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William Blake

William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James,...
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		Poems About Birthdays
		A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

		A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser

		A Newborn Girl at Passover by Nan Cohen

		Birth by Tina Chang

		Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen

		Fifty-Three by Eileen Myles

		Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

		On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor

		Poem at Thirty by Michael Ryan

		Poems About Birth and Parenting
		A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman

		Acrobat by Elise Paschen

		After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell

		Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet

		Central Park, Carousel by Meena Alexander

		Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller

		Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta by Reetika Vazirani

		Gods by Michael Redhill

		Goodnight Moon by James Arthur

		Honey by Arielle Greenberg

		Lost in thought, the baby by Rebecca Wolff

		Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

		Motherhood, 1951 by Ai

		Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye

		The Difference between a Child and a Poem by Michael Blumenthal

		The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks

		The Sick Child by Robert Louis Stevenson

		To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson

		Tract by William Carlos Williams

		You Begin by Margaret Atwood

Infant Joy
by William Blake

"I have no name: I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy, but two days old. Sweet Joy I call thee: Thou dost smile, I sing the while; Sweet joy befall thee!