1. Bear In There - written by Shel Silverstein
From A Light in the Attic. Published in 1981. Read 98690 times on American Poems.

There's a Polar Bear
In our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With his seat in the meat
And his face in the fish
And his big hairy paws
In the buttery dish,
He's nibbling the noodles,
He's munching the rice,
He's... (Read full poem)

Brother, that breathe the August air
Ten thousand years from now,
And smell—if still your orchards bear
Tart apples on the bough—

The early windfall under the tree,
And see the red fruit shine,
I cannot think your thoughts will be
Much... (Read full poem)

3. Adventures Of Isabel - written by Ogden Nash
Read 6865 times on American Poems.

Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.
The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't... (Read full poem)

The bear puts both arms around the tree above her
And draws it down as if it were a lover
And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye,
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.
Her next step rocks a boulder on the wall
(She's making her... (Read full poem)

5. Our share of night to bear - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2813 times on American Poems.

Our share of night to bear --
Our share of morning --
Our blank in bliss to fill
Our blank in scorning --

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards -- Day!(Read full poem)

Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.
Time then to make a
home in wilderness.

What have I done but
wander with my eyes
in the trees? So I 
will build:  wife,
family, and seek
for neighbors.

                     Or I
perish of lonesomeness
or want... (Read full poem)

7. Voices in the Night - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From Just a Dancing Bear Looking for a Star. Published in 2000. Read 2542 times on American Poems.

I am the Raven
con of the world
spirit of blood and mire;
signal to the death,
the awakening before the coming.

I am the Owl
a reincarnation of a fed Rat
a wise soul searching - loving;
I find youth during their revelation,
and then take... (Read full poem)

Rose Red's hair is brown as fur
and shines in firelight as she prepares
supper of honey and apples, curds and whey,
for the bear, and leaves it ready
on the hearth-stone.

Rose White's grey eyes
look into the dark forest.

Rose Red's cheeks are... (Read full poem)

9. Hot - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2836 times on American Poems.

she was hot, she was so hot
I didn't want anybody else to have her,
and if I didn't get home on time
she'd be gone, and I couldn't bear that-
I'd go mad. . .
it was foolish I know, childish,
but I was caught in it, I was caught.
I delivered all the... (Read full poem)

"the withness of the body" --Whitehead


The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and... (Read full poem)

11. Farmer, Dying - written by Richard Hugo
Read 627 times on American Poems.

for Hank and Nancy

Seven thousand acres of grass have faded yellow
from his cough. These limp days, his anger,
legend forty years from moon to Stevensville,
lives on, just barely, in a Great Falls whore.
Cruel times, he cries, cruel winds. His... (Read full poem)

God is indeed a jealous God --
He cannot bear to see
That we had rather not with Him
But with each other play.(Read full poem)

13. The Sea - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes. Published in 1931. Read 5810 times on American Poems.

Who lay against the sea, and fled,
Who lightly loved the wave,
Shall never know, when he is dead,
A cool and murmurous grave.

But in a shallow pit shall rest
For all eternity,
And bear the earth upon the breas
That once had worn the sea.(Read full poem)

Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler
  As an honor badge eight centuries at least,
And then have the Prohibitionists inform you
  That a butler is a sort of outlawed beast?(Read full poem)

15. I would distil a cup - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 5380 times on American Poems.

I would distil a cup,
And bear to all my friends,
Drinking to her no more astir,
By beck, or burn, or moor!(Read full poem)

I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose o'er the city,
Behind the dark church-tower.

I saw her bright reflection
In the waters under me,
Like a golden goblet falling
And sinking into the sea.

And... (Read full poem)

17. A Cry - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 7325 times on American Poems.

Oh, there are eyes that he can see,
 And hands to make his hands rejoice,
But to my lover I must be
 Only a voice.

Oh, there are breasts to bear his head,
 And lips whereon his lips can lie,
But I must be till I am dead
 Only a cry.(Read full poem)

A little Road -- not made of Man --
Enabled of the Eye --
Accessible to Thill of Bee --
Or Cart of Butterfly --

If Town it have -- beyond itself --
'Tis that -- I cannot say --
I only know -- no Curricle that rumble there
Bear Me --(Read full poem)

19. A Minor Bird - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook. Published in 1928. Read 6216 times on American Poems.

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of... (Read full poem)

The dog has cleaned his bowl
and his reward is a biscuit,
which I put in his mouth
like a priest offering the host.

I can't bear that trusting face!
He asks for bread, expects
bread, and I in my power
might have given him a stone.(Read full poem)

21. I knew that I had gained - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1205 times on American Poems.

I knew that I had gained
And yet I knew not how
By Diminution it was not
But Discipline unto

A Rigor unrelieved
Except by the Content
Another bear its Duplicate
In other Continent.(Read full poem)

My nosegays are for Captives --
Dim -- expectant eyes,
Fingers denied the plucking,
Patient till Paradise.

To such, if they should whisper
Of morning and the moor,
They bear no other errand,
And I, no other prayer.(Read full poem)

23. There is strength in proving that it can be borne - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2876 times on American Poems.

There is strength in proving that it can be borne
Although it tear --
What are the sinews of such cordage for
Except to bear
The ship might be of satin had it not to fight --
To walk on seas requires cedar Feet(Read full poem)

Love has had his way with me.
This my heart is torn and maimed
Since he took his play with me.
Cruel well the bow-boy aimed,

Shot, and saw the feathered shaft
Dripping bright and bitter red.
He that shrugged his wings and laughed-
Better had he... (Read full poem)

25. How many Flowers fail in Wood - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2068 times on American Poems.

How many Flowers fail in Wood --
Or perish from the Hill --
Without the privilege to know
That they are Beautiful --

How many cast a nameless Pod
Upon the nearest Breeze --
Unconscious of the Scarlet Freight --
It bear to Other Eyes --(Read full poem)