- Anne Bradstreet,
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (1678)
- William Blake,
“The Little Boy Found” (1789)
- Christina Rossetti,
“To My Mother” (1842)
- Edgar Allan Poe,
“To My Mother” (1849)
- Walt Whitman,
“There was a Child went Forth” (1855)
- Walt Whitman,
“Unfolded out of the Folds” (1860)
- Christina Rossetti,
“Sonnets are full of love” (1881)
- Rudyard Kipling,
“Mother o’ Mine” (1891)
- Emily Dickinson,
“Nature — the Gentlest Mother is,” (#790)
- William Butler Yeats,
“Song of the Old Mother” (1899)
- Henry Van Dyke,
“Mother Earth” (1909)
- William Butler Yeats,
“The Player Queen” (1916)
- Carl Sandburg,
“Poems Done on a Late Night Car” (1916)
- Langston Hughes,
“Mother to Son” (1922)
- Claude McKay,
“My Mother” (1922)
Poems for Mothers
A Collection of Classic Poems for Mother’s Day
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com Guides
Gathered here are just a few of the greatest classic poems written about mothers and motherhood, to read on Mother’s Day:
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