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The term "G. Brooks, Life for my child" has been searched for 243 times on the American Poems site since September 27th, 2005.
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1. The Well upon the Brook - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1211 times on American Poems.
The Well upon the Brook
Were foolish to depend --
Let Brooks -- renew of Brooks --
But Wells -- of failless Ground!(Read full poem)
2. Distrustful of the Gentian - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3458 times on American Poems.
Distrustful of the Gentian --
And just to turn away,
The fluttering of her fringes
Child my perfidy --
Weary for my ----------
I will singing go --
I shall not feel the sleet -- then --
I shall not fear the snow.
Flees so the phantom meadow
Before... (Read full poem)
3. Portrait - written by Louise Gluck
From Descending Figure.
Published in 1980.
Read 1874 times on American Poems.
A child draws the outline of a body.
She draws what she can, but it is white all through,
she cannot fill in what she knows is there.
Within the unsupported line, she knows
that life is missing; she has cut
one background from another. Like a... (Read full poem)
4. Elizabeth Childers - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 625 times on American Poems.
Dust of my dust,
And dust with my dust,
O, child who died as you entered the world,
Dead with my death!
Not knowing breath, though you tried so hard,
With a heart that beat when you lived with me,
And stopped when you left me for Life.... (Read full poem)
5. The Bee is not afraid of me. - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6205 times on American Poems.
The Bee is not afraid of me.
I know the Butterfly.
The pretty people in the Woods
Receive me cordially --
The Brooks laugh louder when I come --
The Breezes madder play;
Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists,
Wherefore, Oh Summer's Day?(Read full poem)
6. My River runs to thee - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4535 times on American Poems.
My River runs to thee --
Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me?
My River wait reply --
Oh Sea -- look graciously --
I'll fetch thee Brooks
From spotted nooks --
Say -- Sea -- Take Me!(Read full poem)
7. Tableau At Twilight - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3599 times on American Poems.
I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.
A parent is easily beguiled
By sight of this coniferous child.
The friendly embers warmer gleam,
The cone begins to drip ice cream.
Cones are composed of many a vitamin.
My lap... (Read full poem)
8. Child Margaret - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1777 times on American Poems.
THE CHILD Margaret begins to write numbers on a Saturday morning, the first numbers formed under her wishing child fingers.
All the numbers come well-born, shaped in figures assertive for a frieze in a child’s room.
Both 1 and 7 are... (Read full poem)
9. September, The First Day Of School - written by Howard Nemerov
From The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.
Read 6851 times on American Poems.
I
My child and I hold hands on the way to school,
And when I leave him at the first-grade door
He cries a little but is brave; he does
Let go. My selfish tears remind me how
I cried before that door a life ago.
I may have had a hard time letting... (Read full poem)
10. Child - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 4018 times on American Poems.
The young child, Christ, is straight and wise
And asks questions of the old men, questions
Found under running water for all children
And found under shadows thrown on still waters
By tall trees looking downward, old and gnarled.
Found to the... (Read full poem)
11. Meditation By The Stove - written by Linda Pastan
From Carnival Evening.
Published in 1998.
Read 918 times on American Poems.
I have banked the fires
of my body
into a small but steady blaze
here in the kitchen
where the dough has a life of its own,
breathing under its damp cloth
like a sleeping child;
where the real child plays under the table,
pretending the tablecloth... (Read full poem)
12. It makes no difference abroad -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1567 times on American Poems.
It makes no difference abroad --
The Seasons -- fit -- the same --
The Mornings blossom into Noons --
And split their Pods of Flame --
Wild flowers -- kindle in the Woods --
The Brooks slam -- all the Day --
No Black bird bates his Banjo --
For... (Read full poem)
13. the times - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 866 times on American Poems.
it is hard to remain human on a day
when birds perch weeping
in the trees and the squirrel eyes
do not look away but the dog ones do
in pity.
another child has killed a child
and i catch myself relieved that they are
white and i might... (Read full poem)
14. When We Were Here Together - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 1156 times on American Poems.
when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one
another.
A bit of grass held between the teeth for a moment, bright hair on the
wind.
What we were we did not know, nor even the grass or the flame of
hair turning to ash on the... (Read full poem)
15. First Child ... Second Child - written by Ogden Nash
Read 5640 times on American Poems.
FIRST
Be it a girl, or one of the boys,
It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois,
It is red, it is boiled; could the obstetrician
Have possibly been a lobstertrician?
His degrees and credentials were hunky-dory,
But how's for an infantile... (Read full poem)
16. As Watchers hang upon the East, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1810 times on American Poems.
As Watchers hang upon the East,
As Beggars revel at a feast
By savory Fancy spread --
As brooks in deserts babble sweet
On ear too far for the delight,
Heaven beguiles the tired.
As that same watcher, when the East
Opens the lid of Amethyst
And... (Read full poem)
17. Slippery - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1779 times on American Poems.
THE SIX month child
Fresh from the tub
Wriggles in our hands.
This is our fish child.
Give her a nickname: Slippery. 5(Read full poem)
18. To learn the Transport by the Pain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2227 times on American Poems.
To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst -- suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!
To stay the homesick -- homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore --
Haunted by native lands, the while --
And blue -- beloved... (Read full poem)
19. Song Of A Second April - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2016 times on American Poems.
April this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ago,
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again, and butterflies.
There rings a hammering all day,
And shingles lie about the... (Read full poem)
20. Immortality - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Munsey’s Magazine.
Published in 1897.
Read 779 times on American Poems.
I bowed my head in anguish sore
When Life made Death his bride;
“Soul, we are lost forever more!”
Unto my soul I cried.
“Nay, waste in wailing not thy breath,”
My soul replied to me,
“Behold! The child of Life and Death
Is... (Read full poem)
21. Falling Water - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From Just a Dancing Bear Looking for a Star.
Published in 2000.
Read 4628 times on American Poems.
The nights are lonely here without her,
I will be with her soon;
Our happiness.
She is, in my life, the shining light,
in the days of my struggles,
a loving child, for me to admire.
I met this young woman, and
fell in love.
Time lost all... (Read full poem)
22. Child of Jesus - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From There is a Dead Man Living in my Kitchen.
Published in 2004.
Read 1799 times on American Poems.
Sara
allow me to believe in your love
Saint of Awareness
tear of blood dripping
down your Father’s cheek
inside a French Church.
Outside the graveyard i
stood waiting touched
by the truth of your gift
Child of Forgiveness
your... (Read full poem)
23. Benjamin Fraser - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 946 times on American Poems.
Their spirits beat upon mine
Like the wings of a thousand butterflies.
I closed my eyes and felt their spirits vibrating.
I closed my eyes, yet I knew when their lashes
Fringed their cheeks from downcast eyes,
And when they turned their... (Read full poem)
24. The Evil Eye - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3648 times on American Poems.
It comes oozing
out of flowers at night,
it comes out of the rain
if a snake looks skyward,
it comes out of chairs and tables
if you don't point at them and say their names.
It comes into your mouth while you sleep,
pressing in like a... (Read full poem)
25. Hyla Brook - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 7787 times on American Poems.
By June our brook's run out of song and speed.
Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a... (Read full poem)
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