Mother
by Shahida Latif
Mother: bounteous blessing,
A sheltering shield, fragrant flower,
Gurgling founting fountain of love,
Incarnated patience and sacrifice;
She cares least,
For her own appetite and dress,
When her own children remain,
Unfed, undressed.
She tosses on the bed,
When they are ill disposed,
She bleeds, receives pain,
When they are hit or tumbling fall.
She wraps them in her grace,
When calamities to them encroach.
Fortunate are those who find her,
In her dotage and patiently,
Serve, obey and adore,
And get her good wishes,
Being murmured upon her lips,
When she departs to the world next.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Олег Бундур – Старания
- On the Nativity of Christ by William Dunbar
- Telescopes In The Square by Graham Rowlands
- English Poetry. David Herbert Lawrence. Whales Weep Not!. Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс.
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Crocodile’s Toothache by Shel Silverstein
- Battle Stars
- Ballade Of His Books poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Song by Robert Creeley
- On Teaching The Young by Yvor Winters
- On The City Wall
- Владимир Вишневский – Заявка на романс
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- Phillis Wheatley – Phillis Wheatley
- At His Grave
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