Mother O' Mine
Mother O' Mine - fact Summary
Tribute to His Mother
This short lyric addresses the speaker's mother and repeatedly imagines extreme dangers—hanging, drowning, damnation—to assert that only a mother's love, tears, and prayers would remain. The poem functions as a direct, devotional tribute to Kipling's mother, Alice Kipling, stressing steadfast, forgiving maternal devotion as a moral and emotional refuge across physical and spiritual peril.
Read Complete AnalysesIf I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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