Mothers

My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan My mother would be a falconress,

My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer by Mark Strand When the moon appears

Parents by William Meredith What it must be like to be an angel

Lucky by Tony Hoagland If you are lucky in this life,

Kaddish, Part I by Allen Ginsberg Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on

Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong Mama, come back.

The Routine Things Around the House by Stephen Dunn When Mother died

To My Mother by Christina Rossetti To-day's your natal day

To My Mother by Robert Louis Stevenson You too, my mother, read my rhymes

Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling If I were hanged on the highest hill

To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe Because I feel that, in the Heavens above

[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome

Picking Up by Evelyn Duncan During the depression

To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson That October might have begun

The Visit by Jason Shinder

In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte i knew you before you had a mother

Exile by Alicia Suskin Ostriker The downward turning touch

The Player Queen by W. B. Yeats My mother dandled me and sang