WorldlingPoems concerned with the elements of motherhood and morality: birth, death, and creation. Spires, the author of three previous collections of verse, won the Whiting Award in 1996.
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\World"ling\, [World + -ling.] A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. --Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. --Rogers. And worldlings blot the temple's gold. --Keble.
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