Top 11 Poems About Mom
By AOL RESEARCH & LEARN
Posted: 2007-05-09 11:51:07
Mother's Day is the perfect time to thank your mom for all she's done for you. If you can't find the right words to tell her how you feel, find inspiration from the maternal tributes of some famous poets.
1. To My First Love, My Motherby Christina Georgina Rossetti
"Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home" --
Read the full poem2. To a Child Embracing His Mother
by Thomas Hood
"Love thy mother, little one!
Kiss and clasp her neck again"
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Read the full poem3. Mother's Love
by John Jarvis Holden
"There is no Love like a Mother's --
'Tis the Sun that shineth forth;"
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Read the full poem4. A Faithful Mother's Love
by Janet Hamilton
"Dear child! a faithful mother's love
For thee will toil, and watch, and pray;"
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Read the full poem5. My Mother's Kiss
by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
"My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss,
I feel its impress now;"
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Read the full poem6. Mother to Child
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
"How best can I serve thee, my child! my child!
Flesh of my flesh, and dear heart of my heart!"
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Read the full poem7. His Mother's Face
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The light upon his eyelids pricked them wide
And staring out at us with all their blue"
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Read the full poem8. A Mother's Heart
by Christopher Bannister
"Never was prideful wealth, power, or fame
That glanced not back beyond its haughtiness"
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Read the full poem9. Cling to Thy Mother
by George Washington Bethune
"Cling to thy mother; for she was the first
To know thy being, and to feel thy life"
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Read the full poem10. Mother Knows
by E. I. Farrington
"They say my dad is a very wise man
And few lawyers can make things as plain as he can,
But whenever to him with my questions I go,
He always replies, 'Ask your mother; she'll know.'"
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Read the full poem11. Mother O' Mine
by Rudyard Kipling
"If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"
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Read the full poem
2006-05-01 17:27:55
Get ready for Mother's Day, Sunday, May 13.
