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The term "parental wisdom" has been searched for 57 times on the American Poems site since June 2nd, 2005.
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1. Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom - written by Louise Bogan
Read 907 times on American Poems.
Men loved wholly beyond wisdom
Have the staff without the banner.
Like a fire in a dry thicket
Rising within women's eyes
Is the love men must return.
Heart, so subtle now, and trembling,
What a marvel to be wise.,
To love never in this manner!
To... (Read full poem)
3. Insomniac - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1961.
Read 8746 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)
4. To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory - written by Phillis Wheatley
Read 379 times on American Poems.
To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind
Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd,
Thus while you strive to mend the human heart,
Thus while the heav'nly precepts you impart,
O may each bosom catch the sacred fire,
And youthful minds to Virtue's... (Read full poem)
5. The Sea said "Come" to the Brook -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1585 times on American Poems.
The Sea said "Come" to the Brook --
The Brook said "Let me grow" --
The Sea said "Then you will be a Sea --
I want a Brook -- Come now"!
The Sea said "Go" to the Sea --
The Sea said "I am he
You cherished" -- "Learned Waters --
Wisdom is stale --... (Read full poem)
6. Denial -- is the only fact - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1817 times on American Poems.
Denial -- is the only fact
Perceived by the Denied --
Whose Will -- a numb significance --
The Day the Heaven died --
And all the Earth strove common round --
Without Delight, or Beam --
What Comfort was it Wisdom -- was --
The spoiler of Our Home?(Read full poem)
7. Alexander Throckmorton - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 752 times on American Poems.
In youth my wings were strong and tireless,
But I did not know the mountains.
In age I knew the mountains
But my weary wings could not follow my vision --
Genius is wisdom and youth. (Read full poem)
8. "Nature" is what we see -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 7589 times on American Poems.
"Nature" is what we see --
The Hill -- the Afternoon --
Squirrel -- Eclipse -- the Bumble bee --
Nay -- Nature is Heaven --
Nature is what we hear --
The Bobolink -- the Sea --
Thunder -- the Cricket --
Nay -- Nature is Harmony --
Nature is what we... (Read full poem)
9. Titian - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 489 times on American Poems.
Would that such hills and cities round us sang,
Such vistas of the actual earth and man
As kindled Titian when his life began;
Would that this latter Greek could put his gold,
Wisdom and splendor in our brushes bold
Till Greece and Venice,... (Read full poem)
10. A Tall Man - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1781 times on American Poems.
THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth.
The head of this man is a gaunt strong head.
The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains, the Appalachians.
The eyes of this man are chlorine of two sobbing oceans,
Foam, salt, green, wind,... (Read full poem)
11. I Want to Pray - written by Brooks Haxton
From Uproar.
Read 500 times on American Poems.
In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
wisdom. Psalm 51
That young man
firing his Kalashnikov
into the playground
has been made to know
the hidden part.
Me, I want to pray.
I’m on my knees.
But all I am is... (Read full poem)
12. The ones that disappeared are back - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1259 times on American Poems.
The ones that disappeared are back
The Phoebe and the Crow
Precisely as in March is heard
The curtness of the Jay --
Be this an Autumn or a Spring
My wisdom loses way
One side of me the nuts are ripe
The other side is May.(Read full poem)
13. These Things - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1609 times on American Poems.
these things that we support most well
have nothing to do with up,
and we do with them
out of boredom or fear or money
or cracked intelligence;
our circle and our candle of light
being small,
so small we cannot bear it,
we heave out with... (Read full poem)
14. The Crickets sang - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2269 times on American Poems.
The Crickets sang
And set the Sun
And Workmen finished one by one
Their Seam the Day upon.
The low Grass loaded with the Dew
The Twilight stood, as Strangers do
With Hat in Hand, polite and new
To stay as if, or go.
A Vastness, as a Neighbor,... (Read full poem)
15. Gypsy - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 3144 times on American Poems.
I ASKED a gypsy pal
To imitate an old image
And speak old wisdom.
She drew in her chin,
Made her neck and head
The top piece of a Nile obelisk
and said:
Snatch off the gag from thy mouth, child,
And be free to keep silence.
Tell no man anything for... (Read full poem)
16. Philosophy - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 434 times on American Poems.
At morn the wise man walked abroad,
Proud with the learning of great fools.
He laughed and said, ‘There is no God –
‘Tis force creates, ‘tis reason rules.’
Meek with the wisdom of great faith,
At night he knelt while angels smiled,
And... (Read full poem)
17. At Mass - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 1340 times on American Poems.
No doubt to-morrow I will hide
My face from you, my King.
Let me rejoice this Sunday noon,
And kneel while gray priests sing.
It is not wisdom to forget.
But since it is my fate
Fill thou my soul with hidden wine
To make this white hour... (Read full poem)
18. We learned the Whole of Love -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2121 times on American Poems.
We learned the Whole of Love --
The Alphabet -- the Words --
A Chapter -- then the mighty Book --
Then -- Revelation closed --
But in Each Other's eyes
An Ignorance beheld --
Diviner than the Childhood's --
And each to each, a Child --
Attempted... (Read full poem)
19. I met a seer - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 5064 times on American Poems.
I met a seer.
He held in his hands
The book of wisdom.
"Sir," I addressed him,
"Let me read."
"Child -- " he began.
"Sir," I said,
"Think not that I am a child,
For already I know much
Of that which you hold.
Aye, much."
He smiled.
Then he opened... (Read full poem)
20. Berrying - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 3296 times on American Poems.
"May be true what I had heard,
Earth's a howling wilderness
Truculent with fraud and force,"
Said I, strolling through the pastures,
And along the riverside.
Caught among the blackberry vines,
Feeding on the Ethiops sweet,
Pleasant fancies overtook... (Read full poem)
21. since feeling is first... (VII) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 65998 times on American Poems.
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers.... (Read full poem)
22. Discovery - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 866 times on American Poems.
We told of him as one who should have soared
And seen for us the devastating light
Whereof there is not either day or night,
And shared with us the glamour of the Word
That fell once upon Amos to record
For men at ease in Zion, when the... (Read full poem)
23. Lyman King - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1594 times on American Poems.
You may think, passer-by, that Fate
Is a pit-fall outside of yourself,
Around which you may walk by the use of foresight
And wisdom.
Thus you believe, viewing the lives of other men,
As one who in God-like fashion bends over an anthill,
Seeing... (Read full poem)
24. In a lonely place, - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 11669 times on American Poems.
In a lonely place,
I encountered a sage
Who sat, all still,
Regarding a newspaper.
He accosted me:
"Sir, what is this?"
Then I saw that I was greater,
Aye, greater than this sage.
I answered him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the... (Read full poem)
25. Wisdom - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 6809 times on American Poems.
This I say, and this I know:
Love has seen the last of me.
Love's a trodden lane to woe,
Love's a path to misery.
This I know, and knew before,
This I tell you, of my years:
Hide your heart, and lock your door.
Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
Give... (Read full poem)
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