Mother's Day Poetry

By WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Sheehan

This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel. It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives. A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the World, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself. The fact that this is transformed within minutes of birth to a deep, unconditional love is truly beautiful. Whatever the future brings for Mother or child that bond will hold. The first attempts at language by babies is usually 'muh' or 'ma' - a universal sound for Mother. In every race, culture and domain Mothers are seen as both a symbol and living emblem of love and nurture, of comfort and safety. As we grow older that relationship changes but on a fundamental level remains giving, unconditional and unequivocal. As we become parents ourselves that circle of experience completes a full turn. For poets through time this unique and fulfilling relationship has enabled some of the greatest verse to be written by some of our most famed poets from Wordsworth to Whitman to Tennyson and many, many others. We hope this experience of listening to these carefully chosen words will help you reflect and further enjoy the experience that a Mother's love has brought to your life. Their devotion to ours ensures ours to theirs. Whilst we celebrate Mother's Day once a year, every day is their day. Many of these poems are also available on our audiobook version at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005140

Book preview

Mother’s Day, The Poetry

Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at special days of celebration through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each.  

The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel.  It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives.

A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the world, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself.  The fact that this is transformed within minutes of birth to a deep, unconditional love is truly beautiful.   Whatever the future brings for Mother or child that bond will hold.

The first attempts at language by babies and toddlers is usually ‘mu’ or ‘ma’ - a universal sound for Mother.  In every race, culture and domain Mothers are seen as both a symbol and living emblem of love and nurture, of comfort and safety.

As we grow older that relationship changes but on a fundamental level remains giving, unconditional and unequivocal.  As we become parents ourselves that circle of experience completes a full turn.

For poets through time this unique and fulfilling relationship has enabled some of the greatest verse to be written by some of our most famed poets from Wordsworth to Whitman to Tennyson.    We hope this experience of listening to these carefully chosen words will help you reflect and further enjoy the experience that a Mother’s love has brought to your life.

Their devotion to us ensures ours to theirs.

Whilst we only celebrate Mother’s Day once a year, every day is their day.

Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Tim Graham and Ghizela Rowe

Index Of Poems

The Mother's Return By William Wordsworth

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle By William Ross Wallace

Old Mother Laidinwool By Rudyard Kipling

The Old Armchair By Eliza Cook

Ah, Woe Is Me By Robert Burns

A Legend Of Brittany By James Russell

Infant Sorrow By William Blake

The Mother’s Lament For Her Infant By Lucretia Maria Davidson

The Mother Mourns By Thomas Hardy

Mother & Daughter By Augusta Webster An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence (Extract)

The Mother’s Son By Rudyard Kipling

A Mother’s Love – Where She Goes She Is Not Gone By Daniel Sheehan

The Little Black Boy By William Blake

The Slave Mother By Frances E W Harper

The Angel That Presided O'er My Birth By William Blake

Babies Come Into This World (Unknown Author)

Songs From Prince Lucifer II – Mother Song By Alfred Austin

Babies Don’t Keep (Unknown Author)

Charles J. Barnes

My Mother By Anne Taylor

To My Mother By  Edgar Allan Poe 

Somebody's Mother by Anonymous

There Was A Child Went Forth By Walt Whitman   

My Mother’s Kiss By Frances E W Harper

The Mother Of God By William Butler Yeats

Untitled By Alice Cary

Monologue Of A Mother By DH Lawrence

To My Mother By Lucretia Maria Davidson

Pensive On Her Dead Gazing By Walt Whitman

Upon Her Soothing Breast By Emily Brontë

To My Mother By Christina Rosetti

To My Mother By Robert Louis Stevenson

To My Dear Mother In Sickness By Lucretia Maria Davidson

The Mother’s Grave By Peter John Allan

To A Young Lady Whose Mother Was Insane From Her Birth By Lucretia Maria Davidson

The Three Graves By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My Mother Dear By Samuel Lover

I Must Not Tease My Mother (Author Unknown)

The Bedtime Kiss  (Author Unknown)

Mother Machree by Rida Johnson Young

I Am Your Mother And You My Child By Daniel Sheehan

The Gigolo’s Son By Jean Graham

Sonnets Are Full Of Love By  Christina Rossetti   

Mother's Treasures By Frances Ellen Watkins

Mother O’ Mine B y Rudyard Kipling

Mammy by Anonymous

Mama's Mama By Anonymous

A Mother’s Picture By Alice Cary

The Sailor's Mother By William Wordsworth

Nature The Gentlest Mother By Emily Dickinson

News For Her Mother By Thomas Hardy

Mother's Eyes By Mary D. B.