Daughters

A Prayer for my Daughter by W. B. Yeats Once more the storm is howling, and half hid

The Writer by Richard Wilbur In her room at the prow of the house

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

For a Daughter Who Leaves by Janice Mirikitani A woman weaves

Daughters, 1900 by Marilyn Nelson Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch,

Achill by Derek Mahon I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay

A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux Your baby grows a tooth, then two,

Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell Gone now the baby's nurse,

A Newborn Girl at Passover by Nan Cohen Consider one apricot in a basket of them.

Interstate Highway by James Applewhite As on a crowded Interstate the drivers in boredom

Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass Child of my winter, born

The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness

The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland The only legend I have ever loved is

Ladders by Elizabeth Alexander Filene's department store

My Daughter Among the Names by Farid Matuk Difficult once I've said things

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith My mother scraped the name Patricia Ann from the ruins

My Daughter All Yourn by Farid Matuk will she be closer to the falling away of the gaze of things than others