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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, to a British family. When he was five years old, he was taken to England to begin his education,...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems About Mothers
		Kaddish, Part I by Allen Ginsberg

		Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong

		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 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

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Mother o' Mine
by Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

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