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When our children sleep in dust - A.L.O.E. "The House Not Made with Hands"

In some cannibalistic parent and child reunion - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

The children of my breath sing and sing - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"

My children half wild screaming demigods - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Have given a child to this world of woe - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXIX: Reminiscences" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

As mortal children of ambition - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

From out the roll of dreaming children - Paul Bewsher "A Fallen Leaf"

To whom the darkness is a child - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"

My children glean in fields they have not sown - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

Kindred children of the Spring - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"

By his children's knocking - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Mad, late children of the year - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"

Haunted children of the foam - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"

And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

And Neptune's children from the emerald gloom - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Slight children of an hour - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

The children of an idle brain - Jennifer Chang "Future Snow"

The cracked shell of another creature's child - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

favorite child of the universe - Lucille Clifton "the earth is a living thing"

It all depends on the child's arrival - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

To make my dream-children live - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "A Prayer"

Where golden Ceres left her child - Rev. William Crowe "The Rape of Proserpine"

Her children's sharp swords out - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

The stubborn faith of the abandoned child - Jim Daniels "The Geography of Detroit"

The unblemished hands of curious children - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

As children to the rainbow's scarf - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XVII: Asleep"

A child outrunning its name - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"

Children of some banish'd brotherhood - Irving Sidney Dix "Fairies of the Frost"

Why children might fear a carousel - Rita Dove "Horse and Tree"

Weary child of toil and care - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Ghost stories for the rowdy children - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"

The unbent hills and fields of our childhood - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"

A Dear Child and an Infamy - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: III. A Poetry-Party"

For you were my children before them - George Blackstone Field "The Breaker of the Trail"

When the loneliness is calling for her child - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"

Hollow gifts to cold children - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

Have grown a child of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

The children of thunder, red smoke and shells - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"

Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"

The voices of Time's children three - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Bastard child of water - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

A riverbend dredged of impossible children - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

The children of the storms rejoice - James Roane Gregory "The Green Corn Dance"

With the hope of children and corn - Joy Harjo "Grace"

Children's invisible voices - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"

Welcome children of the Spring - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"

Why children chalk suns on the sidewalk - francine j. harris "between old trees"

Be brave, my child, the birds will sing again - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Birds Will Sing Again"

The dreams of mothers with no children - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

Children of light & flesh - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Child of the wandering sea - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Children in their thousand-acre forests - August Huerta "The Woods"

The child they stole from the sand - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

Beside them, the shadow children play - Jess Hyslop "After"

Gifted their children scraps of antique rockets - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"

Children of the mingling mists - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Whose Children Were Freed Without Her - Ashley M. Jones "What It Means To Say Sally Hemings"

Emptied herself into that blazing child - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Of smallest children grown - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"

The approach of the incendiary children - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."

Mighty child of the cleft brows of Zeus - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

To some fantastic child of Pan - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

The child with hair of ash and abalone - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Stone children in bibs and hats - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

Hungry children abandoned by our country - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

A lyric child of mystery and grief - Edwin Markham "The Elf Child"

The haunts their children claim - Marguerite Mooers Marshall "Ghosts"

Congregation of forgotten children - Rachel McKibbens "Minneapolipstick"

The moon's dropped child - Charlotte Mew "Fame"

Vase filled with smoke's children - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Ragged children of the ruins - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

For the bread of nightingale children - Pablo Neruda "Come with Me" transl. by Teresa Anderson

A nomadic child of July's guitars - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The youngest child of time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Garden for a changeling child - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

A child sleeping on a nest of bones - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

Time that eats its children - Robert Pinsky "Newspaper"

A child of thy fevered unrest - E.J. Pratt "The Secret of the Sea"

Pour our children into the night - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Child of a bond with the sun - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"

A child of some wild catapult - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"

Pensive, passionate child of song - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Some lost child in tears and trouble - Carl Sandburg "Lost"

Shall welcome every child of Hydra's race - Ann K. Schwader "Mother's Night"

Proud child of fortune - Clarence Victor Stahl "Inspiration"

Two sceptic children of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

The singing children of her brain - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"

The mystery that none but her children know - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"

The pale Boreal Child sang to the soul of Naught - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Harsh time's imperious child - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

Only the ghost of children through my dreams - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"

Children and shadows and singularities - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"

Children of splendour and flame - William Watson "Ode in May"

Where every child can steal them - Arthur Waugh "The Friendly Hen"

As children play who make no noise - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

Children plucked each treasure - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"

Children of the comet's tail - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"

The children of men's dreams - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"

Children of the flaring hours - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"

Like the child I never really got to be - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

Children marked by endless strife - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

And shadows of children playing - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa

All children unlearn this fear - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"

A poster child for signs and wonders - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"


Childhood.


From childish eyes hide elder woe - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]


The ocean's childless oracle - Jennifer Chang "River Pilgrims"


Far above the antics of such childlike games - Bruce Boston "Marble People"


Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"


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