Mother
by Shahida Latif
Mother: bounteous blessing,
A sheltering shield, fragrant flower,
Gurgling founting fountain of love,
Incarnated patience and sacrifice;
She cares least,
For her own appetite and dress,
When her own children remain,
Unfed, undressed.
She tosses on the bed,
When they are ill disposed,
She bleeds, receives pain,
When they are hit or tumbling fall.
She wraps them in her grace,
When calamities to them encroach.
Fortunate are those who find her,
In her dotage and patiently,
Serve, obey and adore,
And get her good wishes,
Being murmured upon her lips,
When she departs to the world next.
End of the poem
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- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Wold Vo’k Dead by William Barnes
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- “I Know The Stars” by Sara Teasdale
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- Untitled V by Yunus Emre
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
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- Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Lovely Polly Stewart:
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
