You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The little feet along the floor.

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Poems by This Author

After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra" by Robert Louis Stevenson As when the hunt by holt and field Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson In winter I get up at night Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson What are you able to build with your blocks? Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand Envoy by Robert Louis Stevenson Go, little book, and wish to all My House, I Say by Robert Louis Stevenson My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me My Wife by Robert Louis Stevenson Trusty, dusky, vivid, true Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson Summer fading, winter comes Pirate Story by Robert Louis Stevenson Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson Under the wide and starry sky Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson Great is the sun, and wide he goes The Celestial Surgeon by Robert Louis Stevenson If I have faltered more or less The Dumb Soldier by Robert Louis Stevenson When the grass was closely mown, The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson When I was sick and lay a-bed The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson From Breakfast on through all the day The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson At evening when the lamp is lit The Sick Child by Robert Louis Stevenson O Mother, lay your hand on my brow! The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson I should like to rise and go Underwoods: Epigram by Robert Louis Stevenson Of all my verse, like not a single line Where Go the Boats? by Robert Louis Stevenson Dark brown is the river Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson Whenever the moon and stars are set Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson Late lies the wintry sun a-bed

Further Reading

Poems for Mother's Day It's all I have to bring today (26) by Emily Dickinson Jugglers by Francisco Aragón Mother by Herman de Coninck Mother by Lola Ridge Mother's Day by David Young Song by H. D. The Angel that presided 'oer my birth by William Blake To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe To My Mother by Christina Rossetti Video: Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton [Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti Poems About Mothers Disciplines [If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling] by Dawn Lundy Martin Kaddish, Part I by Allen Ginsberg Chorus by Catherine Barnett Exile by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Jugglers by Francisco Aragón Lucky by Tony Hoagland Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong Metamorphosis by James Richardson Mother by Lola Ridge Mother by Herman de Coninck Mother Ann Tells Lucy What Gave Her Joy by Arra Lynn Ross Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling Mother's Day by David Young My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer by Mark Strand My Mother Was No White Dove by Reginald Shepherd My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan My Mother's Funeral by Ira Sadoff Parents by William Meredith Picking Up by Evelyn Duncan Poems about Motherhood Postpartum by Hiromi Itō She Leaves Me Again, Six Months Later by Collier Nogues The Player Queen by W. B. Yeats The Routine Things Around the House by Stephen Dunn The Visit by Jason Shinder To My Mother by Christina Rossetti To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson Untitled [A house just like his mother's] by Gregory Orr Wedding Cake by Naomi Shihab Nye [Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti