Read full poem →In cadences and falls, to ease a queen,
Widowed and childless, cowering in a screen
Of myrtles, whose life hangs with all its threads unstrung.
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Poetry examples for “childless”
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Read full poem →He had been many things since that,—drover, schoolmaster,
Whitesmith,—but when his brother died childless came up hither;
And although he could get fine work that would pay in the city,
Read full poem →merchant, John Allan. Mr. Allan, who had married an American lady and
settled in Virginia, was childless. He therefore took naturally to the
brilliant and beautiful little boy, treated him as his son, and made him
Read full poem →That once were much to me, or that were not,
All lost, as is a childless woman's child
And its child's children, in the undefiled
Read full poem →To vex their solemn slumber so;
Though childless, and with thorn-crowned head,
Up the steep road must England go,
Read full poem →To vex their solemn slumber so;
Though childless, and with thorn-crowned head,
Up the steep road must England go,
Read full poem →Tender, and bitter-sweet, and shy, I've watched you holding
Another's child. O childless woman, was it then
That, with an instant's cry, your heart, made young again,