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The term "Parental Fear" has been searched for 44 times on the American Poems site since January 1st, 2005.
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1. Fear - written by Raymond Carver
Read 23780 times on American Poems.
Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive.
Fear of falling asleep at night.
Fear of not falling asleep.
Fear of the past rising up.
Fear of the present taking flight.
Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night.
Fear of electrical... (Read full poem)
2. Paper Men To Air Hopes And Fears - written by Robert Francis
Read 836 times on American Poems.
The first speaker said
Fear fire. Fear furnaces
Incinerators, the city dump
The faint scratch of a match.
The second speaker said
Fear water. Fear drenching rain
Drizzle, oceans, puddles, a damp
Day and the flush toilet.
The third... (Read full poem)
3. Blustering God - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 3650 times on American Poems.
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Blustering God,
Stamping across the sky
With loud swagger,
I fear You not.
No, though from Your highest heaven
You plunge Your spear at my heart,
I fear You not.
No, not if the blow
Is as the lightning blasting a tree,
I fear You not, puffing... (Read full poem)
4. I fear a Man of frugal Speech -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2506 times on American Poems.
I fear a Man of frugal Speech --
I fear a Silent Man --
Haranguer -- I can overtake --
Or Babbler -- entertain --
But He who weigheth -- While the Rest --
Expend their furthest pound --
Of this Man -- I am wary --
I fear that He is Grand --(Read full poem)
5. The Death King - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2948 times on American Poems.
I hired a carpenter
to build my coffin
and last night I lay in it,
braced by a pillow,
sniffing the wood,
letting the old king
breathe on me,
thinking of my poor murdered body,
murdered by time,
waiting to turn stiff as a field marshal,
letting the... (Read full poem)
7. Sleep Waltz - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 656 times on American Poems.
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Get old enough so you won't have much to fear.
By then, the music plays inside your head
and everything beautiful must be learned by ear.
In the bathroom mirror I behold my wear and tear.
In our bedroom I try to levitate in... (Read full poem)
8. Mortal Enemy - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 3693 times on American Poems.
Let another cross his way-
She's the one will do the weeping!
Little need I fear he'll stray
Since I have his heart in keeping-
Let another hail him dear-
Little chance that he'll forget me!
Only need I curse and fear
Her he loved before he met me.(Read full poem)
9. Bless God, he went as soldiers, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3743 times on American Poems.
Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast --
Grant God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest!
Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white --
I should not fear the foe then --
I should not fear the fight!(Read full poem)
10. Insomniac - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1961.
Read 8745 times on American Poems.
The night is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole --
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
Under the eyes of the stars and the moon's rictus
He suffers... (Read full poem)
12. Etymological Dirge - written by Heather McHugh
Read 397 times on American Poems.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear.
Calm comes from burning.
Tall comes from fast.
Comely doesn't come from come.
Person comes from mask.
The kin of charity is whore,
the root of charity is dear.
Incentive has its source in song
and winning... (Read full poem)
13. Noon Walk On The Asylum Lawn - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3279 times on American Poems.
The summer sun ray
shifts through a suspicious tree.
though I walk through the valley of the shadow
It sucks the air
and looks around for me.
The grass speaks.
I hear green chanting all day.
I will fear no evil, fear no evil
The blades extend
and... (Read full poem)
14. Be Kind - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3564 times on American Poems.
we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.
but age is the total of
our... (Read full poem)
15. I should have been too glad, I see - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1801 times on American Poems.
I should have been too glad, I see --
Too lifted -- for the scant degree
Of Life's penurious Round --
My little Circuit would have shamed
This new Circumference -- have blamed --
The homelier time behind.
I should have been too saved -- I see... (Read full poem)
16. Harvest Song - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1923 times on American Poems.
I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled.
But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
And I hunger.
I crack a grain between my teeth. I do not taste it.
I have been in the fields all day. My throat is... (Read full poem)
17. The Silver Lily - written by Louise Gluck
Read 1012 times on American Poems.
The nights have grown cool again, like the nights
Of early spring, and quiet again. Will
Speech disturb you? We're
Alone now; we have no reason for silence.
Can you see, over the garden-the full moon rises.
I won't see the next full... (Read full poem)
18. At This Moment Of Time - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1201 times on American Poems.
Some who are uncertain compel me. They fear
The Ace of Spades. They fear
Loves offered suddenly, turning from the mantelpiece,
Sweet with decision. And they distrust
The fireworks by the lakeside, first the spuft,
Then the colored lights,... (Read full poem)
19. For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4049 times on American Poems.
Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was
a certain sense of order there;
something worth learning
in that narrow diary of my mind,
in the commonplaces of the asylum
where the cracked mirror
or my own selfish death
outstared me.
And... (Read full poem)
20. In A Vacant House - written by Philip Levine
From On The Edge.
Published in 1963.
Read 454 times on American Poems.
Someone was calling someone;
now they've stopped. Beyond the glass
the rose vines quiver as in
a light wind, but there is none:
I hear nothing. The moments pass,
or seem to pass, and the sun,
risen above the old birch,
steadies for the... (Read full poem)
21. You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop - written by Marge Piercy
Read 1639 times on American Poems.
You ask why sometimes I say stop
why sometimes I cry no
while I shake with pleasure.
What do I fear, you ask,
why don't I always want to come
and come again to that molten
deep sea center where the nerves
fuse open and the brain
and body shine with... (Read full poem)
22. We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 374 times on American Poems.
Though better men may fear that trumpet's warning,
I meet you, lady, on the Judgment morning,
With golden hope my spirit still adorning.
Our God who made you all so fair and sweet
Is three times gentle, and before his feet
Rejoicing I... (Read full poem)
23. The Kitchen Shears Speak - written by Christianne Balk
From Bindweed.
Published in 1985.
Read 307 times on American Poems.
This division must end.
Again I'm forced to amputate
the chicken's limb; slit the joint,
clip the heart, snip wing from back,
strip fat from flesh, separate
everything from itself. I'm used,
thrown down by unknown hands,
by cowards who can't bear... (Read full poem)
24. Perhaps they do not go so far - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1669 times on American Poems.
Perhaps they do not go so far
As we who stay, suppose --
Perhaps come closer, for the lapse
Of their corporeal clothes --
It may be know so certainly
How short we have to fear
That comprehension antedates
And estimates us there --(Read full poem)
25. Not seeing, still we know -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1564 times on American Poems.
Not seeing, still we know --
Not knowing, guess --
Not guessing, smile and hide
And half caress --
And quake -- and turn away,
Seraphic fear --
Is Eden's innuendo
"If you dare"?(Read full poem)
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