<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395837" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet To My Mother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most near, most dear, most loved, and most far,<br>Under the huge window where I often found her<br>Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter,<br>Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand,<br>Irresistible as Rabelais but most tender for<br>The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—<br>She is a procession no one can follow after<br>But be like a little dog following a brass band.<br>She will not glance up at the bomber or condescend<br>To drop her gin and scuttle to a cellar,<br>But lean on the mahogany table like a mountain<br>Whom only faith can move, and so I send<br>O all her faith and all my love to tell her<br>That she will move from mourning into morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Barker">George Barker</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395837" data-title="Sonnet To My Mother de George Barker" data-description="Most near, most dear, most loved, and most far, Under the huge window where I often found her Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand, Irresistible as Rabelais but most tender for The lame dogs an..."></div> </div> </div>

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