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Edgar Allan Poe

Born in 1809, Edgar Allen Poe's work as an editor, poet, and critic had a profound impact on American and international literature...
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		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 Christina Rossetti

		To My Mother by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

		[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti

To My Mother
by Edgar Allan Poe

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you— You who are more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother—my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
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