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1. "What Mother Means" by Karl Fuchs “Mother” is such a simple word, But to me there’s meaning seldom heard. For everything I am today, My mother’s love showed me the way. 2. "A Mother's Love"
In the poem, the fire the Old Mother lights in the morning is meant to represent the Old Mother herself, waking up when the fire is blown, and resting when the fire grows both "cold" and "feeble". The rhyming style of the poem represents that of childish songs and nursery rhymes. The simplicity touches the reader.
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
1796, September 20 1847 Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796. "Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll" 1796 1797 Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me. "Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first" 1796 1797
Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–) 1800 Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century 1799 On one of the Coldest Days of the Century. Former title: Preceding Publication was titled: "The Fly" "A plague on your languages, German and Norse!" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1800
The poem tells the story of a family living in rural Ohio during the American Civil War. A mother and father have four children; their eldest, a son named Pete, has been sent to fight in the war, and their three daughters are still living with them. In the poem, the family gets a letter from Pete.
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]