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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FATHERS & DAUGHTERS Matches Found: 171 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 DAUGHTER'S MEMORY, by MARY L. LAWSON Poem Text First Line: My father, by the simple stone Last Line: That soar from earth beyond the sky. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A DESERTER, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their new landlord was a handsome man. On his rounds to collect rent she became friendly Subject(s): Desertion & Nonsupport; Jealousy; Fathers & Daughters; Suicide A FATHER OF WOMEN: AD SOROREM E. B., by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father works in us Last Line: Now that your sons are dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Butler, Elizabeth Thompson (1844-1933); Fathers & Daughters; Women's Rights; Feminism A LITTLE TOOTH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Your baby grows a tooth, then two Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A MAN TAKES HIS DAUGHTER, AGE 5, TO A PUBLIC EXECUTION BY GUILLOTINE, PARIS, 1857, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a bad man. He says this in french Last Line: Daddy, I still can't see the puppets Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Guillotines; Paris, France A MAN'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old woman who looks each night Last Line: But years of dread. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A POEM FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants A POEM FOR MY FATHER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad it must be / to love so many women Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A POET'S DAUGHTER, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks the minstrel's rhyme.' a lady asks? There was a time Last Line: All bard can give. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets 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 SENSE OF DIRECTION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was moonless the night I drove my son Last Line: Am shivering in its draft. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Maps; Mothers & Sons A SKATING LESSON, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother brought her halfway Last Line: Upright, devoted pupil Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Fathers & Daughters A VISITOR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, for example, / who was young once Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A WOMAN WAKING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wakens early remembering Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains 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 ADDRESS TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, DORA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou then survived Last Line: And reason's godlike power be proud to own. Variant Title(s): Asked And Answered Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER DARK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To lie in your child’s bed when she is gone Last Line: Who finds you here and lies down by your side Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTERLIFE, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm older than my father when he turned Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Abortion ALICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! There's music here Last Line: To welcome thee I wait -- blest mother! Come to me. Subject(s): Deafness; Fathers & Daughters; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness ALL DAY, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning Last Line: Into the sea Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Thomas, Helen (1920-2013) ALL MY PRETTY ONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ALL THE WOMEN POETS I LIKE DIDN'T HAVE THEIR FATHERS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thanking you, ben for letting me be one Last Line: And haunts Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets ANTIQUE FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ARALUEN (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep Last Line: Other hands will come and tend them -- other friends in other hours. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies 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 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 BARE FEET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulnerable, bare feet of old men Last Line: Is bearable but filling it brings tears. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BEYOND HARM, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A week after my father died Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Death; Dead, The BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the window, my girls are eating eggs and cereal Last Line: Except a hard one and want me to decide Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Dogs; Contests BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life CALLING THE CHILD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the third floor I beckon to the child Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CARTOONS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife rises every few hours to nurse our infant, so these Last Line: Robots with powerful beams of light Subject(s): Television; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Censorship; Cartoons & Cartoonists CHARLOTTE CORDAY; A MEMOIR OF A HAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child's small hand, lost in her father's - twined Last Line: When norman charlotte dared her noble crime. Subject(s): Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793); Fathers & Daughters; Hands CIRCLING THE DAUGHTER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came / to be / in the month of malcolm Last Line: You break my eyes with your beauty: / ooo-uu-oo-baby-I love you Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean CONDOMS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She says the book she is reading is gross Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CONVERSATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters DADDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days have kept on coming Last Line: The days in the confident man Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mothers & Sons DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DADDY WARBUCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Fathers & Daughters; Incest; Death DAUGHTER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks about skeletons Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One girl a full head taller Last Line: They cry, “it’s not my fault.” Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Graveyards; Dead, The ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Dead, The; Work; Workers EVE (RACHEL), by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting to speak to you Last Line: In these bodies of soiled, broken, mending hands Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Subject(s): Bible; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Theology FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ever seen my father's grave Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FATHER'S DAY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter has lived overseas for a number Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR JESSICA, MY DAUGHTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I walked Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We're not going to die Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY FATHER LOOKING FOR MY UNCLE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clues are everywhere Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday. We have come Last Line: And no accounting will open them up Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Forgiveness; Clemency FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade. Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was almost forty Last Line: Must now be postponed for fifteen years! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fathers & Daughters HAD I THE WYTE, HAD I THE WYTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HARD DADDY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to ma daddy Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks HER FATHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met her, as we had privily planned Last Line: Of time, and wrack, and foes.' Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HIS STORY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born under a crooked star Last Line: And one female / gone Variant Title(s): His History Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HOME AFTER THREE MONTHS AWAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone now the baby's nurse Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Home After Three Months Away Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 1. BRONWEN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should ever grow rich by chance Last Line: I shall give them all to my elder daughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters I DOTE THE MORE, THE MORE I CONTEMPLATE, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath graven in thy tender father's breast Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Beauty IMMACULATE VIEW, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love: the power of lust turned generous, the power of sleep Last Line: Prescient body: Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Lust IN HONOR OF DAVID ANDERSON BROOKS, MY FATHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dryness is upon the house Last Line: Old private charity Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my father lifted up his nightie, I Variant Title(s): The Lifting Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Dead, The JEALOUSY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Flatbush! Flatbush! Rah! Rah! Rah! Last Line: See the bobbed-head riding on the bob-tailed car. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jealousy JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before her father's gorgeous tent Last Line: And she was dead -- but not by violence. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful little children Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LITTLE AGLAE; TO HER FATHER ON HER STATUE BEING CALLED LIKE HER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! The little girl we see Last Line: She kiss'd you first and ran away. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LIVELIHOOD: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Audrey, these men and women I have known Last Line: In old incredible days before your birth. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LIVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bessie’s face lingers before me Last Line: And as if speaking for me Subject(s): Women; Music & Musicians; Fathers & Daughters; Perseverance LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it is! Come here, my daughter! Last Line: Thank god! Thank god! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Nature Of LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago I fell in love Last Line: And she'll be three weeks old on sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants LULLABY FOR A DAUGHTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to sleep. Night is a coal pit Last Line: Her sweet subject, dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Sleep MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Sea; Ocean MIRRU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Variant Title(s): Mourning Picture Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers & Daughters; Paintings & Painters MY DAUGHTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy mother's eyes, my child Last Line: The delicate darling of a dream. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Pies MY FATHER'S DIARY (1), by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get into bed with it, and spring Subject(s): Diaries; Fathers & Daughters MY FATHER'S DIARY (2), by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit on the bed, and spring the brass Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Diaries MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism 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 MYRRHA TO THE SOURCE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fluent one, o muscle full of hydrogen, Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters NOT BAD, DAD, NOT BAD', by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you are most yourself when you are swimming Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Swimming And Swimmers NUGGET AND DUST, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father clipped coupons at the kitchen table Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters OF YOUR FATHER'S INDISCRETIONS AND THE TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer he stole the jade buttons Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die—"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement OUR LESSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, papa; -- that was all she said Last Line: Is but a training for their utterance! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters PAPER ANNIVERSARY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Symphonies; Concerts PASTORAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight Last Line: The vigil of astonishment. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The PATIENCE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is she ran shouting from the house? What if she Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You closed the door Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters PRAYER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: She cannot tell my name / nor whence I came Last Line: When my child's call I hear, I catch her to my heart. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the book haphazard Last Line: And let them pull it free Subject(s): Books & Reading; Fathers & Daughters; Mortality SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers & Daughters; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SHORE LEAVE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wears the sailor suit - a blouse with anchors Last Line: All night long over the sleek, impossible cars Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SITTING HERE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: We were as gone Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TAKING IN WASH, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa called her pearl when he came home Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THAT VALENTINE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once,I remember, years ago Last Line: I sent a tender valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Holidays; Valentine's Day THE ARCHITECT (1), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The only places I can find you Last Line: Forms most faithfully the face of god. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Churches; Faith; Fathers & Daughters; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed THE ARCHITECT AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stride was two to my father's by the sea Last Line: Surge, master of the arch of element. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fathers & Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: My father was a soldier, so Last Line: A battle all her own. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Soldiers; War THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE CATCH, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darted across the pond Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE DAUGHTER, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, mournful lute! Dear echo of my woe! Last Line: Pausing forgetful as he pass'd along. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies Last Line: The woman won Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like two lonely swans Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Dancing & Dancers THE DESPERANTO OF WILLYNULLY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her father's early portrait shows Subject(s): Time; Portraits; Fathers & Daughters THE DREAM SONGS: 385, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE ENTHUSIAST, SONGS OF ARLA: 3, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Impassioned strains my trembling lips rehearse Last Line: Her heart, resigned, to simple truth accords. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Passion THE FATHER'S THOUGHT OF HIS DAUGHTER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will jilt a lover Last Line: When I am dead. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FUTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going to leave a child in an empty room Last Line: As I am prepared Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE GIFT; FOR MY DAUGHTER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scissors, glue, clumsy Last Line: Each beat a breath. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Gifts & Giving THE HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE INTERCEPTED SALUTE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden met me in the lane Last Line: It is an added glory on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Flirtation; Fathers & Daughters THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out / to watch the christmas eve crowds Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Stars THE MARTYR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and seven daughters,' said g Last Line: Gravel carters, that girls may have a treat! Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE MESSENGER: 1. THE FATHER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange house / in the strange town Last Line: His eyes / settle on us Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOSELLE BOATMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not high nor full enough to show things clear Last Line: Twas sad to think we ne'er might see them more! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOSS OF HIS SKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only important Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOURNING DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheels o'er the pavement roll'd, and a slight form Last Line: The chasten'd wisdom of attemper'd bliss. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Bereavement THE NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE OLD PROFESSOR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard Last Line: Seeks the high lark in god's clear element. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Teaching & Teachers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ONLY DAUGHTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bid me strike the idle strings Last Line: May cost thee, too, a sigh. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE OUTLAW, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the fair aurora spread Last Line: "the foreign lord no more appear." Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Percy, William De (1030-1096) THE PEDIGREE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or if I will not rape Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Self THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE PULL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the flu goes on, I get thinner and thinner Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Men THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares 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 SUBWAY ENTRANCE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was her guide. He lived in hell. Every day he thought Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Fathers & Daughters; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs THE WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THRALL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is sparsely furnished Last Line: So you may write this poem. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 1. SIROCCO, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a place of ruined stone we brought you, and sea-reaches Last Line: And on the exposed approaches the last gold of gorse bloom, in the sorocco, shakes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 2. GULL'S CRY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White goose by palm tree, palm ragged, among stones the white oleander Last Line: Hands and sing, redeem, redeem! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 3. THE CHILD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door is defective because the mother Last Line: I smile stiff, say ciao, and think: this is the world Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 4. THE FLOWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the beach, the vineyard Last Line: It will rustle all night, darling Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters 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 SAD DAUGHTER, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the hockey pictures Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO ADA, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the smile and thine the bloom Last Line: Thou art not near a father's heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies TO HESTER ON THE STAIR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hester, creature of my love Last Line: Mind this only, only mind! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hearts; Love; Dead, The TO HIS DAUGHTER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bought you flowers on ludgate hill Last Line: A queen like you, my darling. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Socialism TO MY FATHER - 2, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: Grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound upon the night Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2) Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters UNDER THE MAUD MOON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In london's fair city a merchant did dwell Last Line: And vilikins and his dinah lie buried in one grave. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage - Forced; Suicide; Marriage - Arranged WATCHING FOR PAPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She always stood upon the steps Last Line: "will call with birdie voice, 'papa, / I's looten out for oo!'" Subject(s): Consolation;fathers & Daughters WAVING GOOD-BYE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know what it was like before we Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters 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 |
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