Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse

Robert Haven Schauffler

Moffat, Yard & Company, 1915 - Mothers - 363 pages

Contents

• A Proclamation by the Presi: 3
• Mothers Day Observance: 10
• Quotations: 17
• Pensioning Mothers: 23
• Seven Times Six Jean Ingelow: 29
• Matres Dolorosae Robert Bridges: 35
• The Mother in Drama Henry Barrett Hinckley: 41
• The Happy Hour Mary Frances Butts: 53
• Transfiguration Louisa M Alcott: 63
• The Mothers Hymn William Cullen Bryant: 70
• Child and Mother Eugene Field: 80
• Motherless Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 86
• A Mothers Picture Edmund Clarence Stedman: 93
• To My Mother Robert Haven SchaufHer: 99
• Mother Theresa Helburn: 107
• To My Mother Felicia Hemans: 109
• Miss Thee My Mother Eliza Cook: 116
• On a Seventeenth Birthday Anne P L Field: 131
• From Niobe Frederick Tennyson: 137
• The Mothers Hope Laman Blanchard: 143
• Nusaib From the Arabic: 149
• The Farewell John Greenleaf Whitiier: 155
• Her FirstBorn Charles Tennyson Turner: 165
• On a Picture of an Infant: 166
• Mother and Son Phbe Cary: 175
• Two Mothers Richard Burton: 181
• More Please G W E Russell: 191
• The Mourning Mother Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 197
• The Song of the Old Mother William Butler Yeats: 205
• Mother and Home John Jarvis Holden: 216
• VI: 222
• Mother of the Great Grace Grenwood 2128: 231
• Ruskin and His Mother John Ruskin: 232
• My Mothers Picture William Cowper: 238
• The Mother of Eugene: 254
• Christ the Mendicant John B Tabb: 264
• The Mother of Lamartine From Memoirs of: 273
• The Mother of the Gracchi From Plutarchs Lives: 279
• The Mother of Bryant Parke Godwin: 285
• My Idea of My Mother Count Tolstoy: 294
• Monica St Augustines: 300
• At Singing Time Anne P L Field: 307
• Lullaby Alfred Tennyson: 313
• Sleep Baby Sleep Anonymous: 319
• On the Other Train: 329
• Not Too Late Katharine McDowell Rice: 338
• Happy Ending in Real Life Otto McFeely: 346
• Programs: 361

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse; Our American holidays
• Editor: Robert Haven Schauffler
• Compiled by: Susan Tracy Rice
• Contributor: Susan Tracy Rice
• Publisher: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1915
• Length: 363 pages