A Mother's Year Book

by Unknown

MAY TWENTY-SECOND

His father's counterfeit,

And his face the index be

Of his mother's chastity.

Catullus

MAY TWENTY-THIRD

And, rosy from the noonday sleep,

Would bear thee to admiring kin,

And all thy pretty looks would keep

My heart within.

Jean Ingelow

MAY TWENTY-FOURTH

I long to feel thy little arms embrace,

Thy silver-sounding voice to hear,

I long for thy warm kisses on my face,

And for thy birdlike carol, blythe and clear.

Carmen Sylva

MAY TWENTY-FIFTH

All holy influences dwell within

The breast of childhood; instincts fresh from God

Inspire it, ere the heart beneath the rod

Of grief hath bled, or caught the plague of sin.

Sir Aubrey de Vere

MAY TWENTY-SIXTH

The mother represents goodness, providence, law,

that is to say, the divinity, under that form of it

which is accessible to childhood.

Amiel