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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR MY MOTHER IN LIEU OF MOURNING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a thing so long to be true. I don't want Last Line: All a summer’s afternoon, and that’s not all Subject(s): Death – Mothers | |||
View Poem Text | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY MOTHER DIED ON SHAVUOT by YEHUDA AMICHAI NOW SHE DESCENDS by YEHUDA AMICHAI WHEN I WAS SMALL, A WOMAN DIED by EMILY DICKINSON TO A LADY WHO HAD OFFERED HIM A WREATH OF LAUREL by GEORGE SANTAYANA WOMAN, GALLUP, N.M. by KAREN SWENSON THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY by JOHN DRYDEN EPODE: 2. THE PRAISES OF A COUNTRY LIFE by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 3. THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
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