There are 230 Poems about Parenthood

‘One morn I left him in his bed’
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

35/10
By Sharon Olds

A Fable
By Louise Glück

A Muse of Water
By Carolyn Kizer

A Note on My Son’s Face
By Toi Derricotte

A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Poet to His Baby Son
By James Weldon Johnson

A Prayer for My Daughter
By William Butler Yeats

A Story
By Colette Inez

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

After Su Tung P'o
By Heather McHugh

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer

An Arbor
By Linda Gregerson

An Unknown Friend
By Richard Emil Braun

Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!
By Hilda Raz

At the San Francisco Airport
By Yvor Winters

Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara

“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.”
By Anthony Hecht

“Luckies”
By Reginald Gibbons

“No Thank You, I Don’t Care For Artichokes,”
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Between
By Marie Ponsot

Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard

Birthday Blues
By Mark Rudman

Black Swan
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Blasting from Heaven
By Philip Levine

Boy and Father
By Carl Sandburg

Braid
By Susan Stewart

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Business
By A. F. Moritz

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Crossing the Days
By James Scruton

Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González

Dead
By Sarah C. Harwell

Depression
By Henry Carlile

Detroit, Tomorrow
By Philip Levine

Dilemma
By David Ignatow

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

Don Juan: Canto the First
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Dressing My Daughters
By Mark Jarman

Drift
By Mary Kinzie

Dropping the euphemism
By Bob Hicok

Elegy
By Anne Stevenson

End of Winter
By Louise Glück

Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson

Epitaph
By Katherine Philips

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Father and Son
By Delmore Schwartz

Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go?
By Ludwig Holstein

Fermanagh Cave
By Sherod Santos

Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour

Fifteen Epitaphs I
By Louise Imogen Guiney

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

Firstborn
By Kurt S. Olsson

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Food
By Brenda Hillman

For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Micha's Mother, Who Signs
By Robert A. Fink

For My Daughter
By Antonella Anedda

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Free Verses
By Sarah Kirsch

Friday Snow
By Reginald Gibbons

From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

Granddaughter
By Robinson Jeffers

Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch

Havana Birth
By Susan Mitchell

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega

Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper

Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major

Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile

Hush
By David St. John

I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

i can't stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes
By Charles Bukowski

I Could Not Tell
By Sharon Olds

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In the Kingdom of Pleasure
By Alan Shapiro

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

It Didn’t Begin with Horned Owls
Hooting at Noon
By Kevin Stein

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Joy
By Alan Shapiro

July 4, 1974
By June Jordan

Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert
By Robert Bly

Late at Night in Bed
By Gregory Djanikian

Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty

Leaving the Island
By Sharon Olds

Listening
By David Ignatow

Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Little Orphant Annie
By James Whitcomb Riley

Looking In at Night
By Mary Kinzie

Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Maternity
By Robert W. Service

Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
By Gail Mazur

Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton

Money
By Reginald Gibbons

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

Morning Song
By Sylvia Plath

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mother and Child, Body and Soul
By Jean Valentine

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker

Motherhood
By May Swenson

My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party
By David Bottoms

My Life
By Mark Strand

My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass

My Raptor
By Annie Finch

My Son the Man
By Sharon Olds

Night Thoughts
By Mark Rudman

North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi

Nurture
By Maxine W. Kumin

O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

On Education
By Elizabeth Bentley

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Only a Dad
By Edgar Albert Guest

Only Child
By D. Nurkse

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Our Willie
By Henry Timrod

Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth

Parental Recollections
By Charles Lamb

Peace
By Robert Wrigley

Peekaboo: Three Songs for the Nursery
By Anthony Hecht

Pity
By Camille T. Dungy

Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins

Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan

Postpartum Blues
By Elton Glaser

Prayer for an Irish Father
By Norman Williams

Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot

Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

Requiem for the New Year
By Mary Karr

from Rites of Passage
By Robert Duncan

Sappho
By James Wright

Saturday’s Child
By Countee Cullen

Scallop Song
By Anne Waldman

Shell
By Terry Wolverton

Some Boys are Born to Wander
By Walter McDonald

Sonnet XXII: Her thin cheeks narrowed by November cold
By Paul Engle

Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

State's Attorney Fallas
By Edgar Lee Masters

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Taking Time to Grow
By Mary Mapes Dodge

Testament
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Age of Dinosaurs
By James Scruton

The Baby's Dance
By Ann Taylor

The Bad Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Bridge Builder
By Anonymous

The Cut
By Ann Taylor

The Dream of the Unified Field
By Jorie Graham

The Father
By Ronald Ross

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

The Leaf Pile
By Alicia Ostriker

The Little Book of Hand Shadows
By Deborah Digges

The Little Boy Lost
By William Blake

The Lost Land
By Eavan Boland

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Miscarriage
By Amit Majmudar

The Month of June: 13 1/2
By Sharon Olds

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

the mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons
By A.E. Stallings

The Natural Child
By Helen Leigh

The One I Think of Now
By Wesley McNair

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry

The Perfect Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Precincts of Moonlight
By David Wojahn

The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Room in Which My First Child Slept
By Eavan Boland

The Same City
By Terrance Hayes

The Search Party
By William Matthews

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Victory
By Anne Stevenson

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Visit
By Carole Bernstein

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove

This Be the Verse
By Philip Larkin

Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
By Carolyn Kizer

Time Done Is Dark
By Michelle Boisseau

To a Child
By Sophie Jewett

To Her Father with Some Verses
By Anne Bradstreet

To My Daughter in a Red Coat
By Anne Stevenson

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Tritina for Susannah
By David Yezzi

Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas

Twenty-third
By Christina Pugh

Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
By Anne Sexton

Upon the Disobedient Child
By John Bunyan

Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

Why do you stay up so late?
By Don Paterson

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson

Woods Burial
By John Peck

Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez

Year’s End
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll

You Were You Are Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

Young Love
By Andrew Marvell