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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MIDWIFERY Matches Found: 203 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIRTH, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately having escaped three-kinded death Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery A BIRTH-SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark sweet sleep Last Line: Guard and be gracious to the fair-named flower. Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Sleep; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nightmares A CHILD IS BORN, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Now the appointed time has come Last Line: But on for those we bring to birth! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery A MERRY RHYME SENT TO THE LADY WROTH .. BIRTH OF LORD PEMBROKE'S CHILD, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, though I am one of those Last Line: All I care is, if the child grows. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Birth; Wroth, Mary Sidney (1586-1652); Child Birth; Midwifery A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: William carlos williams had finished Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over... Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight A PROSPECTIVE FATHER STANDS BEFORE THE DOOR OF A DELIVERY ROOM ..., by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Now she has gone on this dark pilgrimage Last Line: Oh armor her with the strong shield of my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spared by a car or airplane crash or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Birth; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery AFTER MIDNIGHT, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is at morning, twilight they expire Last Line: Who has been born this evening in the house. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery ALL COMERS, by JON C. TRIBBLE Poem Text First Line: Each child fighting through delivery's challenge Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ALMOST NAMED HORACE, by JORDAN DAVIS Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Names; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery AN APOLOGY FOR HIS FALSE PREDICTION THAT HIS AUNT LANE ... A SON, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the sybils dead? What is become Last Line: I meant the right by mental reservation. Subject(s): Birth; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery ANNIVERS: BAPTISMI, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How much worse than in vain Last Line: When thou, not I, sole owner art of me. Subject(s): Baptism; Birth; Christianity; Christenings; Child Birth; Midwifery ANTICIPATION, by LEONA BOLT MARTIN Poem Text First Line: With singing heart and lightened step Last Line: For she is coming home. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery AT LAST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in Last Line: "eureka is his name -- I've found ""a boy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth; Faces; Night; Child Birth; Midwifery; Bedtime AT NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: One night I heard a small, weak voice Last Line: Her sparrow with his common flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRDS SMALL ENOUGH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds small enough to nest in our young cypress Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by MARY CATHERINE BRENNAN Poem Text First Line: At last the dread-awaited hour has come Last Line: She'd gladly brave that scorching path again. Subject(s): Birth; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When they were wild Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH, by SULAMITH ISH-KISHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god who built this body round my heart Last Line: And shook me forth, a grain of mortal sand! Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race BIRTH, by LOIS PALCHES Poem Text First Line: Todays are mothers bound to being pregnant Last Line: And build a world and men secure from terror? Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery 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, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Oh little child I hold Last Line: And seek their visions in the face of hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH AND DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother Last Line: Birth and death. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the soul within the body held Last Line: And all that in its prison-house befell. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in another's pangs I hither came Last Line: How like to death thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The 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 BIRTH OF HENRI QUATRE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is so brisk, so fine a day Last Line: My memories turn to jeanne d'albret. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTH OF JUNE, by OLIVE WALDRON WARNER Poem Text First Line: What means this sudden burst of melodies Last Line: In ecstasy of nature -- june is born! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTHDAY POEM FOR A CHILDLESS MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the birthday of your death Last Line: You make a birthday of my death. Subject(s): Birth; Childlessness; Death; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Feminism BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BORN TODAY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is to be one to the one Last Line: Hold that frame Subject(s): Birth; Music & Musicians; Child Birth; Midwifery BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, / I have wished you something Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events; Child Birth; Midwifery CAESARIAN BIRTH, by PAULINE SOROKA CHADWELL Poem Text First Line: Subdued and clipped, a hollow voice cleaves through Last Line: With just a little pity in her eyes. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well to see these accidental great Last Line: This all-unworthy wreath on such a poet's bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birth; Funerals; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery; Burials 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 COME TO HIM, by ORVILLE LAWRENCE KUHN Poem Text First Line: From out the syrian sky an angel host Last Line: To come to him. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 COMING AND GOING, by GRACE STEELE HYDE TRINE Poem Text First Line: They stood rejoicing at his birth Last Line: The tired old man smiled. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Old Age; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The CONCEPTION, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: I am not barren though I shall conceive Last Line: Since we conceive within a stranger's womb. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery COUPLING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever he looks, standing still in the city, Last Line: But prepared for them Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery CRACK IN THE WORLD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see the crack in the world Last Line: Walking on the periphery of the world. Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Mothers; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery CURRICULUM VITAE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in a free city, near the north sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Parenthood DAWN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trailing night's sand-sifted stars Last Line: Bathe humanity—new-born! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Birth; Dawn; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sunrise DAWN MAGIC, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I stand in the dim, fragrant dawning Last Line: Looks down on the slumbering world. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Magic; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery DE PROFUNDIS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep Last Line: Hallowed be thy name -- halleluiah! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birth; Fathers; Child Birth; Midwifery DEATH AND BIRTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death and birth should dwell not near together Last Line: Death and birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the mortal facts / with which we deal? The man is thirty years Last Line: This the beginning of the mystery: -- Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight DOVECOTT MILL: 12. THE BABY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the millers' cottage the seasons glide Last Line: Of the happy miller of dovecote mill. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery DUE TO BEING OPPOSITE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seemed a litter was a family Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Birth; Life; Dead, The; Graveyards; Child Birth; Midwifery ECCE PUER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Of the dark past Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 27. THANKSGIVING CHILDBIRTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! The power who left his throne on high Last Line: Of thee thus kneeling, safety he may find. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vase was made of clay Last Line: Out of the sky into montana... Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America EMBRYO, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still mermaid / inside her Last Line: To the real life Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 ESTHER: 19, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the story of my birth, the name Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Fthers; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Dead, The FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: John he comes to my house Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs FOR MY DAUGHTER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was lingering summer Last Line: I thank your star, and you. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Feminism FOR YELLOW VIOLETS, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: How like a very miracle it seems Last Line: Weep for the sterile power that is I! Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Violets; Child Birth; Midwifery FOUND IN THE CABBAGE PATCH, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shiny head is round Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SACRIFICE SELF-COMPENSATED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True I have had much comfort gazing on thee Last Line: That greater happiness will thence arise. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Hope; Love; Sacrifices; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Optimism FUTILITY, by CLAUDE GEORGE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Man is a dying lonely ghost crying Last Line: His breast. Subject(s): Birth; Men; Child Birth; Midwifery GRANGER'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the day I was gone to town / to get my birth approved Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery HAPPINESS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Search the budding flower Last Line: Happiness is born. Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Rebirth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight HEALTH, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cut the stem of the amaryllis, and water poured out so suddenly, I didn't Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Flowers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER Poem Text First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child! Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war! Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The HISTORIES: BIRTH, WITHOUT THE THEME OF BURNING: US, BORN OF A THICKET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then all the forests divided & them oceans & Last Line: Lobsters? Sweetmeats? Subject(s): Birth; History; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Historians; Human Race HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 19, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So squeezed, wince you I scream? I love you & hate Last Line: Shame I am voiding oh behind it is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 20, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hide me forever I work thrust I must free Last Line: And it passes the wretched trap whelming and I am me Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 21, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drencht & powerful, I did it with my body Last Line: Blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOSPITAL NURSERY, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: Purity - whiteness - spotlessness! Through glass Last Line: Past -- present -- future -- in the hand of fate! Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hospitals; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery I REMEMBER, by BEATRICE HERFORD Poem Text First Line: I remember, I remember the place where I was born Last Line: "and says, ""was that the doorbell or did I hear the phone?" Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ICON, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene they play Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hung between pinetops Last Line: From loss. Subject(s): Birth; Children - Lost; Fields; Loss; Child Birth; Midwifery; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A TIME OF FLOWERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Do you know the spring is here Last Line: To welcome the new-born year? Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Subject(s): Women; Body, Human; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery IN NATALEM AUGUSTISSIMI PRINCIPIS CARLOLI, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first birth, mary, was unto a tomb Last Line: That canst give saints as well as kings a birth. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast. Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery JOTTINGS: NEW-BORN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death and birth dog us Last Line: The world and I are so unstudied fresh... Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 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 LAST SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning at the door Last Line: Of hope and spring! Subject(s): Birth; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In some misty eon past Last Line: War, and pestilence! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the infinite sea of eternity Last Line: Through one short hour of fretfulness. Subject(s): Birth; Light; Waking; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE AND YOU, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Ask much of life Last Line: Her golden key. Subject(s): Birth; Future Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S PAST AND FUTURE, by WILLIAM HANKINS CHITWOOD Poem Text First Line: Did I exist before my birth?' Last Line: I'll do again. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mystery; Child Birth; Midwifery LINES, INSCRIBED TO MRS. WYNNE, ON THE BIRTH OF HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let me wake the carol gay Last Line: Enriched with every blessing. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery LOVE'S PERSONALITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never seen Last Line: Not greatest, but apart. Subject(s): Birth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery MARE AND NEWBORN FOAL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you die Subject(s): Horses; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The MARIA MINOR, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I conceived. And sorrow Last Line: To mash my head. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness MATANZA TO WELCOME SPRING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread eagle sheep legs wide Subject(s): Spring; Sheep; Death; Birth; Dead, The; Child Birth; Midwifery MIRIAM'S SONG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death to the first-born sons, always Last Line: For the breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): It's A Boy Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the awful full-orb'd moon Last Line: Around the world, and link these three again. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birth; Love; Mothers; Silence; Sin; Child Birth; Midwifery MULTIPARA GRAVIDA 5, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to term the started child shocks Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery MY BIRTH-CHAMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I wakened from the night Last Line: With memories apart from me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1645, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tire'd with my psyche, (for ye song Last Line: Then, whilst in ease I live, of these soft poisons die. Subject(s): Birth; Prayer; Child Birth; Midwifery NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON'S SONNET, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No clear appear'd upon the azur'd sky Last Line: Ah, blest be she! Subject(s): Birth; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Child Birth; Midwifery NINE MONTHS MAKING, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Pregnancy; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery NOT LEAVING THE HOUSE, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When kai is born Subject(s): Family Life; Birth; Relatives; Child Birth; Midwifery NOTES FROM THE DELIVERY ROOM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strapped down, / victim in an old comic book, Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery NOW THAT I AM FOREVER WITH CHILD, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the days went Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth OBSERVATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who to the north, or south, doth set Last Line: His bed, male children shall beget. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mnemonics; Child Birth; Midwifery ODE TO THE SETTING SUN: ODE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alpha and omega, sadness and mirth Last Line: For they are twain yet one, and death is birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The OF BEING NUMEROUS, 21, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There can be a brick Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Means death so much? Is it so great an ill Last Line: He that escapes desire, at last is free. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Desire; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ON HERMOCRATIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hermocratia named - save only one Last Line: Thy boast against latona shamed by me! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth;midwifery 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 BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark the day white, on which the fates have smiled Last Line: Eugenio's learning and eugenio's wit. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S ELDEST SON, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome little helpless stranger Last Line: And their fondest hopes fulfill. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF A POSTHUMOUS CHILD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love Last Line: Arise to deck our land! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Families, when a child is born Last Line: By becoming a cabinet minister. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Birth; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Parenthood ONE FOR ALL NEWBORNS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They kick and flail like crabs on their backs. Subject(s): Birth; Babies; Mothers & Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery; Infants OPEN LIKE A ROSE, by ANN FISHER-WIRTH Poem Text First Line: Open like a rose, he told me Last Line: 2000). Subject(s): Bigamy; Birth; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Roses; Child Birth; Midwifery ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR 1862, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are pale, the trees are stiff Last Line: Will soon be driven out. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Despair; Hope; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: AN OLD STORY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient house of ages Last Line: And a child for king! Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS DAY AND EVERY DAY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star high, / baby low Last Line: Near and far! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; 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 ORPHAN BORN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lone, unfathered chick Last Line: My incubator. Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Orphans; Child Birth; Midwifery; Foundlings OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OVER DARK ARCHES, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked and thin and wet as if with rain Last Line: Till we turn and are full Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery PAST-LIVES THERAPY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They explained to me the bloody bandages Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; War; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery POEM FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm going to have it Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Birth; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery PORPHYROGENITUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the purple! Born in the purple! Last Line: Crown me with regal acclaim! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yet born; o hear me Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birth; World War Ii; Child Birth; Midwifery; Second World War PRAYER OF A MOTHER-TO-BE, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: Dear god of life and every new born thing Last Line: "of such the kingdom is; let us be led." Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; God; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Child Birth; Midwifery; Roman Catholics; Catholicism PROCLAMATION AT A BIRTH, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let every tree Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery QUEEN VICTORIA'S BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart" Last Line: Queen victoria's baby Subject(s): "babies;birth;courts & Courtiers;victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901);" Infants;child Birth;midwifery QUID PRO QUO, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just after my wife's miscarriage (her second Subject(s): Miscarriage; God; Birth; Faith; Child Birth; Midwifery; Belief; Creed RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War SCENARIO, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restricted clubs were sticky with ardor. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SECRET LAUGHTER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a secret laughter Last Line: By god, I have a son! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight SHILOH'S SEED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shiloh's seed shall not be sewn Subject(s): Birth; Lambs; God; Child Birth; Midwifery SONG FOR THE NEWBORN, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newborn, on the naked sand Last Line: Nakedly lay it. Subject(s): Birth; Holidays; Child Birth; Midwifery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 14, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch the lyre, on every string Last Line: Has no relation to this earth. Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET (ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH OF A SON), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they did greet me father, sudden awe Last Line: And he be born again, a child of god! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Last Line: While we wept idly o'er thy little bier! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET WRITTEN BY FRA. GORGIA WHO WAS BORN AS ... MOTHER TO HER GRAVE, by FRA. GORGIA Poem Text First Line: Unhappy I came from my mother's womb Last Line: For I, in death's cold arms, receiv'd my birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death - Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beauteous spring I see Last Line: Making all our passion vain. Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World SUE'S GOT A BABY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sue's got a baby now, an' she Last Line: My lost joys since her baby came. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battle and fog and dream Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet! Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BIRTH IN A NARROW ROOM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeps out of western country something new Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF A SONG, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: It strove all day for right of birth Last Line: I sang into life my song of june. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF SAINT PATRICK, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the eighth day of march it was, some people say Last Line: And we keep up the practice from that day to this. Subject(s): Birth; Saints; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice three moons had waxed in heaven Last Line: "god is god; there is none other; I his chosen prophet am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World; Paradise THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely we knew our darkling shore Last Line: Your powers, one will be carruth Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, it was a night Last Line: Thou, lovely thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birth; Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHANGELING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the changeling enter in? Last Line: Came back, and I did not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Child Custody; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale Last Line: Our country, and our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs 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 COMING OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring! I cannot run to greet Last Line: Forgive me, o my comrade spring! Subject(s): Birth; Leaves; Life; Nature; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery THE FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Agriculture; Farmers THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coffin, as I past across the lane Last Line: For it pleased god to take her to his mercy. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Faith; Mothers; Selflessness; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE GREATEST GIFT, by ANNIE J. TEEM Poem Text First Line: The woman of this age, the present hour Last Line: "accept my gift -- ""a human life." Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE HUSBAND'S VIEW, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can anything avail Last Line: To maids, is a useful thing!' Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dewdrop of the darkness born Last Line: Wherewith was veiled divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary THE INSATIABLE PRIEST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean Last Line: He can be content with two thousand a year. Subject(s): Birth; Clergy; Death; Marriage; Child Birth; Midwifery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LAST BIRTHDAY AT HOME, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last night before you were born, you were Variant Title(s): January, Daughter Subject(s): Birth; Daughters; Child Birth; Midwifery THE LATEST-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world had waited till thy soul Last Line: Of life the context clear. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 NAKED STRANGER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is five months' off Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE NEWBORN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in sleep her face changes Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 148, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once we're born we're confused Last Line: This is why I grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chaos; Chinese Literature; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 221, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death are decreed Last Line: And brilliant scholars are broke Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chinese Literature; Death; Fame; Wealth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Reputation; Riches; Fortunes THE RING OF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the west wind caught her up, as Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE SEVEN HOUSES OF JEAN RACINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Homer was born in cities seven. Seven houses saw thy birth, racine Last Line: Away at crepy, that small town nearby, in which racine was born, they say. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SPIRIT IS TOO BLUNT AN INSTRUMENT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Body, Human; Nature; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE STORK HAS BROUGHT A LITTLE PEACH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He didn't bring a pair Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth;midwifery THE TRAP, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The baited trap that does not kill Last Line: It was, to bait the trap with breath. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery THE TRIUMVIRATE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Wondrous force of sympathy Last Line: May cry at sight, ''tis very he!' Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 WARNING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List, the winds of march are blowing Last Line: Oppose, or bear with a submissive will. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WAY THE BABY CAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this is the way the baby came Last Line: O this is the way the baby came! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TO - . UPON THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST-BORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a shipwrecked sailor tost Last Line: Conscious nursling, to thy breast! Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 BE BORN AGAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist Last Line: "you've been forgiven" Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery TO HER FIRST-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long I waited, wondering Last Line: We clasp the living form again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TO MRS. D.S., ON THE BIRTH OF SIDNEY, HER SECOND SON, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May rest drown all thy pains; but never sleep Last Line: Them fully act the praise I faintly told! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TO THE COUNTLESS OF CHESTERFIELD, ON THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST SON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, let an humble stranger Last Line: And double 'em after when you will. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TOUCH, by TREVOR WEST KNAPP Poem Text First Line: We speak of the pain of childbirth, referring Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love UPON YE SIGHT OF MY ABORTIVE BIRTH YE 31TH: OF DECEMBER 1657, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What birth is this; a poore despissed creature? Last Line: Amend it lord; & keepe it still with thee: Subject(s): Birth; Death; God; Life; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The 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 VULCAN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harbors into harbor sand Subject(s): Birth; Subways; Child Birth; Midwifery WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE UNBORN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awake: / midnight, star-shouldered, is leaning over me Last Line: I am thy unborn, mother, moving toward the morn of my nativity. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery WHEN I WAS BORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I was born, then others laughed. I cried." Last Line: At death if love of life did not deceive them so. Subject(s): Birth;death;grief;happiness; "child Birth;midwifery;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;joy;delight; WHEN I WAS CONCEIVED, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was 1945, and it was may Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery WHEN TIME WAS YOUNG, by SARITA HOLT BROWNLEE Poem Text First Line: When time was young, man had his birth Last Line: His spirit dwelling with his god. Subject(s): Birth; Mankind; Soul; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race WHY DO WE LIVE?, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my body, my eyes, my mouth Last Line: Save to expand the widening realms of death! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery WHY I AM AFRAID OF TURNING THE PAGE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spokes, spooks: your tinsel hair weaves the wheel Subject(s): Relationships; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The WINTER LAMBS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night snow came upon us Last Line: Agree or disagree Subject(s): Winter; Lambs; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery WRITTEN A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE BIRTH OF A CHILD, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, prepare me for that hour Last Line: Haply expire with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery YOU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three times as many of you Last Line: As when I was born Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery YULETIDE, by EMMA F. COFFIN Poem Text First Line: O glowing east! O wondrous sparkling star Last Line: Our coming bridegroom, glorious king. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas Carols; Salvation; Child Birth; Midwifery |
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