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The term "sad child" has been searched for 183 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on November 23rd, 2004.
1. Not A Child - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Read 1214 times on Poetry Connection.
'Not a child: I call myself a boy,'
Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,
Now nine years have brought him change of joy;
'Not a child.'
How could reason be so far beguiled,
Err so far from sense's safe employ,
Stray so wide of... (Read full poem)
2. The Child Is Father To The Man - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Read 3533 times on Poetry Connection.
'The child is father to the man.'
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
'The child is father to the man.'
No; what the poet did write ran,
'The man is father to the child.'
'The child is father to the man!'
How... (Read full poem)
3. TO THE LADY CREWE, UPON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD - written by Robert Herrick
Read 870 times on Poetry Connection.
Why, Madam, will ye longer weep,
Whenas your baby's lull'd asleep?
And, pretty child, feels now no more
Those pains it lately felt before.
All now is silent; groans are fled;
Your child lies still, yet is not dead,
But rather like a flower... (Read full poem)
4. 112. Benediction - written by George William Russell
From Collected Poems by A.E..
Published in 1913.
Read 1256 times on Poetry Connection.
NOW the rooftree of the midnight spreading,
Buds in citron, green, and blue:
From afar its mystic odours shedding,
Child, on you.
Now the buried stars beneath the mountain
And the vales their life renew,
Jetting rainbow blooms from tiny... (Read full poem)
5. To Dora Dorian - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Read 516 times on Poetry Connection.
Child of two strong nations, heir
Born of high-souled hope that smiled,
Seeing for each brought forth a fair
Child,
By thy gracious brows, and wild
Golden-clouded heaven of hair,
By thine eyes elate and mild,
Hope would fain take heart to... (Read full poem)
6. I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child - written by Robert Graves
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Children born of fairy stock
Never need for shirt or frock,
Never want for food or fire,
Always get their hearts desire:
Jingle pockets full of gold,
Marry when they're seven years old.
Every fairy child may keep
Two ponies and ten... (Read full poem)
7. GRACE FOR A CHILD - written by Robert Herrick
Read 412 times on Poetry Connection.
Here, a little child, I stand,
Heaving up my either hand:
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up to thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat, and on us all.
Amen. (Read full poem)
8. A Child's Grace - written by Robert Herrick
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HERE a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat and on us all. Amen. (Read full poem)
9. Another Grace For A Child - written by Robert Herrick
Read 425 times on Poetry Connection.
Here a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat, and on us all. Amen. (Read full poem)
10. The Homicide - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 781 times on Poetry Connection.
They say she speeded wanton wild
When she was warm with wine;
And so she killed a little child,
(Could have been yours or mine).
The Judge's verdict was not mild,
And heavy was the fine.
And yet I see her driving still,
But... (Read full poem)
11. A Child of the Snows - written by G.K. Chesterton
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There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim,
And never before or again,
When the nights are strong with a darkness long,
And the dark is alive with rain.
Never we know but in sleet and in snow,
The place where the great fires are,... (Read full poem)
12. My Child Wafts Peace - written by Yehuda Amichai
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My child wafts peace.
When I lean over him,
It is not just the smell of soap.
All the people were children wafting peace.
(And in the whole land, not even one
Millstone remained that still turned).
Oh, the land torn like clothes
That can't be... (Read full poem)
13. Magellanic Penguin - written by Pablo Neruda
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Neither clown nor child nor black
nor white but verticle
and a questioning innocence
dressed in night and snow:
The mother smiles at the sailor,
the fisherman at the astronaunt,
but the child child does not smile
when he looks at the bird child,
and... (Read full poem)
14. Sestina - written by Elizabeth Bishop
From Questions of Travel.
Published in 1955.
Read 26447 times on Poetry Connection.
September rain falls on the house.
In the failing light, the old grandmother
sits in the kitchen with the child
beside the Little Marvel Stove,
reading the jokes from the almanac,
laughing and talking to hide her tears.
She thinks that her... (Read full poem)
15. TO HIS SAVIOUR, A CHILD;A PRESENT, BY A CHILD - written by Robert Herrick
Read 341 times on Poetry Connection.
Go, pretty child, and bear this flower
Unto thy little Saviour;
And tell him, by that bud now blown,
He is the Rose of Sharon known.
When thou hast said so, stick it there
Upon his bib or stomacher;
And tell him, for good handsel too,
That... (Read full poem)
16. Child of a Day - written by Walter Savage Landor
Read 378 times on Poetry Connection.
Child of a day, thou knowest not
The tears that overflow thy urn,
The gushing eyes that read thy lot,
Nor, if thou knewest, couldst return!
And why the wish! the pure and blest
Watch like thy mother o'er thy sleep.
O peaceful night! O... (Read full poem)
17. 172. Reconciliation - written by George William Russell
From Collected Poems by A.E..
Published in 1913.
Read 1751 times on Poetry Connection.
I BEGIN through the grass once again to be bound to the Lord;
I can see, through a face that has faded, the face full of rest
Of the earth, of the mother, my heart with her heart in accord,
As I lie ’mid the cool green tresses that mantle... (Read full poem)
18. The Grizzly Bear - written by A.E. Housman
Read 1042 times on Poetry Connection.
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild
It has devoured the little child.
The little child is unaware
It has been eaten by the bear. (Read full poem)
19. The Conversation Of Prayer - written by Dylan Thomas
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The conversation of prayers about to be said
By the child going to bed and the man on the stairs
Who climbs to his dying love in her high room,
The one not caring to whom in his sleep he will move
And the other full of tears that she will be... (Read full poem)
20. To a Young Child - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Read 1333 times on Poetry Connection.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds... (Read full poem)
21. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, when a Child - written by Matthew Prior
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MY noble, lovely, little Peggy,
Let this my First Epistle beg ye,
At dawn of morn, and close of even,
To lift your heart and hands to Heaven.
In double duty say your prayer:
Our Father first, then Notre Pere.
And, dearest child, along... (Read full poem)
22. 168. In Memoriam - written by George William Russell
From Collected Poems by A.E..
Published in 1913.
Read 1285 times on Poetry Connection.
POOR little child, my pretty boy,
Why did the hunter mark thee out?
Wert thou betrayed by thine own joy?
Singled through childhood’s merry shout?
And who on such a gentle thing
Let slip the Hound that none may bar,
That shall o’ertake... (Read full poem)
23. Lindy Lou - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 699 times on Poetry Connection.
If the good King only knew,
Lindy Lou,
What a cherub child are you,
It is true,
He would step down from his throne,
And would claim you for his own,
Then whatever would I do,
Lindy Lou?
As I kiss your... (Read full poem)
24. Spring & Fall: To A Young Child - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Published in 1880.
Read 2922 times on Poetry Connection.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By & by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds... (Read full poem)
25. To An Orphan Child - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 622 times on Poetry Connection.
A Whimsey
AH, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's;
Hers couldst thou wholly be,
My light in thee would outglow all in others;
She would relive to me.
But niggard Nature's trick of birth
Bars, lest she overjoy,
Renewal of the... (Read full poem)
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