Poems & Selections

A Mother’s Love

There is no love like a mother’s love,
No stronger bond on earth
Like the precious bond that comes from God,
To a mother when she gives birth.
A mother’s love is forever strong, never changing for all time
And when her children need her most,
A mother’s love will shine.
When her days on earth are over, a mother’s love lives on…
Through all the tears and heartache that may come,
A mother’s love is never done.
Be thankful for your mother.
For she loves with a higher love…
From the power God has given,
And the strength from up above.

I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, Speak to me in the easy way you always used. Put no difference into your tone Wear no forced air of solemnity […]
I was standing by the window On one cold and cloudy day When I saw the hearse come rolling For to carry my mother away Will the circle be unbroken Bye and bye Lord, bye and bye There’s a better home awaiting In the sky Lord, in the sky I said to the undertaker Undertaker […]
May you live long, Die happy, And rate a mansion in heaven.
by Henry Van Dyke I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where […]