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by Bob Holman & Margery Snyder

Gathered here are just a few of the greatest classic poems written about mothers & motherhood, to read to or with your mother on Mother’s Day:

• Anne Bradstreet,
  “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (1678)
  
  
• William Blake,
  “The Little Boy Found” (1789)
  
  
• Christina Rossetti,
  “To My Mother” (1842)
  
  
• Christina Rossetti,
  “Sonnets are full of love” (1881)
  
  
• Edgar Allan Poe,
  To My Mother (1849)
  
  
• Rudyard Kipling,
  “Mother o’ Mine” (1891)
  
  
• Walt Whitman,
  “There was a Child went Forth” (1891)