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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson was a representative of neo-romanticism during the Modernist period. Though largely dismissed during much of the 20th century, he remains a favorite author of children's verse and is among the 25 most translated writers in the world...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Mothers
Kaddish, Part I
by Allen Ginsberg
Mama, Come Back
by Nellie Wong
Mother o' Mine
by Rudyard Kipling
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer
by Mark Strand
My Mother Would Be a Falconress
by Robert Duncan
Parents
by William Meredith
Poems about Mothers
To My Mother
by Christina Rossetti
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
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To My Mother  
by Robert Louis Stevenson

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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