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The term "parenting and spanking for the good of the children" has been searched for 32 times on the American Poems site since November 29th, 2004.
Search Results: 11 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Homer Clapp - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 352 times on American Poems.
Often Aner Clute at the gate
Refused me the parting kiss,
Saying we should be engaged before that;
And just with a distant clasp of the hand
She bade me good-night, as I brought her home
From the skating rink or the revival.
No sooner did my... (Read full poem)
2. As Children bid the Guest "Good Night" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4065 times on American Poems.
As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"
And then reluctant turn --
My flowers raise their pretty lips --
Then put their nightgowns on.
As children caper when they wake
Merry that it is Morn --
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance... (Read full poem)
3. good times - written by Lucille Clifton
Published in 1987.
Read 3266 times on American Poems.
my daddy has paid the rent
and the insurance man is gone
and the lights is back on
and my uncle brud has hit
for one dollar straight
and they is good times
good times
good times
my mama has made bread
and grampaw has come
and everybody... (Read full poem)
4. Inland - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2835 times on American Poems.
People that build their houses inland,
People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house, and build a house there,
Far from the sea-board, far from the sound
Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
Tons of water striking the shore,—
What do... (Read full poem)
5. My Daughters In New York - written by James Reiss
From Ten Thousand Good Mornings.
Published in 2001.
Read 931 times on American Poems.
What streets, what taxis transport them
over bridges & speed bumps-my daughters swift
in pursuit of union? What suitors amuse them, what mazes
of avenues tilt & confuse them as pleasure, that pinball
goes bouncing off light posts &... (Read full poem)
6. Courage - written by Anne Sexton
Read 26563 times on American Poems.
It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
The first spanking when your heart
went on a journey all alone.
When they called you crybaby
or poor... (Read full poem)
7. Epitaphs - written by Anne Bradstreet
Read 1556 times on American Poems.
Her Mother's Epitaph
Here lies
A worthy matron of unspotted life,
A loving mother and obedient wife,
A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor,
Whom oft she fed, and clothed with her store;
To servants wisely aweful, but yet kind,
And as they... (Read full poem)
8. The Children of the Night - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 795 times on American Poems.
For those that never know the light,
The darkness is a sullen thing;
And they, the Children of the Night,
Seem lost in Fortune's winnowing.
But some are strong and some are weak, --
And there's the story. House and home
Are shut from... (Read full poem)
9. Against Writing about Children - written by Erin Belieu
Read 851 times on American Poems.
When I think of the many people
who privately despise children,
I can't say I'm completely shocked,
having been one. I was not
exceptional, uncomfortable as that is
to admit, and most children are not
exceptional. The particulars... (Read full poem)
10. Children - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Birds Of Passage.
Read 3384 times on American Poems.
Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me
Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows
And the brooks of morning... (Read full poem)
11. Listen Children - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1770 times on American Poems.
listen children
keep this in the place
you have for keeping
always
keep it all ways
we have never hated black
listen
we have been ashamed
hopeless tired mad
but always
all ways
we loved us
we have always loved each other
children... (Read full poem)
12. Home Fires - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2444 times on American Poems.
IN a Yiddish eating place on Rivington Street … faces … coffee spots … children kicking at the night stars with bare toes from bare buttocks.
They know it is September on Rivington when the red tomaytoes cram the pushcarts,
Here the... (Read full poem)
13. Albert Schirding - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 537 times on American Poems.
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one
Because his children were all failures.
But I know of a fate more trying than that:
It is to be a failure while your children are successes.
For I raised a brood of eagles
Who flew away at last, leaving... (Read full poem)
14. At The Smithville Methodist Church - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1349 times on American Poems.
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week,
but when she came home
with the "Jesus Saves" button, we knew what art
was up, what ancient craft.
She liked her little friends. She liked the songs
they sang when they weren't
twisting and... (Read full poem)
15. There came whisperings in the winds - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 4390 times on American Poems.
There came whisperings in the winds:
"Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Little voices called in the darkness:
"Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Then I stretched forth my arms.
"No -- no -- "
There came whisperings in the wind
"Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Little voices called in... (Read full poem)
16. A Peck of Gold - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 8535 times on American Poems.
Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.
All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some... (Read full poem)
17. Jack - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3169 times on American Poems.
JACK was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun.
He worked thirty years on the railroad, ten hours a day,
and his hands were tougher than sole leather.
He married a tough woman and they had eight children
and the woman died and the children grew up... (Read full poem)
18. admonitions - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 4401 times on American Poems.
boys
i don't promise you nothing
but this
what you pawn
i will redeem
what you steal
i will conceal
my private silence to
your public guilt
is all i got
girls
first time a white man
opens his fly
like a good thing
we'll just... (Read full poem)
19. The Child Bearers - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2729 times on American Poems.
Jean, death comes close to us all,
flapping its awful wings at us
and the gluey wings crawl up our nose.
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle,
mine pushed into gnawing a stilbestrol cancer
I passed on... (Read full poem)
20. Mrs. Charles Bliss - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 683 times on American Poems.
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him
For the sake of the children,
And Judge Somers advised him the same.
So we stuck to the end of the path.
But two of the children thought he was right,
And two of the children thought I was... (Read full poem)
21. Cows In Art Class - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3107 times on American Poems.
good weather
is like
good women-
it doesn't always happen
and when it does
it doesn't
always last.
man is
more stable:
if he's bad
there's more chance
he'll stay that way,
or if he's good
he might hang
on,
but a woman
is... (Read full poem)
22. The Hangman at Home - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3171 times on American Poems.
WHAT does the hangman think about
When he goes home at night from work?
When he sits down with his wife and
Children for a cup of coffee and a
Plate of ham and eggs, do they ask
Him if it was a good day’s work
And everything went well or do... (Read full poem)
23. Trainor the Druggist - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 863 times on American Poems.
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,
What will result from compounding
Fluids or solids.
And who can tell
How men and women will interact
On each other, or what children will result?
There were Benjamin Pantier and his... (Read full poem)
24. To A Poor Old Woman - written by William Carlos Williams
Read 7300 times on American Poems.
munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her
You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand
Comforted
a solace of ripe... (Read full poem)
25. Father - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 2252 times on American Poems.
He never made a fortune, or a noise
In the world where men are seeking after fame;
But he had a healthy brood of girls and boys
Who loved the very ground on which he trod.
They thought him just little short of God;
Oh you should have heard... (Read full poem)
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