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"Grandma's Hands" is a song written by Bill Withers about his grandmother. It was included on his first album Just as I Am (1971), and was released as a single, reaching number 18 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart and 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 1 ]
Say 'Happy Grandparents Day' this weekend with some thoughtful poetry. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
In Winter I Wrote Love Poems; Hands; Old House; Old Mother; Grandfather Is Home from Seattle; He Died of Cystic Fibrosis at 24; Prayer in the ICU; Grandma in the Corner, Dying; O Hurried Guest; A Poem for Erin's First Christmas; Worlds Might Stumble; When; Of My Beloved Son; II - Apocalyptic Verses. Tin Men; On Another Road; If I Hadn't ...
Other poems that attained popularity include "The Sword of Bunker Hill" (1861), a national hymn; "Keep Step with the Music of the Union" (1861); "The Liberty Bell" (1862); and his most famous poem, "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World" (1865), a poem praising motherhood.
The poem has a convenient form; ten lines in length with each line holding four stresses. It is almost like a confining grid, emphasizing the Old Mother's unbending existence. There is a clear rhyming scheme of couplets, with a nice half rhyme towards the end which rounds the poem off properly.
Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [1] [2] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [3] ...
This book was the first poetry collection by an Asian-Australian poet to be on the New South Wales’ English syllabus for the Higher School Certificate from 2019 to 2023. [6] Chong's poem, ‘My Hakka Grandmother’, is part of a suite of poems from Contemporary Asian Australian Poets [ 10 ] on the NSW HSC syllabus for English, 2019–2023.
Mary Dow Brine (1838-1925) [1] was an American poet, novelist, and lyricist. Her best-known poem is "Somebody's Mother," and her most noteworthy book was "My Boy and I or On the Road to Slumberland," an elegant book illustrated by Dora Wheeler and produced as part of a brief foray into publishing by Louis Comfort Tiffany.