Read full poem →the poet; in August, 1864, Hnoch Arden, with which were pub-
lished Aylmer’s Field, Sea Dreams, The Grandmother, and The
Northern Farmer ; in December, 1869, four additional Tadyils,
Dictionary Entry
A mother of someone's parent.
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. grandmothergrandmother maternalgrandmother old
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Poetry examples for “grandmother”
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Read full poem →They all talked about many things as we drove along. They were always
talking, and they talked all the way back to my grandmother’s house. They
spoke of many things but never, once, of my grandfather.
Read full poem →And how she hated her father, and how she grieved
When her mother died; and how a good grandmother
Helped her and helps her now. And how her sister
Read full poem →Nepah’win, sleep
Noko’mis, a grandmother, mother of Wenonah
No’sa, my father
Read full poem →an old-style European immigrant and reminded me of my Austrian
grandmother.
Read full poem →Its not that we hadn’t enough to eat at home, it’s just that my
grandmother always cooked economy joints and economy meat-
loafs and had the habit of saying, the minute you lifted the first
Read full poem →My grandmother and my mother were such good cooks that I left
everything to them. They were always trying to teach me one dish
Read full poem →And I remember my maternal grandmother from Vienna.
As a schoolgirl she gave roses to Franz Josef.
Read full poem →To be incorporated into a sarcastic poem about a fat, greasy, and imperfect
grandmother: