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BIRCHED SCHOOLBOY: CONCLUSION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would my master were a wat (a hare) Last Line: What availeth me though I say nay? Subject(s): Children;punishment;whips; Childhood THE BIRDS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus christ was four years old Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BIRTHDAY, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees were dripping, dank and still Last Line: And thoughts to linger in. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Cities; Fire; Rites & Ceremonies; Childhood; Urban Life THE BITTER WITHY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out on a holy day Last Line: "oh! The withy, it shall be the very first tree / that perishes at the heart" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;punishment THE BITTERNESS OF CHILDREN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Foreseeing typographical errors Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE BLUE-GRASS PLOT, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the blue-grass plot, the blue-grass plot Last Line: The grass-plot over the river. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives THE BONNIE LASS O' DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O' a' the toons that I've been in Last Line: And the flower o' dundee. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Innocence; Childhood THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound and bordered in leaf-green Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Children; Laughter; Reading; Childhood THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#35), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an evening of icicles, tree branches crackling as they break Last Line: Of the old songbooks, taped and yellowed, held there in time. Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THE BOY JESUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, measuring his height, he stood Last Line: I've seen the tears upon his cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): The Child At Nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men. Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy THE BOY SINGING, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: A little boy / is sitting on a fallen log Last Line: Close to his happy heart. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Joy; Delight THE BOYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they? - the friends Last Line: Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Time; Youth; Childhood THE BOYS' CANDIDATE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Las' time 'at uncle sidney come Last Line: "s the boy-house fell down?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Watermelons; Childhood THE BRAVE CHILD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, on a dare, he would dive where the stream Last Line: Fall through the dust-filled air. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE BROOK-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook! Little brook! Last Line: Sing back to him the rest he used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood THE BUBBLE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out springs the bubble, dazzling bright Last Line: The bubble bursts, -- and this is life! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Graves; Life; Nations; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones THE BURDEN OF MODERNITY': THE BOOK, THE GOD, THE CHILD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: United airlines check-in: and the line is arranged Subject(s): Books; Children; God; Reading; Childhood THE BURNED CHILD, by HUGH WESTERN Poem Text First Line: Whist in the night when the wet leaves are dripping Last Line: A boy who hath wings. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE BUTTERFLY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's just a monstrous ant with paper wings Last Line: And haven't seen it make a bit of butter. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Childhood; Bugs THE CABBAGE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have rented an apartment Last Line: You can live with this. Subject(s): Children; Paintings And Painters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE CAGED COCKATOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps,' the little maiden said Last Line: "where gold was hid and men were slain!" Subject(s): Animals; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE CALLING MOTHERLAND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the lone height of some untrodden hill Last Line: Across the world dear voices calling still. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Loss; Mothers; Childhood 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 THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squatting, serious Last Line: These little boys can never, never return Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Play; Childhood THE CHANT OF THE CROSS-BEARING CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear dis cross dis many a mile Last Line: "de cross-bearin' chile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Crosses; Life; Childhood THE CHARM, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My children are, to me Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHERRY TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from your bed, my drowsy gentleman! Last Line: Beneath the cherry bush, a rondelay. Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children; Childhood THE CHILD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard her crying in the night Last Line: A child -- and sent her back to him! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE CHILD, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK Poem Text First Line: Tiny stranger from the world of dreams Last Line: With home despoiled as you unfold? Subject(s): Children; Childhood 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 DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone played the child within the magic wood Last Line: Who smiled in dreaming of another face. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little feet running upon the floor Last Line: And even the sweets the heart thought past recover. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Feet; Kisses; Mothers; Youth; Childhood THE CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was only the clinging touch Last Line: It hath made the whole day sweet. Subject(s): Children; Good Samaritan; Touch (sense); Childhood THE CHILD ALONE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant thing to be free Last Line: A pirate that they put to bed? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness THE CHILD ALONE: 1. THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When children are playing alone on the green Last Line: T is he will take care of your playthings himself! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILD ALONE: 3. MY KINGDOM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down by a shining water well Last Line: How great and cool the rooms! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILD ALONE: 7. THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening when the lamp is lit Last Line: At my dear land of story-books. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Play; Reading; Childhood THE CHILD AND HIND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, maids and matrons, to caress Last Line: Wiesbaden's gentle hind. Subject(s): Children; Deer; Legends, German; Wiesbaden, Germany; Childhood THE CHILD AND THE OCEAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, ocean dear, all yesterday Last Line: "I'll never frighten you again." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Fear; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE CHILD AND THE ROSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the child to the rose: I would that I Last Line: Dead, with a baby at her breast. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Night; Roses; Winter; Childhood; Bedtime THE CHILD AT PRAYER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby to a baby prays Last Line: That tender sight to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Childhood THE CHILD IN A GARDEN, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the flaxen locks, and laughing eye Last Line: Watches to win thee back with pitying love Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When to the garden of untroubled thought Last Line: "I am the little child you used to be." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHILD IN THE HEART, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There's a child in my heart that sings and sings Last Line: If ever the child in my heart be dead! Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Childhood; Joy; Delight THE CHILD ON THE CURBSTONE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The headlights raced; the moon, death-faced Last Line: Dipping his foot in danger. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILD READING THE BIBLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him at his sport erewhile Last Line: Child-like, and therefore full of might! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bible; Children; Childhood THE CHILD'S APPEAL, by MAMIE GENE COLE Poem Text First Line: I am the child Last Line: Train me, I beg you, that I may be a blessing to the world. Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHILD-BRIDE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Tread lightly in the lane-way Last Line: The child-bride's sleep is long * * * — Subject(s): Children; Death; Heaven; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Paradise THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: When I was but a little tot Last Line: Within the nurseries of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women; Childhood THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children she had missed Last Line: Was a dream, but a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Heaven; Mothers; Women; Childhood; Paradise THE CHILDREN, by CHARLES MONROE DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the lessons and tasks are all ended Last Line: To bid me good night and be kissed ! Subject(s): Children; Home; Childhood THE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The children, lord, the children! Last Line: Will answer every call. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Children; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHILDREN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children bring us laughter, and the children bring us tears Last Line: The laughter of the children shapes the destiny of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILDREN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children! Ah, the children! / your innocent, joyous ones Last Line: For ever and ever more! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILDREN, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring! - almost summer! The winter's gone Last Line: The first of all who shall gather there! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Socialism; Spring; Childhood THE CHILDREN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that your reason? The children? Their future? Last Line: He will thank you in the end. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILDREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dumb child and the blind child Last Line: From their head to their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Comfort; Deafness; God; Orphans; Visually Handicapped; Childhood; Foundlings THE CHILDREN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring on the pavements of the city Last Line: With the receding day. Subject(s): Children; New York City; Childhood; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir nameless, once of athelhall, declared Last Line: "who was this old stone man beneath our toes?" Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE CHILDREN DANCING, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, sad thoughts, and teasing Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Childhood THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night it was jewelled Last Line: A rosy morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Flowers; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Roses; Childhood; Nativity, The; Paradise THE CHILDREN OF LIR, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses Last Line: Cleaving the still water where the fishes rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILDREN OF THE PALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whence comes this motley, dark-eyed, swarthy / crowd" Last Line: Recalling ancient stories proudly told / of israel's line Subject(s): Children;history;israel;jews; Childhood;historians;judaism THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give heed unto this little lad Last Line: And finds them ragged in array! Subject(s): Children; God; Childhood THE CHILDREN WHOM JESUS BLESSED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy were they, the mothers, in whose sight Last Line: Of claims upon a heritage divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S ANGEL, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The streets are dark at clermont in auvern Last Line: "and take the children's angel from their youth." Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Angels; Children; France; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S BEDTIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The clock strikes seven in the hall Last Line: And light us on to god and heaven Subject(s): Children;night; Childhood;bedtime THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHILDREN'S CHURCH, by CARL GEROCK Poem Text First Line: The bells of the churches are ringing Last Line: A breath in the infinite ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Gerok, Carl; Gerrock, Karl Subject(s): Children; Churches; Childhood; Cathedrals THE CHILDREN'S ELEGY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have seen their eyes. In peaceful gardens Subject(s): Children; War; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the dark and the daylight Last Line: And moulder in dust away. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S MUSIC, by FRANCES MARY OWEN Poem Text First Line: We asked where the magic came from Last Line: "which the little children hear." Alternate Author Name(s): Owen, F. M. Subject(s): Children; Music & Musicians; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S PEDDLER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up above the village roofs the white road climbs away Last Line: Just the crazy peddlerman that all the children know! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Children; Peddlers & Peddling; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S TRAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the train approaches the tunnel, the kids Subject(s): Children; Railroads; Childhood; Railways; Trains THE CHILDREN'S TRIUMPH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunbeams came to my window Last Line: But the children won the day. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children bear our froward mood Last Line: See, lord,—they bear with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hawthorn buds are creaming white Last Line: "I am looking for my children. Awake, and come away." Subject(s): Children; Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Dancing & Dancers; England; Faces; Singing & Singers; Childhood; English THE CHOSEN CHILD, by BLANCHE C. HARDY Poem Text First Line: The chosen child must ever be Last Line: The place of peace is ever found. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood THE CHRISTENING, by AMY SHERMAN BRIDGMAN Poem Text First Line: O little one Last Line: Let us go! Subject(s): Baptism; Children; Christenings; Childhood THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, as of old, the shadows fold, and the Last Line: Children yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Love; Worship; Childhood; Nativity, The 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 CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see not god, yet while we grope Last Line: Our life! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS HOUR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is the hour my heart has waited for Last Line: "peace and good-will dwell in the world again!" Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS QUEST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little, lonely shepherd lad Last Line: "he will find—a child!" Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star Last Line: In every little baby's birth. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CIRCLE GAME, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children on the lawn Subject(s): Games; Children; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Childhood THE CIRCUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The circus tent was crowded Last Line: Where they had stood before! Subject(s): Children; Circus; Smiles; Childhood THE CITY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not mine with infancy's film'd eyes Last Line: Thy singer here reborn. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, by JOHN SAIDMORE Poem Text First Line: I saw a child crowned with a crown Last Line: Save where eyes see the worlds I dream. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CITY OF MY YOUTH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The town I knew is sunk from sight Last Line: Thy happiness my tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cities; Youth; Urban Life THE COB HOUSE, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Willy and charley, eight and ten Last Line: Might learn a lesson of master will. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE COCK'S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And new days begin Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Scotland THE COMFORTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat by my baby's bed Last Line: A snow-white butterfly. Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Childhood THE COMICAL GIRL, by M. PELHAM Poem Text First Line: There was a child, as I have been told Last Line: When napping, she always shut close up her eyes. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE COMMON LOT, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheets on which I rest at night Last Line: Are sleepy fine and drowsy white. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE COUNTRY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country child has fragrances Last Line: And in his cheeks old roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Innocence; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE COUNTRY SCHOOL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the woodland path where flowers blow Last Line: "o happy hearted little girls and boys." Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students THE CREDULOUS CHILD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The older ones that know me best Last Line: That trusts me through and through. Subject(s): Children; Trust; Childhood THE CROWN, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently through the dusk my thoughts return to me Last Line: One coronet for both of astral buds and leaves. Subject(s): Children; Crowns; Fear; Flowers; Life; Pride; Childhood; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DANCERS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dance and dance! Another faun Last Line: I will outdance him! Ho, ho, ho! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Childhood THE DAY DR. KNOX DID IT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat-blaze, white dazzle: and white is the dust Last Line: It us night. In the next room she weeps Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Suicide; Southern States; Death THE DAYS GONE BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the days gone by! O the days gone by! Last Line: In the golden olden glory of the days gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Youth; Childhood THE DAYS OF SUN, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Childhood's days are days of sun Last Line: Wherethrough blithe footsteps skip and run! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence; Sun; Childhood THE DEAD CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little son was dead Last Line: The mother is in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Death; Innocence; Lambs; Mothers; Sons; Childhood; Dead, The THE DEAD DOLL, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: You needn't be trying to comfort me - I tell you my dolly is dead! Last Line: "in her head." Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood THE DEATH-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits beneath the elder-tree Last Line: Knoweth that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Tears; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DESIRE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me no mansions ivory white Last Line: Just four years old. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Desire; God; Prayer; Childhood THE DESTRUCTION OF LONG BRANCH, N.J., by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they came out with artifical turf Subject(s): Homecoming; Childhood Memories; Long Branch, New Jersey THE DEVONSHIRE MOTHER, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: The king have called the devon lads and they be answering fine Last Line: With his tanned face, his eyes of blue, and he so strappin' tall. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women And War; World War I; Childhood; First World War THE DIAMOND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister said she knew Last Line: Well—she'll be sorry when I'm dead! Subject(s): Children; Diamonds; Childhood THE DINKEY-BIRD, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an ocean, 'way out yonder Last Line: In the amfalula tree! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE DIRT EATERS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever we grew tired and bored of curb ball, Subject(s): Dirt; Food & Eating; Children; Childhood THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF CHILDHOOD, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine now, an affection the same size Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE DOGWOOD THE ANSWER, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogwood is no answer Last Line: All this island music Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Neighbors THE DOLL BELIEVERS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lifeless construction Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Parents; Toys; Childhood; Parenthood THE DREAM OF THE CHILDREN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children awoke in their dreaming Last Line: And half was never forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares THE DREAMING CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is there sadness in thy dreams, my boy? Last Line: Start from the dream-like wilderness of life? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares THE DUTCH-CUT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! If I could only have Last Line: Curls aren't stylish any more! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Childhood THE EARLY LOST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fare-thee-well, fair flower, that opening Last Line: Pass'd, to mingle in the clay! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE EAVESDROPPER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If little boys don't hurry off to bed Last Line: Would take away the things he left last year! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Faith; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Belief; Creed; Nicholas, Saint THE ECHOING GREEN, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun does arise, / and make happy the skies Last Line: On the darkening green. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Night; Play; Childhood; Bedtime THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a toadstool / crept a wee elf Last Line: First were invented. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Umbrellas; Childhood; Elves THE ELF CHILD, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Melissa was a strange, strange child Last Line: To be so mute and lie so still. Subject(s): Children; Chipmunks; Fairies; Childhood; Elves THE EMPEROR'S PROGRESS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child of brighter than the mornings birth Last Line: Leaves fearful of the bitterness of death. Subject(s): Children; Death; Pain; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE EMPTY HOUSE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old house stands in a pasture lot Last Line: An empty house? Well, empty of what? Subject(s): Children; Houses, Deserted; Childhood THE ENGLISH CHILD'S REPLY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have heard the call from your fair green isle Last Line: But for erin's children, we'll always pray. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE ETERNAL SEARCH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little maiden two years old, just able Last Line: The locks and bolts of the last door of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE EXPLORER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little billy wilson ran Last Line: Said little billy wilson. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Explorers; Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON LOW; A MIDSUMMER LEGEND, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And where have you been, my mary Last Line: "for I'm tired as I can be." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves THE FAIRY SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I know where the flowers go Last Line: And school is out at last! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Schools; Spring; Childhood; Students THE FAIRY'S GIFT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the little one's cradle Last Line: She found the heart of a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Friendship; Love; Childhood THE FAIRY'S SISTER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when the wind rode high Last Line: I will hear and follow! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE FAMILY GROUP, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sunday at the zoo I understood the child Last Line: The strange uncertain rumor of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE FEARFUL CHILD, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real. Subject(s): Children; Pets; Family Life; Fear; Childhood; Relatives THE FEAST OF FREEDOM, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I remember in my childhood Last Line: "of a spring of long ago. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Feasts; Freedom; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O mary, drooping by the door Last Line: Before thy son, the king. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FIRST MOVIE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with jessamine, the tall black lady Last Line: Sayng hush, hush, but I 'd hushed myself already Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Childhood Memories THE FIRST OF MAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If I could stay up late no doubt Last Line: I'd catch the buds just bursting out. Subject(s): Children; May (month); Childhood THE FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear! Is summer over? Last Line: "why, it's just begun!" Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Summer; Childhood THE FIRST VALENTINE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to write a valentine Last Line: I like her best of anyone! Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Valentine's Day; Childhood 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 FIRSTBORN, by ARCHIBALD YOUNG CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the chill dawn was breaking, with moist eye Last Line: One mystery and the same. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE FIRSTBORN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the night doth fall Last Line: In small appear. Subject(s): Children; Inheritance And Succession; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE FISHERMAN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sitted here for days and days Last Line: Has seen a single fish! Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; Childhood; Anglers THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never care when my feet are wet Last Line: But I hate when snow gets into my boots. Subject(s): Children; Snow; Childhood THE FLYING EAGLES OF TROOP 62, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ralph neal was the scoutmaster Last Line: The country is enough to drive you crazy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Boy Scouts; Childhood Memories THE FLYING GANG, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I served my time, in the days gone by Last Line: For the boys of the flying gang. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Childhood THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Tears are within us. There is security Last Line: And the tears weep also, as they flow away. Subject(s): Children; Consolation; Fountains; Pity; Tears; Childhood THE FOUR CHILDREN; A BALLAD OF GOOD INTENTIONS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four children played by an old oak tree Last Line: Where hangs the corpse of little benjie. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Aging; Children; Suicide; Childhood THE FOUR CORNERS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the empty lot, we are betting Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FURY OF OVERSHOES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sit in a row / outside the kindergarten Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes; Childhood; Theology; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE GAMBOLS OF CHILDREN, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the dimpled green-sward dancing Last Line: At love's self, and do not fear it. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE GAMECOCKS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I think of pine needles Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE GAMES, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: Luck makes him head, he meets it pranksomely Last Line: Youth, and romance, and music of the moon! Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GATE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat, two children, warm against the wall Subject(s): Children; Coming Of Age; Innocence; Childhood THE GATEKEEPER'S CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house of the very rich. Subject(s): Wealth; Social Classes; Children; Riches; Fortunes; Caste; Childhood THE GEATE A-VALLEN TO, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the zunsheen ov our zummers Last Line: The geäte a-vallèn to. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Family Life; Fences; Childhood; Relatives THE GIFT OF INSIGHT, by NORA F. MCCORMICK Poem Text First Line: Strange thoughts came to me as I watched Last Line: His superscription in the humblest face. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE GIRL, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That house in which you lived was not you home Last Line: A child no longer. Subject(s): Child Care; Children; Growth; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood THE GOLDEN LEGEND: THE PARABLE OF ST. CHRISTOPHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To a king's court a giant came Last Line: As to the heathen men. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The THE GOOD CAUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the old house where lilacs bloomed and died Last Line: Scorn, poverty, disease -- and this is best. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE GOODNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood still by her bed Subject(s): Children; Anxiety; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE GREEN STAMP BOOK, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child in the thick of yearning. Doll carted and pushed Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Supermarkets; Children; Childhood THE HAMMOCK, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lay my head in my mother's lap Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE HAPPY CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I saw this day sweet flowers grow thick Last Line: But not like what the child has seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE HAPPY HOUR, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The busy day is over Last Line: With a baby on her breast. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE HAPPY LITTLE CLOCK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In my garret room, I'm never quite / alone Last Line: With my little china clock upon the shelf. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Friendship; January; Time; Childhood THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow Last Line: "they's nary angel 'bout the place with ""curv'ture of the spine""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE HATCHERY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in havana as school children we took a field trip Variant Title(s): At The Hatchery Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Students THE HAVEN, by JOHN C. ADLER Poem Text First Line: The life of a little child is new Last Line: And a backward turn of his eyes. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE HEART OF A BOY; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ice on sabrina's plain Last Line: Or wandered, unawares, emmäus-ward with christ. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Childhood THE HEART'S RETURN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When darkened hours come crowding fast Last Line: Folding his happy sheep and knowing all his tasks are done. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE HEROES OF CHILDHOOD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heroes of childhood were simple and austere Last Line: Which only in the future has a permanent shape Subject(s): Children; Heroism; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines THE HIGH CHAIR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grimly the parent matches wit and will Last Line: With milk and cereal and a surf of prunes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE HIRED MAN'S FAITH IN CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe all childern's good Last Line: S jes' as good as they kin be! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Childhood; Work; Workers THE HISTORY LESSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a monkey climbed up a tree Last Line: "there was a navy went into spain, / when it returned, it came again" Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE HOMELAND, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My land was the west land; my home was on the hill Last Line: But I am at my mother's knee, a little lad again. Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories THE HONEY-BIRD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The honey-bird, my children Last Line: Are neighbors to the bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Forests; Hunting; Childhood; Woods; Hunters THE HOOSIER FOLK-CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier folk-child - all unsung Last Line: In beaten gold, belongs to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fables; Wisdom; Childhood; Allegories THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 1. THE GOOD OGRE'S BEARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the nuns once a month Last Line: Give me to him, may he live for ever and ever, amen. Subject(s): Children; Relationships; Wishes; Childhood THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul! Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 4. THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roofs of wool row are charcoal Last Line: I don't listen, I don't listen. Subject(s): Bells; Children; Dusk; Farewell; Relationships; Childhood; Parting THE HOUSE DOWN THE STREET, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is empty, the yellow house that used to be Subject(s): Childhood Memories 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 ICE-CREAM SANDWICH, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In second grade I felt about him, and Last Line: Relive the inexplicable in middle age. Subject(s): Children; Love; Memory; Childhood THE IDEA OF SOUP, by NORMAN DUBIE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The women would come in chevrolets Subject(s): Children; Charity; Childhood; Philanthropy THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE INNOCENTS, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock in the dish Last Line: "to quiet his crying." Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE INTERPRETER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot talk the grown-up way Last Line: I understand them all quite well. Subject(s): Children; Talk; Childhood THE INTERRUPTION, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: From the tidy cup of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships; Childhood THE INVADERS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through dim mysterious, darkened halls Last Line: You cannot keep the children out. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives THE JUMBLIES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went to sea in a sieve, they did Last Line: And they went to sea in a sieve. Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE KID (1), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it falls flat Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE KID (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kid left Subject(s): Children; Separation; Childhood THE KILLCROP, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You squalling imp, lie still! Isn't it enough Last Line: I'll rocket him. (exit.) Subject(s): Children; Devil; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Murder; Superstition; Childhood; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE KIND OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kind old man - the mild old Last Line: When he was as tough as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Old Age; Youth; Childhood THE KING IN THE CRADLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my sweet little babie, what meanest thou to cry" Last Line: "lulla, la lulla, lulla, lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE KINGDOM OF THE SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh ho, the robin and the spring! Last Line: All the woodland is a kingdom with a little child for king! Subject(s): Children; Robins; Spring; Childhood THE KNOWING CHILD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mais, gardez-vous, mon cher,' she said Last Line: And from a knowing child! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee? Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee. Variant Title(s): The Lamb Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE LAME CHILD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: He passed along our village street Last Line: Along his crippled years! Subject(s): Children; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Farewell, little groundlings! Last Line: That grow on red hill. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Orphans; Childhood; Parting; Foundlings THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16 Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE LAND OF NOD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From breakfast on through all the day Last Line: The curious music that I hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 17 Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE LANE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How are those berries lovely in Last Line: And plucking other flower of dreams. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Winter; Childhood THE LAST LOOK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shade of the will fell dark on the tide Last Line: "ah, who will now watch o'er my favourite flowers!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Childhood THE LAST THING I SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE LATCH UPON THE GATE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little hurts of childhood seem such little hurts / to us Last Line: We must get down and climb to reach the latch upon the gate. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE LAW OF THE PERVERSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the custom come Last Line: Fore-eating everything, from soup to pie! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Customs, Social; Food & Eating; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Childhood THE LETHAL TRAUMAS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the lethal traumas Subject(s): Change; Children; Childhood THE LETTER MAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My santa claus goes every day Last Line: The wishes in his pack. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; December; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint THE LIFE OF HUBERT: MEMORIES OF A DORSET BOYHOOD IN THE 1730S, by THOMAS COLE (1727-1796) Poem Text First Line: The blue expanse of a hyacinthine bloom Last Line: Their num'rous, ceaseless, varied cawings blend. Subject(s): Children; Dorset, England; Memory; Childhood THE LION GROTTO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing odd Last Line: He'll ask again why things die. Subject(s): Children; Death; Loss; Childhood; Dead, The THE LISPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elsie mingus lisps, she does! Last Line: "ner thup thoop so awful loud!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Speech Disorders; Childhood; Stuttering; Muteness THE LISTENERS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down the street Last Line: In the distance going away Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories; Nostalgia THE LITTLE ARMY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little women, little men Last Line: Dreaming of his by-gone days. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE LITTLE CHILD, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A simple-hearted child was he Last Line: For the thorns that it must wear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer little children to come unto me,' Last Line: The anti-christ of schrecklichkeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Children; Evil; Hell; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Childhood THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger points a bony finger Last Line: With gladness, youth and may. Subject(s): Children; Hunger; May (month); Childhood THE LITTLE COAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's his ragged 'round-a-bout' Last Line: Beckon us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood THE LITTLE CONQUEROR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight; not a sound was heard Last Line: Tears fall and mingle with her own Subject(s): Children;night; Childhood;bedtime THE LITTLE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars began to peep Last Line: And knows that it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Supernatural; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a little house Last Line: For the children lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HILL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O memory, be sweet to me Last Line: In the little house on the hill! Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE LITTLE NEW PUPIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A brand new pupil came to school Last Line: He's but a kitten gray. Subject(s): Children; January; Schools; Childhood; Students THE LITTLE ONES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones, ah god, these tiny nestlers! Last Line: The bitter bread of life! Subject(s): Children; God; Life; Childhood THE LITTLE PEACH, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little peach in the orchard grew Last Line: Adieu! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of your old-world stories, uncle john Last Line: As one would scatter flowers upon a bier. Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Snow; Childhood THE LITTLE PLANT ON THE WINDOW SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If you had let me stay all winter long / outside Last Line: And great big gardens call you out to play. Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; January; Plants; Play; Childhood; Planting; Planters THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the little white hearse went glimmering Last Line: As the little white hearse went glimmering by. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Hearses; Childhood; Dead, The THE LITTLE WORN-OUT PONY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a little worn-out pony this side of hogan's shack Last Line: But I doubt if there's his equal in the pony world today Subject(s): Animals;cattle;children;heroism;horses; Childhood;heroes;heroines THE LOEHRS AND THE HAMMONDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, bud! O bud!' rang out a gleeful call Last Line: Taffy and pop-corn -- so with cheers they went. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives THE LONELY BABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose dolly is you? Last Line: Whose dolly is you? Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood THE LOST BOWER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pleasant orchard closes Last Line: Lost ... And won!' Subject(s): Innocence; Loss; Children; Childhood THE LOST CHILDREN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago, as dusk seeped from the blue Last Line: Eidolons, adrift on the night air. Subject(s): Children; Games; Loss; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE LOST THOUGHT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a thought that through my mind Last Line: If 'twas that thought I dreamed! Subject(s): Children; Thought; Childhood; Thinking THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Children; Movies; Cinema; Childhood THE LOVELY CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies are both pure and fair Last Line: Than a primrose, blossoming? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Childhood THE LOVING-CUP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the time of year for the loving-cup Last Line: Where the babe and mary are. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Childhood; Nativity, The THE MADONNA OF THE CURB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the curb of a city pavement Last Line: Madonna of the curb! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Children; Cities; Poverty; Childhood; Urban Life THE MAKING OF VIOLA, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spin, daughter mary, spin Last Line: Gift of tears, my viola! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE MAN IN THE MOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the raggedy man on a hot afternoon Last Line: "him!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Nonsense; Childhood THE MAN TO BE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day the world will need a man of courage Last Line: The man the world shall need some day may be your little boy or mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE MASQUERADERS, by WEX JONES Poem Text First Line: The telephone looks like a dolly Last Line: Till betty's back safely in school. Subject(s): Children; Prudence; Childhood; Caution THE MAYOR'S CHILDREN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To be the mayor's children it must be Last Line: And let you be the chiefest one in every kind of play. Subject(s): Children; September; Childhood THE MEETING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went up and he came down, my little six-year boy Last Line: And I went up and he went down comforted wonderfully. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Love; Mothers; Sons; Childhood THE MERCHANTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the frost Last Line: Happy the few who will buy of the rain. Subject(s): Children; Games; Merchants; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE MERMAID, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, little millicent, and sit upon my knee Last Line: Oh, lovely they, with waves at play, but doom unto a ship! Subject(s): Children; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN Poem Text First Line: What blissful thrills of merriment are found Last Line: Till, lo! He calls a halt—and comes the end. Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Children; Games; Merry-go-grounds; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Carousels THE MINISTRY OF SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In god's great field of labour Last Line: To praise him and rejoice. Subject(s): Children; Clergy; Praise; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Songs THE MISSIONARY'S DAUGHTER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't sewed my children's clo'se Last Line: The things I'm always wanting to. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Childhood 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 MONARCH, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lord of the land and the sea Last Line: Weird creatures of cotton and bran. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE MOON-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lonely child am I Last Line: For me but sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: ALICE'S STORY. PART I, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight softly glanced upon Last Line: And then her teacher smiled. Subject(s): Children; Girls; Story-telling; Childhood THE MOORLAND CHILD, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the bleak and barren moor Last Line: "and god's exceeding pity!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE MORNING SUN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the sun of afternoon Last Line: To drive a person crazy! Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood THE MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark! / did you not hear a sound from out the dark Last Line: Save me alone? The people there are dead! Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Fear; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes? What! It's you! And you love him more than yourself Last Line: Are my poor kisses he has not returned. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER, by LYDIA GIBSON Poem Text First Line: Never again to feel that little kiss Last Line: Oh — little hands . . . That in the dust have lain! Subject(s): Children; Death; Faith; God; Grief; Mothers; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOTHER, by FRANCIS JORDAN PRESTON Poem Text First Line: Is my child aware that I / fear and worry Last Line: That I gave him life to live. Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THE MOTHER (1), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great passions I awake that must Last Line: Lord, make me worthy, keep them blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Love; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER'S HOPE, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, when the winds are singing Last Line: For she listens -- with her heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER'S LAMENT UPON LOSS OF HER CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou no mercy, wind, that thou should'st tear from me Last Line: In colors rare, upon fond memory's page. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Children; Photography & Photographers; Childhood THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by SEBA SMITH Poem Text First Line: The cold winds swept the mountain's height Last Line: The babe looked up and sweetly smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Downing, Major Jack Variant Title(s): The Mother In The Snow-storm Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sacrifices; Storms; Childhood THE MURMUR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor flicks on a light Last Line: Red and green and indigo. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Medicine; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription; Parenthood THE MYSTIC TIE, by MAX MEYERHARDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mystic tie that joins Last Line: Which time and change cannot efface. Subject(s): Children; Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Childhood; Judaism THE MYTH, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood all a myth Last Line: The faithful watchers stood Subject(s): Life; Childhood Memories THE NAUGHTY DARKEY BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cruel darkey boy Subject(s): Blacks;boys;children;cruelty;fish & Fishing; Childhood THE NEST, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This eve I left the flocks to stray and crop the grass with no one by Last Line: Believe you were a little saint just changed to child from angelhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Eggs; Childhood THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings THE NEW CLOAK, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After school I went to walk Last Line: Teachers make a girl so shy! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE NIGHT LIGHT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there is no moon Last Line: Has flown away! Subject(s): Beds; Children; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime THE NOBLE OLD ELM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O big old tree, so tall an' fine Last Line: "but shade belongs to you an' me." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Neighbors; Trees; Childhood THE NURSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Such innocent companionship Last Line: Within is only innocence. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Innocence; Labor & Laborers; Nurses; Praise; Childhood; Work; Workers THE OCCASIONAL ANGUISH OF BEDTIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is sister's party night Last Line: That's why they treat us so. Subject(s): Children; Discontent; Sleep; Childhood; Dissatisfaction THE OFFERING, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they cleaned you and gave you to me Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE OLD ARM-CHAIR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I love it! I love it! And who shall dare Last Line: My soul from a mother's old arm-chair. Subject(s): Chairs; Children; Mothers; Childhood THE OLD HOME-FOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such was the child-world of the long-ago Last Line: "of like views with ""the noted traveler." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Home; Youth; Childhood THE OLD HOUSE, by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN Poem Text First Line: Cold and cheerless, bare and bleak Last Line: For us and all the children. Subject(s): Children; Houses; Muses; Poverty; Childhood THE OLD HOUSE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little birds, with backs as brown Last Line: In that new house not made with hands! Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE OLD LURE (FLEET STREET), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gaunt night covers the city Last Line: And the pals of long ago. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Old Age THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my [or, this] heart are the scenes of my childhood Last Line: The moss covered bucket which hangs in the well. Variant Title(s): The Bucket Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Scituate, Massachusetts; Childhood THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set on a rounding hill-top Last Line: Till the grand hills fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE OLDEST CHILD, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night still frightens you. Subject(s): Night; Children; Bedtime; Childhood THE ONLY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lest he miss other children, lo! Last Line: His happy mother's tears and prayers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Angels; Children; Play; Childhood THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced upon an early walk to spy Last Line: Far down with mellow orchards to endow. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Gypsies; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Gipsies THE OTHER ONE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather around me, children dear Last Line: Dearest of all, the other one. Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Childhood THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE PARENT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood THE PARENTS OF PSYCHOTIC CHILDREN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They renounce the very idea Last Line: Like the crazy birds, to their offspring. Subject(s): Children; Insanity; Parents; Childhood; Madness; Mental Illness; Parenthood THE PARIAH, by ROSE TOOTHAKER MILLILKEN Poem Text First Line: I saw her kneeling in the garden plot Last Line: I somehow knew her soul had found its god. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood THE PARTY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't care if nobody Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE PASSING OF THE EMPEROR, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: The children romped in the village street Last Line: On the road to waterloo. Subject(s): Children; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo; Childhood; Battle Of Waterloo THE PASSOVER IN THE HOLY FAMILY (FOR A DRAWING), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here meet together the prefiguring day Last Line: And mary culls the bitter herbs ordained. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE PEEPING VINE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The small vine wants to come inside Last Line: And watch us from the window sill. Subject(s): Children; May (month); Childhood THE PENALTY OF GENIUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little 'pollus morton he's Last Line: Us morton, teacher, speech, an' all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Genius; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE PET NAME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a name, a little name Last Line: And heighten it with heaven. Subject(s): Children; Names; Childhood THE PICTURE OF J.T. IN A PROSPECT OF STONE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What should one / wish a child Subject(s): Children; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Childhood THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T.C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: See with what simplicity / this nymph begins her golden days! Last Line: Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mortality; Childhood THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 3. THE CHILD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad son of earth, if ever to thy care Last Line: "I come!"" I cried; and with the cry awoke." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fate; Life; Saints; Childhood; World; Destiny THE PILGRIM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch me not, mother, who art thou Last Line: Because I love thee so! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE PLAY-SPRITE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slim woodland faun who stands upon the brink Last Line: On that gay sprite of yours whose name is play. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths Last Line: With tender care and love. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE PLAYMATE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I barked beneath his window, 'come and play!' Last Line: There's nothing left to do but wait—and wait. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Play; Childhood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 231, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the triple world Last Line: Don't drink the water of darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Children; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Childhood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 253, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children I implore you Last Line: Are free to go where they want Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Children; Chinese Literature; Fire; Buddha; Buddhists; Childhood THE POET AND THE BABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell Last Line: That I wonder what 's the use of writing mine. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood THE POET AT SEVEN, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And on the porch, across the upturned chair Last Line: And whip him down the street, but gently, home Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Childhood THE POET'S CHILD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the heart of a child of sweetest song! Last Line: His songs are letters in a book -- thou art their ray. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Williams, Richard Dalton (1822-1862); Childhood THE POLICE COURT, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these thy children, lord, this criminal row Last Line: Thy children, god, since we a choice are shown. Subject(s): Children; Crime & Criminals; Childhood THE POOH-POOH BIRD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've often heard / the pooh-pooh bird Last Line: And he will flee when thus discovered. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood THE POOL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind through the summer woods blows cool Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Childhood Memories THE POOR LITTLE RICH FLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It's better to be a buttercup out in the / grass Last Line: Flower, in a lady's bower. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Summer; Wealth; Childhood; Riches; Fortunes THE PRAYER OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit, that broods upon the hills Last Line: Cry, cry to thee, o compassionate! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Children; Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Salvation; Women; Childhood; Male-female Relations THE PRELUDE: BOOK 1. CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: This labour will be welcome, honoured friend! Subject(s): Children; Play; Schools; Childhood; Students THE PRIMER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said in my youth Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE PRINCESS: LULLABY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and low, sweet and low Last Line: Sleep my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Princess: Song Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE PRISONER'S CHILD, by ELIZA L. SPROAT Poem Text First Line: The dull chill prison building Last Line: My wild, wild rose. Subject(s): Children; Prisons & Prisoners; Childhood THE PROF.'S LITTLE GIRL, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: She comes to the quad when her ladyship pleases Last Line: The signs of her sex in the prof's little girl. Subject(s): Children; Lust; Childhood THE PUPPY CLASS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell them all that a's for appetite Last Line: Who lick your face and bark and tumble down. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Childhood THE PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the southeast asian war Last Line: But I wish he'd quit Subject(s): Children; United States; War; Childhood; America THE QUEEN OF THE YEAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suns are low, and nights are long Last Line: With the christ-child in her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE RAGGEDY MAN ON CHILDREN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Childern - take 'em as they Last Line: Then be good ef they'd be good. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Soul; Childhood THE RAINBOW, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chased a rainbow in my youth Last Line: Now I am growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE RARE BOOK, by EDNA SCRUGGS WILLIAMSON Poem Text First Line: Twas just a little while ago - or so, to me, it seems Last Line: Long upon the cherished pages marked by baby fingers. Subject(s): Books; Children; Mothers; Reading; Childhood THE READER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She is going back, these days, to the great stories Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Reading THE READER OF THE SENTENCES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead soldiers rise and walk into the trees Last Line: There is the day's work to be done. Subject(s): Books; Children; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Jesus Christ; Martyrs; Memory; Resurrection, The; World War Ii; Reading; Childhood; Eckhart, Meister; Second World War THE READING MOTHER, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a mother who read to me Last Line: I had a mother who read to me. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE REST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rests at last, as on the motherbreast Last Line: We'll not believe that till he tells us so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Life; Mothers; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 8. UNASSISTED BUILDING SCHEME, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So like any of us / kensington or hyde parkers Last Line: She added the lot. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves THE REVIEW, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I grow, or did I stay Last Line: Shall still revive, and flourish in the dust. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Thought; Childhood; Thinking THE RIDER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've rode a thousand miles or more Last Line: I don't get very far away. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood THE RIDER OF THE KNEE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knightly rider of the knee Last Line: Knightly rider of the knee! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Knights & Knighthood; Childhood THE RIVAL ARTISTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way elizabeth draws Last Line: When she is older! Subject(s): Children; Drawing; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE RIVER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awed I behold once more Last Line: And soon may give my dust their funeral shade. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Nature; Rivers; Trees; Childhood THE RIVER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors THE RIVER STOUR, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stour, of all our streams the dearest Last Line: Be thy by-dwellers, gliding stour. Subject(s): Children; Rivers; Stour (river), England; Childhood THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little ellie sits alone Last Line: That swan's nest among the reeds! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Swans; Childhood THE RUDE BOY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a boy that goes to school Last Line: "clear the way—here comes miss prim!" Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE RUINED INN, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway stands a ruined inn Last Line: That time of sunrise and of boyish dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life THE SALT OF THE EARTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If childhood were not in the world Last Line: Yet looked upon the sun. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE SANDMAN'S SONG, by ANNA M. SEARCY Poem Text First Line: The sandman comes from the moon on high Last Line: "tis the sandman's song in the ""lullaby." Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE SCHOLAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When I was ignorant and small Last Line: I keep my eyes tight on my book. Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Education; January; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading THE SECRET (F.P.D.), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem the stable was small and mean and old Last Line: Then held him close against her breast, for little jesus smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHADOWS, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: All up and down in shadow-town Last Line: And fill your eyes with sleep! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE SHRINE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Alone, with hardened eyes which shed no tears Last Line: And lo! My lips burst forth in praise to god. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Solitude; Loneliness THE SHRINE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: Intentions and goals Subject(s): Women; Cities; Grief; Childhood Memories THE SICK CHILD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy fevered arms around me Last Line: "oh! Not my will but thine." Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He for whom the world was made Last Line: In his mother's heart, dear lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SICK CHILD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That child was quiet and would no longer run Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE SICK CHILD IN KENSINGTON, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the gardens / where lemon trees / bloom? Are they gardens Last Line: My gardens so still? Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE SIGN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Faithful hearts had long been watching Last Line: And the sign—a little child! Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE SIGNS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he should lift his hand Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Childhood THE SISTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the little quiet town Last Line: And ships upon the sea? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Laughter; Sisters; Childhood THE SIX SORROWS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are six sorrows in my heart Last Line: Six sorrows all my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SMACK IN SCHOOL, by WILLIAM PITT PALMER Poem Text First Line: A district school, not far away Last Line: "I thought she kind o' wished me to!" Variant Title(s): The Kiss In School;a Rousing Smack Subject(s): Children; Kisses; Schools; Women; Childhood; Students THE SON, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: When jesus was a child, did people say Last Line: The gallows, or the cross, or some bad end. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE SONG OF THE GYPSY BOY, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hawthorn blossom's white in may Last Line: Beware! Beware! Subject(s): Children; Knives; Childhood; Daggers THE SONG-SHOP, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tink, tink, tink, / hear the pretty pieces clink Last Line: Stars, and all-assorted things. Subject(s): Children; January; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Childhood THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father, let thy little child Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPINNING-WHEEL (YONDERLAND SONG), by LYA BERGER Poem Text First Line: Children, children, where is it now? Last Line: In glory glow on strasbourg's towers. Subject(s): Children; Spinning; Childhood THE SPOILED CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cause herbert graham's a' only child Last Line: "wuz I there, ma? Wuz I there, ma?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives THE SPY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mother she spanked me so hard Last Line: I'll find where you live, an' I'll tell my old cat. Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Mothers; Childhood THE STORY AFTER THE STORY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation THE STORY OF THE BAREFOOT BOY, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On haverhill's pleasant hills there played Last Line: Waft him a crown of glory. Subject(s): Boys; Childhood Memories THE STREET CHILDREN'S DANCE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the earth in fields and hills Last Line: Touch them, fate! With april glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Childhood THE STREET WITH NO SHOP ON THE CORNER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains I had not seen, nor the sea Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE STREETS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marlboro' and waterloo and trafalgar Last Line: Caught by sharp roofs in a narrow net of sky. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; War; Childhood THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last chris'mus, little benny Last Line: "you skeer me thataway!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Gifts & Giving; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives THE SUBJECT MATTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How elusive - what we want Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives THE SUMMER CHILDREN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like 'em in the winter when their cheeks are Last Line: Of healthy, lusty youngsters that the summer sun has tanned. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Summer; Childhood THE SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, Subject(s): Teenagers; Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers THE SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Long before the postman comes Last Line: We thank thee for the sun's good light. Subject(s): Children; God; Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Summer; Childhood; Theology THE SUNDERLAND CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the town of sunderland, and in the year of 1883 Last Line: To aid and comfort the bereaved parents in their grief. Subject(s): Charity; Children; Despair; Grief; Pity; Philanthropy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWIMMING POOL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the apt. Swimming pool Subject(s): Children; Teasing; Cruelty; Social Classes; Childhood; Caste THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SWING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do you like to go up in a swing Last Line: Up in the air and down! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 33 Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Swings; Childhood; Work; Workers THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE TELL-TALE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We used to like the little birds Last Line: Would go and tell on bill and me! Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Childhood THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE THERMOS, by ARTHUR SZE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppy seeds from a north bennington garden Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood THE THREE CHILDREN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Else had blown away on the east wind. Richard went away Last Line: Goodbye else, richard, hilary, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Wind; Childhood; Parting THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS (A CAT'S TALE, WITH ADDITIONS), by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three little kittens lost their mittens Last Line: Mee-ow-mee-ow, mee-ow. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Childhood THE TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is hard to remain human on a day Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE TOAD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O who shall tell us of the truth of things? Last Line: The unknowing ass with the all-knowing god. Subject(s): Children; Crime & Criminals; Cruelty; Monsters; Slavery; Childhood; Serfs THE TOUCH OF CHILDREN'S HANDS, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, touch of children's hands! And whether ta'en Last Line: Eternity — oh, touch of children's hands! Subject(s): Children; Hands; Touch (sense); Childhood THE TOY OF THE GIANT'S CHILD, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Burg niedeck is a mountain in alsace, high and strong Last Line: "the peasant is no plaything, child, — no, — god forbid he were!" Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood THE TOY SOLDIERS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, little boy, and sleep secure Last Line: Sleep, then, for we all keep guard. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Play; Toys; Childhood THE TRANSCENDENTALIST, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember that day in brewster, mass. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature THE TRANSLATOR AND THE CHILDREN, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While I translated baudelaire Last Line: When all the ghosts go round and round. Subject(s): Children; Translating & Interpreting; Childhood THE TREASURE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times have I beheld Last Line: How sad, how brief! O how divine, divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE TREE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As of children five Last Line: Of the five trees is known to her alone, and me. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE TWO CHILDREN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ah, little boy! I see Last Line: The girl that knits her shroud. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE TWO ROSES, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Yestreen beneath the greenery Last Line: "the farmer's boy that drives the herds." Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Love; Roses; Childhood THE UNBORN BABE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of the unborn babe peered through the windowpane Last Line: May be the blackest sins of all are selfishness and fear. Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Pregnancy; Childhood THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE UNFINISHED PRAYER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now I lay' - repeat it darling Last Line: "thus might trust my heavenly father, / he who hears my feeblest cry" Subject(s): Children;prayer; Childhood THE UNFORGOTTEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see, hurrying through worldly ways Last Line: Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fairy Tales; Hearts; Past; Childhood; Dead, The THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE VALENTINE REGAINED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up in the attic-room where me and billy Last Line: "why, mother's name was jane, you know, oh long and long and long ago!" Subject(s): Children; Love; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE VICTORY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought you were my victory Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE VILLAGE SCHOOL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: With the golden moonlight streaming Last Line: In that dear old village school. Subject(s): Children; Classmates; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Schoolmates; Students THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN; COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, sweet babe! My cares beguiling" Last Line: "come, soft slumber, balmily" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (PIEDMONTESE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, oh sleep, dear baby mine" Last Line: "sleep my child, and lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (SICILIAN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin thus to jesus did sing Last Line: "sleep now that my tears freely may flow." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see? Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary THE WANDERER, by V. O. WALLINGFORD Poem Text First Line: I wonder, wayward child of mine Last Line: I'll clasp your hand, and share your joy! Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Parents; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Parting; Parenthood THE WATCH BELOW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: His childhood's longings are come true Last Line: Let the wet sea boy lie! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages THE WEATHER MAN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, tell us of the day Last Line: "less I put my rubbers on." Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Weather; Childhood THE WEEPING CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What makes thee weep so, little child Last Line: And any woman be thy mother? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Tears; Childhood 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 WIND, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind it rushes in and out Last Line: "in whispers, ""there it goes!" Subject(s): Children; Wind; Childhood THE WIND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you toss the kites on high Last Line: O wind, that sings so loud a song! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 25 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE WIND BLOWS SOFT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows soft, and cool, and sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Conduct Of Life THE WIND FAIRY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fairy lives in the heart of the wind Last Line: And the wind fairy pouring tea! Subject(s): Children; Mermaids & Mermen; Singing & Singers; Childhood THE WIND IN A FROLIC, by WILLIAM HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind one morning sprang up from sleep Last Line: How little of mischief it had done! Subject(s): Children; Weather; Wind; Childhood THE WISE CHILD, by GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How plain your little darling says 'mamma' Last Line: Has not yet taught the pretty dear to fib. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE WITCH IN THE GLASS, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother says I must not pass Last Line: The very thing you should not know! Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Children; Witchcraft & Witches; Childhood THE WOODEN TOY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brightly-painted horse Subject(s): Toys; Childhood Memories THE WORKHOUSE BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cloth vos laid in the vorkhouse hall Last Line: That he vos push'd in by the overseers Subject(s): Children;christmas;crimes & Criminals;poorhouses; "childhood;nativity, The;workhouses; THE WORLD, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Environment; Children; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Childhood THE WORM TURNS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A naughty child just pulled me out of bed Last Line: Until some naughty little child comes by! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE YOUTHFUL PATRIOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what did the little boy do Last Line: An' 'at's all the little boy done! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Patriotism; Childhood THEN AND NOW, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember, in the long ago Last Line: Sweet is the mem'ry of the tale that's told! Subject(s): Childhood Memories THEOCRITUS SCHWARTZ, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Theo . . . / no one would have to know his real name Subject(s): Children; Names; Childhood THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THERE IS AN OLD CITY, by KARL BULCKE Poem Text First Line: An old town lies afar Last Line: Shut in my boyhood's years. ... Subject(s): Childhood Memories THERE WAS A CHILD ONCE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Fear; Childhood; Parting THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a child went forth every day, Last Line: And who now goes, and will always go forth every day. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THESE BLUE DAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And this sun of childhood Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children THESE DAYS, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days I live on top of a piney ridge Last Line: Of an engine grinding down. That takes my breath away Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Geography; Georgia (state); Travel THESE LITTLE ONES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the garden I gave?' / god said to me Last Line: Thou fool!' god said. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Socialism; Childhood THEY THAT DIE IN THE LORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy is bringing some sticks of wood up the stairs Last Line: The beauty of expectancy and love. Subject(s): Children; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness THINGS THAT GET LOST, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, when I lose a thing Last Line: It's happy, 'cause it knows! Subject(s): Children; Loss; Childhood THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions Last Line: That complete moment of surrender Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 2. GOOSEBERRIES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Gooseberry bushes snarl up the backlot Last Line: Onto a world that keeps changing before us Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This spoonful of chocolate tapioca Last Line: Nothing: nothing for which there's no reward Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Los Angeles, California THIRTEENTH SUMMER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is twelve? Not you, in absolute skirt Subject(s): Aging; Children; Summer; Childhood THIS CHILD, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Under her heart's tree recently sprung Last Line: In the shade of a circle intangible, inviolate. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Human Behavior; Childhood Memories; Horses THIS IS THE END, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Open the divine comedy Last Line: Still stick to his fingers. ... Subject(s): African Americans; Children; Comedy; Laughter; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Childhood; Serfs THOMAS THE PRETENDER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tommy's alluz playin' jokes Last Line: "an' grease the welts, ""pore pa! Pore pa!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Jokes; Childhood; Relatives THOMSON'S BIRTH-PLACE (EDNAM, ROXBURGHSHIRE), by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is ednam, then, so near us? I must gaze Last Line: How oft our joys depend on ignorance! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children; Memory; Scotland; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Thought; Childhood; Thinking THOSE TIMES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At six / I lived in a graveyard full of dolls Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dolls THOSE WILFUL TOYS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is quite full of such curious things Last Line: But they think that the toys are quite sure to obey. Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOUGHTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I'd like to live on mars Last Line: And see the wrong side of the stars. Subject(s): Children; Cosmology; Imagination; May (month); Planets; Sky; Stars; Childhood; Fancy THOUGHTS AND FLOWERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thoughts grow like flowers overnight Last Line: They will always want to grow. Subject(s): April; Children; Growth; Plantation Life; Childhood THREAD AND SONG, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: Sweeter and sweeter Last Line: Would that the name were mine! Subject(s): Children; Childhood THREE BABY VERSES: 3, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the summer roadside Last Line: As simply and sweetly as they? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood THREE GREEN WINDOWS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half awake in my sunday nap Last Line: It is a time of water, a time of trees Subject(s): Childhood Memories THREE LULLABIES, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by, when a baby I Last Line: Angels are watching and mother is near! Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the laboratory waiting room Last Line: In the empty eye. Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Vanity; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go when you go Last Line: Through the blind-world 'way in there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Sleep; Childhood TIGER!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tiger in our hall Last Line: He's not the boss of me! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Tigers; Childhood TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood TO A BOY WHISTLING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling face of a happy boy Last Line: Or the trivial cause of your smiling face! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Childhood TO A CHILD, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose imp art thou, with dimpled cheek Last Line: And thou a thing of hope and change. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: O bright-eyed child whose laughter Last Line: The intense immense soft dense sweet mist that round her strays.— Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Life; Love; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO A CHILD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Love me, till you learn to judge me Last Line: The torment of your wondering scorn. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could but be happy Last Line: On your beauty, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pout not, my little rose, but take Last Line: Never be grafted on a briar. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child! How radiant on thy mother's knee Last Line: And burns to ashes in the skies. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If by any device or knowledge Last Line: Completer whilst incomplete. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood TO A CHILD, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: The years stretch far above thee Last Line: His work will not forget. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Hope; Time; Youth; Childhood; Optimism TO A CHILD, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child! Whom sleep can hardly tame Last Line: Anew discloses god to earth. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD (ROSAMUND), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies have been busy while you slept Last Line: The innermost rose of the re-flowered year. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves 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 FALLING ASLEEP, by ROBERT ALDEN SANBORN Poem Text First Line: Over the dim edge of sleep I lean Last Line: Had laid the gift and breathed her childhood's prayer. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood TO A CHILD OF THREE YEARS OLD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a thing made up of all Last Line: Is cause of sober gratitude! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD WHO INQUIRES, by OLGA PETROVA Poem Text First Line: How did you come to me, my sweet Last Line: And I snuggled you tight in my arms. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood TO A CHILD WITH BLACK EYES AND GOLDEN HAIR, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first, on that fair morn of may Last Line: To earth's serene affections too. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A CHILD, THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee by thy mother's face Last Line: As holy be thy song. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A DEAD CHILDHOOD, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: My father's loud call like a crest of feathers Last Line: Waiting for my father's next brilliant move Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life TO A FRIEND WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN SINCE MY CHILDHOOD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And thou hast marked, in childhood's hour Last Line: The grave, that home of all below. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Childhood TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who taught this pleading to unpractis'd eyes? Last Line: And wear their majesty of grief again. Subject(s): Gypsies; Children; Gipsies; Childhood TO A LITTLE GIRL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All on a day of gold and blue Last Line: Follow them little darling! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Roads; Childhood; Paths; Trails TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 5. COLDER FIRE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained toward day. The morning came sad & white Last Line: But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys shall rejoice Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories TO A LITTLE INVISIBLE BEING WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Germ of new life, whose powers expanded slow Last Line: Till thy wished smile thy mother's pangs o'erpay. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood TO A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER AS A GIRL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did ever a youth pass by the spot Last Line: Without that heart of gold! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Girls; Portraits; Youth TO A SIX-YEAR-OLD, by JESSIE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Enchanted, you listen to music Last Line: Intangible, lost magic! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A WESTERN BOY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine Last Line: Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine? Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A YOUNG GIRL, by ELAINE V. EMANS Poem Text First Line: Weave lovely dreams, my dear Last Line: Or shuts her eyes to living, o my dear! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO AMY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once on a time there was a girl Last Line: Just like the monkeys in the zoo. Subject(s): African Americans; Children; Girls; Negroes; American Blacks; Childhood TO ANNIE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Annie, my first-born, gentle child Last Line: From all life's ills a shield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO ANTHONY IDELER, by STELLA M. HOOGS Poem Text First Line: Could the master hand that fashioned thee Last Line: Thou, too, adorns't a deathless page! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO BETSY AGED THREE, by STELLA M. HOOGS Poem Text First Line: How often have I seen thee in thy mother's arms Last Line: In meanings half-divine. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO CHILDREN: 1. FAIRY SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While clouds yet slumbered in their fold Last Line: Yes, I was elfland-born! Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves TO CHILDREN: 2. BRAGGARTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning by my garden wall Last Line: All dreaming by the wall! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO CHILDREN: 3. THE GOLDEN DAY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dim across the lawn, before the break o' day, their gleams are grown Last Line: And, safe from storm, wide wings and warm enfold our sleep again! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO CHILDREN: 4. THE FAIRY REALM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, we smiled our silent pity when they mocked our faith as fond! Last Line: And tonight we'll be a-dancing at a dazzling fairy ball! Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves TO CHILDREN: 5. DAME HOLIDAY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No such a name as holiday I thought me to have found Last Line: Tell her I found her fond and fair, and that I loved her face! Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Childhood TO CHILDREN: 6. BIRDS OF THE AIR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the birds of the air, in the sky far up there Last Line: The birds of the air, they are calling you again! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Childhood TO CHRISTINA AT NIGHTFALL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little thing, ah, little mouse Last Line: Ah, sweet! Do you the like where I lie dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Children; Night; Childhood; Bedtime TO CIPRIANO, IN THE WIND, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did your words go Subject(s): Dry Cleaning & Dry Cleaners; Childhood Memories TO DORA DORIAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of two strong nations, heir Last Line: Child. Subject(s): Children; Nations; Roundels; Childhood TO H. C. BUNNER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the way to arcady Last Line: May not disdain to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood TO HARTLEY COLERIDGE; SIX YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose fancies from afar are brought Last Line: Slips in a moment out of life. Variant Title(s): To H. C.; Six Years Old Subject(s): Children; Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849); Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO HOPE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to hope! - the child of care Last Line: Take after their grandmama or aunt. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO J. H. - FOUR YEARS OLD: A NURSERY SONG, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, little ranting johnny Last Line: Shall whistle home to bed, john. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who to the rounded prime Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Life; Youth; Childhood TO KO UNG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little fellow, putting forth alone Last Line: Himself at last, a bigger and a better boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Children; Schools; Childhood; Students TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: —and some years hence he'll send the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology TO LYSANDER (TO HER HUSBAND ON FIRST BIRTHDAY OF THEIR SON), by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lyre neglected, and the tuneful lay Last Line: And faithful nature paint lysander there. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MISS GEORGIANA CARTERET, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little charm of placid mien Last Line: And the new-fledged birds are singing. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MONICA THOUGHT DYING, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, o the piteous you! Last Line: Dreadful and sweet? Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The TO MONICA: AFTER NINE YEARS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of flag-lilies Last Line: Shall be unconsoled for her. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares 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 MR. WREN, MY VALENTINE SIX YEAR OLD, by JANE (WISEMAN) HOLT Poem Text First Line: Since the good bishop left his name Last Line: As my charming valentine? Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY CHILD, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my heart! My sweet, beloved first-born! Last Line: Bewildered in divine elysian dreams? Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY CHILD CARLINO, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carlino! What art thou about, my boy? Last Line: Redder than coral round calypso's cave. Subject(s): Children; Florence, Italy; Landor, Charles Savage (1825-1917); Childhood TO MY CHILDREN - ASLEEP, by ALAN SULLIVAN (1867-) Poem Text First Line: List to their gentle breathing in the night Last Line: Put out the light! The gloom cloaks best a worshiper. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN: 1, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I make a song for you Last Line: Is but a part. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood TO MY CHILDREN: 4. HER HAIR, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning, as the day begins Last Line: And dies away. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Hair; Childhood TO MY CHILDREN: 6, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are lonely, full of care Last Line: I think, and there abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY ELDEST CHILD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little firstborn daughter sweet Last Line: That shall behold them reconciled. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY FATHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the first fruits, father, of thy care Last Line: Revealed man's glory, god's great human heart. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Fathers & Sons; God; Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO MY FIRST-BORN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: My own, my child, with strange delight I look upon thy face Last Line: To shield thy heart from passion's strife and fix its hope on heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Children; Grief; Hearts; Life; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY GODCHILD ALICE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alice, alice, little alice Last Line: Here, unto eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY GODCHILD [FRANCIS M.W.M.], by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This labouring, vast, tellurian galleon Last Line: Look for me in the nurseries of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY HOME, by DALIA SABBAGH Poem Source First Line: To my dear home Last Line: Its time to let you go Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home TO MY LADY BERKELEY, AFFLICTED UPON HER SON ... SEA-SERVICE, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the renowned ithacensian queen Last Line: Of your high vertue, and his memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Children; Navy - Great Britain; Childhood; English Navy TO MY LITTLE SON, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: In your face I sometimes see Last Line: The child you once were in your face? Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY LORD BUCKHURST, VERY YOUNG, PLAYING WITH A CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amorous youth, whose tender breast Last Line: She deep will mark her new disgrace. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Jealousy; Tears; Youth; Childhood TO OLIVIA, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear to love thee, sweet, because Last Line: Full-panoplied in womanhood. Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood TO ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S CHILDREN ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where sucks the bee now? Summer is flying Last Line: Happy and bright is thy natal day! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood TO ROSAMUND, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And it is fair and very fair Last Line: From that cold sea wherein my argosy is lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO RUDYARD KIPLING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To do some worthy deed of charity Last Line: Mine own goes homing back to thee and thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO SANTA CLAUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most tangible of all the gods that Last Line: Take us as children to thy heart again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Life; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint TO SYLVIA; TWO YEARS OLD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life to thee, long virtue, long delight Last Line: Merely by mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO THE BOY WITH A COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dan wallingford, my jo Last Line: Dan wallingford, my jo! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Flags; Patriotism; Childhood TO THE CHILD JESUS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could every time-worn heart but see thee once again Last Line: Safe to its home in thy presence above. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): The Nativity Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth TO THE FONT-GEORGES, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent fields where I was glad Last Line: Silver flow'rs. Subject(s): Children; Fields; Love; Childhood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 10. THE TOYS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little son, who looked from thoughtful eyes Last Line: I will be sorry for their childishness.' Subject(s): Children; Punishment; Childhood TO TRY AGAIN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble,' says the sword-grass, leaning over the water Last Line: "look,"" says the void. ""what meaning? Be thou me." Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood TO VICTOR HUGO (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had no children, who for love of men Last Line: 01/03/76 Subject(s): Children; God; Grief; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Love; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness TO W. S. - ON HIS WONDERFUL TOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lend me your precious toys Last Line: To keep his childhood till he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood TODAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is so nice to have today Last Line: All peeking out and peeking in! Subject(s): Children; Play; Time; Childhood TOMMY SMITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dimple-cheeked and rosy-lipped Last Line: Little tommy smith. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Love; Tears; Childhood TOMORROW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder where tomorrow hides? Last Line: Tomorrow is today! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TOP-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wisht I knew what makes the top-time come Last Line: Each time I spin 'er on the kitchen floor. Subject(s): Children; Play; Toys; Childhood TOUCHING THE LEAF MOLD, by MARK DEFOE Poem Source First Line: He did this as a boy, probing the detritus of fall Last Line: Listening, listening hard in the muted dusk Subject(s): Appalachia; Childhood Memories; Labor And Laborers; Mowing And Mowers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY THIS HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By this heart sacred for you o children - for you a few years beating Last Line: Shall your spirit sublimely sing. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Love; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. CHILD OF THE LONELY HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the lonely heart Last Line: Through the great mother-heart eternally ascending! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Solitude; Loneliness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ETERNAL HUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal hunger! O through the black night Last Line: Gaze long in silence, friend; gaze long for all are thine Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Childhood; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THESE WAVES OF YOUR GREAT HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You battling with your own heart, speaking the words of peace in vain Last Line: At your feet now mournfully breaking. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Mourning; Childhood; Bereavement TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THUS I YEARNED FOR LOVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus as I yearned for love Last Line: Ever down. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Love; Passion; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHO ARE YOU, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you who go about to save them that are lost Last Line: Arise, then, and become a savior. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With little red frock in the fire-light, in the lingering april evening Last Line: Runs off to bed and to sleep in the lap of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CHRISTMAS EVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The bells ringing Last Line: Shrine of the soul, shrine of the new-born god—of man himself. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Nativity, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A CHILD AT A WINDOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the dark, at night, outside a little cottage door Last Line: Lit by a million suns. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. OUT OF THE HOUSE OF CHILDHOOD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To take by leaving, to hold by letting go Last Line: But who is ready to die to life now, he even now possesses it. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHEN I LOOK UPON YOUR FACES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, dear children, when I look upon your faces Last Line: Its mystic intimation. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TOY DAY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Not dreams, not fairy tales, but deeds Last Line: Of what shall be the paradise. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The TRAINS IN THE GRASS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It's fun to watch the trains go by Last Line: And see the smoke curls die away. Subject(s): Children; September; Travel; Childhood; Journeys; Trips TRANSITION, by RAYMOND R. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: Where'er we turn, the specter waits Last Line: That all things work with joy, and sleep at close of day. Subject(s): Children; Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood; Dead, The TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos; Childhood; World's Fairs; Expositions TREASURE TROVE, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Today, three children passed my house Last Line: "from an old elm tree?" Subject(s): Children; Treasures; Childhood TRIBUTE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's face is fair Last Line: So she would understand! Subject(s): Absence; Children; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood TRILCE: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grownups Subject(s): Children; Childhood TRISTAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Subject(s): Sea; Children; Desire; Friendship; Family Life; Ocean; Childhood; Relatives TRY AGAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis a lesson you should heed Last Line: Only keep this rule in view - / try again Subject(s): Children; Childhood TWILIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight is sad and cloudy Last Line: Drive the colour from her cheek? Subject(s): Absence; Children; Dusk; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Ocean TWILIGHT STORIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither daylight, starlight Last Line: Drift about like flakes of starlight. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Story-telling; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight TWO LOVERS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers by a moss-grown spring Last Line: O past that is! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Aging; Children; Love - Marital; Marriage; Memory; Nostalgia; Parents; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood TWO MARYS, by VIVIAN YEISER Poem Text First Line: I wonder if mary, heavy with child Last Line: Two marys shadowed by a cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Laramore, Mrs. Robert Eugene Subject(s): Children; Childhood TYLER'S LANE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I went walking Last Line: Down there in tyler's lane. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Childhood ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When ululani went to feed Last Line: Will shine for ululani. Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips UNBORN, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of grace thou art Last Line: These months when god is part of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary UNCLE SIDNEY'S LOGIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pa wunst he scold' an' says to me Last Line: "ud trade with him to-day!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Wisdom; Childhood UNCLE'S FIRST RABBIT, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a good boy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hunting; Rabbits; Hares UNDER GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Beneath the house of my father's childhood Last Line: Dried and crumbled, grain by grain, in the night breezes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Grandparents UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN WINDSOR, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When windsor walls sustained my wearied arm Last Line: And I half bent to throw me down withal. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Prisons & Prisoners; Windsor Castle; Childhood; Convicts UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 26. THE SICK CHILD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, lay your hand on my brow! Last Line: And dream of the birds and the hills of sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Childhood; Illness UNE PETITE CHANSON DE LAMENTATION A MA MERE, by BELLE DE COEUR Poem Text First Line: Give me my youth, and let me play Last Line: To find a new day and you. Subject(s): Children; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Past; Childhood UNFULFILMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see an upland pasture, clover-blown Last Line: That I am not the figure of the dreams. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares UNITED JEWISH APPEAL, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind Subject(s): Old Age; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers UNREST, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The motorman bangs on his noisy gong Last Line: I know I'm tired of being me! Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Self; Childhood; Work; Workers UPON A GIRL OF SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wit's queen, (if what the poets sing be true) Last Line: How pallas talk'd when she was seven years old. Subject(s): Children; Childhood UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness UPON SEEING AN ULTRASOUND PHOTO OF AN UNBORN CHILD, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tadpole, it's not time yet to nag you Subject(s): Unborn; Photography & Photographers; Children; Childhood VACATION IN THE COUNTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I lived in the country every day Last Line: To find some place to hide, and stay behind. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Vacation; Childhood VERSES INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREFIXED TO THE NOVEL EMMELINE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelmed with sorrow, and sustaining long Last Line: How well you merited -- your mother's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Variant Title(s): To My Children Subject(s): Children; Childhood VIETNAM, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, what's your name?' 'I don't know.' Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Childhood VIOLIN SONGS: A FATHER TO A MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's own child came down to earth Last Line: It's only till to-morrow! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Death; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Dead, The; Parenthood VIOLIN SONGS: BEDTIME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, children, put away your toys Last Line: Coming to carry us to bed. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Sleep; Childhood; Relatives VIOLIN SONGS: FOOLISH CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking in the night to pray Last Line: Make us good as we go home. Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: GOING TO SLEEP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, you must not fret Last Line: Saith the little brother. Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Death; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIRGIL WATCHED THEM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Children; Childhood VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VOCATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For this, for this was I foreseen Last Line: Made me the children's heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Heaven; Childhood; Paradise VOID IN LAW, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little babe, on my knee Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Law; Children; Childhood WAITING IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reflect on my son's crying [or, on this desperate note] Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Sickness; Childhood; Illness WALKERS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that she can keep with ease Last Line: And does not know. Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Women; Childhood WAR, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I laugh to see them pray Last Line: There was no milk for him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; War; Dead, The WAR HERO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where recollections end, Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood WARNING TO CHILDREN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children, if you dare to think Subject(s): Children; Childhood WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the bad bews came slowly and was afraid Last Line: For the ice truck, buried the dead, called it home Subject(s): Washington Heights, New York City; Childhood Memories WE ARE CHILDREN, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children indeed are we - children that Last Line: When he returns, all will be sleeping sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Variant Title(s): When We Are All Asleep Subject(s): Children; Childhood WE ARE SEVEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A simple child Last Line: "and said, ""nay, we are seven." Subject(s): Children; Supernatural; Childhood WE HAVE KNOWN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have known such joy as a child knows Last Line: And will not survive, though you have them. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Love; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Parenthood WEAVE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say he's a runner, his borzoi torso wiffles Subject(s): Human Body; Childhood Memories WEE CHRISTY CAREW, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There wor ponies a sellin' 'way up in moysan Last Line: A mindin' I'm thinkin'—wee christy carew! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Ponies; Childhood WEEHAWKEN, 1820, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weehawken!-in thy mountain scenery yet Last Line: Nor feel the prouder of his native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature; Weehawken, New Jersey 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 WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were small Last Line: Ancient eyes. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT LITTLE SAUL GOT, CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us parents mostly thinks our own's Last Line: "I'm got the pleurisy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; Illness 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 PUZZLES ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something I'm awfully anxious to know Last Line: That you is you, an' me is me. Subject(s): Children; Curiosities & Wonders; Fate; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Enigmas; Oddities; Destiny WHAT SHE WAS DOING AT HOME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was there -- unfair Last Line: Wearing a cool rag pressed between her eyes. Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Schools; Childhood; Students WHAT THE THREE LITTLE STOCKINGS SAID, by ALICE J. WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Twas the night before christmas, and small stockings three Last Line: And on each merry christmas she welds it anew. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Crime & Criminals; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint WHAT THE TRAIN RUN OVER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the train came shrieking down Last Line: This is what the train runs over. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Railroads; Childhood; Dead, The; Railways; Trains WHAT TWO KIDDIES SAW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Two kiddies once went out for a walk Last Line: Tis lacking in grace to even laugh. Subject(s): Children; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WHAT WE CALL CHILDHOOD, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Childhood WHAT WE HAVE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain / the neighbor's dog, put out in the cold Last Line: That I think, when looking back, was happiness. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Happiness; Poverty; Retrospection; Relatives; Joy; Delight WHAT'S THE USE?, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's the use o' growin' up? Last Line: What's the use? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Play; Childhood WHEN AS A LAD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, as a lad, at break of day Last Line: For any save the soul's swift feet! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Childhood Memories; Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WHEN CHILDHOOD DIED, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can recall the day Last Line: But was slain. Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood WHEN CHILDREN SLEEP, by LEON GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When cradled by their mothers' side Last Line: Their angels visit them no more. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Sin; Sleep; Childhood WHEN I AM WITH YOU, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am with you, two notes of the sarod Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mortality WHEN I GET INTO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm never frightened in the dark Last Line: As I get into bed. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime WHEN I WAS A COWBOY, by ARTHUR A. FLAKOLL Poem Text First Line: When I was a cowboy I rode a horse that was wild as a storm Last Line: —arthur a. Flakoll, aberdeen Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cowboys; South Dakota WHEN LOVE MEETS LOVE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love meets love, breast urged to breast Last Line: O, where is all our love? Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Children; Childhood WHEN MARY SINGS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When mary sings it seems a faint Last Line: When mary sings. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood WHEN SPRING CAME TO NAZARETH, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the man of nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth WHEN THE CHILD IS KING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babe, so long ago enshrined Last Line: So to-day a child shall reign. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Theology WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's a boy a-goin' Last Line: "clean -- plum -- through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Disasters; Earthquakes; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHEN UNCLE DOC WAS YOUNG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though doctor glen - the best of Last Line: When uncle doc was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and thou wast young Last Line: A word light as a feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Childhood WHERE ARE THE ATERS OF CHLDHOOD?, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where the windows are boarded up, Subject(s): Children; Water; Childhood WHERE I ONCE LIVED AS SHOWN TO A FRIEND, by TOM FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: My 'home-seat' is down there Last Line: As either an adult toy store or a pancake house Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old farm-home is mother's yet and mine Last Line: To the orchard where the children used to play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Orchards; Past; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHERE-AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lands of where-away! Last Line: Find in lands of where-away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Childhood WHILE ASLEEP, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Were it not for the teddy bear forgotten on the lawn, the Last Line: Shepherd, it is much too soon to die, first I must learn to throw a good hard stone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets; Railroad Stations; Sleep; Travel WHILE GETTING WELL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sits on my window-sill Last Line: I think he understands! Subject(s): Children; Sickness; Sleep; Childhood; Illness WHITE BREAD, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning I woke to apricot light Subject(s): Childhood Memories WHITTLING: A YANKEE PORTRAIT, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yankee boy, before he's sent to school Last Line: That there's go in it, and he'll make it go. Variant Title(s): Whittling: A National Portrait Subject(s): Children; Knives; Childhood; Daggers WHO TOLD?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our teacher says there aren't fairies now Last Line: "a little fairy whispered it,"" she said." Subject(s): Boys; Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students 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 WHY DISTRICT SCHOOL USED TO KEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When district school was almost done Last Line: From which she bought her watch and chain. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors WHY YOUR FATHER CRIED, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sister is telling the story. It was Last Line: "some of the best thoughts I had in my life." Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WHY?, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the doggie bark, papa? Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Children; Childhood WILD ORPHAN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bladly mother/takes him strolling Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WIND, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Not kites, the wind didn't loft us Last Line: That the day could see and the crows Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Kites; Wind WINGS, by MARY LOUISE RITTER Poem Text First Line: The sunset light is on the sail Last Line: I love, I love, I love you, sweet! Subject(s): Children; Childhood WINTER BUTTERFLIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The snowflakes flutter all around Last Line: To visit boys and girls they love. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Snow; Childhood; Bugs WISDOM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often when I wanter talk, grown-ups say I ourghtn't Last Line: But I mostly want to know—will I feel it coming? Subject(s): Children; Reason; Wisdom; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WISHES FOR MY SON; BORN ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 1912, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, my son, is life for you Last Line: In your hand and heart and tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WITH A CHILD ALL DAY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little raffamuffin, brat, a craving for sen-sen Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Childhood; Parting WITH DAISY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There are many occupations Last Line: When walking home with daisy in the rain. Subject(s): Children; Rain; Walking; Childhood WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: What a conflict, he said Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Landscape WITH EMMA AT THE LADIES-ONLY SWIMMING POND ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In payment for those mornings at the mirror while, Subject(s): Children; Swimming And Swimmers; Childhood WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WOULD I KNEW!, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plays a child in a garden fair Last Line: "what it is they say and do!" Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Children; Childhood WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM AT HIS FIRST PUTTING ON BREECHES, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it our mammas bewitches Last Line: The only monarch all obey. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wynken, blynken, and nod one night Last Line: And nod. Variant Title(s): A Dutch Lullaby;wynken, Blynken, And Nod Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares Y'CALL SOMEPLACE PARADISE, KISS IT GOODBYE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this faded fifteenth-century expulsion, everything Subject(s): Childhood Memories YANKEE DOODLE UP TO DATE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Old spain took cuba by the hair Last Line: "those islands will come handy." Subject(s): Boys; Camping; Children; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood YESTERDAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I wish I knew Last Line: Today just couldn't wait! Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Memory; Past; Childhood YESTERDAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My friend says I was not a good son Last Line: And nothing I had to do Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Children; Men; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood YOU GO BACK, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You go back to where people know Last Line: Two women in the mist, disembodied %-girlish voices Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Fantasy; Saint Kilda (scotland) YOU TAUGHT ME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All those years, alone Last Line: I didn't even know my name! Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood YOUNG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand doors ago Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives YOUNG JESUS, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: O little son, upon your brow Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth YOUNG MAN IN A GALILEAN DOORWAY, by HERBERT DRAPER GALLAUDET Poem Source First Line: Yes, utterly he loves his nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth YOUR RICHES TAUGHT ME POVERTY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While just a girl at school Subject(s): Nostalgia; Childhood Memories; School YOUTH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, youth! When all seems bright and fair Last Line: To wound us on the morrow! Subject(s): Aging; Children; Youth; Childhood YOUTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child with the butterfly Last Line: On meadows of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Spring; Youth; Childhood |
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