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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTHER AND MATE, by GILBERT FRANKAU First Line: Lightly she slept, that splendid mother mine Last Line: "that, leaving you, I left you not alone." Subject(s): Mothers; Women & War; World War I; First World War | |||
LIGHTLY she slept, that splendid mother mine Who faced death, undismayed, two hopeless years ... ("Think of me sometimes, son, but not with tears Lest my soul grieve," she writes. Oh, this divine Unselfishness!) ... Her favourite print smiled down— The stippled Cupid, Bartolozzi-brown— Upon my sorrow. Fire-gleams, fitful, played Among her playthings—Toby mugs and jade. ... And then I dreamed that—suddenly, strangely clear— A voice I knew not, faltered at my ear: "Courage!" ... Your own dear voice, loved since, and known! And now that she sleeps well, come times her voice Whispers in day-dreams: "Courage, son! Rejoice That, leaving you, I left you not alone." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AMMUNITION COLUMN by GILBERT FRANKAU |
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