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The term "G is for Grandfather" has been searched for 823 times on the American Poems site since October 27th, 2005.
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1. A Pastoral - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Judge.
Published in 1897.
Read 482 times on American Poems.
Just as the sun was setting
Back of the Western hills
Grandfather stood by the window
Eating the last of his pills.
And Grandmother, by the cupboard,
Knitting, heard him say:
“I ought to have went to the village
To fetch some more pills... (Read full poem)
2. Peekabo, I Almost See You - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3596 times on American Poems.
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to
lead it,
But there comes a day when your eyes
are all right but your arm isn't long
enough
to hold the telephone book where you can read it,
And your friends get jocular, so you go... (Read full poem)
3. Old Man Rocking In the Chair - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From Just a Dancing Bear Looking for a Star.
Published in 2000.
Read 2654 times on American Poems.
Old man rocking in his chair
night taking from the day
tomorrows haze.
This morning his life to bay.
The walk we take
through Alfalfa fields,
rough in wind bent face trees.
A hive of honey,
the leaves falling in the wind
a wet sky the light... (Read full poem)
4. The Mountain sat upon the Plain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1908 times on American Poems.
The Mountain sat upon the Plain
In his tremendous Chair --
His observation omnifold,
His inquest, everywhere --
The Seasons played around his knees
Like Children round a sire --
Grandfather of the Days is He
Of Dawn, the Ancestor --(Read full poem)
5. Le Roy Goldman - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 443 times on American Poems.
"What will you do when you come to die,
If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?"
Over and over I said, I, the revivalist.
Ah, yes! but there are friends and friends.
And blessed are... (Read full poem)
6. Blue Bridge - written by Geraldine Connolly
From Province of Fire.
Published in 1998.
Read 555 times on American Poems.
Praise the good-tempered summer
and the red cardinal
that jumps
like a hot coal off the track.
Praise the heavy leaves,
heroines of green, frosted
with silver. Praise the litter
of torn paper, mulch
and sticks, the spiny holly,
its scarlet land... (Read full poem)
7. Affirmation - written by Donald Hall
Read 2358 times on American Poems.
To grow old is to lose everything.
Aging, everybody knows it.
Even when we are young,
we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads
when a grandfather dies.
Then we row for years on the midsummer
pond, ignorant and content. But a... (Read full poem)
8. The Family Monkey - written by Russell Edson
Read 4135 times on American Poems.
We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather
recklessly with funds carefully gathered since
grandfather's time for the purchase of a steam monkey.
We had either, by this time, the choice of an electric
or gas monkey.
The steam monkey is... (Read full poem)
9. My Fathers, The Baltic - written by Philip Levine
Read 639 times on American Poems.
Along the strand stones,
busted shells, wood scraps,
bottle tops, dimpled
and stainless beer cans.
Something began here
a century ago,
a nameless disaster,
perhaps a voyage
to the lost continent
where I was born.
Now the cold winds
of... (Read full poem)
10. The Idea of Ancestry - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 2077 times on American Poems.
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-
fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews.They stare
across the space at me... (Read full poem)
11. Biography In The First Person - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1654 times on American Poems.
This is not the way I am.
Really, I am much taller in person,
the hairline I conceal reaches back
to my grandfather, and the shyness my wife
will not believe in has always been why
I was bold on first dates. My father a crack salesman.
I've saved... (Read full poem)
12. A Cooking Egg - written by T.S. Eliot
From Poems.
Published in 1920.
Read 9053 times on American Poems.
En l’an trentiesme do mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j’ay beues...
PIPIT sate upright in her chair
Some distance from where I was sitting;
Views of the Oxford Colleges
Lay on the table, with the knitting.
Daguerreotypes and silhouettes,
Here... (Read full poem)
13. The Fury Of Beautiful Bones - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 3332 times on American Poems.
Sing me a thrush, bone.
Sing me a nest of cup and pestle.
Sing me a sweetbread fr an old grandfather.
Sing me a foot and a doorknob, for you are my love.
Oh sing, bone bag man, sing.
Your head is what I remember that Augusty
you were in love... (Read full poem)
14. Hallelujah: A Sestina - written by Robert Francis
Read 501 times on American Poems.
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.
I wonder they never gave it to a boy
(Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair.
It means Praise God, as well it should since praise
Is what God's for. Why didn't they call my father
Hallelujah instead of... (Read full poem)
15. Parker's Mountain - written by Kate Knapp Johnson
Read 646 times on American Poems.
It is the summer bears ruled, the last summer
of pure breathlessness
when I moved unaware, taken in
by the netted branches of raspberries, held
in trance by the sweet air
of the orchards. My grandfather
died at home one night in early July
as... (Read full poem)
17. The New World - written by Philip Levine
Read 597 times on American Poems.
A man roams the streets with a basket
of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches,
peaches, yellow freestone peaches for sale."
My grandfather in his prime could outshout
the Tigers of Wrath or the factory whistles
along the river. Hamtramck... (Read full poem)
18. Put Off the Wedding Five Times and Nobody Comes to It - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2645 times on American Poems.
(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms.
I might have said, “Dogs bark and the wind carries it away.”
I might have said, “He who would make a door of gold must knock a nail in every day.”
So easy, so... (Read full poem)
19. 45 Mercy Street - written by Anne Sexton
Read 13731 times on American Poems.
In my dream,
drilling into the marrow
of my entire bone,
my real dream,
I'm walking up and down Beacon Hill
searching for a street sign --
namely MERCY STREET.
Not there.
I try the Back Bay.
Not there.
Not there.
And yet I know the... (Read full poem)
20. The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1958 times on American Poems.
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The children of the Czar
Played with a bouncing ball
In the May morning, in the Czar's garden,
Tossing it back and forth.
It fell among the flowerbeds
Or fled to the north gate.
A daylight moon hung up
In the Western sky, bald... (Read full poem)
21. The Return - written by Philip Levine
Read 509 times on American Poems.
All afternoon my father drove the country roads
between Detroit and Lansing. What he was looking for
I never learned, no doubt because he never knew himself,
though he would grab any unfamiliar side road
and follow where it led past fields of tall... (Read full poem)
22. Rumpelstiltskin - written by Anne Sexton
Read 5397 times on American Poems.
Inside many of us
is a small old man
who wants to get out.
No bigger than a two-year-old
whom you'd call lamb chop
yet this one is old and malformed.
His head is okay
but the rest of him wasn't Sanforized?
He is a monster of despair.
He is all... (Read full poem)
23. Angels Of The Love Affair - written by Anne Sexton
Read 11325 times on American Poems.
"Angels of the love affair, do you know that other,
the dark one, that other me?"
1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS
Angel of fire and genitals, do you know slime,
that green mama who first forced me to sing,
who put me first in the latrine, that... (Read full poem)
24. A Roxbury Garden - written by Amy Lowell
From Men, Women and Ghosts.
Read 3019 times on American Poems.
I
Hoops
Blue and pink sashes,
Criss-cross shoes,
Minna and Stella run out into the garden
To play at hoop.
Up and down the garden-paths they race,
In the yellow sunshine,
Each with a big round hoop
White as a stripped willow-wand.
Round... (Read full poem)
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