Mothers Please!: One Hundred Poems for Every Mother
by Dr. Douglas Brooks-Davies
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This delightful collection celebrates motherhood in all its forms. Here you will find all the joy, self-sacrifice, occasional irritation but above all, the intimate tenderness of motherhood - whether evoked in a glimpse of a very human mother or through heroic tales of the great mother goddesses of myth, legend and religion. From Wordsworth to Allan Ahlberg, William Blake to John Betjeman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Roald Dahl, William Blake to Anne Ridler, Tennyson to Edith Nesbit - here show more is a collection of poems which have been taken from the whole range of verse in English, from the Middle Ages to the present day. show lessTags
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- 821.0080920431 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English Poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts not limited by time period or kind of form Collections of literary texts displaying specific features or emphasizing specific subjects, for or by specific groups of people Poetry for and by groups of people with specific attributes, residents of specific areas Poetry for and by groups of people with specific attributes Non-occupational classifications
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