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Summary

There is one universal word which all babies instinctively sound in every language and that is ‘mama’.  It produces a bond the like of which there is no other. 
 
Women are hard-wired by Nature to nurture and raise.  Along the human chain of generations we would wish that every infant has depended on this woman, found shelter within her arms, food within her breast and the confidence to experience life and all its wonders from her love. 
 
Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. 
 
It is true, that mothering, the maternal instinct, comes in all shapes and shades and sizes.  Some women find it difficult and others easy.  Society with its norms and ever-readiness to make all conform, places pressures and difficulties in the paths of many.  Families may not all be harbours of milk and honey but in this volume we take a different view.   
 
Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve.   
 
We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around.   This is our tribute to mothers everywhere. 
1 - 50 Shades of Mothers - An Introduction 
2 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 
3 - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by William Ross Wallace 
4 - Mama's Mama by Anonymous 
5 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 
6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 
7 - My Mother by Ann Taylor 
8 - My Mother Dear by Samuel Lover 
9 - To My Mother by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
10 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 
11 - To My Mother by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
12 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker 
13 - Mother's Eyes by Mary D B Hull 
14 - My Mother's Hands by Anonymous 
15 - I Am Your Mother by Daniel Sheehan 
16 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous 
17 - To A Little Invisible Being by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
18 - Infant Sorrow by William Blake 
19 - Babies Don't Keep - Anonymous 
20 - Songs From Prince Lucifer II. Mother Song by Alfred Austin 
21 - Untitled by Alice Carey 
22 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 
23 - Mother's Treasures by Frances Ellen Watkins 
24 - Monologue Of A Mother by D H Lawrence 
25 - Mother & Daughter (Extract) by Augusta Weber 
26 - The Jigalo's Son by Jean Graham 
27 - Somebody's Mother by Anonymous 
28 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 
29 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
30 - The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats 
31 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 
32 - To a Young Lady Whose Mother Was Insane by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
33 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis 
34 - The Slave Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten 
35 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 
36 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper 
37 - The Mother's Son by Rudyard Kipling 
38 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 
39 - The Mother by May Herschel-Clarke 
40 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan 
41 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
42 - Pensive on Her Dead Gazing by Walt Whitman 
43 - On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture by William Cowper 
44 - The Sailor's Mother by William Wordsworth 
45 - The Old Arm Chair by Eliza Cook 
46 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
47 - The Mother's Grave by Peter John Allen 
48 - Where

Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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