Family Poetry

Here are ten poems about mothers, fathers, daughters and sons.

1.  The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me by Eavan Boland http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/eavan_boland/poems/1197.html.

2.  Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old? (author unknown) http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/mother_daughter.

3.  Blessing by Christina Holmes http://www.lovepoemsandpoets.com/poems/mother_daughter.

4.  A Prayer for my Daughter by William Butler Yeats http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/daughter/page-/13765/.

5.  A Flower Given to my Daughter by James Joyce http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-flower-given-to-my-daughter/.

6.  A Father to His Son by Carl Sandburg http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-father-to-his-son-by-carl-sandburg.

7.  If by Emily Dickinson http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poems/best/son.

8.  My Father's Hats by Mark Irwin http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-fathers-hats.

9.  My Father was a Farmer by Robert Burns http://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitlem/l/blburnsmyfather.htm.

10.  Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays.

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Nature Poetry

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it." (Jules Renard)

Nature inspires us to create.  Here are eight poems which focus on God's beauty.

1.  I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth at http://www.inspirational-poems.net/famous-nature-poems/131-i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud.

2.  Birches by Robert Frost at http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/birches.

3.  Hummingbird by Emily Dickinson at http://www.inspirational-poems.net/famous-nature-poems/140-hummingbird-poem.

4.  Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173569.

5.  Ode to Autumn by John Keats at http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/autumn/page-/17674/.

6.  Snowflakes by Clive Sansom at http://allpoetry.com/poem/8621643-Snowflakes-by-Clive-Sansom.

7.  The Tuft of Flowers by Robert Frost at http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost/poems/698.html.

8.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou at http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/111/i_know_why_the_caged_bird_sings.

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