- Anne Bradstreet,
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (1678)
- William Blake,
“The Little Boy Found” (1789)
- Christina Rossetti,
“To My Mother” (1842)
- Christina Rossetti,
“Sonnets are full of love” (1881)
- Edgar Allan Poe,
“To My Mother” (1849)
- Rudyard Kipling,
“Mother o’ Mine” (1891)
- Walt Whitman,
“There was a Child went Forth” (1891)
Poems for Mothers
A collection of classic poems for Mothers Day
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
Gathered here are just a few of the greatest classic poems written about mothers and motherhood, to read to or with your mother on Mother’s Day:
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