Julia Ward Howe Mother Poems
- 1. Mother Mind
I never made a poem, dear friend-
I never sat me down, and said,
This cunning brain and patient hand
Shall fashion something to be read.
... - 2. The Flag
There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to me
Than the blood that thrills in my bosom its earnest of liberty;
And dear are the stars it harbors in its sunny field of blue
As the hope of a further heaven that lights all our dim lives through.
... - 3. Mother's Day Proclamation
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
... - 4. Limitations Of Benevolence
'The beggar boy is none of mine,'
The reverend doctor strangely said;
'I do not walk the streets to pour
Chance benedictions on his head.
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Howard Eugene Bohrn: I have in my possession an original newspaper clipping entitled, "Mrs. Howe's Lincoln Poem."'
It goes on to say, "At the Lincoln meeting in Boston's Symphony Hall Friday Mrs. Julia Ward Howe contributed a poem which dispatch says she recited "in a strong and firm voice." Mrs. Howe is now in her ninetieth yearl "
