search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Talking of Mothers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Note on the Editor
vii
Introduction
ix
Note on the Texts
xiii
Poems
`The Mother of Mary'
3
1
John Audelay
`Meekly We Sing and Say to Thee'
4
2
James Ryman
`Noel, el, el, el, el, el, el...'
6
1
Anon
`Mary Mother, Come and See'
7
1
Anon
`What, Heard Ye Not?'
8
1
Anon
`Flower of Roses, Angels' Joy'
9
1
Anon
Amantium Irae Amoris Redintegratio
10
2
Richard Edwards
[The Punishment of Niobe]
12
2
Arthur Golding
[Charissa]
14
1
Edmund Spenser
A Sweet Lullaby
15
1
Nicholas Breton
To His Mother
16
1
John Harington
`Weep Not, My Wanton'
17
1
Robert Greene
[A Defence of Eve]
18
2
Emilia Lanier
Epigram 22: On My First Daughter
20
1
Ben Jonson
Epigram 62: To Fine Lady Would-be
21
1
William Browne of Tavistock [Epitaph]
21
1
To Dianeme. A Ceremony in Gloucester
22
1
Robert Herrick
On the Infancy of Our Saviour
22
1
Francis Quarles
The Dream
23
1
Rachel Speight
In Praise of Women in General
24
2
Thomas Randolph
The Four Ages of Man (Childhood)
26
1
Anne Bradstreet
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
26
1
The Tempest
27
1
Henry Vaughan
Epitaph: On Her Son H.P., at St Syth's Church, Where Her Body Also Lies Interred
28
1
Katherine Philips
[Mother Venus]
29
1
Thomas Creech
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother's Arms, 1 May 1724
30
1
Ambrose Philips
Written for My Son, and Spoken by Him at His First Putting on Breeches
31
1
Mary Barber
To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth
32
1
Mehetabel Wright
On the Death of an Infant of Five Days Old, Being a Beautiful but Abortive Birth
33
1
Elizabeth Boyd
On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk, The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham
34
3
William Cowper
A Pastoral Song
37
1
Anne Hunter
Washing Day
38
2
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible
39
1
To Mira, On the Care of Her Infant
40
1
Ann Yearsley
An Elegy on a Maiden Name
41
2
Jane Cave
Written a Few Hours Before the Birth of a Child
42
1
The Female's Lamentations; or, The Village in Mourning
43
3
Hannah Wallis
The Natural Child
46
2
Helen Leigh
The Little Boy Found
48
1
William Blake
The Land of Dreams
48
1
Written on Seeing Her Two Sons at Play
49
1
Henrietta O'Neill
To an Unborn Infant
50
1
Isabella Kelly
A Winter's Day
51
2
Joanna Baillie
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
52
1
On My Own Little Daughter, Four Years Old
53
2
Anon
The Sailor's Mother
55
2
William Wordsworth
The Cottager to Her Infant
56
1
Confirmation Continued
56
1
Sonnet Addressed to My Mother
57
1
Mary Tighe
Sonnet
58
1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Child's Evening Prayer
58
1
`The Singing Kettle and the Purring Cat'
59
1
To My Mother
59
1
Thomas Moore
To My Mother
60
2
Felicia Hemans
The Mother
62
1
Caroline Clive
A Mother's Love
63
1
Charles Swain
The Widowed Mother
64
1
The Mother's Dream
64
1
William Barnes
Mater Desiderata
65
1
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Mother
66
1
Sara Coleridge
My Mother's Grave
67
3
Thomas Aird
Aurora Leigh, Book 1
70
5
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Isobel's Child
71
4
The Grandmother
75
6
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Demeter and Persephone (In Enna)
79
2
`Remembering Him Who Waits Thee Far Away'
81
1
Seven Times Seven: Longing for Home
81
2
Jean Ingelow
A Terrible Infant
83
2
Frederick Locker-Lampson
To My Grandmother
83
2
The Toys
85
1
Coventry Patmore
Waiting
86
5
Charles Stuart Calverley
Motherhood
87
2
On the Brink
89
2
`Mother Wept, and Father Sigh'd'
91
1
Joseph Skipsey
A Mother's Love
92
1
Ellen Johnston
News for Her Mother
93
3
Thomas Hardy
The Christening
94
1
In Childbed
95
1
The Modern Mother
96
2
Alice Meynell
Maternity
97
1
The Girl on the Land
97
1
To Alison Cunningham From Her Boy
98
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
To My Mother
98
1
To Any Reader
99
1
Song
99
1
Edith Nesbit
`Little Jesus'
100
2
Francis Thompson
To His Mother, C.L.M.
102
1
John Masefield
A Son
103
1
Lilian Bowes Lyon
The Death of Queen Jane
103
1
Anon
Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
104
2
Anon
The Cruel Mother
106
1
Anon
`Where Have You Been All Day'
107
1
Anon
`All Under the Leaves'
108
2
Anon
For a Child Expected
110
1
Anne Ridler
To My Mother
111
1
George Barker
To My Mother at 73
112
1
Elizabeth Jennings
Notes
113
16
Acknowledgements
129