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Christina Rossetti
Born in 1839 in London, Christina Rossetti, the author of Goblin Market and Other Poems, is increasingly being considered a major Victorian Poet...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Mothers
Kaddish, Part I
by Allen Ginsberg
Exile
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Jugglers
by Francisco Aragón
Lucky
by Tony Hoagland
Mama, Come Back
by Nellie Wong
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 Mothers
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
To My Mother
by Edgar Allan Poe
To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54
by Teresa Carson
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]
by Christina Rossetti
Related Prose
By Hand: Lines for Mother's Day
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To My Mother  
by Christina Rossetti

To-day's your natal day;
    Sweet flowers I bring:
Mother, accept, I pray
    My offering.

And may you happy live,
    And long us bless;
Receiving as you give
    Great happiness.



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