Here you will find the Poem Mother of poet Katharine Lee Bates
'MOTHER! Mother!' he called as he fell In the horror there Of a bursting shell That strewed red flesh on the air. Far away over sea and land: The knitting dropt From an old white hand, And a heart for an instant stopt. But it was Death, dark mother and wise, All-tenderest, Who kissed his eyes And gathered him to her breast.
