Showing posts with label mothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mothers. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 May 2015

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.