End of the month
making a speedy
estimate of debts—
his children play late
Poems on the topic: child
Poems on the topic “child” on Poets.by.
Ceremony
a child christened—
her simple noise
and wrangling about
Grown-up nursery rhyme
O mother, O wife,
in the country of Chance I am king
in a velvet cap.
I had a mine and sealed the thing
and save our money in trees,
which cost a song and keep
the children company.
Displaced
Dying
and desire
come to me
in other things.
I am falling into
a white sea, I am
fierce as ivy and very
big with child.
I expect to live
but continue
in pain.
So.
Congregation
At church, a strange company,
a great store of gall,
an impertinent sling,
a child in a well.
Self-discovery
All this vexing afternoon
with a child crying
at school—
I am he.
Daughter
My mother
buried her child
that she brought
to the temple
and there
I find myself,
though I am
wholly glass.
Sound of the Sea
My brother the sea,
who lay so late awake,
I find by his voice.
His only child died
last night at home.
Philanthropist
With the dog to see some poor children
in tawny clothes sing.
I give them five pieces in gold,
a sound lesson upon the flag
and a silver can of ham three stories high.
Puberty
A child overtaken by change
endures her sickness
in the garden,
tells me
the navy may land there,
for pen and ink have begun
to do business.
Fable
I am he who had
been hunting and
is come back dead
to all I own,
to my house made
of children and gold,
to my picture
which is now
done with me.
Poor in spirit
urchin at church—
eyes make a most
eloquent sermon
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