Best Family Poems
Through good times and tough times, our family is always there for us. Below, you'll find our ranking of the best poems about family.
10. The Stick-Together Families, by Edgar A. Guest
The stick-together families
are happier by far
than the brothers and the sisters
who take separate highways are.
The gladdest people living
are the wholesome folks who make
a circle at the fireside
that no power but death can break.
9. A Boy Named Sue, by Shel Silverstein
Well, my daddy left home
when I was three,
and he didn't leave much
to Ma and me,
just this old guitar
and a bottle of booze.
Now I don't blame him
because he run and hid,
but the meanest thing
8. Mother to Son, By Langston Hughes
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet
on the floor-
Bare.
7. Home, by Edgar A. Guest
It takes a heap o' livin'
in a house t' make it home,
A heap o' sun an' shadder,
an' ye sometimes have t' roam
Afore ye really 'preciate
the things ye lef' behind,
An' hunger fer 'em somehow,
with 'em allus on yer mind.
6. Beautiful Hands, by Ellen M.H. Gates
Such beautiful, beautiful hands!
They're neither white nor small;
And you, I know, would scarcely think
That they are fair at all.
I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be;
Yet are those aged, wrinkled hands
More beautiful to me.
5. On Children, by Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters
of life's longing for itself
They come through you
but not from you
And though they are with you
yet they belong not to you
4. The Children's Hour, By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Between the dark
and the daylight,
When the night is
beginning to lower,
Comes a pause
in the day's occupations,
That is known as
the Children's Hour.
3. Only A Dad, by Edgar A. Guest
Only a dad, with a tired face,
coming home from the daily race,
Bringing little of gold or fame,
to show how well he has played the game,
But glad in his heart
that his own rejoice
to see him come,
and to hear his voice.
2. Mother: A Cradle To Hold Me, by Maya Angelou
It is true
I was created in you.
It is also true
That you were created for me.
I owned your voice.
It was shaped and tuned to soothe me.
Your arms were molded
Into a cradle to hold me, to rock me.
1. Those Winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on
in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather
made banked fires blaze.
No one ever thanked him.
Other Family Poems by Topic
In this collection, you'll discover poems that celebrate parents, siblings, grandparents, and everyone important in our family circle.
