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The term "parental advice (I hope You Dance)" has been searched for 44 times on the American Poems site since January 21st, 2005.
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1. 1991-II - written by Wendell Berry
From A Timbered Choir - The Sabbath Poems.
Published in 1979.
Read 658 times on American Poems.
The ewes crowd to the mangers;
Their bellies widen, sag;
Their udders tighten. Soon
The little voices cry
In morning cold. Soon now
The garden must be worked,
Laid off in rows, the seed
Of life to come brought down
Into the dark to... (Read full poem)
2. Brown Lung - written by Ron Rash
From Eureka Mill.
Published in 1998.
Read 735 times on American Poems.
Sometimes I'd spend the whole night coughing up
what I'd been breathing in all day at work.
I'd sleep in a chair or take a good stiff drink,
anything to get a few hours rest.
The doctor called it asthma and suggested
I find a different line of work... (Read full poem)
3. January 2 - written by David Lehman
Read 503 times on American Poems.
The old war is over the new one has begun
between drivers and pedestrians on a Friday
in New York light is the variable and structure
the content according to Rodrigo Moynihan's
self-portraits at the Robert Miller Gallery where
the painter is... (Read full poem)
4. Superfluous Advice - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 3701 times on American Poems.
Should they whisper false of you.
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.(Read full poem)
5. The Lost Dancer - written by Jean Toomer
Read 2048 times on American Poems.
Spatial depths of being survive
The birth to death recurrences
Of feet dancing on earth of sand;
Vibrations of the dance survive
The sand; the sand, elect, survives
The dancer. He can find no source
Of magic adequate to bind
The sand upon his... (Read full poem)
6. Advice From The Experts - written by Bill Knott
Read 717 times on American Poems.
I lay down in the empty street and parked
My feet against the gutter's curb while from
The building above a bunch of gawkers perched
Along its ledges urged me don't, don't jump.(Read full poem)
7. gee i like to think of dead - written by e.e. cummings
Read 14355 times on American Poems.
gee i like to think of dead it means nearer because deeper firmer
since darker than little round water at one end of the well it's
too cool to be crooked and it's too firm to be hard but it's sharp
and thick and it loves, every old thing falls in... (Read full poem)
8. Raccoon - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3192 times on American Poems.
Coon, why did you come to this dance
with a mask on? Why not the tin man
and his rainbow girl? Why not Racine,
his hair marcelled down to his chest?
Why not come as a stomach digesting
its worms? Why you little fellow
with your ears at attention and... (Read full poem)
9. Neither Bloody nor Bowed - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3059 times on American Poems.
They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.
I see acquaintances and friends
Accumulating dividends,
And making enviable names
In science, art, and parlor games.
But I, despite expert advice,
Keep doing things I think are... (Read full poem)
10. kumrads die because they're told) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 5202 times on American Poems.
kumrads die because they're told)
kumrads die before they're old
(kumrads aren't afraid to die
kumrads don't
and kumrads won't
believe in life)and death knows whie
(all good kumrads you can tell
by their altruistic smell
moscow pipes good kumrads... (Read full poem)
11. Juke Box Love Song - written by Langston Hughes
Read 28989 times on American Poems.
I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let... (Read full poem)
12. I cannot dance upon my Toes - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5797 times on American Poems.
I cannot dance upon my Toes --
No Man instructed me --
But oftentimes, among my mind,
A Glee possesseth me,
That had I Ballet knowledge --
Would put itself abroad
In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe --
Or lay a Prima, mad,
And though I had no Gown of... (Read full poem)
13. Danny O'Dare - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 4901 times on American Poems.
Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear,
Ran away from the County Fair,
Ran right up to my back stair
And thought he'd do some dancin' there.
He started jumpin' and skippin' and kickin',
He did a dance called the Funky Chicken,
He did the Polka,... (Read full poem)
14. From a Letter from Lesbia - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 5249 times on American Poems.
... So, praise the gods, Catullus is away!
And let me tend you this advice, my dear:
Take any lover that you will, or may,
Except a poet. All of them are queer.
It's just the same- a quarrel or a kiss
Is but a tune to play upon his pipe.
He's... (Read full poem)
15. The Wedding Ring Dance - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3873 times on American Poems.
I dance in circles holding
the moth of the marriage,
thin, sticky, fluttering
its skirts, its webs.
The moth oozing a tear,
or is it a drop of urine?
The moth, grinning like a pear,
or is it teeth
clamping the iron maiden shut?
The moth,
who is my... (Read full poem)
16. Had I presumed to hope -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2368 times on American Poems.
Had I presumed to hope --
The loss had been to Me
A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake --
As Giants -- gone away --
Had I presumed to gain
A Favor so remote --
The failure but confirm the Grace
In further Infinite --
'Tis failure -- not of Hope... (Read full poem)
17. The Dance - written by William Carlos Williams
Read 17861 times on American Poems.
In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
tipping their bellies, (round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they... (Read full poem)
18. but if a living dance upon dead minds - written by e.e. cummings
Read 17600 times on American Poems.
but if a living dance upon dead minds
why,it is love;but at the earliest spear
of sun perfectly should disappear
moon's utmost magic,or stones speak or one
name control more incredible splendor than
our merely universe, love's also there:
and being... (Read full poem)
19. Somewhat, to hope for, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1638 times on American Poems.
Somewhat, to hope for,
Be it ne'er so far
Is Capital against Despair --
Somewhat, to suffer,
Be it ne'er so keen --
If terminable, may be borne.(Read full poem)
20. Crossing The Water - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 7321 times on American Poems.
Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.
A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and... (Read full poem)
21. Dream Variations - written by Langston Hughes
Read 50556 times on American Poems.
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me-
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
In the face of... (Read full poem)
22. The Service without Hope -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1478 times on American Poems.
The Service without Hope --
Is tenderest, I think --
Because 'tis unsustained
By stint -- Rewarded Work --
Has impetus of Gain --
And impetus of Goal --
There is no Diligence like that
That knows not an Until --(Read full poem)
23. Nostalgia - written by Billy Collins
Read 3989 times on American Poems.
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult.
You always wore brown, the color craze of the decade,
and I was draped in one of those capes that were popular,
the ones with unicorns and pomegranates in needlework.
Everyone would... (Read full poem)
24. Could Hope inspect her Basis - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1127 times on American Poems.
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done --
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none --
Balked in the vastest instance
But to renew --
Felled by but one assassin --
Prosperity --(Read full poem)
25. Hope is a strange invention -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4460 times on American Poems.
Hope is a strange invention --
A Patent of the Heart --
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out --
Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own --(Read full poem)
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